I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, _____ showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to ______ and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the ____ of one box.
“What is this?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”
I _____ the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular
designs, childish pictures, a winding line on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said, ______. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This _____ didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I _____ it home with me last year and made some changes ,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”
I looked at it more ___. At the center of the quilt, she had sewn a piece of _____with these words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines _____. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it ______. Her last quilt.”
“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It ______ to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own _____. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family
____. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and ______ with the loving hands of another.
【小题1】A.proudly | B.frankly | C.politely | D.generously |
【小题2】A.push | B.lift | C.cover | D.fold |
【小题3】A.top | B.bottom | C.back | D.front |
【小题4】A.pressed | B.spread | C.packed | D.raised |
【小题5】A.excited | B.depressed | C.surprised | D.delighted |
【小题6】A.almost | B.certainly | C.partly | D.probably |
【小题7】A.robbed | B.bought | C.dropped | D.brought |
【小题8】A.disappointingly | B.closely | C.nervously | D.gratefully |
【小题9】A.paper | B.bread | C.wood | D.cloth |
【小题10】A.strong | B.hidden | C.straight | D.bent |
【小题11】A.finished | B.removed | C.produced | D.prepared |
【小题12】A.happened | B.appeared | C.occurred | D.struck |
【小题13】A.skill | B.mother | C.show | D.quilt |
【小题14】A.shame | B.responsibility | C.desire | D.treasure |
【小题15】A.continued | B.stopped | C.declined | D.disappeared |