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Section Ⅲ 沙场点兵，能力自评 (时间：45分钟 满分100分) Ⅰ.完形填空 A Mother at Last It was a typical Christmas day in western Pennsylvania. My two sisters, mother and I had driven the fifty miles to spend the day with my__1__. She was my world at that age. In her lifetime, she had given__2__to four children and__3__that they grew into adults—__4__she never did have a child from her own body. The oldest one called her Aunt Rheuie, as did the__5__three. The youngest of her “children” was my mother. She had been__6__this eightmonthold baby as a Christmas gift one year. Already in her fifties, Rheuie__7__mothering the little one. That Christmas we entered her sweet home and__8__our coats. As usual, there was the__9__of good food cooking and wood burning in the stove. There were__10__exchanged, but there is no way I can__11__any of them except the final gift. The final gift given that day was to take center__12__. Grandma held the tiny blue box in her hands and I saw how they shook__13__she raised the lid(盖). Inside the box__14__a silver band(带子)with the word__15__on it and four brightlycolored stones representing the birthdays of each of the children she had so lovingly__16__for over the years. Tears flowed__17__from her eyes. I didn’t understand the tears then, but age and experience have__18__with that. Rheuie cried that day－not from sorrow, but from the pure__19__of being accepted as a mother. That moment made all those years of caring for others__20__every minute. | 
