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高二英语定时练 PAGE PAGE 5 Part I Cloze As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I worked hard at school, and sometimes looked after my younger sister. Still, I found myself regularly resisting the urge to 1 out at home with even the simplest things. Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother 2 me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of 3 . Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, 4 for my lesson, and bought me a candy bar, you’d think I’d be very 5 to help her bring the groceries into the house. 6 I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an armload and left the 7 for Mom as I ran to my room, shut the door, and started studying. Don’t get me wrong: even back in my room, I felt 8 about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my 9 . But I also realized that once I did change, there’d be no going back. 10 I took on more responsibility, my parents would start 11 more of me. At age fifteen, I sensed that this one small change would 12 something much bigger: my personal change from a cared-for, spoiled (被宠坏的) child to a more 13 , caring and giving young man. I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n) 14 to jump in and see what happened. Returning home from the 15 , I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning 16 . Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and 17 back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day! Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The neat thing was, the more I helped out, the 18 I felt about myself and my place in my family. As Mom and Dad realized they could 19 on me more, our trips became far less stressful, too. In shor