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高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Permission to Cry（答案在最后）

班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________

心灵鸡汤精选Permission to Cry

话题归类

儿子对父亲关爱

阅读难度

四星

词数

672

【文章梗概】一个中年单亲父亲在忙碌一天之后，一个人静静地坐在餐桌边，疲劳、孤独

感向他袭来，沉重的生活压力让他情不自禁流下眼泪。五岁的儿子贴心地安慰父亲，鼓励父

亲通过哭来发泄自己的压力，在这个寂静的夜晚，父亲得到儿子的安慰，对孩子充满感激。

Alone in the wheel of light at the dining room table, surrounded by an otherwise darkened

house, I sat in tears.

Finally, I’d succeeded in getting both kids to bed. A relatively new single parent, I had to be

both Mommy and Daddy to my two little children. I got them both washed, accompanied by

shrieks of delight, crazy running around, laughing and throwing things. More or less calmed down,

they lay in their beds as I gave each the prescribed five minutes of back rubs. Then I took up my

guitar and began the nighttime ritual of folk songs, ending with “All the Pretty Little Horses,”

both kids’ favorite. I sang it over and over, gradually reducing the tempo and the volume until they

seemed fully engaged in sleep.

A recently divorced man with full custody of his children, I was determined to give them as

normal and stable a home life as possible. I put on a happy face for them. I kept their activities as

close to how they had always been as I could. This nightly ritual was just as it had always been

with the exception that their mother was now missing. There, I had done it again: another night

successfully concluded.

I had risen slowly, gingerly, trying to avoid making even the least sound which might start them

up again, asking for more songs and more stories. I tiptoed out of their room, closed the door part

way, and went downstairs.

Sitting at the dining room table, I slumped in my chair, aware that this was the first time since I

came home from work that I’d been able to just sit down. I had cooked and served and encouraged

two little ones to eat. I had done the dishes while responding to their many requests for attention. I

helped my oldest with her second grade homework and appreciated my youngest’s drawings and

oohed over his elaborate construction of Lego blocks. The bath, the stories, the backrubs, the

singing and now, at long last, a brief moment for myself. The silence was a relief, for the moment.

Then it all crowded in on me: the fatigue, the weight of the responsibility, the worry about bills

I wasn’t sure I could pay that month. The endless details of running a house. Only a short time

before, I’d been married and had a partner to share these chores, these bills, these worries.

And loneliness. I felt as though I were at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness. It all came

together and I was at once lost, overwhelmed. Unexpected, convulsive sobs overtook me. I sat

there, silently sobbing.

Just then, a pair of little arms went around my middle and a little face peered up at me. I looked

down into my five-year-old son’s sympathetic face.

I was embarrassed to be seen crying by my son. “I’m sorry, Ethan, I didn’t know you were still

awake.” I don’t know why it is, but so many people apologize when they cry and I was no

exception. “I didn’t mean to cry. I’m sorry. I’m just a little sad tonight.”

“It’s okay, Daddy. It’s okay to cry, you’re just a person. ”

I can’t express how happy he made me, this little boy, who in the wisdom of innocence, gave

me permission to cry. He seemed to be saying that I didn’t have to always be strong, that it was

occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and let out my feelings.

He crept into my lap and we hugged and talked for a while, and I took him back up to his bed

and tucked him in. Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night, too. Thank you, my

son.

【词汇过关】

请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。

[ʃri:k] n. __________________________

ibed [prɪˈskraɪbd] adj. __________________________

[ˈrɪtʃuəl] n. __________________________

[ˈtempəʊ] n. __________________________

[ˈvɒljuːm] n. __________________________

y [ˈkʌstədɪ] n. __________________________

de [kənˈkluːd] v. __________________________

ly [ˈdʒɪndʒəlɪ] adv. __________________________

[ˈtɪptəʊ] vi. __________________________

[slʌmp] vi. __________________________

ate [ɪˈlæbəˌrɪt] adj. __________________________

e [fəˈtiːɡ] n.疲 __________________________

elm [ˌəʊvəˈwelm] vt. __________________________

sive [kənˈvʌlsɪv] adj. __________________________

[pɪə] vi.仔 __________________________

hetic [ˌsɪmpəˈθetɪk] adj. __________________________

nce [ˈɪnəsəns] n. __________________________

[kriːp] vi. __________________________

[tʌk] V. __________________________

【句子学习】

请根据中文句子填空。

（一）动作描写

1. I got them both washed, __________________________ by shrieks of delight, crazy

__________________________________________________ things.

我把他们俩都洗干净了，期间伴着孩子高兴的尖叫声，孩子们疯狂地跑来跑去，大笑着扔东

西。

2. I __________________________ out of their room, __________________________ the door

part way, and __________________________ downstairs.

我蹑手蹑脚地出了房间，掩门，然后下了楼梯。

3. I __________________________ there, silently __________________________.

我坐在那里，默默地哭泣。

4. Just then, a pair of little arms __________________________ my middle and a little face

__________________________up at me.

就在这时，一双小胳膊搂着我的腰，一张小脸抬头看着我。

5. He __________________________ into my lap and we __________________________ for a