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Sarah came running in. "Look what l found." Over the top of the paper I was reading came a long object
that caused me to
1 . It was a snake skin.
"Isn't it
2 ?" said my wide-eyed seven-year-old.
I stared at it thinking to myself that it really wasn't
3 beautiful, but I have learned never to appear
uninterested
4 tired of children.
"
5 does a snake shed its skin?" Sarah asked.
I also try to seize every
6 to teach my children there is almost something beyond the obvious. "Snakes
shed their skin because they
7 to renew themselves," I explained. As is so often the
8 in my family, the
original subject leads to
9 and another, until we are discussing something quite
10 .
"Why do they need to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
Robert replied humorously. "Because they don't like
11 they are and they want to be someone else."
Sarah and I politely
12 her brother.
"We often need to shed our skins," I said to my now
13 daughter. "This snake no longer needs this skin.
Probably he doesn't think he looks as
14 in it as he once did. Like buying a new suit."
Of course, I'm sure this explanation won't
15 naturalists (博物学家). But Sarah was understanding. As
we
16 , I knew that she began to understand that renewal is part of
17 and see what we need to keep and
what we need to
18 . I was careful to point out that this is a
19 process, not one to be forced.
"Snakes don't peel off their skin when they feel like it," I explained. "It
20 as a natural result of their
growth." "I see, Dad," said Sarah and jumped off my lap, grabbed the snake skin, and ran off.
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( )11.A.that
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( )13.A.thinking
( )14.A.clever
( )15.A.satisfy
( )16.A.walked
( )17.A.study
( )18.A.remove
( )19.A.forced
( )20.A.happens |
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B.How
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