4．In this passage adapted from a novel，a Canadian woman recalls for her childhood during the 1960s．Originally from China，the family travelled to Irvine，Ontario，Canada，where the parents opened a restaurant，the Dragon Café．
As a young girl I never really thought about my parents'lives in Irvine，how small their world must have seemed，never extending beyond the Dragon Café．Every day my parents did the same jobs in the restaurant．I watched the same customers come for meals，for morning coffee，for afternoon soft drinks and French fries．For my parents one day was like the next．They settled into an uneasy and distant relationship with each other．Their love，their tenderness，they gave to me．
But my life was changing．I became taller and bigger，my second teeth grew in white and straight．At school I began to learn about my adopted country．I spoke English like a native，without a trace of an accent．I played，though，and dreamed in the language of our Irvine neighbors．A few years later and I would no longer remember a time when I didn't speak their words and read their books．But my father and Uncle Yat still spoke the same halting English．My mother spoke only a few words．I began to translate conversations they had with the customers，switching between English and Chinese．Whenever I stepped outside the restaurant it seemed I was entering a world unknown to my family：school，church，friends'houses，the town beyond Main Street，I found it hard to imagine a year without winter any more，a home other than Irvine．
For my mother，though，home would always be China．In Irvine she lived among strangers，unable to speak their language．Whenever she talked about happy times，they were during her childhood in that distant land．A wistful smile would soften her face as she told me about sleeping and playing with her sister in the attic above her parents'bedroom．She once showed me a piece of jade-green silk cloth that was frayed and worn around the edge．In the center was a white lotus floating in varying shades of blue water，the embroidery（刺绣） so fine that when I held it at arm's length the petals looked real．I had been helping her store away my summer clothes in the brown leather suitcase from Hong Kong when I noticed a piece of shiny material spread it on her lap．"My mother embroidered this herself．I was going to have it made into a cushion，but then my life changed and over here there seems to be no place for lovely things．It's all I have that reminds me of her，"she said．"Maybe，Sun-Jen，one day you will do something with it．"I admired the cloth
some more，then she carefully folded it and stored it back in her suitcase．
There was little left from her old life．She said it was so long ago that sometimes it felt as if it had never happened．But she described her life with such clarity and vividness that I knew all those memories lived on inside her．There was so little in this new country that gave her pleasure．The good things she found were related in some way to China：an aria from a Chinese opera，a letter from a relative back home or from Aunt Hai-Lan in Toronto，written in Chinese，a familiar-looking script that I couldn't read and that had nothing to do with my life in Canada．
There were times when I felt guilty about my own happiness in Irvine．We had come to Canada because of me，but I was the only one who had found a home．
63．The primary purpose of the THIRD paragraph is toB．
A．provide insight into the motivations of the writer's parents and uncle
B．emphasize the great transformation the writer undergoes
C．describe the complex interrelationships in the writer's family
D．reveal the writer's preference for a cold climate over a warm one
64．According to the writer，her mother experienced feelings ofA in Canada．
A．lonliness
B．confusion
C．stability
D．security
65．The items mentioned in paragraph 4had meaning for the mother because theyC．
A．introduced her to a world rich in culture
B．helped connect the writer and her mother
C．supplied her with familiar associations
D．provided relief from her boring work routine．
分析 短文是节选自一本小说，讲述了作者和父亲远居他国时，母亲对祖国的想念．
解答 63．B，推理判断题，第二段讲了作者父母的生活一成不变，但第三段提到的But my life was changing是随着作者逐渐长大，她的生活开始发生了变化，因此第三段主要强调的是作者发生的重大的变化，故答案为B．
64．A，推理判断题，根据句子As a young girl I never really thought about my parents'lives in Irvine，how small their world must have seemed，never extending beyond the Dragon Café可知，作者的母亲住在Irvine的时候，她的世界只有Dragon Café，可以推测她母亲是孤独的，故答案为A．
65．C，推理判断题，根据句子she carefully folded it and stored it back in her suitcase可知母亲非常珍爱第四段提到的物品，因为那是与母亲深爱的祖国相联系的东西，故答案为C．
点评 解答任务型阅读理解题，首先对原文材料迅速浏览，掌握全文的主旨大意．因为阅读理解题一般没有标题，所以，速读全文，抓住中心主旨很有必要，在速读的过程中，应尽可能多地捕获信息材料．其次，细读题材，各个击破．掌握全文的大意之后，细细阅读每篇材料后的问题，弄清每题要求后，带着问题，再回到原文中去寻找、捕获有关信息．最后，要善于抓住每段的主题句，阅读时，要有较强的针对性．对于捕获到的信息，要做认真分析，仔细推敲，理解透彻，只有这样，针对题目要求，才能做到稳、准．
