英语：2012届广东省中山一中高三上学期第二次统测试题201112.docVIP

中山一中2011-2012学年度第一学期高三第二次统测My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea. As was often the case, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and 1 those we had grown to love. We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again 2 at the pier (码头) waving good-bye to my father as his ship pulled him away from us. My mother would turn my brother and me around before the ship was out of 3 , wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of 4 in the new environment again. Throughout the years of changing 5 , schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood — my mother. For both my brother and me, she was the cook, maid and teacher. She played these roles while 6 some type of part-time job. Leaving a promising career is just one of the sacrifices which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so. While she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother, 7 , managed to make each house to be the very home that is safe and comfortable This probably sounds like a depressing way to live, 8 with two small children: 搒ingle?parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability to 9 a career or establish a home. But it was not for my mother. She turned this 10 into adventure for us all! Each relocation (变换位置) was a chance to 11 another part of the world. My mother greeted each new culture, climate and neighborhood. Each new house was a 12 to rearrange furniture, make curtains and 13 pictures. Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people. No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a 14 attitude. She always had strength in the face of struggle and change. My mother was so 15 all those years during my childhood — she was my island in a sea of change