1.练高考
【2014·天津卷】One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I wou ld never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to __1__ me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling you that you've done __2__ and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you'll have to __3__ your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher？” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me __4__ for the rest of the night. I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the __5__ decisions adults had to make.
For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I'd __6__ wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her __7__ and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.
During my fourthgrade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large __8__ apartment, I became __9__ how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then __10__ I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on __11__ family and work. __12__ difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn't know whether you made the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a __13__ attitude.
Back home, I __14__ myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she __15__ to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be __16__. I learnt how to take care of myself and set high but achievable __17__.
