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

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For as early as I could remember, my mother had been a bright, 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 nile dementia (老年痴呆). I would go to my home to pay her a visit in California and she would curiously look at me and then ask, “Who are you?” I would answer, “I’m your own son, of cour.” “Where do you live?” She would ask. “In Virginia”, I would tell her. “Isn’t that interesting,” she would say, “I have a son in Virginia.”Mother emed only forgetful as well as confud at the beginning of that dia, but sometime later she would go through different time of inten anxiety. She would keep walk ing through the hou she ud to live in most of her life crying uneasily that she would like to go home. Or sometimes she left home and wandered away if she were unattended for a short time.Hoping to make her happy and put her mind at ea I would take her in my car, visiting sites where she ud to live when she was a child. In the yard of the hillside hou in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn(草坪). I pictured my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some respon. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a place, but a time. I think it was a time when she was much younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still energetic and attentive.Watching my mother’s suffering t me wondering where I would have in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only natural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of nile dementia is haunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave the notes for your guidance. 小题1:What’s the main idea of the first and cond paragraphs?A．The mother of the author could not find her home. B．The mother of the author could not remember who’s his son. C．The author’s mother suffered with rious nile dementia.D．The author didn’t know how to cure his mother.小题2:Which of the following is NOT the symptom of the mother of the author? A．forgetful B．confudC．cheerfulD．uneasy小题3:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “picture”?A．photographB．describeC．appearD．paint小题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 playing with a pet lamb.D．The mother of the author did not like her usual home.小题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 nile dementia.D．Take Mother Home. 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:C小题2:C小题3:B小题4:A小题5:D 

解析

文章大意：文章作者讲述自己母亲年老患有老年痴呆症，作者非常担心母亲的状况，把她接回家照顾。小题1:C细节理解题。根据文章第一段和第二段的描述可知，作者的母亲患有严重的老年痴呆症。故C正确。小题2:C推理判断题。根据文章第一和第二段的描述及常识可知，老年痴呆症的症状是ABD所描述的相符合。故C正确。小题3:B词义推测题。根据后一句话I looked to her for some respon. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”可以推测出此处picture为“描述、描绘”。故B正确。小题4:A推理判断题。根据文章第三段可知，作者非常担心母亲的状况，一直在照顾自己的母亲。故A正确。小题5:D大意推测题。文章作者讲述自己母亲年老患有老年痴呆症，作者非常担心母亲的状况，把她接回家照顾。故D正确。

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