我当了一次和事老

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同学吵了架你怎么办？你的兄弟姐妹闹不和你怎么办？你是火上加油呢还是从中调解呢？无疑，你采取的是调解的态度。那么，请你写一篇文章谈谈你是采用什么办法使他们和解或重归于好的。

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I Was a Succssful Pacmakr

Last Tusday thr was a quarrl btwn Fathr and Mothr about a crtain thing. For th whol wk my family smd unusually liflss①.No smil, no laugh, no songs. Now and thn I could har Mothr＇s dp sighs. How sad I was! How could I mak thm on good trms again?

On th way hom from school I was still thinking of th problm. Suddnly I hard an old woman hawk② in th strt:“Ta-ggs!”A good ida hit m. I rmmbrd Fathr likd to at ta-ggs bst. So I hurrid to th marktplac and bought two jin of ggs. Thn I wnt to a fruit shop and bought tow packs of plums③. As soon as I got hom, I bgan to b busy with my grat work----cook ta-ggs, following th st pattrn of Mum＇s. Th clock was striking four whn I hard Fathr＇s motorcycl drawing nar.“What a swt smll! Ar thy ta-ggs?”“Ys, Papa, Mum has boild som ta-ggs for you. Sh says you＇v workd so hard.”“Sh said so?”“Crtainly. Nobody will look aftr you so carfully xcpt Mum. Whn Mum coms back you must thank hr,”I addd.“Of cours,”Papa noddd rpatdly whil chwing th ggs happily.“Liangliang, I＇m vry busy. I＇m going back to my factory and can＇t com back for suppr with you. Plas tll Mum”.“OK,”I answrd.

About half an hour latr, Mum cam in. Aftr sh had placd hr bik, I took out th plums from th drawr. “Look! Hr ar plums for you. Papa bought thm from Hangzhou. H knows you lik to at thm vry much.”Mum smd a bit puzzld, but sh blivd m. To tll th truth I had nvr told a li.

Aftr suppr I bgan to do my homwork in my room. Mum was knitting a wooln swatr alon in th sitting room. At about nin th nois of th motorcycl was hard again. I knw Fathr cam back. Quickly but quitly I stppd to th door and ppd into th sitting room. What I saw! With all smils Fathr cam in. Mum ros from th chair and said to him,“Thank you!”Almost at th sam tim Fathr said to hr,“Thank you, too!”“Aha, my grat plan workd!” I was full of joy bcaus I was a succssful pacmakr④.

（选自《英语画刊》高中版1996年8、9期）

【词语解释】

①liflss [＇laiflis] a．没有生气的；沉闷的

②hawk [h&:k] v．叫卖；兜售

③two packs of plums两包梅子

④pacmakr [＇pi:s?mik+] n．调解人；和事老

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本文作者自己买了、制做了两样父母各自喜欢吃的东西而佯装是父母分别为对方买的、制做的，作者用这种方式来调解父母之间的不和，可谓费了一番心思。文章第一段写父母吵架；第二段写作者想办法进行调解；第三段写父母言归于好。文章语言流畅，描写生动。