12.I remember the green coat in my fifth and sixth grades.
When I needed a new jacket,my mother asked what kind I wanted.I described something like bikers wear.She listend long.I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted.
The next day when I got home from school.I diacovered,on my bed,a jacket which was not what I had expected,I wear close to the jacked slowly,as if it were a stranger.
From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet,I rushed and pulled at the closthes inthe closet,hoping that jacket on the bed wasn't for me but my brother.No luck,Iwant to cry because it was so ugly and so big.But I knew I'd have to wear it a long time before I'have a new one.I looked at the jacket,like an enemy,thinking bad things before I took off my old and small jacket.
I put the big jacked on.I stood in front of the mirror(鏡子),turning right and left.I looked ugly.
I threw it on my brother's bed and look at it for a long time before I put it on and went out,smiling a"thank you"to my mom.
The next day I wore it to school.At the morning break,my best friend.Steve,look at me for a long time.The girls turned away to shisper.The teachers looked my way and talked about how foolish I looked in my new jacket.When it was time for the whole school to get together on the playground,--.Although they didn't say out loud,"Man,that's ugly,"I heard there talk and even laughter.
And so I went,in my jacket.So embarrassed,so hurt,I couldn't even do my lessons the rest of the day.I received Cs on tests.
I wore that thing for three years.All in those year no love came to you.
I blamed(指責(zé))that jacket for those bad years.I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways.It was a sad time for the heart.Anyway,I spent my-sixth grade year,looking forward to something good to happen to me.
And it was about that time I began to grow,still in that green ugly jacket,which had become my brother who went along wherever I went.
42.The writer went to school in the new jacket becauseA
A.his jacket was too old and small
B.his brother asked him to do so
C.he wanted to show it to his friends
C.he would act in a school play
43.The sentence that shows the writer cared about his mother's feeling isC
A.I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted
B.I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways
C.I put it on and went out,smiling a"thank you"to my mom
D.From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet
44.Which of the following sentences can be put in theB?
A.it began to rain B.everyone saw me
C.my mother came D.I got angry
45.The changes of the writer's attitude(態(tài)度)to the jacket can be described asD.
A.enemy→stranger→brother B.brother→stranger→enemy
C.stranger→brother→enemy D.stranger→enemy→brother.