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新英语进阶·高中拓展阅读·基础篇

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阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。 续写的

词数应为 150 左右。

When school was over, the day was fading and it started to drizzle(下毛毛雨). I stood at the

school gate, with a loaded backpack on my shoulders. It was Friday again: a weekend of joy with

unlimited sleeping hours and dinner courses specially made to my taste, a weekend at home. I waved

goodbye to my friends as they jumped into their fathers warm and comfortable cars. Curiously, this gave

rise to a disturbing feeling in me. It was not exactly what they called jealousy, but something like

dismay(沮丧). I knew all I could expect was an old bike Mom would ride along on, with the badly-

oiled chain creaking(嘎吱作响) against the wheel to announce her arrival.

Every Friday when Mom came to pick me up for the weekend, it was a moment full of great

expectation and great unease. I always felt my face burning as we rode our way in and out of the

numerous cars and saw my friends faces sticking out of the car windows. It was like stepping into a

ballroom with beautifully dressed ladies and finding yourself in a smelly T-shirt.

To tell you the truth, Mom is quite a headache once in a while. She just looks a homely middle-

aged housewife. Being a practitioner of DIY, she knits most of my sweaters, chiefly in old styles.

Whenever caught by some curious classmates asking what brand my sweaters are, I d force a smile and

reply in a half-joking manner: homemade.

I couldn t remember when I started to find her such an embarrassment. As a little boy, I relied on

her so much. She had been working at home, cooking in the kitchen, knitting by the lamp or riding

across town to buy me a book I badly needed. It had always been much fun riding with Mom. But just

now there seemed to be something standing between us, something that made her so strange to me and

me to her. (重庆市北碚区 2022—2023 学年高二上学期期末联考)

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Today she showed up in a raincoat.

Paragraph 2:

Mom tried to cover me with the back of the raincoat again as a storm set in.

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