When I was a little girl, I was foolish enough to believe everything adults said. Even I was scared to death by a word my mother said.
It all started when my elder brother came home with a heavy bag of cherries（樱桃）a friend gave him. In order to spend a pleasant afternoon, my sister suggested we have a competition to see who could eat the most cherries in as short a time as possible and be the winner. We all jumped at her idea, and the competition began in no time. Our action had to be fast and we must know how to bite in the middle of the cherry to chew and spit the seed out losing no time. I realized that this wasn’t a good game to play. And I suddenly found that I have swallowed more than one seed down to my stomach. Then Mother came and laughed and said to me, “tonight when you sleep, a cherry tree will grow out from your head.” I was jittery and scared. I believed every word she said at that age. I was rather frightened that night thinking how I was going to make it to school the next morning if I had a tree on top of my head or how I would leave this world just like that because of the cherry seeds in my stomach. I couldn’t sleep the whole night.
Well, the next morning, I woke up to my surprise , and discovered nothing had changed. My head was normal as it was. But one thing remains unchanged until this day. My love for cherries stays forever.
【小题1】Why did they start the cherry eating competition?
| A．Because they wanted to challenge their friends. |
| B．Because their mother asked them to do that. |
| C．Because they wanted to have a happy afternoon. |
| D．Because they just wanted to please their brothers. |
【小题2】What does the underlined word “jittery” in Para 2 probably mean?
| A．Pleased. | B．Disappointed. |
| C．Lucky. | D．Nervous. |
【小题3】Why did the writer believe her mother’s words?
| A．Because her mother asked her to do that. |
| B．Because she was too young at that time. |
| C．Because her brother had the similar experience before. |
| D．Because she wanted to have a good relationship with her mother. |
【小题4】In this passage the writer wants to ________.
| A．introduce a kind of fruit to readers | B．show her anger to her mother |
| C．show the reason why she hates the fruit | D．tell an interesting story of her childhood |
