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Tiffany"s mom always gave her lots of money to buy the most fashionable clothes and favorite food. Her mom allowed her to do anything she liked. I really admired Tiffany. My mom didn"t give me much pocket money and she always told me that I should behave myself. I was annoyed with her.
Whenever I didn"t get what I wanted, I would complain to my mom, Tiffany"s mom would give her that! I wish she were my mom. "Every time, my morn would calmly say "Poor Tiffany". I couldn"t understand her. "She shouldn"t be feeling sorry for Tiffany!" I thought. "She should be feeling sorry for me."
One day, I couldn"t help saying to Mom, "Poor Tiffany? Lucky Tiffany! She gets everything she wants! Why do you feel sorry for her? " I burst into tears.
My mom sat down next to me and said softly. "Yes, I do feel sorry for her. I have been teaching you a lesson that she will never be taught. "
I looked up at her. "What are you talking about?"
Mom said with care, "One day she will really want something. Maybe she"ll find out that she can"t have it. Her mother won"t always be around to give her money, and what"s more, money can"t buy everything. "
She continued, "I have taught you valuable lessons by not giving you everything you want. You"ll know how to look for bargains and save money, but she won"t. You"ll understand that you need to work hard to get the things that you want but she won"t. When Tiffany is a grown woman, she"ll wake up one day and she will be wishing that she had a mom like the one you"ve got. Life lessons are more important than modern clothes and delicious food. "
It took some time, but I eventually understood my mom"s words. Now I am a happy and successful woman.
小题1:During the author"s elementary school years, she .
A.wished that her mom were as good as Tiffany"s |
B.went to school with Tiffany every day |
C.usually compared her lesson with Tiffany"s |
D.sometimes gave lots of money to Tiffany |
A.She felt sorry for Tiffany because Tiffany was poor. |
B.She wanted to tell a lie to comfort the author. |
C.She thought that Tiffany was spoiled by her mother. |
D.She told the author this and wanted her to help Tiffany. |
A.She was strict and taught the author to be independent. |
B.She cared for other people"s children more than her own. |
C.She thought that life lessons were as important as money. |
D.She was so poor that she couldn"t give the author much money. |
A.The author was quite annoyed with her mother in the past. |
B.The author"s mother felt sorry for Tiffany. |
C.Tiffany"s mother took the author"s mother"s advice. |
D.The author is thankful to her mother now. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
解析
试题分析:文章讲述作者由反感母亲对自己严格对待到慢慢接受并珍视的故事。
小题1:细节题:从文章第一段的句子:I used to compare my mom with my best friend Tiffany’s mom. 可知在作者小学的时候,她希望自己的妈妈能和Tiffany 的妈妈一样好,选A。
小题2:细节题:从文章倒数第三段的句子; One day she will really want something. Maybe she’ll find out that she can’t have it. Her mother won’t always be around to give her money,可知作者的妈妈总是说“Poor Tiffany”,因为她认为Tiffany被她妈妈宠坏了,选C。
小题3:推理题:从文章第二段的句子:My mom didn’t give me much pocket money and she always told me that I should behave myself. 和倒数第二段的句子;可知作者的妈妈很严格,教孩子要独立,选A。
小题4:推理题:从文章最后一段的句子:It took some time, but I eventually understood my mom’s words. Now I am a happy and successful woman. 可知作者现在很感激妈妈,选D。
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试题【During my elementary school years, I used to compare my mom with my best friend 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Dad’s also always been very . At 15, I started a magazine. It was a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a : stay in school or leave to work on my magazine. I decided to leave, and Dad tried to get me to change my decision, any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad me to go into law. And I’ve regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist, __ I didn’t realize my . You know what you want. Go achieve it. ”
As turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national for young people in the U. K. My wife and I have two children, and I’ d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad me.
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Rather than finding a holy man, though, our hero, on entering the main room of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went, people were chatting in the corners and a small orchestra was playing soft music. The wise man talked with everyone, and the boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn.
The wise man listened carefully to the boy’s explanation of why he had come, but told him that he didn’t have time just then to explain the secret of happiness. He suggested the boy look around the palace and return in two hours.
“Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,” said the wise man, handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. “As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill”.
The boy began to walk up and down stairs in the palace, keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. After two hours, he returned.
“Well,” asked the wise man, “Did you see the Persian tapestries (波斯织锦) hanging in my dining hall? Did you see the garden that it took the master gardener 10 years to create?”
The boy was embarrassed, and replied that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil.
“Then go back and observe the wonderful things of my world,” said the wise man.
Then the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration of the palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and the walls. He saw the gardens and the mountains all around him. When he returned, he described in detail everything he had seen.
“But where are the drops of oil I gave to you?” asked the wise man. Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw that the oil was gone.
“Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you,” said the wise man. “The secret of happiness is to see all the wonders of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
小题1:When the shopkeeper’s son arrived at the castle, he ______.
A.received warm welcome from the wise man |
B.didn’t expect to see so many people around |
C.was shown around the palace by the local people |
D.had already missed his chance to talk to the wise man |
A.let the boy enjoy his palace and garden |
B.show him how to observe the wonderful things in the world |
C.make him learn from his mistakes |
D.teach him the secret of happiness |
A.the beauty of nature |
B.the fortune a person owns |
C.the responsibilities of a person |
D.the great opportunities in life |
A.The wise man was satisfied with the way the boy performed the second task |
B.It took the wise man about 10 years to finish his garden. |
C.The wise man wasn’t paying much attention to the boy at first. |
D.The boy took no notice of the surroundings during his first task. |
I was no one special in Miss Roberts’ class — just another student who did okay work. I don’t recall any one special bit of wisdom she passed on. Yet I cannot forget her for language, for ideas and for her students. I now, many years later, that she is the perfect example of a teacher. I’d like to say something to her, I say, but I don’t want to her from a class. Nonsense, he says, she’ll be to see you.
The drama teacher Miss Roberts into the hallway where stands this 32-year-old man she last saw at 18. “I’m Mark Medoff,” I tell her. “You were my 12th-grade English teacher in 1958.” She her head to one side and looks at me, as if this angle might remember me in her . And then, though armed with a message I want to in many words, I can’t think up anything more memorable than this: “I want you to know,” I say, “you were to me.”
And there in the hallway, this lovely woman, now nearing age, this teacher who doesn’t remember me, begins to weep; and she encircles me in her arms.
this moment, I begin to sense that everything I will ever know, everything I will ever pass to my students, is an inseparable part of a legacy(遗产) of our ancestors.
Irene Roberts holds me in her arms and through her tears whispers my cheek, “Thank you.” And then, with the briefest of looks into my forgotten face, she back into her classroom, to what she has done thousands of days through all the years of my .
On reflection, maybe those were, , just the right words to say to Irene Roberts. Maybe they are the very words I would like to speak to all those teachers through my life, the very words I would like spoken to me one day by some returning student: “I want you to know you were important to me.”
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I say, “I’m going to miss you,” and she gives me one of her looks and leaves the room. Another time I say, in a voice so friendly it surprises even me: “Do you think you’ll take your posters and pictures with you, or will you get new ones at college?”
She answers, her voice filled with annoyance, “How should I know?”
My daughter is off with friends most of the time. Yesterday was the last day she’d have until Christmas with her friend Katharine, whom she’s known since kindergarten. Soon, it will be her last day with Sarah, Claire, Heather... and then it will be her last day with me.
My friend Karen told me, “The August before I left for college, I screamed at my mother the whole month. Be prepared.”
I stand in the kitchen, watching Allie make a glass of iced tea. Her face, once so open and trusting, is closed to me. I struggle to think of something to say to her, something meaningful and warm. I want her to know I’m excited about the college she has chosen, that I know the adventure of her life is just starting and that I am proud of her. But the look on her face is so mad that I think she might hit me if I open my mouth.
One night — after a long period of silence between us — I asked what I might have done or said to make her angry with me. She sighed and said, “Mom, you haven’t done anything. It’s fine.” It is fine — just distant.
Somehow in the past we had always found some way to connect. When Allie was a baby, I would go to the day-care center after work. I’d find a quiet spot and she would nurse — our eyes locked together, reconnecting with each other.
In middle school, when other mothers were already regretting the distant relationship they felt with their adolescent daughters, I hit upon a solution: rescue measures. I would show up occasionally at school, sign her out of class and take her somewhere — out to lunch, to the movies, once for a long walk on the beach. It may sound irresponsible, but it kept us close when other mothers and daughters were quarrelling. We talked about everything on those outings — outings we kept secret from family and friends.
When she started high school, I’d get up with her in the morning to make her a sandwich for lunch, and we’d silently drink a cup of tea together before the 6:40 bus came.
A couple of times during her senior year I went into her room at night, the light off, but before she went to sleep. I’d sit on the edge of her bed, and she’d tell me about problems: a teacher who lowered her grade because she was too shy to talk in class, a boy who teased her, a friend who had started smoking. Her voice, coming out of the darkness, was young and questioning.
A few days later I’d hear her on the phone, repeating some of the things I had said, things she had adopted for her own.
But now we are having two kinds of partings. I want to say good-bye in a romantic way. For example, we can go to lunch and lean across the table and say how much we will miss each other. I want smiles through tears, bittersweet moments of memory and the chance to offer some last bits of wisdom.
But as she prepares to depart, Allie has hidden her feelings. When I reach to touch her arm, she pulls away. She turns down every invitation I extend. She lies on her bed, reading Emily Dickinson until I say I have always loved Emily Dickinson, and then she closes the book.
