第4部分：阅读理解—第三篇
Knitting
My mother kne ho to knit (编织), but she never taught me. She assumed, as did many omen of her generation, that knitting as no longer a skill orth passing don from mother to daughter. A combination of feminism (女权主义) and consumerism (消费主义) made many omen feel that such homely accomplishments ere no out of date. My Grandmother still knitted, though, and every Christmas she made a pair of socks for my brother and me, of red ool. They ere the ones e ore under our ice skates (冰鞋), hen it as really important to have arm feet.
Knitting is a nervous habit that happens to be productive. It helped me quit smoking by giving my hands something else to do. It is onderful for depression because no matter hat else happens, you are creating something beautiful. Time spent in front of the television or just sitting is no longer time asted.
I love breathing life into the patterns. It's true magic, finding a neglected, dog-eared old book ith the perfect snoflake design, buying the same Germanton ool my grandmother used, in the exact blue to match my daughter's eyes; taking it on the train ith me every day for to months, orking enthusiastically to get it done by Christmas, staying up late after the stockings are filled to se in the sleeves and eave in the ends.
Knitting has taught me patience. I kno that if I just keep going, even if it takes months, there ill be a reard. hen I make a mistake, I kno that anger ill not fix it, that I just have to go back and take out the stitches (针脚) beteen and start over again.医,学,全,在,线,提,供www.lindalemus.com
People often ask if I ould do it for money, and the anser is alays a definite no. In the first place, you could not pay me enough for the hours I put into a seater. But more important, this is an activity I keep separate from such considerations. I knit to cover my children and other people I love in armth and color. I knit to give them something earthly that money could never buy.
Knitting gives my life an alternative rhythm to the daily deadline. By day I can rite about Northern Ireland or the Ne York City Police Department and get paid for it, but on the train home, surrounded by people ith laptops, I stage my little rebellion: I take out my old knitting bag and join the centuries of omen ho have knitted for love.
11 hy did many omen feel that knitting as out of date?
A Because their mothers didn't teach them.
B Because they ere influenced by feminism and consumerism
C Because they ere feminists.
D Because they ere consumerists.
12 The author ore the red socks her grandmother had knitted for her
A hen she ent to school.
B hen she ent sightseeing.
C hen she celebrated Christmas.
D hen she ent skating.
13 The ord "quit" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A "give up".
B "speed up".
C "slo don".
D "build up".
14 According to the passage， hich of the folloing statements about knitting is NOT true?
A Knitting helps one get rid of bad habits.
B Knitting helps one get free from a bad mood.
C Knitting requires patience.
D Knitting is a profit-making business.
15 hich of the folloing is NOT the riter's purpose of knitting?
A To save money.医学.全在.,线提,供www.lindalemus.com
B To make full use of her leisure time.
C To enrich her life.
D To sho her love for the family.
