Question

After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I was only a four-year-old girl at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom’s attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn’t walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldn’t go to summer camp because what if something happened to me?
As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into “things you should avoid”, and “things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life.” I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job — disasters big and small, real and imagined.
The funny part is that you’d never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I’ve developed a rule for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I’ve done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I’ve ridden a motorcycle; I’ve traveled —a lot. I’ve performed stand-up comedy, and I’m planning my second wedding.
There’s something else I don’t usually talk about, but it’s a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom’s funeral I remember making a choice. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be “safe” or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life.
I worry that I may have betrayed(背叛) my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn’t a natural character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do.
Even though I inherited (繼承) my mother’s cautious nature. I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we face it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place.
小題1:In the writer’s childhood, the limits and rules were used to ______.

A．improve her behavior	B．develop her independence
C．be in memory of her dead brother	D．protect her from possible danger

小題2: How does the writer deal with the things that frighten her?

A．She just ignores them.	B．She faces up to them.
C．She turns to her mother for help.	D．She does them with her friends.

小題3:From the passage, we can learn that ______.

A．the writer failed in her first marriage

B．nothing can make the writer afraid now

C．frightening things made the writer lose her self-confidence

D．the writer’s mother felt annoyed with her

小題4:What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Mothers influence their children much.

B．Fear is in fact not a bad thing.

C．Facing fear bravely produces courage.

D．The world is not as scary as people expect.

Answer 1

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C

文章提到了母親防止我遇見危險給我設立了很多限制，但是我勇敢的面對這些危險，變得很有信心和勇氣。
小題1:推理題。根據第一段這些都是為了保護我的安全。
小題2:推理題、根據第三段第三行If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once.可以得知我勇敢的面對這些危險。
小題3:推理題。根據第三段最后一句I’m planning my second wedding.。第二次婚禮說明我第一次婚姻失敗。
小題4:主旨大意題。根據文章倒數第二段可知勇敢的面對危險產生勇氣與信心。