摘要： insist 坚持 He insisted that he was innocent. = He insisted on his being innocent. He insisted that he did nth wrong and not be punished.他认为他没错.不要被惩罚.
After becoming successful, a man felt that he should repay his mother, 1 he asked her,“Mother, what can I give you?I really want to repay you for 2 you have given to me．”His mother looked 3 and said,“You don't have to repay me．”
His mother 4 to ask for anything, but he continued to persist(执著地坚持)．To put an end to the 5 , she said,“All right．If you insist, then tonight you stay on the 6 with me, just as you 7 when you were a baby．”He said,“That's a(n) 8 thing to ask for, but if it pleases you, I will．”
As soon as he 9 , the mother got up and brought a glass of water．She 10 the glass of water on his side．Feeling the wetness under him, he moved away to the other side of the bed．As he settled down, his mother poured 11 glass of water on the other side．Later he felt that this part of the bed was 12 too．He woke up and saw his mother with the glass in her hand．He asked 13 ,“What are you doing, Mother?Why do you 14 me to sleep on a wet bed?”
His mother said,“I slept with you, when you wetted the bed in the night．I 15 your nappy(尿布)and moved you to the 16 part of the bed, while I slept on the wet side．You wanted to repay me．Can you sleep here even for one night with me on a wet bed?If you 17 , I'll take that as my repayment．”
How true it is that of all the 18 in the world, the one that can never be repaid is the one you 19 your mother．You can never repay the 20 , care and time your mother gave to you in order to bring you up．You are a part of her flesh and blood; don't forget this．
Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams．All the 1 had been working hard for some time, reviewing(复习)their lessons for the exams．If they didn't 2 ,they would have to retake(重考)them in September．There were usually a few who 3 , but Jane didn't want to be one of them．She had worked hard all year, 4 just before the exams, she was still working so hard that her sister Barbara was 5 about her．She went to bed too 6 The night before the first exam, Barbara insist(坚持)that she have an 7 night and take a 8 pill．She promised to wake 9 up in the morning．
As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep(睡过头)．Her 10 kept jumping from subject to subject．At last, with the help of 11 she went to sleep．In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination 12 but she couldn't answer any of the questions． 13 around her was writing pages and pages． 14 she thought hard, she couldn't find anything to write 15 ．She kept looking at her 16 ．Time was running out．There was only an hour to go．She started one question, wrote two sentences, 17 and tried another one．With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences．By this time she was so worried that she started 18 ．Her whole body shook．It shook so much that she 19 up．She was still in bed and it had all been a 20 dream．A minute later, Barbara called her name．