We have two daughters:Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four．Last Sunday evening,we invited some people home for dinner．I dressed them nicely for the party,and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang．Mommy would introduce them to the guests,and then they would take the guests' coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom．
The guests arrived．I introduced my two daughters to each of them．The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids．
Each of the guests made a particular fuss over Kelly,the younger one,admiring her dress,her hair and her smile．They said she was a remarkable girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age．
I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big“to do”over the younger one because she's the one who seems more easily hurt．We do it with the best of intentions．
But we seldom think of how it might affect the other child．I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being outshined．I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes．I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom,crying．
I said,“What are you doing,my dear?”
She turned to me with a sad expression and said,“Mommy,why don't people like me the way they like my sister?Is it because I'm not pretty?Is that why they don't say nice things about me as much?”
I tried to explain to her,kissing and hugging her to make her feel better．
Now,whenever I visit a friend's home,I make it a point to speak to the elder child first．
(1)
The underlined expression“make a big' to do' over”(paragraph 4)means ________
[ ]
A．
do good things for
B．
list jobs to be done for
C．
have a special effect on
D．
show much concern about
(2)
The guests praised Kelly for carrying costs upstairs because of her ________
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A．
young age
B．
lovely smile
C．
pretty clothes
D．
beautiful hair
(3)
Kristen felt sad and cried because ________
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A．
the guest gave her more coats to carry
B．
the guests praised her sister more than her
C．
her mother didn't introduce her to the guests
D．
she didn't look as pretty as Kelly
(4)
We can conclued from the passage that ________
[ ]
A．
adults should treat children equally
B．
people usually like the younger children more
C．
the younger children are usually more easily hurt
D．
parents should pay more attention to the elder children
Mother managed to buy me some more paint and brushes, along with one or two drawing books and a pencil．This, of course, broadened my range of expression and 1 me to have a greater 2 of subjects．After the first few weeks of uncertainty and awkwardness, I 3 contentedly with my new pastime(消遣)．I 4 every day upstairs in the back bedroom, completely 5 I was 6 ．I didn’t know it then, but I had found a way to be happy again and 7 some of the things that had made me unhappy． 8 I learnt to forget myself．I didn’t miss 9 with my brothers now, for I had something to keep my mind 10 , something to make each day a thing to 11 ．I would sit on the floor for hours, holding 12 between my toes, my right leg curled up(蜷缩的)under my left, my arms held tightly at my sides, hands clenched(紧握)．All my paint and brushes were 13 me, and I 14 get mother or father to pin(钉住)the drawing paper to the floor with tacks(大头钉)to keep it 15 ．It looked like a very awkward position, with my head almost 16 my knees and my back as crooked as a corkscrew(瓶塞钻)，but I painted all my best pictures 17 , with the wooden floor as my only easel(画架)．Slowly I began to recover from my 18 depression(消沉)．I had a feeling of pure joy while I painted, 19 I had never experienced before and 20 seemed almost to lift me above myself．
Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming．Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest son would join him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it 1 ．But Henry proved a 2 ．He hated farm work and did everything he could to 3 it．It was not that he was lazy． 4 from it!Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending the hinges(铰链) of a gate to sharpening tools, and he would set to work eagerly．It was the daily life of the farm, with its repetitive tasks, 5 frustrated him．
Henry was excited by the development in technology that could free farmers like his father from wasteful and boring labor．But these developments, in Henry’s boyhood, had touched farming 6 at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done．So Henry 7 his attention elsewhere．When he was twelve, he became almost obsessively interested in clocks and watches．Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom．
In 1876, Henry suffered a serious 8 ．His mother died in childbirth．There was no reason for him to stay on the farm, and he resolved to get away as soon as he could．Three years later, he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit． 9 this time steam engines had joined clocks and watches as objects of Henry’s fascination．Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen．
A chance meeting with an old co-worker led to a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company． 10 he quickly learned the ropes of his new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to dominate(占主要地位) his life．
Henry learned 11 a slow, painstaking business it was to build an engine by hand from scratch．Every piece of every component had to be fashioned individually, checked and rechecked, and tested． 12 the burden, he joined forces with another mechanic, Jim Bishop．Even so, it was two years before they succeeded in building a working car．Henry called it“Quadricycle．”(四轮驱动脚踏车)
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