Question

I’m beginning to think whether my grandmother was right when she complains,as she frequently does,that children nowadays aren’t as well-behavioured as they used to be.She recounts in detail how she used to be told to respect her elders and betters.She was taught to speak when she was spoken to and when she went out on her own,she was reminded to say please and thank you.Children in her days,she continues,were expected to be seen and not heard,but these days you are lucky if you ever hear parents telling their children to mind her manners.?

If you give her the chance she then takes out of her writing desk the old photograph album which she keeps there,and which she never tires of displaying.Of course when you look at pictures of her parents you feel sure that,with a father as strict looking as that,you too would have been “seen and not heard”.Beside him sits his wife,with their children around her;Granny and her elder brothers.It always occurs to me that perhaps those long,stiff,black clothes were so burdensome (heavy) to a little girl that she hadn’t enough breath left to be talkative,let alone mischievous (淘气的).It must have been a dull and lonely life too,for she stayed mainly at home during her childhood,while her brothers were sent to school from an early age.?

However,my childhood was much freer than Granny’s.I went to school with my brother.I played football with him and his friends.We all spoke a common language,and we got up to the same mischief.I would have died if I had to stay indoors,wearing tight,stiff clothes.

1.The writer thinks that her grandmother_________ .?

A.makes mistakes about the youth?

B.complains too much about her childhood?

C.received good education at school?

D.led an unhappy life when she was a child?

2.When Granny was young,children were expected_________.?

A.to speak to the elders loudly?

B.to hear and not to see?

C.to be present quietly?

D.to stay still and study?

3.This passage is mainly about _______.?

A.Granny’s life story in the past?

B.Granny’s complaints about the children?

C.women’s life in different times?

D.children in the past and at present

 

Answer 1

1.D　事实题。从文章第二段倒数第二行“It must have been a dull and lonely life too,for she stayed mainly at home during her childhood....”可以找到答案。?

2.C　细节题。从文章的第一段第五行“Children in her days,she continues,were expected to be seen and not heard”可以推测出答案。to be seen是present,not to be heard是quietly。?

3.D　主旨题。第一句话的后半部分“that children nowadays aren’t as well-behavioured as they used to be”点出了文章的中心思想,即 “现在的孩子的行为举止不如过去的孩子的行为举止好”。第一段是grandmother对童年的回忆;第二段是作者从grandmother的相册上看到的grandmother童年,并由此推断出grandmother的童年不快乐;第三段是作者自己现在的童年,正好与grandmother的童年形成了对比，因此D项合适。