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One evening last summer, when I asked my 14-year-old son, Ray, for help with dinner, his reply shocked me.
“What’s a colander （漏勺）?” he asked. I could only blame （责备） ___16___. In the family, nobody else went into the kitchen except me. But that night, as I 17 to him that a colander is the thing with holes in it, I wondered what else I hadn’t ___18___Ray for.
As parents, while we focus on our son’s confidence and character, we perhaps don’t always consider that we are ___19___raising someone’s future roommates, boyfriends, husbands, or fathers. 20 I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was ___21___ to find that he didn’t say no. For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine.
I knew that he would rather have been playing basketball with friends than___22___to mend socks with his mother, but in fact he was learning, and more than just housekeeping. “I appreciate（感激） what you do 23 a mom,” he told me one day. Ray now realizes there’s ___24___masculine （男子气概的） about being helpless. Now, not only can he make his own dinner, but also he can make a big meal for his family. That’s ___25___ I call a man. I’m glad that I prepared so great a present for my future daughter in-law.
16. A. themselves B. ourselves C. myself D. himself
17. A. explained B. continued C. thought D. advised
18. A. planned B. prepared C. produced D. punished
19. A. even B. also C. still D. either
20. A. But B. And C. Because D. So
21. A. cheerful B. nervous C. patient D. serious
22. A. learning B. checking C. asking D. affording
23. A. by B. for C. as D. with
24. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
25. A. what B. how C. why D. who
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