For as early as I could remember, my mother had been a bright, cheerful woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. However, in the last fifteen years of her life, she had to live with senile dementia (老年癡呆). I would go to my home to pay her a visit in California and she would curiously look at me and then ask, “Who are you?” I would answer, “I’m your own son, of course.” “Where do you live?” She would ask. “In Virginia”, I would tell her. “Isn’t that interesting,” she would say, “I have a son in Virginia.”
Mother seemed only forgetful as well as confused at the beginning of that disease, but sometime later she would go through different time of intense anxiety. She would keep walk ing through the house she used to live in most of her life crying uneasily that she would like to go home. Or sometimes she left home and wandered away if she were unattended for a short time.
Hoping to make her happy and put her mind at ease I would take her in my car, visiting sites where she used to live when she was a child. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn(草坪). I pictured my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some response. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”
Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a place, but a time. I think it was a time when she was much younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still energetic and attentive.
Watching my mother’s suffering set me wondering where I would have in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only natural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of senile dementia is haunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your guidance.
小題1:What’s the main idea of the first and second paragraphs?
A．The mother of the author could not find her home.
B．The mother of the author could not remember who’s his son.
C．The author’s mother suffered with serious senile dementia.
D．The author didn’t know how to cure his mother.
小題2:Which of the following is NOT the symptom of the mother of the author?
A．forgetful B．confusedC．cheerfulD．uneasy
小題3:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “picture”?
A．photographB．describeC．a(chǎn)ppearD．paint
小題4:What can you infer from the third paragraph?
A．The author cared much about his mother.
B．The mother of the author liked pet lambs very much.
C．The author found a very little girl who was playing with a pet lamb.
D．The mother of the author did not like her usual home.
小題5:What’s the best title of the passage?
A．Where Is Home? B．A story about a son and a mother.
C．Everyone will suffer with senile dementia.D．Take Mother Home.

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:A
小題5:D 

試題分析：文章大意：文章作者講述自己母親年老患有老年癡呆癥，作者非常擔(dān)心母親的狀況，把她接回家照顧。
小題1:C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段和第二段的描述可知，作者的母親患有嚴(yán)重的老年癡呆癥。故C正確。
小題2:C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第一和第二段的描述及常識可知，老年癡呆癥的癥狀是ABD所描述的相符合。故C正確。
小題3:B詞義推測題。根據(jù)后一句話I looked to her for some response. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”可以推測出此處picture為“描述、描繪”。故B正確。
小題4:A推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第三段可知，作者非常擔(dān)心母親的狀況，一直在照顧自己的母親。故A正確。
小題5:D大意推測題。文章作者講述自己母親年老患有老年癡呆癥，作者非常擔(dān)心母親的狀況，把她接回家照顧。故D正確。
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