I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. “What is this?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”
I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what 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 with these words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”
“Ooh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.
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答案解析：
1. Why did the author go to mother’s home?
A. To see her mother’s quilts.
B. To help prepare for a show.
C. To get together for the family dinner.
D. To discuss her grandmother’s life.
解析：C正确
作者为什么到妈妈家去？
文章第一句就已交待：I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner.
2. The author was surprised because .
A. the quilt looked very strange.
B. her grandmother liked the quilt.
C. the quilt was the best she had seen.
D. her mother had made some changes
解析：A正确
作者为什么感到惊讶？
找出有surprised这个词的位置，“I said, surprised.”从前面对被子的描述可以看出制作的很奇怪，而且妈妈又说是外婆做的则让作者很惊讶。
3. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Quilt Show
B. Mother’s Home
C. A Monday Dinner
D. Grandmother’s Quilt
解析：D正确
文章的最佳标题是哪个？
文章通篇说的就是围绕被子的故事，因此quilt是关键词。而文章内容的升华则是从外婆做的最后一个被子开始。所以D项能够统领文章。
参考译文：
我到妈妈家参加周一的家庭晚宴。阵阵食物的香味从厨房飘出。母亲从箱子里翻出一张又一张的被子，自豪地向我展示被子的精美之处。。她正在为埃尔姆赫斯特教堂的被子展示会做准备。正当我们开始将被子叠好并重新放进箱里时，我注意到一个箱子的底部的有一样东西。我把它拿了出来。“这是什么？”我问。
“啊？”妈妈说，“那是我妈妈的被子。”
我打开被子。它就像是由一群学校里的孩子拼接出来的，设计不规则，图画幼稚，右边还有一条弯弯曲曲的线。
“外婆做的？”我惊讶地说。外婆是位缝被子的能手。这个看起来一点都不像出自她之手。
“是的，就在她去世前缝的。去年我把它带回家，做了一些改动，”她说，“我现在还在做呢。看，这就是我到目前为止所做的。”
我凑得更近看被子。她把一条弯曲的线改直了。在被子中央，母亲缝了一块布条，上面写着：“我母亲生前做了很多被子。她没有将所有的线条都缝成直的，但我认为这样很好看。我想看到这个被子完工。这是她最后的一条被子。”
“哇哦，这个真美，妈妈，”我说。我想到母亲在完成外婆的被子的同时，是在怀念外婆。我也意识到，我手中捧着的是我们家的宝贝。它始于一位母亲充满爱的双手，由另一位母亲充满爱的双手承接下来。
词汇及短语：
quilt: 被子
piece together: 把…拼合〔凑〕起来
e.g. She pieced together odds and ends of cloth.
她将零头布凑成整块。
crooked: 畸形的, 弯曲的, 歪的
stitch: 缝；缝补；缝合
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