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  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.高贵的



  (2) leaf through迅速翻阅;浏览



  (3) teen-ager.十几岁的人



  (4) fall in love with爱上;坠入爱河



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  ① The child had never met______ .



  A. the grandfather



  B. the grandmother



  C. the father



  D. the mother



  ② The grandmother was _______taller than the grandfather.



  A. five feet



  B. six inches



  C. four inches



  D. five inches



  ③ "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



  ④ 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



  ⑤ 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



来龙去脉



  尽管我从未见过我祖父,但我知道他身高五英尺六,而我高贵的祖母身高五英尺十一。十几岁的时候,我和祖母一起一页一页地翻着老照片,我终于认识到他们在一起是多么不同寻常。



  “奶奶,”我问道,“你怎么会爱上一个比你矮五英寸的人呢?”



  她转过脸来看着我。“宝贝,”她说,“我们是坐着相爱的。当我站起来的时候,已经太晚了。”



练习参考答案:



①A②D③A④A⑤A

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