A. clothes B. left C. though D. difficult E. parent F. reading G. happy with H. angry about I. came true |
My mother was a housewife. She thought that successful people spent a lot more time _____than watching TV. So she asked my brother and me to read two books every week in our free time. She would check them with marks, ____she couldn’t read the books at all.
When I went to school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted cool _____ and hung out with friends. I went from being an A-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. One night, I complained about not having enough Italian T-shirts. Then my mother gave me all her money. She said I could get the money ____ to buy shirts if I finished buying all things the family needed. I was very ___that, but after I bought those things, there was no money left. I got to know how __ it was for my mother to do all this. I went back to my studies and become an A-student again. Finally, my dream ____ and I become a doctor.
My story is really my mother’s story--a woman with little education greatly changed my life as a ___. So, I believe there is no job more important than parenting.