All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.
You could turn your back for a moment in my mother's house, leave a half written letter on the dining table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had put it back where it belonged, as she explained. My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother's house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused(疑惑 的), she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.
These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有 ...... 的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. Do you remember what I was doing? was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.
Now my sister has developed a secondhand love of clean windows
, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.
单选题
Which of the following is TRUE about my mother? ____
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析:根据第一段It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.可知D正确。
单选题
My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother's house because______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:根据第二段可知B符合题意。
单选题
The underlined part in the fourth paragraph suggests that my sister______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析:根据画线句后的…and my brother does the cleaning in his house.可以推断出D正确。