Coming home from school, I was filled with excitement. But I was into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the end of the sofa, , with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me she couldn’t type fast and she was out of work. My shock at finding mother in tears was a perfect of how I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very to understand. I could her pain and the tension (压力) of the strong feeling that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something inside me . I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face my shoulder and sobbed. I held her and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, and that was enough. At that moment, mother’s back with feelings, I understood for the first time her being so easy to . She was still my mother, she was something : a person like me, capable of fear and and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I sought in her arms. A week later mother took a job at half the salary the radio station . “It’s a job I can do, though.” She said . But the evening practice on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very feeling now when I heard her tapping away across the paper at night. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to . 小题1: A.lazy B.shocked C.ashamed D.tired 小题2: A.smiling B.thinking C.crying D.whispering 小题3: A.proof B.feeling C.excuse D.explanation 小题4: A.little B.much C.eagerly D.worriedly 小题5: A.suddenly B.slowly C.proudly D.quickly 小题6: A.watch B.recognize C.look D.sense 小题7: A.putting away B.stopping from C.sitting up D.holding back 小题8: A.turned B.lit C.increased D.rose 小题9: A.through B.against C.up D.to 小题10: A.carefully B.politely C.tightly D.thoughtfully 小题11: A.feeling B.reaching C.watching D.sensing 小题12: A.break B.content C.understand D.fall 小题13: A.still B.therefore C.yet D.however 小题14: A.much B.huge C.little D.more 小题15: A.cut B.hurt C.defeat D.wound 小题16: A.memory B.support C.comfort D.kindness 小题17: A.offered B.paid for C.contributed D.supplied 小题18: A.sadly B.simply C.excitedly D.worriedly 小题19: A.hard B.pleasant C.serious D.different 小题20: A.work B.write C. type D.sell