Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′)
[2016·双鸭山一中质检]
On Mother's Day, I was expecting my grown children to come back home and spend the day with me.
Fifteen years earlier, I was a single mom with two children, a __1__ job and a long commute (通勤路程). So I had to shop for groceries and plan for the next week on weekends. __2__, I went shopping on Sunday. When I __3__ to the cashier that the store was really quiet that day, she replied, “It's always __4__ on Mother's Day. You must be the only __5__ out there shopping.” I know she was __6__ telling the truth and she did not mean to __7__ me. Needless to say, all I could do was to finish paying and get to my car. I hadn't __8__ realized it was Mother's Day. My children were too young to know it. How
__9__ I really was!
I was excited to see my __10__ soon. I decided to treat myself to an ice tea and __11__ to the sandwich shop next door. It was __12__ except for a mom and her son ahead of me. __13__ this was a single mom, celebrating Mother's Day with her son in the sandwich shop. When she finished __14__, I handed the cashier a $20 bill and said, “This is my treat. Happy Mother's Day!” The cashier was __15__ for a moment and the woman searched my face to see if she __16__ me.
Wayne Dyer once __17__ the power of kindness. He said studies showed that not only do the giver and receiver of an act of kindness __18__, but an observer benefits in exactly the same way. The mom and her son felt __19__ because she had been honored and received an unexpected __20__. I felt good because I felt I had honored that part of me that wasn't honored all those years ago.
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