One day, we had a family dinner. While the adults were busy with their serious talk outside, I was left alone in the 21 to help my grandmother wash dishes. 22 my grandmother would tell me stories about her childhood.
Born just before WWII, my grandmother 23 an entirely different childhood lifestyle from mine. She did not have a chance to go to 24. Like in typical families, where boys were 25 much more than girls, my grandma had to stay at home to do 26. The only opportunity (机会) she could seize to 27 was when her brother was having Chinese 28 with the family tutor. She would sit quietly at the far end of the long dinner table, listening 29. This training taught her to read and write her Chinese upside down — a skill that has turned out to be quite 30, especially whenever we share the newspaper. On most weekends, my grandmother, a young girl then, and her brother would go to the 31. There, they would walk through deep water, sit down cross-legged underwater and hold their 32 while they watched all action going on around them. This is something I 33 — her ability to open her 34 underwater and still sit comfortably on the seabed.
My childhood is quite 35 compared with hers. I am 36 that I did not need to 37 the hardships like she did. I’ve never faced the problem of 38. I guess our different childhood background is what makes my grandmother such an amazing person to 39 to: her stories always make my history textbooks 40.