题目内容
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1－2各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Although my brother was born when I was only five, I remember the events of that hot summer well. One evening, as she sat at the window sewing, my mother called me:“Come here,”she said.“ (1) .” She held my head against her (2) , and after a puzzled moment I felt a (3) foot drumming on my cheek. “You see?” she said, “It's alive. You can (4) it, can't you?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without (5) . It was as good a place for the baby to be as any other and I never doubted about why it got in (6) how it would finally get out.
My mother wore a long flowered house-coat and moved slowly in those days. A baby would come? I (7) noticed. That there were soon to be (8) of us children would not, I thought, make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe. (9) , certainly not a baby, could (10) that.
The baby came. I watched him being washed by the nurse in the basin in my mother's room I was (11) by him: he was so small and so purple; (12) so much noise was coming from that toothless mouth. But he would make no difference to me, I thought.
I was (13) , however. I soon found that things had changed a great deal. I had never been the (14) . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the (15) . My sister had certain (16) because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much loved boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that never came to me.
As he grew, it became (17) that my brother had charm(吸引力) which put him in the centre of everything. People smiled when they saw him. He made them happy (18) by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second (19) . He was so charming that he was immediately loveable and loved. Later he also turned out to be (20) , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.
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