题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
浙江省温州市十五校联合体2020-2021学年高二上学期英语期中联考试卷
A perfectly good cupboard just sat by the dustbin in the parking lot. Probably it was something they were getting rid of, I thought.
My family was in need of all the extra storage space we could find at this point. We were living on top of one another in the small house my husband, Martin, and I owned. However, our younger son had stopped his college courses and moved home. Hit hard by the bad economic situation, our elder son with his wife and my precious grandchild moved back home too while he looked for work. This cupboard wouldn't solve all our problems, but at least the living room would look a little less chaotic (混乱的).
One of the nice things about the boys being back home was that their father and I never had to do the heavy lifting. "Wesley, meet me behind the cupboard," I told our younger son over the phone. Once he arrived we got the cupboard loaded in my trunk(汽车后备箱). Then we opened the big box. Inside was a five-foot-tall dollhouse. Even the little furniture was broken: a sofa and a lamp in baby blue, the color of my own living room at home." We should take this too,” Wesley said. "Luke might play with it when he gets a little older." What a thoughtful uncle Wesley was!
Late that same night, while everyone else was asleep, I went back to the living room to have a look again. A house just like the neat dollhouse I was starting at now: everything neat and clean and in its proper place." When I grow up, I'll marry a prince and we'll live in a nice house like that one," I thought when I was a child. But now, every one of us under this roof was at loose ends. It would take more than a new cupboard to get things in order around here. I went to bed with the impression of that perfect dollhouse in my head.
The next evening I was getting everything ready for dinner. My daughter-in-law was setting the table. Wesley and I were in the kitchen, getting the food just right. The others were in the study, watching the game. Suddenly I felt so thankful. My two responsible sons, my kind-hearted daughter-in-law, my lovely grandchildren, and Martin, my prince, were all under one roof. Maybe our house was a bit crowded, but in every free inch of space was love. My dream had come true. I had the home I'd always wanted.
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