Unit 4 Sharing Using language课时作业

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　　A letter to...my brother, whom I bullied when we were young.

　　I was five when you were born. Looking at pictures from that time, I look so happy with you. I am holding you. I am smiling. I look　1　. But I do not remember that feeling.

　　I was a daddy's girl, but I was also the one to break in our parents. I used to call myself the family's guinea pig (豚鼠), 　2　 you were the happy one, the joker, the one who 　3　 the rewards of all my battles won or lost. So I must have decided that we were enemies, competitors for the love and attention of our parents, and this feeling is in the 　4　 of all my early memories. All I remember is 　5　 you.

　　So, as long as I could, I made your life a　6　. I teased you, tricked you and 　7　 you. You tell me it's not as bad as I remember, but I 　8　 a couple of times when you were left in tears. Our little sister was born when I was 11, and very soon you two bonded 　9　 and pushed me aside. Did you bond with her because I was becoming a monster, or did I become a monster because of your bond?

　　Thankfully, you quickly grew tall and strong, and soon you were able to overcome me　10　. From then on it was down to verbal abuse and psychological warfare. By the time I was at university, you were a teenager and we competed for higher 　11　: money, the family car, parental pride.

　　It all came to a　12　 stop when I moved abroad as an exchange student. Almost 20 years have passed, and the hate 　13　 me some long time ago, while I wasn't watching. And at the same time, 　14　 must have crept in (悄悄地进入), sneaking somewhere through the back of my mind.

Despite all the abuse during those years, you have turned into a happy, friendly, passionate, generous human being. You are the most handsome and charming person that I know. And, with your wife and best friend, you have just had your first child. Nobody　15　 this happiness more.