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课时作业(十五) 读后续写专项
(建议用时:35分钟)(见学生用书P154) 阅读下面的材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
[1]When I was eight or nine years old, I wrote my first poem.My mother read the little poem and began to cry.“Buddy, you didn't really write this beautiful, beautiful poem!” My mother poured out her praise.I glowed.“What time will Father be home?” I asked.I could hardly wait to show him what I had accomplished.My mother said she hoped he would be home around seven.I spent the best part of that afternoon preparing for his arrival.First, I wrote the poem out in my finest flourish(花体字).Then I used colored crayon(蜡笔) to draw an elaborate border around it that would do justice to its brilliant content.Then I waited.As 7 o'clock drew near, I confidently placed it right on my father's plate on the dining-room table.
[2]But my father did not return at seven.I admired my father.He was head of Paramount Studios in Hollywood but he had begun his motion picture career as a writer.He would be able to appreciate this wonderful poem of mine even more than my mother.
[3]This evening it was almost 8 o'clock when my father burst in.He was an hour late for dinner.His mood seemed thunderous.He could not sit down but circled the long dining-room table with a drink in his hand, calling down terrible oath(诅咒) on his employees.
[4]Suddenly, he paused and stared at his plate.There was a suspenseful silence.“What is this?” He was reaching for my poem.I lowered my head and stared down into my plate.I was full of anxious daydreams.How wonderful it would be if this very first work of mine drove away the angry clouds that now darkened my important father's face.
[5]“Ben, a wonderful thing has happened,” my mother began.“Buddy has written his first poem! And it's beautiful.”
[6]“If you don't mind, I'd like to decide for myself.” Father said.
[7]I kept my face lowered to my plate as he read that poem.It couldn't have taken very long to read that poem.It was only ten lines.But it seemed to take hours.I could hear him d