On a number of drives throughout my childhood, my mother would suddenly pull over the car to examine a flower by the side of the road or rescue a beetle from tragedy while I, in my late teens and early twenties, sat __________ in the car.
Though Mother’s Day _______ Earth Day, for me, they have always been _________ each other. My mom has been “green” since she became_________ the environment. Part of this habit was _________of thrift (节俭). Like her mother and her grandmother before her, mom _________her plastic bags.
Mom creates a kind of ________ relationship with wildlife in her yard. She knows to pick the apples on her trees a little early to _________ the bears and that if she leaves the bird feeders(给食器) out at night, it is _________that they will be knocked down by a family of raccoons (浣熊). Spiders that __________ their way into the house and are caught in juice glasses will be ________ in the garden.
I try to________ my children that looking out for the environment starts with being ________of the environment. On busy streets, we look for dandelions (蒲公英) to fly in the wind; we say hello to neighborhood cats and _________ plastic cups and paper bags. This teaching comes easily, I realize, because I was taught so well by __________. Mom didn’t need to lecture; she didn’t need to beat a drum to change the world. She simply slowed down enough to ________ living in it and with that joy came mercy and an instinct for protection.
I am slowing down and it isn’t __________the weight of my nearly forty years on the planet, it is out of my concern for the planet itself. I’ve begun to save glass jars and reuse packing envelopes. I pause in my daily tasks to ___________ the squirrels race each other in the trees above my house.
Last summer, in the _________of my son and daughter, I planted tomatoes in my yard. With the heat of August around me, I ate the first while sitting on my low wall with dirt on my hands. Warm from the sun, it burst on my tongue with a sweetness I immediately wanted to __________ with my mom.

A．impatiently B．happily C．eagerly D．frighteningly

A．following B．followed C．follows D．follow

A．referred to B．related to C．adapted to D．adjusted to

A．worried about B．thought about C．concerned about D．talked about

A．devoted B．born C．tired D．feared

A．likes B．makes C．reuses D．throws

A．harmonious B．happy C．close D．strange

A．avoid B．leave C．starve D．chase

A．certain B．sure C．impossible D．likely

A．walk B．make C．leave D．operate

A．set off B．set out C．set down D．set loose

A．want B．force C．expect D．teach

A．likely B．afraid C．aware D．anxious

A．set up B．pick up C．give away D．throw away

A．example B．words C．thinking D．instruction

A．allow B．permit C．make D．enjoy

A．because of B．fond of C．curious of D．certain of

A．feel B．watch C．think D．expect

A．member B．colleague C．company D．companion

A．play B．share C．live D．work