Embroidering (刺繡)

When I was a little boy living in New York, my mother used to embroider a great deal. I would sit at her knee and look up from the    36    and ask what she was doing. She    37   me that she was embroidering. I told her that it looked like a mess from where I was. As from the underside I watched her work within the    38   of the little round hoop（鐵環(huán)） that she held in her hand, I complained to her that it sure looked    39    from where I sat.
    She would smile at me, look down and   40    say, "My son, you go about your    41    for a while, and when I am finished with my embroidering, I will put you on my    42    and let you see it from my side."

I would wonder why she was using some dark threads along with the    43    ones and why they seemed so jumbled（混亂的）from my   44   . A few minutes would pass and then I would hear Mother's voice say, " Son, come and sit on my knee." This I did only to be  surprised and    45  to see a beautiful flower or a sunset. I could not    46   it, because from underneath it looked so messy.
   Then mother would    47   to me, "My son, from underneath it did look messy and jumbled, but you did not realize that there was a   48   plan on the top. It was a    49   . I was only following it. Now look at it from my side    50    you will see what I was doing."
   Many    51    through the years, I have    52    up to my Heavenly Father and said, “ Father, what are You doing? ” He    53   , “ I am embroidering your    54   . ” I say, " But it looks like a mess to me. It seems so jumbled. The threads seem so dark. Why can't they all be bright ? " The Father seems to tell me, " My child, you go about your business of doing My business, and one day I will bring you to    55    and put you on my knee and you will see the plan from My side. "

36. A. floor                 B. corner              C. ceiling                D. step

37. A. demanded             B. blamed               C. persuaded            D. informed

38. A. decorate              B. boundaries            C. picture              D. surface

39. A. messy                B. dirty                C. shabby               D. tight

40. A. smartly               B. cautiously            C. gently                D. precisely

41. A. complaining            B. playing                 C. embroidering         D. imagining

42. A. back                 B. chair                 C. knee                D. table

43. A. white                B. black                 C. bright               D. shining

44. A. eyes                         B. opinion               C. heart                D .view

45. A. hopeful                B. thrilled                C. expecting              D. enthusiastic

46. A. believe                B. consider             C. see                    D. touch

47. A. talk                  B. mention            C. say                   D. whisper

48. A. pre-drawn                    B. previewed         C. preserved             D. produced

49. A. direction              B. line                 C. diagram               D. design

50. A. or                    B. and                C. until                  D. unless

51. A. times                  B. days              C. seasons               D. chances

52. A. climbed                B. jumped             C. shouted               D. looked

53. A. required                B. answered          C. instructed              D. concluded

54. A. decision                 B. fortune               C. life                     D. business

55. A. home                  B. mother              C. America               D. Heaven

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, factory owners faced few restrictions on the way they employed their children workers, who were between the age of 7 and 12. Gradually laws came into being.
The first child-labor laws were passed at the state level in America and usually focused on both required education and a minimum age for employment. And added rules limited the length of the workday for children. Pennsylvania, for example, limited the workday to 10 hours for children under 12. However, government officials cared little whether businesses followed the law. In fact one group of children was left entirely unprotected by labor laws -- the children of immigrant families.
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Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself: " I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me." No one could have had a more productive old age.
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5.A. smartly                 B. cautiously       C. gently             D. precisely

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A．make herself beautiful

B．become famous

C．earn more money

D．keep active

2.Grandma Moses spent most of her life ________.

A．nursing

B．painting

C．farming

D．embroidering

3.The underlined word “portrayals ” means ________.

A. expressions       B explanations     C. descriptions  .  D. impressions

4.From Grandma Moses' description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was ________.

A．pretty

B．nervous

C．rich

D．independent

5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．The Children of Grandma Moses.

B．Grandma Moses: Her Life and Pictures.

C．Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition.

D．Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists.

 

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C. usually paid the lowest salary

D. forced children to turn home into factories

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C. attract attention to protect young children

D. emphasize the importance of educating young children

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