A daughter’s duty? Adult daughters are often expected to caregiver for older parents. In 2007, Jorjan Sarich and her dad moved from California to Idaho. It was where he wanted to live his rest time.
“I left my occupation, I left my friends; he did the same thing,” said Sarich, who bought a house with her father, George Snyder, in the China Gardens neighborhood of Hailey after his health began to decline. Though a graduate student struggling to finish her dissertation（论文）, Sarich chose to be her dad’s full-time caregiver.
“It’s only now, several years later, that I’m realizing how much work it was. It’s the kind of exhaustion（疲惫）that sleep doesn’t cure,” she said.
About 6 million Americans provide care to elderly relatives or friends living outside of nursing homes. Laurel Kennedy, author of “The Daughter Trap” (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.95), says that women bear a disproportionate（不成比例的）share of the burden — about 70 percent of hands-on care giving such as bathing.
“I want to be clear: Women don’t hate this,” Kennedy said. “What they hate is that everyone just assumes they’ll do it.”
Kennedy is calling for a social revolution equal to the rise of affordable child care and day care: Employers should help working caregivers by offering accommodations. Men should step up more often. It’s unfair that women are always chosen to provide care for an elderly family member.
Despite the hard work it took on Sarich — interrupted sleep and the knowledge that his 2009 death was the end game, she would do it again. Since about half a century had gone by, she wasn’t the person he remembered, and he wasn’t the person she remembered either. Caring for her father changed how each saw the other.
1. Why did Jorjan Sarich caregiver for her father?
A. It was a very easy job. B. She had no work to do.
C. It was the social practice. D. She lived with her father.
2.What can we infer from the book “The Daughter Trap”?
A. Daughters don’t like care giving.
B. Daughters devote a lot to care giving.
C. Care giving is daughters’ duty.
D. Care giving should be sons’ duty.
3.What does the underlined phrase “a social revolution” refer to?
A. The child care revolution. B. The reform in day care.
C. The social development. D. The change in care giving.
4.How many years did Jorjan Sarich work as her father’s full-time caregiver?
A. Five years. B. Only one year. C. Four years. D. Two years.
5.In her care giving, Jorjan Sarich _____.
A. got along well with her father B. was a little tired of her father
C. changed her father in every way D. felt it was unfair to do so
By the third year of teaching I’d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made me 36 . I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
The morning bell rang. I walked 37 through the cold into the overly heated school building. Twenty-two smiling faces 38 me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to 39 their smiles. Back into the classroom, they 40 , comparing plans for the 41 . I had to remove one student from each arm 42 I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my roll book（点名册） my desk was covered with 43 and gifts followed by a 44 of “Merry Christmas” wishes.
“Oh, thank you,” I must have 45 a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except my 46 mood（情绪）. It was kind of them to 47 me. After a while, I heard a small nervous 48 say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing 49 by my desk, holding a small, round gift. “This is for you.”
“Thank you, Sweetheart.” I laid it on my desk with the others.
“Um, could you 50 it now?”
I gently tore at the paper and tape. “ 51 ,” he said, “it’s breakable.” Slowly I opened a small, green Christmas tree ornament（装饰物）, complete with a hook already 52 . It dawned on me what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep my 53 back.
Later that day, I sat 54 the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I 55 pull a green Christmas ball from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
1.A. excited B. tired C. amazed D. relaxed
2.A. eagerly B. aimlessly C. gently D. heavily
3.A. watched B. greeted C. delighted D. warned
4.A. return B. forget C. ignore D. refuse
5.A. calmed B. settled C. chatted D. argued
6.A. study B. weekend C. vacation D. lesson
7.A. before B. when C. after D. because
8.A. letters B. books C. chalks D. cards
9.A. knowledge B. collection C. series D. bunch
10.A. confirmed B. assessed C. responded D. explained
11.A. pleased B. low C. thrilled D. angry
12.A. talk about B. think of C. turn to D. connect with
13.A. call B. sound C. shout D. voice
14.A. shyly B. bravely C. rudely D. sadly
15.A. classify B. collect C. open D. arrange
16.A. Careful B. Dangerous C. Patient D. Hasty
17.A. exposed B. adapted C. adjusted D. attached
18.A. trees B. hooks C. gifts D. tears
19.A. looking into B. turning over C. giving away D. packing up
20.A. anxiously B. hurriedly C. delicately D. casually
—Do you know Tom came _____ third in the marathon held yesterday?
—Yeah！And it was _____ 18-hour bicycle marathon.
A. 不填; the B. the; 不填 C. 不填; an D. the; a
With a lot of difficult problems ____, the manager felt like a cat on hot bricks.
A. settled B. settling C. being settled D. to settle
I am very sorry we made such a _____ decision, but there was really no time left for us.
A. precise B. worthy C. casual D. tight
—I _____ thank you enough for what you have done for me.
—You’re welcome.
A. may not B. will not C. must not D. can not
