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Summer rains came and never stopped. When it grew darker, Grandmother sent my sister Cathie and me out to gather roses. We carried many roses into the house, filling all the bottles we could find. The ______ filled the air, and the ants came out of the flowers, filling the house.

Grandfather held his new camera, taking pictures of the ants, roses and everything. The camera light came out everywhere until Grandmother became ______.

“Marcus! I can't read! Go away. Be a ______.”

“I am a farmer who takes pictures,” he said ______. “I am a photographer?farmer.”

Grandmother drove him to the barn(畜棚). I ______ Grandfather there, watching him take photos of cows ______ they showed him their backsides. I stood behind Grandfather, trying to see what he saw ______ the camera.

Then I walked to the back of the barn where his pictures hung. And then I saw it—the picture I had taken of ______ with Cathie, Cathie's mouth opened, both lost in a singing game, light from the window around them. The picture wasn't ______ as if it was a painting or a memory. For a moment, I felt like I was Cathie. I stepped back to see the picture better and ______ against Grandfather standing behind me.

“You moved the camera,” he said. “That's ______ it didn't come out clearly.”

I nodded.

“It's not a good picture.”

“Joe,” said Grandfather softly, “it is a wonderful picture.”

“But I ______ the camera.”

“You did. See how it looks like Cathie and I are the only ones there. What a wonderful picture!”

Grandfather's voice rose ______.

I said shyly, “Well, it's not perfect.”

“Perfect!” Grandfather said, his voice loud. “What is ______? Joe, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a ______. That goes for life.”

1.A. rain B. roses C. bottles D. smell

2.A. inactive B. impatient C. impolite D. unfair

3.A. farmer B. photographer C. cowboy D. painter

4.A. correctly B. luckily C. proudly D. successfully

5.A. invited B. followed C. led D. showed

6.A. until B. when C. so D. unless

7.A. above B. across C. through D. over

8.A. Grandfather B. Grandmother C. Grandparents D. myself

9.A. clean B. interesting C. colourful D. clear

10.A. beat B. bumped C. played D. held

11.A. how B. why C. where D. what

12.A. moved B. dropped C. broke D. opened

13.A. in surprise B. in confidence C. with patience D. with excitement

14.A. happy B. soft C. polite D. perfect

15.A. camera B. painting C. picture D. memory

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My mother’s loving hands

Night after night, she came to help me sleep, even long after my childhood years.

I don’t remember _____ it first started making me a little angry 一 my mom’s hands pushing my hair that way. But it really made me uncomfortable, for they _____ rough(粗糙的)against my young skin. Finally, one night, I _____ her, ‘‘Don’t do that any more. Your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say anything, _____ she never did it again.

Years later, I missed my mother’s _____ and her goodnight kiss on my face. I’m not a little girl any more. My mom is _____ her mid-seventies, and her rough hands are still doing things for my family and me.

Now my own children have _____. It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in my bedroom, a familiar hand ran across my _____ to push the hair from my head. Then a kiss, ever so softly, touched my brow(额头).

Taking my mom’s hand, I told her how _____ I was for that night I shouted at her. But my mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten it long ago.

That night, I ______ with a new appreciation(感激)for my mother’s caring hands. And the guilt(内疚)that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.

1.A. when B. where C. why

2.A. looked B. felt C. seemed

3.A. nodded at B. shouted at C. seemed

4.A. so B. or C. but

5.A. hands B. words C. smiles

6.A. on B. in C. at

7.A. stayed up B. woken up C. grown up

8.A. nose B. face C. mouth

9.A. sorry B. tired C. relaxed

10.A. left home B. kept working C. fell asleep

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