For as early as I could remember, my mother had been a bright, cheerful woman de

For as early as I could remember, my mother had been abright, cheerful woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. However,in the last fifteen years of her life, she had to live with senile dementia (老年痴呆). I would go to my home to pay her a visit inCalifornia and she would curiously look at me and then ask, “Who are you?” Iwould answer, “I’m your own son, of course.” “Where do you live?” She wouldask. “In Virginia”, I would tell her. “Isn’t that interesting,” she would say,“I have a son in Virginia.”

Mother seemed only forgetful as well as confused atthe beginning of that disease, but sometime later she would go through differenttime of intense anxiety. She would keep walk ing through the house she used tolive in most of her life crying uneasily that she would like to go home. Or sometimesshe left home and wandered away if she were unattended for a short time.

Hoping to make her happy and put her mind at ease Iwould take her in my car, visiting sites where she used to live when she was achild. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car andadmired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn(草坪). I pictured my mother there was a little girlplaying with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for someresponse. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”

Over the years I have decided that what my mother wascalling home was not a place, but a time. I think it was a time when she wasmuch younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband wasstill energetic and attentive.

Watching my mother’s suffering set me wondering whereI would have in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. Inthis family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have alreadynoticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is onlynatural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of senile dementia ishaunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I amnow, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dearson, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best tofind the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your guidance.

1.What’s the main idea of the first and secondparagraphs?

A. The mother of the author could not find her home.  

B. The mother of the author could not remember who’shis son.

C. The author’s mother suffered with serious seniledementia.

D. The author didn’t know how to cure his mother.

2.Which of the following is NOT the symptom of the mother of the author?      

A. forgetful                         B.confused      C. cheerful       D.uneasy

3.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “picture”?

A. photograph                  B.describe                 C.appear                   D.paint

4.What can you infer from the third paragraph?

A. The author cared much about his mother.    

B. The mother of the author liked pet lambs very much.

C. The author found a very little girl who was playingwith a pet lamb.

D. The mother of the author did not like her usualhome.

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Where Is Home?                                              B.A story about a son and a mother.

C. Everyone will suffer with senile dementia.              D.Take Mother Home.

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【答案】

1.C

2.C

3.B

4.A

5.D  

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