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“Never say die'' was my mother's motto．No matter how tough the life was, she always had   36  in the face of struggle and change．
My mother , born in the late 1920s,   37  no education．Her mother, whom she loved dearly , died when she was 12 years old．Her father remarried,   38   he stepmother was   39   to her．As a result, my mother was always kept busy doing ail kinds of household   40   ,varying from feeding scores of tame birds to _41   her stepbrothers "Never say die" she   42 __say to herself．
After marrying my father , she  43   my grandparents as her own parents．It was a Lime when China was faced with a severe   44   of food and my family was no   45   ．There was a   46  in my family that the best food went to the old and she was always the last to have her meal．At one time , there wasn't a grain left at home, and the whole family got into a_47    "Never say die" said my mother, as she often did in such cases- She, together with my elder sisters—one 8 years old and the other 11, went begging until the   48    picked up．My father was once 49_ to drinking．My mother, on the one hand , tried hard to   50   him to quit drinking; on the other hand, every time my father was heavily drunk; she would feed two thermos bottles of boiled water to him ,using the mouth-to-mouth way．
Poor as my family was my parents   51   to send my sisters to school, which was absolutely   52  in my home village then．Now my sisters have both retired as primary school teachers．Then my mother devoted herfelf entirely to  53  her grandchildren, among whom are now two university students, a soldier, an engineer, a bank c’erk and a civil servant.
Devoted to the family, she is deeply respected and loved by her children and grandchildren. Every year a family get-together takes place on her birthday when the whole family  54  being blessed with such a great mother. “Never say die” is a  55  gift she left for her off springs.

A．energy B．strength C．power D．force

A．received B．accepted C．gave D．took

A．and B．or C．but D．so

A．cruel B．strict C．hard D．particular

A．events B．incidents C．affairs D．accidents

A．looking after B．looking for C．looking into D．looking up

A．would B．could C．should D．might

A．considered B．regarded C．took D．treated

A．short B．lacking C．lack D．lacked

A．reception B．expectation C．explosion D．exception

A．tradition B．habit C．custom D．practice

A．trouble B．panic C．puzzle D．pain

A．condition B．situation C．occasion D．cii5e

A．addicted B．devoted C．accustomed D．used

A．advise B．suggest C．talk D．convince

A．succeeded B．managed C．tried D．attempted

A．uneasy B．unfit C．unusual D．universal

A．bringing up B．raising C．supporting D．feeding

A．understand B．enjoy C．imagine D．appreciate

A．worthless B．priceless C．endless D．penniless