Some say the tighter your bond with your child, the greater her need to break away, to establish her own identity in the world. The more it will hurt, they say. A friend of mine who went through a difficult time with her daughter but now has become close to her again, tells me, “Your daughter will be back to you.”
“I don’t know,” I say. I sometimes feel so angry that I want to go over and shake Allie. I want to say, “Talk to me — or you’re grounded!” I feel myself wanting to say that most horrible of all mother phrases: “Think of everything I’ve done for you.”
Late one night, as I’m getting ready for bed she comes to the bathroom door and watches me brush my teeth. For a moment, I think I must be brushing my teeth in a way she doesn’t approve of. But then she says, “I want to read you something.” It’s a brochure from her college. “These are tips for parents.”
I watch her face as she reads the advice aloud: “ ‘Don’t ask your child if she is homesick,’ it says. ‘She might feel bad the first few weeks, but don’t let it worry you. This is a natural time of transition. Write her letters and call her a lot. Send a package of candies...’ ”
Her voice breaks, and she comes over to me and buries her head in my shoulder. I stroke her hair, lightly, afraid she’ll run if I say a word. We stand there together for long moments, swaying. Reconnecting.
I know it will be hard again. It’s likely there will be a fight about something. But I am grateful to be standing in here at midnight, both of us tired and sad, toothpaste spread on my chin, holding tight to—while also letting go of—my daughter who is trying to say good-bye.
小题1:Why is there a period of silence between the author and Allie one night?
A.Allie is tired of the author’s suggestions. |
B.The author is angry with Allie’s rudeness. |
C.Allie is anxious about talking about leaving. |
D.The author is ready to adjust her way of parenting. |
A.She would chat with Allie till late at night. |
B.She would invite Allie and her friends home. |
C.She would visit Allie at school and take her out. |
D.She would communicate with Allie by telephone. |
A.Allie is emotional and only has a few good friends |
B.the author is not satisfied with the college Allie has chosen |
C.there is a lack of communication between the author and Allie |
D.there are different attitudes to parting between the author and Allie |
A.the tips to parents on how to educate their children |
B.the suggestion on how to deal with the generation gap |
C.the tips to parents on when they depart with their children |
D.the suggestion on how to ease the homesickness of children |
A.she can’t read Allie’s mind |
B.she is afraid that Allie will leave |
C.she is too excited to speak a word |
D.she doesn’t know how to speak to Allie |
A.the tie between the author and Allie is broken |
B.Allie doesn’t need the author’s care any more |
C.the author expects Allie to live an independent life |
D.the author will keep a close relationship with Allie as before |
Being a busy college student just one year removed from her teenage years, she wasn’t exactly obsessive-compulsive(有强迫观念和行为的) about the neatness of her clothes. But her boss at the restaurant where she works saw things a little differently. He had recently lectured the entire staff on the importance of appearance, and had specifically mentioned the need for servers to wear clean, unwrinkled blouses. As an assistant manager, Janelle felt it was important to set an example for the other employees. But if she stopped to iron the blouse normally, she would be late —and work without delay was an area of even greater concern to her boss.
So she grabbed her iron and plugged it in and set it for low heat. Carefully holding her blouse away from her body, she continued to iron it while she was wearing it. It seemed like a logical answer to an urgent problem.
And it seemed to be working until Janelle tried to iron the collar and accidentally ironed her neck by mistake. Then it suddenly seemed like a really stupid idea and a really painful one as well. It took more time to treat her burn than it would have taken to iron her shirt properly. And she spent a miserable shift dealing with the pain of the burn.
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? For me it was cutting my own hair. For a former roommate it was trying to pull his own wisdom teeth. For another college acquaintance, it was trying to change the oil in his car while the motor was still running.
“There’s a right way and a wrong way of doing things,” Dad used to tell me whenever I’d spoil the look of our yard by trying out a faster, easier and more creative way of pulling weeds or edging the lawn. “If a thing is worth doing,” he said, “it’s worth doing it right.” There’s a reason why certain things are done in certain ways. Those old, boring, predictable ways work.
小题1:Jenelle found in the mirror that __________.
A.there were stains on her blouse |
B.her blouse was wrinkled |
C.she wore heavy makeup |
D.she put on a wrong blouse |
A.Jenelle had no sense of responsibility at work |
B.Jenelle failed to set an example for employees in daily work |
C.Jenelle didn’t care about the neatness of her clothes at all |
D.Jenelle’s boss put doing something on time above appearance |
A.We all have done loads of things like Janelle. |
B.We are careful enough in daily life. |
C.We all have done something creative. |
D.We all have tried to iron clothes while we are wearing them. |
A.Be creative. | B.A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
C.Stick to old ways. | D.Do things right. |
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