六、先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
The summer before I went off to college, Mum made me stand in her usual place behind the ironing (熨烫) board and said, “Eric, I'm going to 1 you how to iron.”
Mum explained her 2 clearly for this lesson. I was going to be on my own and needed to 3 this important skill. I would also meet new people, and properly ironed clothes would make them see me as a 4 person.
“Learn to iron a 5 first,” Mum said, “and then you can iron anything.”
But ironing shirts was not 6 work. It
didn't need a lot of energy that we used to throw a baseball. And it wasn't a smooth (流畅的) action like ice - skating. Ironing was like 7 on a street that had a stop sign every ten feet. At the same time, an iron produced steam (水蒸气) and it might be 8. If you touched the wrong part of it, you might get burned. If you forgot to turn it off when you 9, you might burn down the house.
As for the secret of the skill, Mum taught me to 10 with the smooth parts outside (有褶皱的) parts. Collars (领子) had to be done right. Mum said collars were close to my face, so everyone would easily 11 them.
After that, I learned how to iron shirts and it gave me a 12 of happiness. 13 I felt down in my life, an ironed shirt told me I was good at something. At the same time, 14 ironing I learned the way of solving difficult problems. “Smooth wrinkles one at a time,” Mum said, “and before long 15 will be ironed out.”
( ) 1. A. keep
B. teach
C. make
D. introduce
( ) 2. A. rules
B. ways
C. plans
D. reasons
( ) 3. A. learn
B. find
C. praise
D. pick
( ) 4. A. honest
B. tidy
C. kind
D. lazy
( ) 5. A. skirt
B. tie
C. shirt
D. dress
( ) 6. A. useful
B. easy
C. special
D. hard
( ) 7. A. arriving
B. meeting
C. driving
D. lying
( ) 8. A. great
B. safe
C. surprised
D. dangerous
( ) 9. A. went away
B. put off
C. gave away
D. took off
( ) 10. A. bring
B. choose
C. begin
D. send
( ) 11. A. touch
B. smell
C. see
D. hear
( ) 12. A. feeling
B. change
C. key
D. step
( ) 13. A. Although
B. So
C. When
D. Because
( ) 14. A. of
B. through
C. across
D. at
( ) 15. A. someone
B. everyone
C. nothing
D. everything
答案：1. **第1题**
- 妈妈说要“教”（teach）作者如何熨烫，“teach sb. how to do sth.”是“教某人如何做某事”的固定搭配，所以选B。
2. **第2题**
- 妈妈清楚地解释了这堂课的“原因”（reasons），因为作者要独立生活，需要学习这项技能，所以选D。
3. **第3题**
- 作者需要“学习”（learn）这项重要的技能，所以选A。
4. **第4题**
- 熨烫好的衣服会让别人觉得作者是“整洁的”（tidy）人，所以选B。
5. **第5题**
- 后文提到“ironing shirts”，所以妈妈让先学熨“衬衫”（shirt），选C。
6. **第6题**
- 后文说不需要很多力气，所以熨衬衫不是“难的”（hard）工作，选D。
7. **第7题**
- 熨烫就像在每十英尺有一个停车标志的街道上“开车”（driving），所以选C。
8. **第8题**
- 熨斗产生水蒸气，可能是“危险的”（dangerous），所以选D。
9. **第9题**
- 当你“离开”（went away）时忘记关掉熨斗，可能会烧毁房子，所以选A。
10. **第10题**
- 妈妈教作者从光滑的部分“开始”（begin）处理有褶皱的部分，所以选C。
11. **第11题**
- 领子靠近脸，每个人都能很容易“看到”（see），所以选C。
12. **第12题**
- 学会熨衬衫给了作者一种幸福的“感觉”（feeling），所以选A。
13. **第13题**
- 当（When）作者在生活中情绪低落时，熨好的衬衫会告诉他擅长某事，所以选C。
14. **第14题**
- 通过（through）熨烫，作者学会了解决难题的方法，所以选B。
15. **第15题**
- 不久之后“一切”（everything）都会被解决，所以选D。
答案依次为：1. B；2. D；3. A；4. B；5. C；6. D；7. C；8. D；9. A；10. C；11. C；12. A；13. C；14. B；15. D。
