8.What does the writer intend to tell
us?
A.The cleverest animal is the gorilla
because it can make beds.
B.Differences in habitat could lead to
different living habits.
C.The ways animals catch their ZZZ’s
are pretty much the same .
D.In order to protect themselves most
animals choose not to sleep. (答案:CADB)
( C )
But I wonder about my Momma sometimes, and all the other Negro (blacks )mothers
who got up at 6 a.m. to go to the white man’s house with sacks over their shoes
because it was so wet and cold. I wonder how they made it .They worked very
hard for the man, they made his breakfast and they scrubbed his floors and they
took care of his babies. They didn’t have too much time for us.
I wonder about my Momma, who walked out of a white woman’s clean house at
midnight and came back to her own where the lights had been out for three
months ,and the pipes were frozen and the wind came in through the holes in the
wall. She’d have to make deals with the rats: leave some food out for them so
they wouldn’t bite the doors or the babies. The roaches(蟑螂)?Oh, they were just like part of the
family!
I wonder how she felt telling those white kids she took care of to brush their
teeth after they ate, to wash their hands after they finish bathroom. She could
never tell her own kids because there wasn’t soap or water back home.
I wonder how my Momma felt when we came home from school with a list of
vitamins and pills the school nurse said we had to have .Momma would cry all
night , and then go out and spend most of the rent money for pills. A week
later, the white man would come for his eighteen dollars’ rent and Momma would
beg him to wait until tomorrow. She had to lie to him that she had lost her
wallet or the relief check was coming soon or the white people had some money
for her. Tomorrow I’d be hiding in the closet (衣橱) because there were only supposed to
be two kids in the flat ,and I could hear the rent man shout at my Momma and
call her a cheat. And when he finally went away, Momma put the sacks on her
shoes and went off to the rich white man’s house to dress the rich white kids
so their mother could take them to a special baby doctor.