1、读后续写思维训练:读后续写思维训练:My Mom Only Had One Eye My Mom Only Had One Eye 1 My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an embarrassment. 2 She ran a small shop at a flea market and collected old clothes and some other things to sell for the money we needed. Once during elementary school, it was fiel
2、d day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed and wondered how could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school, my schoolmates asked me, “Your mom only has one eye?!” and taunted me. 3 I was so angry with my mom and wished that she would just disappear from thi
3、s world. So I said to my mom, “Why dont you have the other eye?! If youre only gonna make me a laughingstock!” My mom did not respond, I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, I felt so good to have had said what I wanted to say. Maybe it was because my mom hadnt punished me, I didnt think
4、 that I had hurt her feelings very badly. 4 For the words I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty. I told myself that I would become successful in the near future, so I studied very hard. Late
5、r I got accepted by the Seoul University, I left my mother and came to Seoul to study. Then I got married there. 5 I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I am living happily as a successful man. I enjoy the life in Seoul because its a place that doesnt remind me of my mom and my past.
6、 This kind of happiness was getting bigger and bigger, until one day someone knocked at my door. It was my mom! And still with her one eye! It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my moms eye. 6 I screamed at her, “Who are you? I dont know you! How dar
7、e you come to my house and scare my daughter!” To this, my mom quietly answered, “Oh, Im so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,” and she disappeared out of sight. Notes: 1 embarrassment 难堪,窘迫。 2 flea market 跳蚤市场。 3 taunt 嘲弄,讥 讽。 4 laughingstock 笑柄。 5 pinching 引起痛苦的。 6 shack 棚屋, 小室。 7 curiosi
8、ty 好 奇,好奇心。 1.所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右; 2.至少使用 5 个短文中标有下划线的词语; 3.续写部分分两段, 每段的开头语已为你 写好; 4.续写完成后, 请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语; Paragraph 1 One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. Paragraph 2 Then a piece of paper, a letter, I thought, in her hand came into my eyes. Key: 1 One day, a letter regar
9、ding a school reunion came to my house. Lying to my wife that I was going on a business trip, I went back to participate in the reunion. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, which I used to call a house, just out of curiosity. There I found my mom fallen on the cold ground. I did not she
10、d a single tear. 2 Then a piece of paper, a letter, I thought, in her hand came into my eyes. My son, I think my life has been long enough now, and I wont visit Seoul anymore. But would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come to visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad w
11、hen I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school for you. Im so sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment for you. You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldnt stand watching you having to grow
12、up with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was so proud of my son to see a whole new world for me with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. During the couple of times that you were angry with me, I thought to myself, its because he loves me. My son oh, my son Dont cry for me because of my death. I love you so much.