Question

阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Mother's Gift

I grew up in a small town when the primary school was a ten-minute walk from my house. When the noon bell rang, I would race breathlessly home. My mother would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me.

One lunch-time when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed my lines so hard with me. But no matter how easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator's (旁白的) part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her words, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.

I didn't tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤蔓) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass in bunch, as if a painter had touched our landscape with gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. ''I think I'm going to dig up all these weeds,'' she said, ''pulling it up by its roots. From now on, we'll have only roses in this garden.''

''But I like dandelions,'' I protested. ''All flowers are beautiful---even dandelions.''

My mother looked at me seriously. ''Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn't it? '' She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. ''And that is true of people too,'' she added. ''Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.'' Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled.

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；

2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

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''But you will be a good narrator, '' she said,

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After the play, I took home the dandelion.

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Answer

Paragraph 1:

"But you will be a beautiful narrator'' she said，encouraging and comforting me as always as she did. My beloved mom, wearing a shining smile on her scarlet face, added, ''The narrator's part is important, too.'' Thanks to her encouragement, which calmed me down gradually, and I began to accept the narrator part was of vital since. Time went so fast that it reached to the performance day. At first, I was still nervous, but it was at that very moment that I found a dandelion in my pocket. I knew my mom passed the flower to me, which meant to be in company with me.

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After the play, I took home the flower. Mom carefully gazed at the dandelion, gently pressed it into the dictionary and grinned happily as she did. ''We were perhaps the only people who would press such a sorry-looking weed.'' Though decades have passed, I constantly recall our precious lunchtimes being together, clinging to each other, bathed in the soft midday light. For this, I am forever grateful, because smiles on mother's face and her kind act foster a man like me now! And all those inspiring words like ''Cease to struggle and you cease to live, which have been echoing in my mind as fresh as a daisy.

【解析】

这是一篇读后续写。文章讲述了一个故事。作者因为多次彩排后仍然无法表演公主的角色，所以老师让她念旁白。后来妈妈看出了她的心事，主动和她去庭院散步，通过讨论雏菊，作者主动向妈妈坦白自己的心事。

续写分为两部分。第一部分的开头是：她说：“你会是一个很不错的旁白”……所以可以接着写：她像往常一样鼓励和安慰我。我亲爱的妈妈，绯红的脸上挂着笑容，又说到：“事实上，旁白也很重要。”由于她的鼓励，我逐渐平静了下来，并接受了旁白的角色也很重要说法。时间过得飞快，很快就到了表演的日子。一开始我很紧张，而就在那个时刻我发现自己的衣服口袋里有一支蒲公英。我知道是妈妈给我的，这支花意味着她会一直陪着我。

第二段的开头是：表演结束后，我带着蒲公英回了家……所以可以接着写：妈妈仔细打量着蒲公英，轻轻地把它放到字典里，然后高兴地做了个鬼脸。“我们可能是唯一会按压这种看上去很悲哀的杂草。”虽然几十年过去了，但我时常想起我们依偎在一起的珍惜午餐时光，沐浴在柔和的午时阳光中。为此，我会永远感激，因为妈妈脸上的笑容以及她善良的行为培养了现在的我。所有那些鼓舞人心的话，例如“奋斗不止，生命不息“这些话像雏菊一样清晰地回荡在我的脑海里。

续写时要注意续写内容要符合故事逻辑，基础时态为一般过去时。