Ella Fant was a middle-aged lady who lived with her only son John in a small house．She 1 John very much．In her 2 he couldn’t do anything 3 ．Every morning she would give him breakfast 4 bed and bring the paper to 5 ．It isn’t really true that he was too 6 work, in fact he had tried a few 7 ．First of all he was a window cleaner and in his first week he managed to 8 at least six windows．Then he 9 a bus conductor(售票员)and his second 10 a passenger stole his bag with all the fares(车费)collected．He 11 lost his job as a postman 12 he sent off all the letters when he should have taken them to people．It seemed that there was 13 suitable work for him．So he 14 to join the army．Mrs. Fant was so 15 about this that she told the 16 all the neighbors．“My John is going to be a soldier, ” she said．“He is going to be the best soldier there 17 was, I can tell you!”
Then the great day came 18 he was to march past the palace in the parade(接受检阅的队伍)．His 19 mother traveled to the city early in morning to be sure of getting a good 20 in the crowd．
The parade was full of sound and color．But when John and his fellow soldiers came in sight some of the people watching couldn’t help laughing at the one who couldn’t keep pace with the other as they marched along．But Ella Fant, who was filled with happiness, shouted at the top of her voice：“Look at them ! They’re all out of step my son John! Isn’t he the best!”
In 1982, Mark Thatcher, the son of Mrs．Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara Desert while competing in the Grand Prix Motor race from Paris to Daker．This sad unexpected news, shook the 1 calm and unhurried politician off her balance．Though she did her best to 2 as if nothing had happened and made her public appearances usual, people could not fail to notice that she was no longer the old self-assured(自信的)prime minister who always had everything under 3 ．Instead she had become a very sad mother who was unable to recover from her 4 ．
One day when she was to 5 at a lunch party, a reporter caught her off her guard by bringing up the 6 of her missing son again．She was totally mentally 7 for the question and lost her 8 ．Tears were rolling down her eyes 9 she sobbingly told the reporter there was still no news of Mark and that she was very 10 about him．She said that all the countries concerned had promised to do their best to help her find her son．With that she 11 down completely and sobbed silently for quite a while．Gradually she 12 down and started to speak as planned．It was a very 13 scene which exposed a new side of Mrs．Thatcher’s 14 the public do not usually see, so people began to 15 about the Iron Woman’s motherly love, a feeling 16 is common to all human race．
Later Mark returned safe and 17 to his mother’s side, good-humored and all smiles as usual 18 nothing unusual had 19 happened．The Iron Woman, however, broke down again and was 20 sobbing for the second time．
