时间:2024-05-05
谢璇
閱读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
At the age of 8, I had assumed that my talent-show disaster meant that I would never have to play the piano again. But two days later, after school, my mother came out of the kitchen and saw me watching TV.“Turn off TV,” she called from the kitchen. Five minutes later. I didnt move an inch. And then I decided, I didnt have to do what mother said anymore. I wasnt her slave.“Four clock,” she said once again, louder. “Im not going to play anymore,” I said coldly, “Why should I? Im not a genius.”
“No!I wont!”I screamed. She switched off the TV, half pulling, half carrying me towards the piano as I kicked the throw carpets under my feet.
“You want me to be something that Im not!”I cried.“ Ill never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!”
“Only two kinds of daughters,”she shouted in Chinese.“Those who are obedient(顺从的)and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!”
“Then I wish I werent your daughter, I wish you werent my mother.”And thats when I remembered the babies she had lost in China, the ones we never talked about.“I wish I were dead! Like them!”
It was as if I had said magic words. Alakazam!—her face went blank, her mouth closed, and she backed out of the room, stunned(目噔口呆), as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, lifeless.
It was not the only disappointment my mother felt in me. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time insisting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. I didnt get straight As. I didnt become class president. I didnt get into Stanford. I dropped out of college.
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I want be. I could only be me.
And for all those years after our struggle at the piano, she never mentioned my playing again. The lessons stopped. The lid (琴蓋)to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that failure was inevitable(不可避免的). And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?
So she surprised me. A few years ago when I am turning 30, she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday.
注意:
1. 续写词数应为 150 词左右。
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
I saw the offer as a sign of forgiveness, a tremendous(巨大的)burden removed.____________________________________
Paragraph 2:
“Well, I probably cant play anymore,”I said.
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写作指导
原文的主线是8岁孩子不愿弹钢琴激怒母亲,甚至伤害母亲,最终让母亲失望,从停止弹钢琴这件事起作者感觉自己很多事情都做不好,以为母亲默默地放弃了她。直到她30岁时母亲提出送她钢琴,母女关系出现巨大变化。
续写第一段第一句点明情节走向:从争吵到和解。对应材料的争吵,续写部分应该描写孩子对母亲的生日礼物的心理反应,对于过去自己所说所做有所回应——卸下愤怒和重负之后,是否有后悔和羞愧?
结合续写第二段第一句,作者是有意接受钢琴这份礼物,并且犹豫着要重新开始弹钢琴了。此时母亲的反应如何?由前文和常识可推想母亲对我的期望和爱之殷切和深沉,此段对话应是鼓励式的。那么接下来情节对作者受到鼓励后尝试 play, 考生可延续材料进行一些动作描写和心理描写,从多年后重新弹钢琴感悟到母亲当初的用心良苦。
参考范文
I saw the offer as a sign of forgiveness, a tremendous burden removed. Never had I expected this gift. “Are you sure?” I asked shyly. “I mean, wont you and Dad miss it?” “No, this is your piano,” she replied firmly. “Always your piano. Only you can play.” Driven by remorse(懊悔), I hesitated more for all those heart-breaking words I said and the wrongs I done.“Take it,”she asserted.
“Well, I probably cant play anymore after so many years.”I said. “You pick up fast. You could be a genius if you want to. You are just not trying.”She was neither angry nor sad. She declared it as if to announce a fact that could never be disproved. So I played a few bars, surprised at how easily the notes came back. After playing a few more times what I had practiced as a child, which for the first time started to make sense, I finally came to read her thoughts.
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