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姓名：__________班级：__________考号：__________ 、完形填空 One night, when I was eight , my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to 1me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done 2and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to 3your 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 4for the rest of the night .I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the 5decisions adults had to make. For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d 6wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her 7and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times. During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large 8apartment, I became 9how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then 10I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on 11family and work. 12difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you make the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a | 
