1. Garage sales (旧货市场) are a strange pastime. I am not interested in other people’s
items. My mother was, and she convinced me to
her. We went to several garage sales and finally stopped at a cottage. The
owner told me that he and his wife were moving away. His wife had been a (n)
before she retired.
As we were
the sale items, I heard the gentleman’s wife say her name to someone, and I
realized who she was. She looked at me and said, “ You are Lisa Miller.” I
at her in awe(惊叹)for it had been thirty years
I had been in her class.
My mother
to her for any trouble I might have caused. She
that if this woman remembered me after so many years, I must have done something
. My teacher looked at my mother and said, “Oh, no, she was very good,” and my mother watched her in
.
My teacher explained during the last week of school, I brought her a
. She told us she planted the Lamb’s Ear in her garden. She looked at me and said, “Every day when I leave my house, I think of you. And when I come home these plants
me, and I think of you.”
welled up in my eyes. There at her home, among all her
, was a piece of my life that she had nurtured(培养).
In that moment, she taught me more about life than I could
. We give pieces of ourselves every day without thought or expectation. We seldom envision(展望) the
that we have on others’ lives. That piece may grow and spread, becoming a (n)
part of a life. In the end it is not the big things that
, but the small things that make all the difference in the world. I never had a chance to thank her, but I hope she took a Lamb’s Ear with her to her new home.
【小题1】 | A.broken | B.unwanted | C.frozen | D.desired |
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【小题2】 | A.accompany | B.attach | C.arrange | D.accomplish |
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【小题3】 | A.cruel | B.lonely | C.elderly | D.lovely |
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【小题4】 | A.driver | B.pianist | C.athlete | D.teacher |
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【小题5】 | A.exchanging | B.instructing | C.selecting | D.exposing |
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【小题6】 | A.nervously | B.immediately | C.strangely | D.automatically |
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【小题7】 | A.stared | B.smiled | C.glanced | D.glared |
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【小题8】 | A.after | B.while | C.since | D.because |
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【小题9】 | A.appealed | B.apologized | C.laughed | D.shouted |
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【小题10】 | A.suspected | B.doubted | C.thought | D.wondered |
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【小题11】 | A.tough | B.terrible | C.flexible | D.practical |
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【小题12】 | A.peace | B.danger | C.disbelief | D.need |
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【小题13】 | A.book | B.phone | C.diamond | D.plant |
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【小题14】 | A.possess | B.impress | C.greet | D.observe |
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【小题15】 | A.Tears | B.Happiness | C.Promises | D.Laughter |
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【小题16】 | A.aims | B.belongings | C.figures | D.exhibitions |
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【小题17】 | A.need | B.plan | C.imagine | D.guess |
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【小题18】 | A.senses | B.benefits | C.effects | D.pains |
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【小题19】 | A.appropriate | B.necessary | C.brave | D.mild |
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【小题20】 | A.care | B.matter | C.depend | D.remain |
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