基本信息
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答 案填写在答 题卡标号为16—25的相应 位置上。 night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. __16_____ (follow) her longstanding custom, she’d lean down and push m y long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead. i don’t remember ___17___ it first st arted annoying me — her hands pushing my hair that way. fin ally, one night, i shouted out at her, “don’t do that anymore — your hands are too rough!” she didn’t say ___18____ in reply. but never again ___19_____ my mother close out my day __20_____ that familiar expressio n of her love. time after time, with the passing years, my __21_____ (think) returned to that night. by then i missed my mother’s hands, — missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead.
