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在你眼中，媽媽是什么樣子呢？也許有一天，她不再擁有美麗的外表，到那時你會因此而嫌棄她嗎？

A young mother got a kind of cancer（癌癥）， but it was treatable（可治愈的）. When she came home from the hospital， she was very worried about how she would look. She lost lots of hair because of the treatment. When she was sitting in the kitchen， her son came in. He looked at her mother curiously（好奇地）. He did not understand why his mother looked different. The mother began explaining what he saw， but the little boy just came up to her and put his head on his mother's chest to listen. His mother said， “Sometime， hopefully soon， I will look the way I used to， and then I"ll be better.” The boy sat up thoughtfully（若有所思地）. After a few minutes， he just said， “Different hair. Same heart.” His mother no longer had to wait for “sometime， hopefully soon to be better”. She already was.

Exercise： Answer the following questions according to the passage.

1. What happened to the mother after the treatment in the hospital？

2. What did the boy say when he saw his mother？

Key：

1. She lost lots of her hair because of the treatment and looked different.

2. Different hair. Same heart.