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"Please, Mom, sit down and let me help you," says
Fred Lis some, a twelve-year-old boy. Mrs. Lissome, looking pale (苍白的)and1,
is moving weakly about, trying to wash the 2after breakfast.
She smiles and says," You, Fred, you wash the dishes?"
"Yes, Mom,"3 Fred. "I can do it4 I see you do it every day."
A look of relief(宽慰)comes over his mom's 5as
she sits in her chair. Fred washes the dishes. Then he cleans the kitchen, 6 the potatoes up from the cellar (地窖)for the dinner and then 7.
When school is over, Fred goes back home 8, helps his mom cook 9, sets the tables and again10the dishes. He keeps on in this way for two or three days until his
mom can do 11 usual work.
One day, the doctor says to his mom," Well, madam, I
can see you did have a good rest, and you are very well now. "The doctor's
words make Fred 12.
The 13doesn't know how the ""rest" has happened, and he
doesn't know how Fred is excited at his words, 14. To help his mom, Fred gives up a lot
of things that boys enjoy the most. He can't swim or skate15 the boys. He leaves school as
soon as school is over because he wants to help his mother with more housework.