【新编英语教程】（第一册）Unit2离家（1/3）

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When I told my mother, she looked at me as if I had slapped her face.
"What? Live in London?" she said.
"______1______. After all, mum, I'm twenty-two!"
Just then, my father came downstairs, looking relaxed as he always did after his Sunday afternoon nap. ____2____.
"Clive wants to leave home. ____3_____," she told him in a trembling voice. My father's expression changed.
"What? You aren't serious, are you, son?" he asked. ___4_____. Perhaps my parents wouldn't have reacted this way if they hadn't spent all their lives in a small village in Wales. And perhaps my mother in particular wouldn't have been so possessive if her only other child hadn't died as a baby. _____5_______.I just feel it's time I saw a little more of the world
I had chosen the moment carefully
He doesn't want to live with us any more
He sat down at the table opposite me
I tried to explain to them that the bank I worked for had offered me a chance to take a job in their head office