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Alone in the light at the dining room table, I sat in tears.
Finally, I'd succeeded in getting both kids to bed. I got them both washed, __
1__ by cries of
delight, crazy running around, laughing and throwing things. __
2__ calmed down, they lay in their
beds as I gave each the five minutes' back rubs as usual. Then I began the night time routine of a song,
both kids' __
3__. I sang it over and over until they seemed fully engaged in __
4__.
A recently __
5__ man with full custody (监护权) of his children, I was determined to give them as
__
6__ and stable a home life as possible. I __
7__ a happy face for them. Everything was just as it had
always been with the exception __
8__ their mother was now missing. There, another night successfully
__
9__.
I rose slowly, tiptoed out of their room and went downstairs.
Sitting at the
10 room table, I realized that this was the first time since I came home from work
that I'd been able to
11 sit down.
Then it all crowded in on me:the fatigue(疲惫), the
12 of the responsibility, the worry about bills
I wasn't sure I pay that month. And
13 . I felt as though I was at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness.
I sat there, silently sobbing. Just then, a pair of little arms went around my middle and a little face
peered up at me. I looked down into my fiveyearold son's
14 face.
I was
15 to be seen crying by my son. "I'm sorry, Ethan, I didn't know you were still awake.
I'm sorry, I'm just a little
16 tonight. "
"It's okay, Daddy. It's okay to cry, you're just a
17 . "
I can't express how happy he made me, who gave me
18 to cry. He seemed to be saying that I
didn't have to always be
19 , that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and
20
my feeling. Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night. Thank you, my son.
( )1. A. excited ( )2. A. Sooner or later ( )3. A. favor ( )4. A. sleep ( )5. A. disabled ( )6. A. ordinary ( )7. A. put on ( )8. A. which ( )9. A. arrived ( )10. A. dining ( )11. A. almost ( )12. A. pleasure ( )13. A. satisfaction ( )14. A. puzzled ( )15. A. embarrassed ( )16. A. tired ( )17. A. human ( )18. A. need ( )19. A. sad ( )20. A. give out |
B. accompanied B. Or rather B. favorite B. bed B. married B. common B. looked on B. that B. celebrated B. sitting B. just B. lack B. fun B. suspected B. delighted B. sad B. father B. time B. happy B. let out |
C. encouraged C. On time C. entertainment C. joy C. divorced C. regular C. got on C. if C. dismissed C. bed C. ever C. absence C. loneliness C. surprising C. disappointed C. anxious C. parent C. permission C. strong C. make out |
D. affected D. More or less D. hobby D. imagination D. discovered D. normal D. had on D. whether D. concluded D. study D. hardly D. weight D. worry D. sympathetic D. terrified D. unlucky D. grown?up D. order D. weak D. carry out |