Our children grew up on peanut butter and jelly (果冻) sandwiches. Even my husband and I sometimes ate one secretly at late night with a glass of milk. It was too delicious and tasty. My mother-in-law was the jelly maker in this family. The jelly was made of either grape or blackberry. The only job I did to the jelly making was to save baby food jars (罐子), which my mother-in-law would fill with the tasty gel (凝胶体), pack them up and send back to our home. For the past 22 years of my married life, whenever I wanted to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for ourselves, all I had to do was reach for one of those little jars of jelly. It was always there.
This past December, my mother-in-law passed away. Among the things in the house to be divided by her children were the remaining canned goods in the pantry (食品储藏室). When my husband brought his jars home, we carefully put them away in our pantry.
The other day I reached in there to get jelly for a quick sandwich, and there it was. Sitting all alone on the far side of the shelf was a small jar of grape jelly. As I picked up the jar, I suddenly realized something that I had failed to see earlier-this was the last jar we would ever have from my mother-in-law. Although she had been dead for nearly a year, so much of her had remained with us. Our children had never known a day without their grandmother’s jelly. It seems like such a small thing, and most days it was something that was ignored. But today it seemed a great treasure.
No longer was it just a jar of jelly. It was the end of a family tradition. I believed that as long as it was there, a part of my mother-in-law would always live on.
1.Why did the couple eat the jelly secretly at late night?
A. Because it was very delicious and nice.
B. Because it was only made for children.
C. Because it was made by mother-in-law.
D. Because it was good to health.
2.What can we know about the author in making jelly?
A. She could make baby food by herself.
B. She could only collect baby food jars.
C. She helped her mother fill the jars with the tasty gel.
D. She sent the jelly jars home with her husband.
3.What did the mother-in-law leave to the author?
A. The skills to make jelly.
B. Some baby food in the house.
C. Some canned jars filled with jelly.
D. A lot of money.
4.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. a quick sandwich B. the shelf
C. grape D. jelly
5.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To miss her mother-in-law.
B. To introduce the skills of making jelly.
C. To remember the family tradition.
D. To warn people to be nice to the old.
1.A
2.B
3.C
4.D
5.A
【解析】
试题分析:作者的婆婆经常为他们一家做花生奶油果冻馅的三明治,作者一家都非常喜欢吃这种三明治。当发现只剩下最后一罐果冻的时候,作者意识到了一直被忽视的东西--对婆婆的思念。那最后一罐果冻成了一种思念婆婆的寄托,并被传承和珍视。
1.It was too delicious and tasty”可知,用花生奶油和果冻做的三明治太好吃了,以至于作者和丈夫在深夜会起来吃一块,故选A。
2.The only job I did to the jelly making was to save baby food jars (罐子),”可知,作者负责收集婴儿用品的罐子,故选B。
3.were the remaining canned goods in the pantry...my husband brought his jars home”可知,婆婆给他们留下了很多做好的罐装果冻,故选C。
4.on the far side of the shelf was a small jar of grape jelly”可知,作者去拿果冻,她发现果冻就在那里静静地放着,说明it指的是果冻,故选D。
5.No longer was it just a jar of jelly. It was the end of a family tradition. ...a part of my mother-in-law would always live on.”可知,作者写婆婆做的罐装果冻是为了怀念婆婆,作者相信,只要那最后一罐果冻一直存放着,婆婆就会一直和他们在一起,故选A。
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