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Do you still remember the scores in your past exams? Perhaps the only test score that I remember is the 55 I got when I was in high school.
The test was the final for a course. I remembered waiting anxiously (焦虑地) as my teacher Mr. Right passed out our papers one by one. It was a rather ___________ test. I heard my classmates groaning (叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren’t looking good.
Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, was my score, 55! I lowered my head, and ___________ the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see. “The scores were not very good, none of you ____________,” Mr. Right said. “The____________ score in the class was a 55.”
A 55? That’s me! I didn’t feel so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot ____________.
I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My mother___________ that I had a big test that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “How did you do in your test?”  “I made a 55,” I said. A frown (皱眉) now stood on my mother’s face. I knew I had to ___________ at once. “But Mum, I had the highest score in the class,” I proudly said. I thought that explanation would make a difference. “You ___________!” my mother replied. “But it’s the highest!” I insisted (坚持). “I don’t care what scores others had, but you failed. What matters is what you do!” my mother firmly said.
For years, my mother was __________ in that way. It didn’t matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it excellently.
We often don’t understand the ___________ of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents’ shoes. My mother’s words have helped me throughout life.