“Getup!”mymotherwouldshout.“Helpmeironmyshirt.Ihave30m...

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 “Get up! ” my mother would shout. “Help me iron my shirt. I have 30 minutes to get to work.”

My sisters and I would rise，__6__ (peek) at the dark outside that little white house on the black side of town.

I would plug in the iron，then press Mom's jeans and white shirt—the uniform she__7__(wear) to the aircraft factory. __8__(puzzle)，I wondered why Mom could not prepare her clothes herself.

I grew up，and Mom came to visit: “Where's your iron?” “Back of the linen closet”，I told her. “I don't use it at all. I hate__9__ (iron)．I never understood why you couldn't iron your own clothes when we were growing up. ”

“Neenie，” she said，“you have no idea__10__ we went through in those factories. But I knew I could not quit because I had four girls to take care of. ”

She explained she needed our help to arm her with the faith__11__ (return)for shift work. Dull labor for__12__ brilliant woman.

“One day my supervisor got much__13__(crazy)at me，” she recalled，“and made me go outside and pick up trash.”  He ruled over her__14__ absolute power.

Then I understood. It was women like my mother—and many women today—who did the hard jobs，so their children can sit at computers and watch programmes__15__ (glad)．

【回答】

6. peeking       7. wore          8. Puzzled       9. ironing       10. what 

11. to return     12. a             13. crazier       14. with        15. gladly

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