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[记叙文型完形填空] (限时：每篇15分钟) A The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid.I __1__ becoming a doctor. My mother was a domestic.Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they __2__ watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three preselected TV programmes during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and __3__ written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a __4__. My mother was illiterate. When I entered high school, I was an Astudent, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to __5__ with the guys. I went from being an Astudent to a Bstudent to a Cstudent. One night my mother came home from __6__ her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I'll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy __7__ food and pay the bills. With money __8__， you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very __9__ with that arrangement but once I got through allocating money, there was __10__ left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, __11__ buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my __12__ and became an Astudent again, and eventually I __13__ my dream and I became a doctor. | 
