Sometimes I really wonder whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy making money. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read about in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too much to say.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I quietly sat down beside her and her.
“Mom, I have a question for you,” I said, breaking the .
“What?” she asked, still doing her work.
“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very voice.
She stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. But then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt. I was very then because I thought I had hurt her.
It seemed like a very long time before my mother started to speak again. “Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “look at this thread (线). Sometimes it , but most of it disappears (消失) in the quilt. The thread makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can
be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is inside (在里面).”
I listened carefully but I didn’t understand the next spring. My father had a stroke (中风) and
walk by himself anymore. After that, my mother
my father walk outside every day. Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers and trees. The sun gently glistened through leaves. They two, hand in hand, walked slowly. To me, that was
picture in the world — that’s a picture of love.
They still don’t say “I love you” to each other. But I know they have deep love for each other. I used to think love meant flowers and sweet kisses. But actually, love is just a thread in the quilt.
What wild animals are ______________________ (消失得更快) than giant pandas?
The leaders _____________________ (才发现) the silly mistakes until the end of 2013.
Who ______________________ (被挑选) to play the lead role in the film Lost in Thailand?
Mum, how many parts will the cake _______________________(分成)?
If we ___________________ (不保护) these rare animals, they will die out.
| hear from; be in service; cover live; break into; take place; get angry with each other; get along with; take part in; try one’s best; choose; |
________ you ________________ the company about your new job recently?
Think about your situation. Do you have other ____________________ but to accept our plan?
The parents _________________________ after learning their son stayed in the net bar the whole night.
It is said that the trial(审判) of Bo Xilai _________________________ earlier this year.
In the world’s large cities such as New York, most murders ____________________ in poor areas.
______________________ all his neighbors seems impossible to him, though he knows its importance.
Will China refuse ________________________ the G7 meeting to be held in Washington next month?
How long had the old bus station _____________________ before it was changed into a park?
_______________________ computer systems of organizations like FBI led to his arrest.
---- Where are the children?
---- They are in the study. They _______________________ to do better in the final exams.
Louis Braille, a Frenchman, couldn’t see anything when he was three years old. At the age of ten, he went to a special school for b_______ children. The teacher there taught him a new way of reading by touching raised letters(突出的字母) on the paper. H______
, it was a slow way to read, and it did not help the blind to write. In 1819, a French soldier i__________
a special writing called “night writing”. Night writing used twelve dots(小圆点). In 1824, Braille k__
about the night writing and began to change it for the blind to use. He didn’t use 12 dots but 6 dots. Letters are made with one or m______
dots. In this way, Braille was able to use the six dots for all twenty-six letters. Now people call this writing the “Braille Writing” and people first used it in 1829. His work helped the blind see the world through their fingers.
| you buy twenty-one high please |
Can you tell me the ____________ of the mountain?
Children, did you enjoy ____________ during the vacation?
Travelling by sea is a ____________ experience for most people.
He often ____________ gifts for his parents on their birthdays.
They live on the ____________ floor and they take a lift up and down every day.
| at the same time, the same size as, looking forward to, tried their best, Look out |