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Week One
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生活变简易
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My mother has a dining table which sits
the stuff into paper shopping bags.Then I asked
right in the middle of her dining room.It was
what she wanted us to do with them,she
once buried beneath piles of papers-
surprised us all by saying,"Put them in the
magazines,articles,copies of schedules for
incinerator(垃圾焚化炉).”
vacations she took back in the 1990s,and baby
When I returned home,inspired by the
pictures of grand children who are now paying
visit to my mother,I sorted out my own
off their college loans.
accumulated piles of papers,sold or gave
My brother Ross and I recently flew to
away half of my possessions,and moved into a
New York to visit my mother."Mom,why
smaller house.It seems that my life has been
don't we go through all that stuff?"Ross said.
cheaper and easier since then.And it proves
“No.Don't touch it!”my mother said.The
that a small change does make a big difference.
next afternoon,when she couldn't find a bill
1.What did the mother ask her children to do
she needed,Ross suggested it might be put
with these unopened mails?
somewhere in the dining room and that we find
A.To burn them.
it together.“Besides,”he said,“all those
B.To read them for her.
papers are clearly stressing you out."However,
C.To collect them together.
my mother just said,“Are you boys hungry?”
D.To pick out the important ones among them.
And then she seemed to have lost herself in
2.When the mother walked into the dining
deep thought.
room,she was
On our last night there,my mother walked
A.angry
B.afraid
up to us with a small pile of unopened mails,
C.impatient
D.careful
which she had collected at the western edge of
3.What's the author's attitude towards his
the dining table,and said,"Help me go
mother's cleaning up the dining table?
through these.”“Sure,”I said.When we had
A.Positive.
B.Negative.
succeeded in separating wheat fromchaff,I
C.Uncertain.
D.Unknown.
asked,"Wou