Question

My mother used to say things just to make me mad. Like most teenagers, I thought I knew everything. And what I didn’t know, I didn’t want to be told. For example, if I said I was going to a movie, my mother would roll her eyes. On my way out, she’d shout, “You need to slow yourself down before something bad happens! You don’t want to learn that the hard way!” I didn’t know what that meant. I thought she just wanted me to stay at home.

Many years later I had three teenagers of my own. They thought they knew everything. I would say the same things to them like my mom. That’s when I first saw it. My mother wasn’t trying to help me.

Why do we always have to learn things “the hard way”? Why can’t we just accept our elders’ wisdom? It’s a good lesson for anyone. Clearly, I still haven’t learned it.

Yesterday, I stepped out of the shower when I heard my cell phone ringing in the kitchen. Grabbing a towel, I ran through the house. I grabbed the phone and hit my left foot against the table. The X-ray showed that I’d broken two toes.

We all need to slow ourselves down once in a while, before something bad does it for us. My mother was right about a lot of things. I wish I could have told her.

1.The writer felt ______ when mother used to say things.

A. happy B. nervous C. angry D. Surprised

2.The underlined sentence means_________

A. The writer knew everything.

B. The writer should stay at home.

C. Mother wasn’t trying to help the writer.

D. We all need to slow ourselves down before something bad.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Mothers know everything in their lives.

B. Listening to elders’ suggestions can help us.

C. The writer’s mother had three children.

D. Achieving a goal helps you build self-confidence.

4.What's the best title of the passage?

A. An hurt experience

B. Learning the hard way

C. Mother’s words are always right

D. Teenagers should learn from their mothers

Answer 1