1 . The text from my son said it all: “Dad, there’s an article you were born to write that the world is finally ready for: Bring Back the Handkerchief!” As my son knows, there’s no “bring back” for me. For me, the handkerchief never left.

My mother raised me with several fixed rules. One was that a gentleman always has a clean handkerchief in his right rear pocket, a piece of simple cotton, roughly 15 inches square and less than four inches when folded. I was a dutiful son, but as a child, I had been wondering what it was there for. After 60 years, my body weight now feels wrong if I’m heading out of the house with an empty back pocket.

I am sure this habit has sometimes struck friends but in polite company nobody comments on somebody else’s business. Children like my kids think of my hankie ridiculously old-fashioned and they have their arguments. If you have to be prepared every day for allergies or a cold, why not choose a little packet of tissues, which saves you from that disgusting business of blowing your nose in the thing and then stuffing it back in your pants?

Point taken. But a handkerchief is more durable and has a far wider variety of uses. Can you grab the handle of a pot that’s boiling over with a Kleenex? Or do you recall the cases of skinned knees and drippy noses that hankie wiped? In fact, my wife gave me several new handkerchiefs as gifts. Neither of us can count the number of times her eyes have welled up at a movie, or, as happens, she’s needed to blow her nose.

Yet not even my mother could have anticipated the hankie’s new role as an Essential Public Health Appliance. All of us have learnt how hard it is to follow advice from medical experts about not touching your face. Here is an answer. Use your hankie. In case of emergency, your handkerchief can become a makeshift DIY mask that can be pulled over your lower face like a robber entering a bank.

And it will certainly give me the chance to lift my chin and look at my adult children through one eye, asking in her good-hearted way, “What do you have to say now, smarty-pants?”

1. What kind of person is the author in the eye of his son?

A．His father is a born writer.

B．His father lost his handkerchief long ago.

C．His father will bring back the handkerchief.

D．His father has a habit of using handkerchief.

2. How do the younger generation like the handkerchief?

A．They adore it very much.

B．They regard it as fashionable.

C．They consider it inconvenient.

D．They desire to have their own someday.

3. What can be learned from the passage?

A．The function of handkerchiefs has been updated.

B．Handkerchiefs will be taken over by tissues sooner or later.

C．The author’s wife feels embarrassed to give him a handkerchief.

D．The author was ridiculed by his friends for his use of handkerchiefs.

4. What’s the tone of the author in the passage?

A．Bossy

B．Humorous

C．Pessimistic

D．Critical

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Our three kids were all under age five. We’d recently moved to the suburbs, and I’d stopped working to be a stay-at-home mom. Most of our friends lived outside our immediate community and didn’t have children. This all added up to a nonexistent social life for my husband and me.

I needed to fix this, so I became a room parent in my son’s kindergarten class, partly to spend time with him, but also to make more friends within the school community. I also signed my son up for weekend soccer. While those activities gave me the opportunity to socialize with other moms, it was challenging to cultivate friendships. I only saw my fellow room parents a few times a -year, usually during class parties. On the soccer sidelines, I found it impossible to watch the game, keep track of my young children, and maintain conversations with other parents at the same time.

I desired deeper interactions with the smart, interesting moms I saw around school. But we all led busy lives. How could I make this happen?

“You should throw a party,” suggested a friend who happened to be a professional event planner. “I can’t do that. I don’t really know these women,” I replied quickly. I hardly even had my closest friends over to my house. The thought of hosting an adult party terrified me.

“Just invite a few people that you’ve talked to and ask them to bring along a friend. You’ll meet even more people that way. It will be fun,” my event-planner friend said. I ran this idea by my husband, and I was certain he’d agree it wouldn’t work. “Great idea,” he said. “I’ll stay upstairs with the kids, and the party can take place on the main floor.”

I picked a date and set up an electronic invitation, making a guest list of moms from my son’s soccer team, my fellow room moms, and a few other moms I’d started saying “hi” to at school pick-up. But I didn’t hit Send. I started to talk myself out of it. There were so many reasons this wouldn’t work.

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With four mess makers in my household, I imagined many “what ifs”.

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But you know what? Everyone showed up.

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3 . One day at dinner, when Caroline set her fork down on the plate, it made a sound. And then something _______ happened. The fork began to shake against the plate, all by itself.   Caroline _______. All the glasses on the table, and even the chairs were _______, too. “Mom?” she asked. She felt _______ .

But as _______ as it began, all the strange sounds ended. It was suddenly _______ in the house. Mom looked at Dad. “I think it was a（n） _______ ,” she said.

Caroline had _______ about earthquakes at school. Once there was a very big earthquake in San Francisco, and many houses _______ .

“Is our house going to be okay?” Caroline asked. “Everything is fine,” said Mom. “Earthquakes ________ all the time, and most are so small that you don't even ________ .Nothing even fell off a shelf, so the house is ________ than that little earth quake.”

Once Caroline heard that, she began to ________ .She wouldn't like to have an earthquake every day, but it was exciting to ________ one in real life. She was glad that everyone in her house and her town were safe. Who knew dinner would be such a(n) ________ ?

1.

A．special

B．else

C．funny

D．strange

2.

A．looked up

B．turned down

C．came over

D．went out

3.

A．shinning

B．falling

C．shaking

D．moving

4.

A．ashamed

B．scared

C．annoyed

D．excited

5.

A．quickly

B．clearly

C．normally

D．early

6.

A．dark

B．untidy

C．quiet

D．scary

7.

A．earthquake

B．experience

C．disaster

D．warning

8.

A．worried

B．read

C．dreamed

D．complained

9.

A．held on

B．faded away

C．fell down

D．shook up

10.

A．remain

B．exist

C．grow

D．happen

11.

A．respond

B．escape

C．report

D．notice

12.

A．stronger

B．longer

C．worse

D．greater

13.

A．panic

B．laugh

C．relax

D．hide

14.

A．study

B．feel

C．remember

D．miss

15.

A．comfort

B．adventure

C．feast

D．process