读后续写思维方向专练(18)-2024届高三英语一轮起航

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右：2续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语己经为你写好。 In the doorway of my home,I looked closely at the face of my 23-year-old son,his backpack by his side. We were saying good-bye.In a few hours he would be flying to France.He would be staying there for at least a year to leam another language and experience life in a different country. Before his college graduation,one day I told Daniel that the great failing in my life had been that I didn't take a year or two off to travel when I finished college.This is the best way to my way of thinking,to broaden oneself and develop a lager perspective on life.Once I had married and begun working,I found that the eagerness of living in another culture had disappeared. Daniel thought about this.His friends said that he would be insane to put his career on hold.But he decided it was not so crazy.After graduation,he worked as a waiter at college,a bike messenger and a house painter.With the money he earned,he had enough to go to Paris. Last night,I tossed in bed,unable to sleep.It was a transitional time in Daniel's,a passage,a step from college into the adult world.I wanted to leave him some words that would have some meaning,some significance beyond the moment.I failed.Nothing came to my mind.Maybe,I thought,it wasn't necessary to say anything. But I knew that it was necessary.My father and I loved each other.Yet,I always regretted never hearing him put his feelings into words and never having the memory of that moment. Now,as I stood before Daniel,still nothing came from my lips.No sound broke the stillness of my beach-side home.Outside,I could hear the shrill cries of sea gulls as they circled the ever-changing surf of Long Island.Inside,I stood frozen and quiet,looking into the searching eyes of my son. Paragraph 1: What made it more difficult was that I knew this was not the first time I had let such a moment pass Paragraph 2: Thinking of those lost opportunities.Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten. In the doorwa