第三部分 阅读理解
阅读下面短文,从题后所给的A、B、C、D四个答案中选出最佳选项。
All her life, my mother
wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all
times clean and tidy.
You could turn your
back for a moment in my mother's house, leave a half-written letter on the
dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that
my mother had "put it back where it belonged." as she explained.
My wife, on one of her
first visits to my mother's house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table
and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the
packet had been removed. Confused, she set down her drink and went back to the
kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had
disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto
their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows
better.
These disappearances
had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有...的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from
the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared
suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question
frequently asked, but rarely answered.
Now my sister has
developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning
in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not
to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the
furniture once a week.
56. Which of the
following is TRUE about my mother?
A. She enjoyed removing
other's drinks.
B. She became more and
more forgetful.
C. She preferred to do
everything by herself.
D. She wanted to keep
her house in good order.
57. My wife could not
find her biscuits and drink in my mother's house because _______.
A. she had already
finished them B.
my mother had taken them away
C. she forgot where she
had left them D.
someone in my family was holding them
58. The underlined part
to the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.
A. is happy to clean
windows B.
loves to clean used windows
C. is fond of clean
used windows D.
likes clean windows as my mother did
59. This passage mainly
tells us that _______.
A. my mother often made
us confused
B. my family members
had a poor memory
C. my mother helped us
to form a good habit
D. my wife was
surprised when she visited my mother