1. I should say I owe (归功于) my success to my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid. I
becoming a doctor.
My mother was a servant. Through her work, she found that
people spent a lot more time reading than they
watching television. She told my brother and me to watch only two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. In our free time, we had to read two books from the Detroit Public Library and
written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a trick because my mother was uneducated.
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for
. I wanted the brightly colored clothes and I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from
her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I
this week by scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything paid off, you can have all the Italian shirts you want.” I was very
with that arrangement but once I got through allocating (分配) money, there was
left.
I realized my mother was a great woman to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, let alone buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my
and became an A-student again, and at last I
my dream and I became a doctor.
My mother is a woman with
formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children. There is no job more important than parenting.
【小题1】 | A.dreamed of | B.depended on | C.gave up | D.thought of |
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【小题2】 | A.strict | B.easy-going | C.successful | D.careful |
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【小题4】 | A.read | B.present | C.teach | D.explain |
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【小题6】 | A.working | B.shopping | C.making | D.getting |
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【小题7】 | A.accept | B.win | C.spend | D.make |
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【小题8】 | A.excited | B.pleased | C.disappointed | D.bored |
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【小题9】 | A.anything | B.everything | C.something | D.nothing |
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【小题10】 | A.guys | B.mother | C.studies | D.play |
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【小题11】 | A.expected | B.realized | C.changed | D.tried |
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【小题12】 | A.little | B.much | C.few | D.High |
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