题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
山西省山西大学附属中学2019届高三上学期英语9月模块诊断试卷
There is something graceful about a well-made hurricane lamp, especially the antique ones. Mom had affection for them.
I can remember 1 through countless flea markets for hurricane lamps, which are 2to keep their light lit through the 3of moments. Mom tried hard to buy the lamps in 4, as her favorite of all the lamps had no mate.
The spring after Mom's first 5 with cancer, we went to a local craft fair to pass the time, to keep 6. We were still waiting to hear from the doctors on the 7 of her follow-up tests.8 to search something for my mom, I bounded ahead of her and baby brother as they 9 along the tables. I didn't 10 far before something caught my eye. Standing proud on the display table sat a lamp.
I was excited, as I 11back through the crowd to my mom. "Mom! You have to see something!" I shouted. "12. I think I'm going to get these lamps. What do you think?" She 13so I could see them but I didn't even look at them. "You've got to see what I found first," I 14her through the fair. When she saw the lamp, she picked up the lamp 15, running her fingers over the bowl, over the hurricane glass, and 16 it closely. "See this?" She pointed at a very small mark in the glass. "The one at home has the same mark." She smiled. It was the first time I had seen her 17 smile since the doctors first found the cancer.
When the lamp 18 in our house, next to its mate, she cried. She went to light the lamps and sit on their glow until she could sleep. Years later, I understood her 19 for those lamps, through the darkest moments of her life. Mom was my hurricane lamp. She was inextinguishable (永不熄灭的)—through the darkest moments. She lit my way without 20. She still does.
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