I arrived at my mother's home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food
over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the boxes,
showing their beauties. She was
for a quilt show at the Wooden Church. When we began to fold and put them
into the boxes, my attention was
by something at the bottom of one box. I
it out. “What is it?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “that's Mama's quilt.”
I
the quilt. It looked
a group of school children had
it together: irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked
on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said,
. My grandmother was a
at making quilts. This didn't certainly look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I brought it home last year and made some
,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is
I’ve done so far.”
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched a piece of cloth
those words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn't get all line
. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”
“Oh, this is so nice, mom,” I said. It
to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was
her own mother. I realized I held in my hands a family
. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another,
two generations.
| 小题1: | | A．flew | B．rushed | C．floated | D．wandered |
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| 小题2: | | A．proudly | B．slightly | C．calmly | D．hopefully |
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| 小题3: | | A．trading | B．reaching | C．asking | D．preparing |
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| 小题5: | | A．drawn | B．shocked | C．embarrassed | D．excited |
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| 小题6: | | A．raised | B．pulled | C．caught | D．held |
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| 小题7: | | A．pressed | B．folded | C．spread | D．arranged |
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| 小题8: | | A．even if | B．if only | C．as if | D．only if |
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| 小题9: | | A．picked | B．added | C．chained | D．pieced |
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| 小题11: | | A．delighted | B．scared | C．surprised | D．worried |
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| 小题12: | | A．master | B．beginner | C．scholar | D．customer |
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| 小题13: | | A．decisions | B．dresses | C．changes | D．progress |
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| 小题14: | | A．how | B．which | C．where | D．what |
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| 小题16: | | A．straight | B．wrong | C．mixed | D．respectable |
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| 小题17: | | A．occurred | B．happened | C．replied | D．struck |
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| 小题18: | | A．promoting | B．moving | C．honoring | D．approaching |
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| 小题19: | | A．custom | B．treasure | C．memory | D．award |
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| 小题20: | | A．passing | B．holding | C．satisfying | D．covering |
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