a hit-and-run accident left him with a permanent limp.
Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers
on their break. He had little formal schooling.
His English was self-taught. Yet he eventually built
a small successful wholesale candy business.
Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him.
After she married, my mother quit her job
and gave herself to her family. In 1950,
with three small children, dad moved the family to a farm
40 miles from Chicago. He worked land and commuted to
the city to run his business. Mama said goodbye to
her parents and friends, and traded her busy city neighborhood
for a more isolated life. But she never complained.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What does the speaker tell us
about his mother’s early childhood?
27. What do we learn about the speaker’s father?
28. What does the speaker say about his mother?
Passage Two
During a 1995 roof collapse,
a firefighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged.
For ten years, he was unable to speak.
Then, one Saturday morning, he did something
that shocked his family and doctors. He started speaking.
“I want to talk to my wife.
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