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One afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married, Max walked into the dining room, where I was looking through my old photos.
These months I was learning to let Max come ___11___on his own. If I moved too quickly, he ran away. If I was  12   , we often ended up playing, laughing, and recently, even sitting together on the sofa with a book.
“Who’s that?” he pointed to one photo.
“My mom. I suppose she is your ___13___ Sylvia. ”
“Cool. Who is that tome?”
“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago. ”
“Hmm. Too bad he had to die. ”
Death is always a painful    14   , especially for a seven-year-old child who’d lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of    15    relatives.
He began to finger through the photos. “Who is that tome?”
Under his finger I could see my own face. I should have known the answer to his ___16___question. But I said, “I’m your ___17___mom. I’m sorry that your first mom died. ”
“What should I call you？”he asked.
Mom, I wanted to cry. I held back.
“You can call me Mom or Betsy. ___18___ fells OK for you.
I waited, expecting a pronouncement of my new___19___.
“Sweet,” he said, walking out of the room.
For a couple of days afterward, Max___20___a new title for me. “Can we go bowling?” “Can I watch TV?” he’d ask, and then___21___ the questions by mouthing the word Mom. Mom was always ___22___.
One weekend, he suddenly said, “I notice I don’t call you Mom. ”
“I noticed that too. ”
“___23___, I say Betsy, I mean Mom. Moms die, you know. I think it’s maybe ___24___ if you’re just Betsy. ” Tears （眼泪） were filling my eyes.
“Hey, Betsy?”
“Yeah,” I said, taking pleasure in the new___25___of my old name.
11. A. down B. near C. close  D. back
12. A. kind B. patient C. helpful D. confident
13. A. grandmother B. mother C. aunt D. cousin
14. A. subject B. speech C. message D. sign
15. A. dead B. boring C. unknown D. strict
16. A. simple B. proper C. stupid D. funny
17. A. natural B. past C. only D. second
18. A. Whoever B. Whatever C. That D. Anybody
19. A. position B. name C. title  D. call
20. A. worked out B. turned out C. carried out D. tried out
21. A. answer B. follow  C. confirm  D. raise
22. A. alive B. wise C. silent D. lost
23. A. Until B. Before C. When D. Unless
24. A. politer B. safer C. sadder D. riskier
25. A. pronunciation B. announcement C. voice D. sound

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