河北省常州市 2016 高考英语完形填空和阅读理解一轮练习（9）【2015 高考复习】阅读理解“I ’ve changed my mind.I wanted to have a telescope，but now I want my dad back.” Lucien Lawrence ’s letter to his father for Christmas written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate，must have touched everyone’s heart.Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky.When those whom we love depart from us，we cannot see the stars for a while. But Lucien ，the stars are still there ，and one day，when you are older and your tears have gone，you will see them again.And ，in a strange way， I expect that you will find your father there ，too ，in your mind and heart.I find that my parents ，who died years ago， still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive.I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions.I remember that when I became a professor，I was so proud ，or rather so pleased with myself that I couldn ’t wait to cable my parents.The re ply was a long time in coming，but when it did，all my mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children！” I haven ’t forgotten.The values of my parents still live on. It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care.Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors，and to lay down my life for those in my care？How many people would want me back for Christmas？It ’s a serious thought ，one to give me pause. I pray silently，sometimes ，in the dead of night ，tha...
