题目内容
阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选择最佳答案
“Floyd, bring me the vase from the dining-room, the one with the pink-and-white lines on it．I want to have these roses decorating your Momma's room．There's nobody I know who loves flowers more than your Momma．”
Having done so, Floyd skipped (jumped with short steps) across the kitchen floor to the screen door．“When do you think they'll be here? What time did Uncle Herman leave? Do you think Momma will be back home?”
“I say, boy,”laughed Aunt Josie, “how do you expect me to answer all those questions at once? You're just a walking question mark this morning．”
“I'm sorry, Aunt Josie, Momma used to say that I asked more questions than a riddle（谜语）book when I was little．When do you think they'll be here?”
Aunt Josie arranged (put in order) the flowers in the vase．“I expect they'll be here by the time you get back from putting these flowers in your Momma's room．”
Hardly had the vase been set on Arlene's table when the boy heard a car drive up to the house．Quickly he ran out into the yard, where he saw a dark, thin woman sitting in the back seat, her head raised against pillows（枕头）．
(1) From the passage we can see that Arlene was ______．
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A．Aunt Josie's mother
B．Uncle Herman's wife
C．Floyd's mother
D．the women who had Floyd bring back the vase
(2) Which of the following sentences is untrue?
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A．Floyd's mother was very fond of flowers
B．Before Floyd was asked to bring back the vase, he had already known his mother would be back
C．Aunt Josie thought of Floyd as a walking question mark
D．Floyd's mother had the same opinion of Floyd as Aunt Josie
(3) The underlined word "decorating" in the first paragraph means “______”．
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A．putting in B．growing
C．taking up D．making beautiful
(4) According to the passage we can guess that ______．
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A．Floyd thought Aunt Josie had more questions than anyone else
B．Floyd's mother was coming back from a hospital
C．Floyd heard a car drive up before he had time to set the vase
D．a dark, thin woman was sitting in the back seat supporting Floyd's mother with pillows
(5) The writer wrote the story to ______．
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A．give an opinion about boys who ask questions
B．present a picture of a family scene
C．advise you to act like Floyd
D．give you information about roses
