Question

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My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. Summer after summer, I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town they lived in. People knew everyone, their kids, their pets, their ancestors. The bond with them continued to grow as I grew and they got older. Grandma was always using her hands for something ex?citing. She would make little sandwiches and we'd have tea parties. She'd make beautiful quilts for each one. I remember the small thimble (頂針)she would use while doing her needle work.

A few years ago, when grandma left this earth, I bid farewell to a loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change. We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday.

I missed her very much. On one particular birthday, when I was feeling a little low, something happened to make me feel like she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colourful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow. It was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (接縫)that I carefully opened, and to my delight out came a tiny silver thimble ！ How happy I was to find some?thing that had been a part of her. Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing it in that little pillow that I just happened to place on my bedspread that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others I've col?lected over the years, where 1 could continue to see the gift God chose to re?veal to me. What a precious memory of a very special lady who somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble inside my pillow.

I made some tea, using my best china, as grandma always did* and en?joyed my tea and grandma's thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was!

9. The author liked staying with her grandparents because •

A.  they often bought her some gifts

B.  she was curious about people and things there

C.  she could have tea parties and eat sandwiches

D.  she could learn to sew quilts

 10.  How did the author feel when she found the silver thimble?

A. Sad.                          B. Proud.

C. Lucky.                       D. Cheerful.

11.  It can be inferred from the passage that the silver thimble_ .

  A.  was the item the author had been trying to find

B.  was the most treasured possession of grandma

C.  was very precious to the author

D.  was a birthday gift grandma had given the author

Answer 1

C

[文章大意]本文是一篇記敘文。作者通過(guò)回憶過(guò)去，表達(dá)了對(duì)祖母的懷念。祖母的愛，在那冒著熱氣的濃茶里，在她做針線活時(shí)用的那枚亮閃閃的頂針里……

9.  B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第一段可知，作者小時(shí)候非*春歡在爺爺奶奶家里度過(guò)夏天是因?yàn)槟抢锏娜撕褪挛飳?duì)于在城市里生活的作者來(lái)說(shuō)都很新鮮，因此選B項(xiàng)。

 10.  D 推理判斷題。從文章第三段中的"…to my delight out came a tiny silver thimble! How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her."及文章最后一段的"What a wonderful birthday that was!"可知應(yīng)選D項(xiàng)。

11.  C  推理判斷題。一枚頂針引發(fā)了作者對(duì)祖母的無(wú)限思念，可見它對(duì)作者來(lái)說(shuō)很珍貴。