课时作业(二十八) [选修6 Unit 3 A healthy life]
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In August of 2003, my mother was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. She was a fighter and a survivor and became stronger and more beautiful than ever. However, in the early morning hours of March 3rd, 2012 I was __1__ that my mother had brain cancer. Surgery was done, however it was __2__ as terminal, because the tumor(肿瘤)had grown into her brain and she had 6 more cancer cells on the back of her head in her brain and her skull(头骨). The doctors __3__ her six weeks, she survived for ten. During that time, I was able to be there for her and __4__ her in her final few months. What a __5__ experience! My mother __6_ _ me to this website well over a year ago, sending me some quotes that she __7__ suitable for me to read.
As I __8__ the saddening process with my two younger brothers and my son, it helped to read words of encouragement and inspiration from this site and __9__ from the billboards.
My mother was a courageous, beautiful woman, __10__ strength and compassion, living everyday to its __11__. She inspired people on a daily basis and she naturally left a good __12__ on anyone she __13__. She showed these qualities until that day in May when she __14__ in the arms of an angel. I love her and will ever miss her dearly every day for the rest of my life, and I only hope that I can take __15__ of what she had given me for the past 32 years in my future life. I will work my hardest every day so that her life will remain a shining light
