建议用时:16分钟 [2015·河北石家庄质检二]Last year, I was assigned to work at an office near my mother's house. __1__, I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her out with the housework and contributed to the __2__. After a week, I started__3__the groceries were running out pretty quickly. __4__,I began observing my mother's daily routine for two weeks. To my __5__, I found she would pack a paper bag full of canned goods and __6__ every morning at about nine. She took the food to the slums (贫民窟) and distributed it to street __7__. I asked around and__8__my mum was popular in the area. The kids looked up to her as if she were their own mother. Then it hit me-why didn't she want to tell me about what she'd been doing? Was she__9__that I would stop buying the groceries if I knew the truth? When she got home, I told her about my discovery and __10__ she could react, I gave her a big hug and told her she didn't need to keep it a__11__from me. She told me that__12__of the children lived with an old lady in a makeshift home while others __13__on the streets. For years, my mum had been helping out by__14__ whatever food she could __15__. I was so moved by how __16__ she was. She used what was __17__for her to help others in need. And I was so |