Question

I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt(被子)after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. “What is this?” I asked.

“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”

I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.

“Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.

“Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”

I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched(缝) a piece of cloth with these words:“My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”

“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.

1.Why did the author go to mother’s home?

A. To see her mother’s quilts.

B. To help prepare for a show.

C. To get together for the family dinner.

D. To discuss her grandmother’s life.

2. The author was surprised because ________.

A. the quilt looked very strange

B. her grandmother liked the quilt

C. the quilt was the best she had seen

D. her mother had made some changes

3. The underlined word “crooked” in the passage most probably means ________.

A. Unfinished                 B. broken

C. Bent                       D. unusual

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. A Quilt Show                B. Mother’s Home

C. A Monday Dinner              D. Grandmother’s Quilt

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.C

4.D

【解析】

试题分析: 作者在母亲家里的箱子里发现外婆缝在被子上的线都是弯弯曲曲的，原来外婆缝的被子都是被母亲作了修改的。小小的改动却体现了两代人之间爱的传递

1.C 考查细节理解题。根据第一段提到I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner作者回母亲家是为了参加家庭聚餐,故选C项。

2.A考查推理判断题。由文章第三、四段内容知,grandmother was a master at making quilts,所以,作者奇怪的是,这条被子看起来很strange，故选A项。

3.C考查词义猜测题。前面说的情况,都与一条好的quilt的特点相反,所以,crooked的意思应该和直相反,所以选择C。

4.D主旨题。标题的要求是简洁、高度概括和吸引人。根据这几点可知, 是在围绕着grandmother’s quilt 话题叙述的，只有D项最符合

考点 ：人生百味类阅读。