文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了女儿Sara来找作者求助,因为朋友Marcy不喜欢她,只希望女儿是她一个人的朋友,不许再交别的朋友。作者通过使用两个篮子的比喻向女儿解释,每个人都有自己的篮子,篮子里装有各自必须亲自去做的事情。随着成长,她将逐渐负责自己的篮子里的事情。女儿理解了并接受了作者的解释。
When my daughter Sara was in the fifth grade, she came to me with a problem. “Marcy hates me!” she cried. “Because Kathy is my friend, too. She wants me to be her friend and nobody else’s. You talk to Marcy. You tell her that I want to be her friend, but I can have other friends, too!”
Oh! I looked at her for a few moments, wondering how I got into this mess (困境), when suddenly an idea came to me.
Picking up two baskets from the living room, I explained, “When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. This little one here is yours. The big one is mine. As you grow, so does the basket. You can see your little basket is inside mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn’t do for yourself. I did everything you couldn’t do on your own.”
She nodded.
“Well, as you grew older and began to do some things on your own, I began placing a few more things in your basket. When you learned to tie your shoes, that went in your basket.”
She said softly, “I can tie my own shoes.”
“Right. As you grow older, there will be more and more things you must do on your own.” As I spoke, I gradually took her basket out of mine and handed it to her. “You will finally carry your own basket with things only you can do.”
She looked up at me and said, “I understand. There are some things that I have to do by myself because they are in my basket.”
4. What was Sara’s problem?
A.She didn’t have a basket. | B.She didn’t want her own basket. |
C.She couldn’t deal with her friendship. | D.Her mother was too hard on her. |
5. What did the author feel when she heard her daughter’s problem?
A.Angry. | B.Crazy. | C.Proud. | D.Helpless. |
6. The “baskets” underlined in the paragraph 5 refer to _________.
A.gifts given by God when everyone is born | B.something that people use to keep vegetables |
C.growing abilities as you grow up | D.friendship that needs repairing |
7. We can infer that Sara _________.
A.would talk to Marcy herself | B.wouldn’t make friends with Kathy |
C.was too young to deal with anything | D.managed to persuade her mother to help her |