2021年高考英语阅读理解真题词汇练 05

高考真题阅读练词汇05 写给女儿的信 来源 词数 建议用时 江苏卷 697 11' August 1990, Boston Dear Maya Shao-ming, 1.To me, June 6,1990 is a special day. My long-awaited dream came true the minute your father cried, “A girl!" You are more than just a second child, more than just a girl to match our boy. You, litle daughter, are the link to our female line, the legacy of another woman's pain and sacrifice 31 years ago. 2 Let me tell you about your Ch/p00inese grandmother. Somewhere in Hong Kong, in the late fifties, a young waitress found herself pregnant(怀孕)by a cook, probably a co-worker at her restaurant. She carried the baby to term, suffered to give it birth, and kept the little girl for the first three months of her life. I like to think that my mother-your grandmother-loved me and fought to raise me on her own, but that the daily struggle was too hard. Worn down by the demand of the new baby and perhaps the constant threat of starvation, she made the painful decision to give away her girl so that both of us might have a chance for a better life. 3 More likely, I was dropped at the orphanage(孤儿院）steps or somewhere else. I will probably never know the truth. Having a baby in her unmarried state would have brought shame on the family in China, so she probably kept my existence a secret. Once I was out of her life, it was as if I had never been born. And so you and your brother and I are the missing leaves on a family tree. 4 Do they ever wonder if we exist? 5 Before I was two, I was adopted by an Anglo couple. Fed three square meals a day. I grew like a wild weed and grasped all the opportunities they had to offer-books, music, education, church life and community activities. In a family of blue-eyed blonds, though, I stood out like a sore thumb. Whether from jealousy or fear of someone who looked so different, my older brothers sometimes teased me about my unpleasing skin, or made fun of my clumsy walk. Moody and impatient, burdened by fears that none of us realized resulted from my ear