Home to me means a sense of familiarity and nostalgia(懷舊). It's fun to come home. It looks the same. It smells the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. Home is where we ran remember pain, live, and some other experiences; We parted here; My parents met here; I won three championships here.
If I close my eyes, I can still have a clear picture in mind of my first home. I walk in the door and see a brown sofa surrounding a low glass-top wooden table. To the right of the living room is my first bedroom. It's empty, but it's where my earliest memories are.
There is the dining room table where I celebrated birthdays, and where I cried on Halloween-when I didn't want to wear the skirt my mother made for me. I always liked standing on that table because it made me feel tall and strong. If I sit at this table, I can see my favorite room in the house, my parents' room. It is simple: a brown wooden dresser lines the right side of the wall next to a television and a couple of photos of my grandparents on each side. Their bed is my safe zone. I can jump on it anytime - waking up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot wait until the morning.
I'm lucky because I know my first home still exists. It exists in my mind and heart, on a physical property(住宅) on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles. It is proof I lived, I grew and I learned.
Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go home. I know it's where I'll find my family, my dogs, and my belongings. I purposely leave the window open at night because I know I'll be blamed by Mom. But I don't mind, because I want to hear her say my name, which reminds me I'm home.
小題1:Why does the author call her parents' bed her "safe zone"(Paragraph 3)?
A．It is her favorite place to play.
B．Her needs can be satisfied there.
C．Her grandparents' photos are lined on each side.
D．Her parents always play together with her there.
小題2:What can be learned from the passage?
A．The old furniture is still in the author's fist bedroom.
B．The author can still visit her first physical home in Los Angeles.
C．The author's favorite room in her first home is the dining room.
D．Many people of the author's age can still find their first physical homes.
小題3:Sometimes when she feels lost, the author will _______.
A．Open the window at night
B．lie down in bed to have a dream
C．try to bring back a sense of home
D．go to Los Angeles to visit her mom
小題4:What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?
A．To express how much she is attached to her home.
B．To declare how much she loves her first house.
C．To describe the state of her family.
D．To look back on her childhood.

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A

【文章大意】：本文屬于散文題材，表現(xiàn)了作者對(duì)家的依戀。小時(shí)候，家對(duì)于作者來(lái)說(shuō)是自己快樂(lè)童年的地方，在家里，自己可以得到最大的滿(mǎn)足；長(zhǎng)大之后，家已經(jīng)搬遷到了作者的心里，每當(dāng)作者迷茫和疲憊的時(shí)候，總會(huì)閉上雙眼，感受和回味家的溫暖。
小題1:根據(jù)文章第三段最后兩句Their bed is my safe zone. I can jump on it anytime - waking up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot wait until the morning.可以推測(cè)出在她父母的床上，作者可以做自己喜歡的事情，因此選B。
小題2:根據(jù)文章第四段I'm lucky because I know my first home still exists. It exists in my mind and heart, on a physical property(住宅) on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles. It is proof I lived, I grew and I learned.可以得出作者孩提時(shí)代住的房子還在，因此選B。
小題3:根據(jù)文章最后一段第一句Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go home.可以得出作者不是真正的回家，而是在腦子里回味家的味道，因此選C。
小題4:根據(jù)文章第一段第一句Home to me means a sense of familiarity and nostalgia(懷舊).以及最后一段第一句Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go home.可以推斷出作者對(duì)家很依戀。
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