keely浙江高考英语阅读理解篇翻译

2021年1月7日发(作者：安格尔)
2016年浙江高考英语阅读理解D篇翻译
Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket.

Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket.
I have thought long and hard about it and it’s true. I would be a different
person if my mom hadn’t turned a silly bicycle accessory into a life
lesson I carry with me today.
My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but
it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out. Looking back, I
honestly don’t know how she did it. Managing the family budget must have
been a very hard task., but she made it look effortless. If we complained
about not having what another kid did, we’d hear something like, “I
don’t care what so –and –so got for his birthday, you are not getting
a TV in your room a car for your birthday a lsvish sweet 16 party.” We
had to earn our allowance by doing chores around the house. I can stil
l remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee brothers
can no doubt remember hours spent cleaning the house .Like the two little
girls growing up at the White House,we made our own beds (no one left the
house unitil that was done)and picked up after had to keep track of our
belongings ,and if something was lost ,it was not replaced.
It was summer and ,one day ,my mother drove me to the bike shop to get
a tire fixed---and there it was in the window, White, shiny, plastic and
decorated with flowers ,the basket winked at me and I knew ----I knew---I
had to have it.
“It’s beautiful,” my mother said when I pointed it out to her,”What
a neat basket.”
I tried to hold off at first ,I played it cool for a short then Iguess
I couldn’t atand it any longer:“Mon, please can I please ,please get
it? I ‘ll do extra chores for as long as you say, I’ll do anything ,but
I need that basket,I love that ,Mom .Please?”
I was desperate.
“You know,” she said ,gently rubbing my back while we both stared at
what I believes was the coolest thing ever,”If you save up you could buy
this yourself.”
“By the time I make enough it’ll bu gone!”
“Maybe Roger here could hold it for you,” she smiled at Roger ,the bike
guy.
“He can’t hold it for that long ,Mom .Someone else will buy
it .Please,Mom,Please?”
“There might be another way,”she said.
And so our paying plan mother bought the beautiful basket and put it
safely in some hiding place I could’t week I eagerly counted my growing
saving increased by extra work here and there (washing the car ,helping
my mother make dinner, delivering or collevting things on my bike that
already looked naked without the basket in front).And then ,weeks