英語閱讀及答案

　　The Long and Short of It

　　Although I had never met him, I knew that my grandfather had been five feet, six inches tall, while my stately grandmother stood five feet, eleven inches. As a teen-ager leafing through old photographs with Grandma, I finally realized how unusual they must have looked together .

　　"Grandma, " I asked, "how could you have fallen in love with a man five inches shorter than you?"

　　She turned to me. "Honey," she said, "we fell in love sitting down, and when I stood up, it was too late."

　　Notes:

　　(1) stately adj.高貴的

　　(2) leaf through迅速翻閱；瀏覽

　　(3) teen-ager.十幾歲的人

　　(4) fall in love with愛上；墜入愛河

　　Exercises:

　　根據短文選擇正確答案：

　�、� The child had never met______ .

　　A. the grandfather

　　B. the grandmother

　　C. the father

　　D. the mother

　�、� The grandmother was _______taller than the grandfather.

　　A. five feet

　　B. six inches

　　C. four inches

　　D. five inches

　�、� "Leafing through" in "leafing through old photographs" means______ .

　　A. to turn page by page

　　B. to put leaves in an album

　　C. to took for

　　D. to take out from

　�、� The child realized________ .

　　A. how strange they must have looked together

　　B. how wonderful they must have looked together

　　C. how shameful they must have looked together

　　D. how unusual they must have looked together

　�、� From the passage we can see that______ .

　　A. the grandmother loved her husband deeply

　　B. the grandmother regretted to have married her husband

　　C. the grandfather had been out for at least ten years

　　D. the grandfather had been dead for nearly eight years

　　練習參考答案：

　�、貯②D③A④A⑤A

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