One afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married, Max walked into the dining room, where I wa

(二十三)
(2018江苏扬州) 
One afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married, Max walked into the dining room, where I was looking through my old photos.
These months I was learning to let Max come ___16___ on his own. If I moved too quickly, he ran away. If I was __17__, we often ended up playing, laughing, and recently, even sitting together on the sofa with a book.
“Who’s that?” he pointed to one photo.’
“My mom. I suppose she is your __18___ Sylvia.”
“Cool. Who is that to me?”
“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago.”
“Hmm. Too bad he had to die.”
Death is always a painful __19___, especially for a seven-year-old child who’d lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of __20___ relatives.
He began to finger through the photos. “Who is that to me?”
Under his finger I could see my own face. I should have known the answer to his __21___ question. But I said,“I’m your __22___ mom. I’m sorry that your first mom died.”
“What should I call you?”he asked.
Mom, I wanted to cry. I held back.
“You can call me Mom or Betsy. _______fells OK for you.
I waited, expecting a pronouncement of my new ___24__.
“Sweet,”he said, walking out of the room.
For a couple of days afterward, Max ___25__ a new title for me.“Can we go bowling?”“Can I watch TV?”he’d ask, and then ___26____ the questions by mouthing the word Mom. Mom was always __27____.
One weekend, he suddenly said, “I notice I don’t call you Mom.”
“I noticed that too.”
“__28___ I say Betsy, I mean Mom. Moms die, you know. I think it’s maybe  __29__ if you’re just Betsy.”
Tears(眼泪) were filling my eyes.
“Hey, Betsy?”
“Yeah,”I said, taking pleasure in the new __30___ of my old name.
16.A. down        B. near          C. close          D. back
17. A. kind          B. patient        C. helpful          D. confident
18. A. grandmother        B. mother        C. aunt          D. cousin
19. A. subject        B. speech        C. message          D. sign
20. A. dead        B. boring        C. unknown          D. strict
21. A. simple        B. proper        C. stupid          D. funny
22. A. natural        B. past        C. only          D. second
23. A. Whoever        B. Whatever        C. That          D. Anybody
24. A. position        B. name        C. title         D. call
25. A. worked out        B. turned out        C. carried out        D. tried out
26. A. answer        B. follow        C. confirm          D. raise
27. A. alive         B. wise           C. silent          D. lost
28. A. Until        B. Before        C. When          D. Unless
29. A. politer        B. safer        C. sadder          D. riskier
30. A. pronunciation        B. announcement     C. voice     D. sound
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文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。文章提供的是新婚不久的作者和丈夫前妻去世后留下的一个年仅7岁的小男孩马克斯的生活场景。作者和马克斯的爸爸结婚后想让马克斯喊自己妈妈,内心想代替马克斯的妈妈来抚平孩子的伤痛。但这个5岁就失去妈妈的小男孩马克斯一直不肯喊出妈妈这个称呼。最后马克斯的一句话让人泪崩,因为妈妈会死,他之所以不喊作者妈妈,就是觉得这样后妈可能会更安全一些。
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