奇速英语

My mother is a tailor (裁缝). She makes ___1___ for people. She always tries to make people’s clothes ___2___. She can make all different kinds of clothes.

I would like to tell you how my mother learned to make clothes. At first, she didn’t know ___3___ to make clothes at all! But then one day my father fell seriously ill and we children were young. My mother had to do something to ___4___ us. She started trying to make our clothes. That is how she learned. Day by day, she was getting ___5___. When our neighbors saw our beautiful clothes, they asked my mother to make clothes for ___6___, too.

But they were not paying my mother because she was not a real tailor then. So my grandfather told my mother, “If I buy you a sewing machine (缝纫机), you can tell people ‘I will make clothes for you, but you should pay me. You can pay me whatever you want. I will not tell you how much to pay.’” The people ___7___ to pay my mother. Some paid her ___8___, but others didn’t pay her very much. But my mother didn’t care because she was so happy.

“If you want your hopes to come true, you need to work hard.” my mother often says. This is what I learned from my mother. Mother works so hard for us, ___9___ she wants us to be happy. I’m very proud ___10___ her and I love her a lot. Thanks to her. I can go to school and achieve my dreams.