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The school year was almost over, and we’d be moving on to a new school for sixth grade. All the girls made autograph books and collected signatures. As I signed my classmates’ books. I noticed their moms had written in them, too. Such sweet thoughts were expressed: “I couldn’t be prouder of you.” “I love you. Dad and I are so proud of you.”

I asked my mother to sign mine, too. She was busy, she said, but she’d get to it later. I set the book on the kitchen table. Later that night, she handed it back to me. I was anxious to see what encouraging words she had written.

This is what I found on the page:

When a thing is first begun,

Never leave it till it’s done.

Be the labor great or small,

Do it well or not at all.

Mom

No words of pride or encouragement. It was just a stupid poem—another indication to me that, if I couldn’t be perfect, I wasn’t good enough. I held back my tears, not expressing how I felt.

That page in that handmade book plagued me for years. In the following years, I battled perfectionism and low self-esteem and never felt good enough for most of my life.

When my mother was in her eighties and in a nursing home, I gave her a book to fill out so we could know more about her, It had tips at the top of each page and then blank space to respond. Sadly, my mother passed away soon.

After she died, I sorted out her belongings. The one thing I wanted more than anything was that book. I found it and immediately read through it, and I saw she had just filled out ten pages. But ten pages of memories were better than no pages.

What I found stopped me short. On page ten, the tip asked, “What’s the best advice you got from your mom and dad?” Her response was what she had written in my autograph book. I’ve come to see that Mom was passing on something she found valuable in her life. A gift from her to me.

【小题1】Why did the author ask her mother to sign?

A．She did it just to follow suit.

B．Her mother was a famous poet.

C．She desired it as a gift for later generations.

D．She longed for encouragement from her mother.

【小题2】How did the author feel at her mother’s words in her autograph book?

A．Inspired.

B．Disappointed.

C．Excited.

D．Relieved.

【小题3】What does the underlined word “plagued” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Punished.