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Dear God,        Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. have heard these sons and daughters say they  1  fully appreciated their mothers   2  it was too late to tell them.       I am  3  the dear mother who is still alive. I appreciate her more each day. My mother does not change , but I do.   4  I grow older and wiser, I realize what an extraordinary person she is. How sad that I am unable to speak these words  5  her presence, but they  6  easily from my pen.          How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life   7  ? For the love,  8   and just plain hard work that   9  into raising a child? For running after a toddler(蹣跚行走、學步的小孩), for understanding a 10   teenager, for tolerating a college student who knows  11  ? For waiting for the day   12  a daughter realizes her mother really is?        How does a  13   woman thank for a mother for continuing to be a mother? For being ready   14   advice (when asked ) or keeping      15    when it is most   appreciated? For not saying: " I told you so", when she   16   these words dozens of times? For being essentially herself-loving, thoughtful, patient, and forgiving?        I don't know how, dear God, except to bless her as richly as she   17  and to help me   18  the example she has set. I  19  that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother looks in  20  .

(     )1. A.often             (     )2. A. when             (     )3. A. fond of           (     )4. A. As               (     )5. A. at               (     )6. A. say               (     )7. A. itself           (     )8. A. happiness         (     )9. A. pour             (     )10. A. moody           (     )11. A .nothing         (     )12. A. when             (     )13. A. successful       (     )14. A. for             (     )15. A. quiet           (     )16. A must have spoken (     )17. A .wants           (     )18. A. come up with     (     )19. A. pray             (     )20. A. it               B. always             B. after               B. familiar with       B. When               B. in                 B. run                 B. it                 B. tiredness           B. fill               B .changeable         B. everything         B. which               B. grown               B. to                 B. calm               B. could have spoken   B. deserves           B. come up to         B. think               B. me                 C.never               C. unless             C. blessed with       C. With               C. on                 C. write               C. her                 C. patience           C. spend               C. angry               C something           C in which             C. understandable     C. with               C. still               C should have spoken   C. needs               C. live up to         C. believe             C. myself             D. not                 D. until               D. starved of           D. While               D. before               D. flow                 D. herself             D. generosity           D. go                   D. sad                 D. anything             D. how                 D. understanding       D. by                   D. silent               D. need have spoken     D. requires             D. live with           D. suppose             D. mine

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1-5:  CDCAB   6-10: DACDA   11-15: BABCD   16-20: BBCAD