题目内容
I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. Mother was ______ quilt after quilt from the boxes, ______ showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to _____ and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the _____ of one box.
“What is this?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”
I ______ the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together; ____
designs, ______ pictures, a winding line on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said, ______. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This ______ didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I ______ it home with me last year and made some ______,” she said. “I’m still _____ on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”
I looked at it more ______. At the center of the quilt, she had sewn a piece of ______with these words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines _____. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it ______. Her last quilt.”
“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It ______ to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own ______. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family
____. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and ______ with the loving hands of another.
1.A. splitting up B. picking up C. pulling out D. showing off
2.A. proudly B. frankly C. politely D. generously
3.A. push B. lift C. cover D. fold
4.A. top B. bottom C. back D. front
5.A. pressed B. spread C. packed D. raised
6.A. perfect B. delicate C. mature D. irregular
7.A. childish B. elegant C. classic D. horrible
8.A. excited B. depressed C. surprised D. delighted
9.A. almost B. certainly C. partly D. probably
10.A. robbed B. bought C. dropped D. brought
11.A. decisions B. money C. changes D. mistakes
12.A. working B. depending C. living D. sitting
13.A. disappointedly B. closely C. nervously D. gratefully
14.A. paper B. bread C. wood D. cloth
15.A. strong B. hidden C. straight D. bent
16.A. finished B. removed C. produced D. prepared
17.A. happened B. appeared C. occurred D. struck
18.A. skill B. mother C. show D. quilt
19.A. shame B. responsibility C. desire D. treasure
20.A. continued B. stopped C. declined D. disappeared