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While mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. They were incredibly conscientious about me. They loved m
While mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. They were incredibly conscientious about me. They loved m
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2010-04-24
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While mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. They were incredibly conscientious about me. They loved me very much; sadly, much better than they were able to love each other or, in my grandmother’s case, to love my mother. Of course, I was blissfully unaware of all this at the time. I just knew that I was loved. Later, when I became interested in children growing up in hard circumstances and learned something of child development from Hillary’s work at the Yale Child Study Center, I came to realize how fortunate I had been. For all their own demons, my grandparents and my mother always made me feel I was the most important person in the world to them. Most children will make it if they have just one person who makes them feel that way. I had three.
My grandmother, Edith Grisham Cassidy, stood just over five feet tall and weighed about 180 pounds. Mammaw was bright, intense, and aggressive, and had obviously been pretty once. She had a great laugh, but she also was full of anger and disappointment and obsessions she only dimly understood. She took it all out in raging tirades against my grandfather and my mother, both before and after I was born, though I was shielded from most of them. She had been a good student and ambitious, so after high school she took a correspondence course in nursing from the Chicago School of Nursing. By the time I was a toddler she was ’a private-duty nurse for a man not far from our house on Hervey Street. I can still remember running down the sidewalk to meet her when she came home from work.
Mammaw’s main goals for me were that I would eat a lot, learn a lot, and always be neat and clean. We ate in the kitchen at a table next to the window. My high chair faced the window, and Mammaw tacked playing cards up on the wooden window frame at meal times so that I could learn to count. She also staffed me at every meal, because conventional wisdom at the time was that a fat baby was a healthy one, as long as he bathed every day. At least once a day, she read to me from "Dick and Jane" books until I could read them myself, and from World Book Encyclopedia volumes, which in those days were sold door-to-door by salesmen and were often the only books besides the Bible in working people’s houses. These early instructions probably explain why I now read a lot, love card games, battle my weight, and never forget to wash my hands and brush my teeth.
The author came to know that he was most fortunate because ______.
选项
A、his grandparents loved him more than his mother did
B、his grandmother loved her grandson more than she loved her daughter
C、his grandparents and his mother made him the most important person in the world
D、his grandparents and his mother took him as the apple of their eye
答案
D
解析
推断题。文章第一段谈到外祖父母对“我”的宠爱,甚至超过了对“我的母亲”以及对他们自己的爱。本段第五句说“我”意识到我是多么幸运,因为无论他们有多么糟,外祖父母和母亲总是让我感觉到,在这个世界上我对他们是最重要的,多数儿童只要有一个人给他们这种感觉就足以让他们健康成长,而我则拥有三个,可见D为正确答案。
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