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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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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.
Which of the following description about the author’s grandmother is NOT tree?
选项
A、She was intelligent, ambitious, but very bad-tempered.
B、She became quite mild and polite after the birth of her grandson.
C、She always tried to conceal her aggressiveness from her grandson.
D、She used to study the course in nursing and practiced the profession afterwards.
答案
B
解析
细节题。文章第二段生动地刻画了外祖母的性格特征:她脑袋灵活,待人热情,说起话来有点冲,她生起气来怒发冲冠,在我出生前后,她都曾对我外公和母亲暴跳如雷,没完没了,当然大都在背着我的时候。由此判断,外祖母并未在我出生之后性情变得温婉,故 B为答案。
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