1. For many years, my parents had a fortune from a fortune cookie that
, “You and your wife will be happy in your life together.” They
it in a framed picture of themselves smiling near a beach in Cuba. I always enjoyed seeing the picture and the fortune; it gave me a
of stability(稳定). I would say that they had a wonderful twenty-six-year
. There were, of course, good times and
times, but they were able to work together to make the life they wanted. In my opinion, there is not much more than one can ask
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When my mother was fifty-one, she got a cancer(癌症)on her tongue. Operating would have bad effects on her voice, and she would have been required to use a feeding tube for the
of her life. She chose radiation treatment(化疗). More than one year later she was forced to have a tracheotomy(气管切开术), which meant that she
her voice and had to start using a
tube. She decided with my father not to go through any more treatments and to
at home. During this
difficult time, I married my husband. We moved in with my parents to
my father and to be with my mother. Five weeks after my wedding, my mother
at home with the whole family present.
The day after her death, my family went out to
– we really weren’t up to cooking a big family meal. My father chose a Vietnamese(越南)
. We ate our dinner, talking about my mother and
memories. It was a bittersweet
. We had all loved her so much, but at the same me we were
that her suffering was over. After dinner, we
our fortune cookies. My husband’s fortune read, “You and your wife will be happy in your life together.” We
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【小题1】 | A.wrote | B.read | C.told | D.talked |
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【小题2】 | A.kept | B.left | C.forgot | D.liked |
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【小题3】 | A.emotion | B.safety | C.sense | D.happiness |
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【小题4】 | A.life | B.family | C.home | D.marriage |
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【小题5】 | A.wonderful | B.strange | C.bad | D.poor |
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【小题7】 | A.other | B.last | C.rest | D.first |
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【小题8】 | A.lost | B.raised | C.lowed | D.started |
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【小题9】 | A.flowing | B.feeding | C.medicine | D.water |
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【小题10】 | A.work | B.lay | C.stay | D.arrive |
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【小题11】 | A.possibly | B.especially | C.probably | D.extremely |
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【小题12】 | A.offer | B.help | C.command | D.swap |
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【小题13】 | A.recovered | B.suffered | C.died | D.passed |
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【小题14】 | A.walk | B.picnic | C.visit | D.eat |
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【小题15】 | A.hotel | B.restaurant | C.cinema | D.museum |
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【小题16】 | A.sharing | B.remembering | C.collecting | D.packing |
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【小题17】 | A.meal | B.place | C.moment | D.dusk |
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【小题18】 | A.sad | B.upset | C.determined | D.glad |
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【小题19】 | A.made | B.found | C.opened | D.cooked |
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【小题20】 | A.laughed | B.smiled | C.cried | D.preferred |
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