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Like all other mothers who have small children, 1, too, have to steal time--from my own children at home and from the children who know me as their teacher---just to put a few words down on paper. Many times I’ve wanted to write for myself, for other women, for my parents, for my husband, and especially for my children. I would have liked to leave a legacy (遗产) of words explaining what it has meant to have twins. One reason there is not a great deal written about being a mother of a new baby is that there is seldom a moment to think of anything else but the baby’s needs.
With twins, I did not have a spare hand to write with.
Before my twins were born, my days were long but I had nothing to write about. After the twins’ birth I did have something to write about, but I found myself facing not a pen or paper but milk bottles.
During some nights, friends would visit. They would leave at 11 pm, heading for bed, and for us the night was only ju
A. Her role as a wife.
B. Her work as a writer.
C. Her role as a teacher.
D. Her experience as a mother.

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Like all other mothers who have small children, I, too, have to steal time--from my own children at home and from the children who know me as their teacher--just to put a few words down on paper. Many times I’ve wanted to write for myself, for other women, for my parents, for my husband, and especially for my children. I would have liked to leave a legacy (遗产) of words explaining what it has meant to have twins (双胞胎). One reason there is not a great deal written about being a mother of a new baby is that there is seldom a moment to think of anything else but the baby’s needs.
With twins, I did not have a spare hand to write with.
Before my twins were born, my days were long and I had nothing to write about. After the twins’ birth I did have something to write about, but I found myself facing not a pen and paper but milk bottles.
Some nights, friends would visit. They would leave at 11 p.m. , heading for bed, and for us the night was only
A. Her role as a wife.
B. Her work as a writer.
C. Her role as a teacher.
D. Her experience as a mother.

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Like all other mothers who have small children, 1, too, have to steal time--from my own children at home and from the children who know me as their teacher---just to put a few words down on paper. Many times I’ve wanted to write for myself, for other women, for my parents, for my husband, and especially for my children. I would have liked to leave a legacy (遗产) of words explaining what it has meant to have twins. One reason there is not a great deal written about being a mother of a new baby is that there is seldom a moment to think of anything else but the baby’s needs.
With twins, I did not have a spare hand to write with.
Before my twins were born, my days were long but I had nothing to write about. After the twins’ birth I did have something to write about, but I found myself facing not a pen or paper but milk bottles.
During some nights, friends would visit. They would leave at 11 pm, heading for bed, and for us the night was only ju
A. Before the birth of her twins.
B. When she faced bottles of milk.
C. After her friends’ visit to her home.
D. When she had to think about the babies’ needs.

[单项选择] Old Mothers’ Children Have Higher Diabetes (糖尿病) Risk Children of older mothers run a higher risk of developing insulin-dependent (胰岛素依赖型的) diabetes, the British Medical Journal said. "A strong association was found between increasing maternal (母亲的) age at delivery and risk of (insulin-dependent) diabetes in the child. Risk was highest in firstborn children and decreased progressively with higher birth order," Professor Edwin Gale and colleagues at Southmead Hospital in Bristol said. Diabetes is a serious, incurable, lifelong disease characterized (以......作为特性) by all inability to control the amount of sugar in the blood. Insulin-dependent diabetes, which mainly affects children, is treated by administering the hormone insulin. Gale looked into 1,375 families in the Oxford area where one or more children had diabetes and found that the risk of a child developing insulin-dependent diabetes increased by 25 percent for each five-year band of the mothers age. The ri
A. The younger the mother, the earlier the start of diabetes in the child.
B. The older the mother, the later the start of diabetes in the child.
C. The older the mother, the earlier the start of diabetes in the child.
D. The mother’s age has little to do with the time when the child develops insulin-dependent diabetes.