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2017杭州上城区九下初三英语一模卷
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中选出最佳选项。
A
Many say their most painful moments are saying goodbye to those they love. After watching Cheryl, my cousin, watch her mother suffer for six months before dying. I think the most painful moments can be in watching to say goodbye.
Cheryl made the two-hour trip over and over to be with her mother. They spent long afternoons holding hands and sharing memories.
Each time she kissed her mother before leaving, her mother would feel sad and say, “I’m sorry you drove so far and sat for so long, and I didn’t stay up long to talk with you.”
Cheryl would tell her not to worry. It didn’t matter. But still her mother felt she had let her down and said sorry at each goodbye.
“Mom, do you remember when I made the high school basketball team?”
Cheryl’s mother nodded.
“You’d drive so far and sit for so long, and I never even left the bench to play. You waited for me after every game and each time I felt bad and said sorry to you for wasting your time.” Cheryl gently took her mother’s hand.
“Do you remember what you’d say to me?”
“I would say I didn’t come to see you play. I came to see you.”
“And you meant those words, didn’t you?”
“Yes, I really did.”
“Well, now I say the same words to you. I didn’t come to see you talk. I came to see you.”
Her mother understood and smiled as she fell asleep.
Their afternoons together passed quietly into days, weeks and months. To the last day they cared each other in silence, love given and received just by seeing each other.
16. According to the writer, the most painful moment is ________.
A. saying goodbye to those they love B. watching one’s mother leave and say goodbye
C. waiting to speak to those they love D. waiting to say goodbye to those they love
17. Why did the mother say she had let Cheryl down?
A. Her dis