焦点 07 任务型阅读之阅读表达-备战2024年中考英语复习之优秀生拔高特训（北京市）

焦点07 任务型阅读之阅读表达 备战2024年中考英语复习之优秀生拔高特训 A There was something wrong with grandma Mommika’s fingers. The doctor said that she had arthritis—a disease that causes pain in the body. He said Mommika should keep her hands warm. I made her cups of tea to hold and moved her chair closer to the fire. But her fingers were stiff* no matter how much tea I brought. I wasn’t used to seeing Mommika’s hands like this. Her quiet hands made herself quieter too. This year there were no knitted* hats for Christmas, no colorful socks or soft sweaters. But I missed Mommika’s voice more than those. One day, Mom asked me to throw away some sweaters which had big holes. Mommika was staring down at her hands, and was shocked as I walked by. “Wait, Annuska,” she said. “Let me see those.” She picked up a blue sweater on top. She began pulling gently at a piece of yarn* near the neck. “What are you doing?” I asked. “Unknitting, make it into a ball like this. Then you can use the yarn to knit something new.” Mommika said. Mommika wrapped yarn around and around her stiff fingers, first in one direction and then the other to keep the ball round. Mommika told me how Peti, her youngest brother, used to play with their mother’s yarn balls. “Once he threw them so high that a yarn ball got stuck in a tree. So he climbed the tree and threw the ball down on my head,” she said, laughing. I picked up three yarn balls and tried to do like Peti. Mommika watched me and then smiled. After dinner, I got an idea. ________ I picked up a pair of old gloves and sewed* up the holes as she had taught me before. Then I sewed the faces of Mommika and her brothers and sisters on the tips of the fingers. “Your family,” I said, handing the gloves to her. “Oh, Annuska! This one must be me,” she said, laughing. “And this must be Peti.” Mommika put the gloves on and told me about her life with her brothers and sisters happily until my bedtime. “I think I’ll sleep with my family gloves on tonight,” Mommika said,