尋找母親

The question sat unanswered in the clear Montana air. Kathleen Englund always wanted to know，who was her biological mother?

“I have always wanted to find her. It’s always been a dream in my life，”said Englund，24，an athletic department administrator(管理人)at the University of Montana.“I wanted to know what she looked like，why she did it，all the questions adopted(收養(yǎng)) kids have.”

For three years Englund searched the court records in Missoula，finding her original birth certificate(出生證)，finding the name of her mother，Gail Patterson，but no trace(蹤跡)of how to find her mother. She sent ￥100 to a woman in Great Falls who promised to track her down(查明)，but got no response and no repayment.

Then on May 14，1997，four days after Mother’s Day，she logged onto(登錄)the Internet. She found a mysterious woman in Helena who wouldn’t give her name，but offered to look up records. Two hours later，the woman called back.

She had found Gail Patterson. Patterson had married，taken her husband’s last name，been separated and now lived in Fort Benton.

“I can’t even remember how I was feeling. Excited? Nervous?I mailed her a letter that day to say I wanted to meet her，”Englund says.“Two weeks later，I got a phone call. It was her.”

They met in June. Englund opened the door，felt like she was looking into a mirror and met her biological mother for the first time.

Since then，the two have seen each other a couple of times. They have struck up(開始)a friendship，and Englund has answered the troublesome question.

“I have a part of me that feels whole again，”she says.

1.Before Kathleen Englund found her biological mother，she_______.

A. had been homeless for a long time B. had been living with her father

C. had many unanswered questionsD. could hardly support herself

2.By the time Englund found her mother，her mother_______.

A. had been married and separated

B. had been living with Gail Patterson

C. had been living in Helena

D. had searched for Englund a long time

3.When Kathleen Englund saw her mother，she found that_______.

A. her mother looked very similar to herself

B. her mother had changed greatly over the years

C. her mother was far from what she imagined to be

D. her mother was old and poor

4.It can be inferred(推斷)from the text that_______.

A. mothers have the forever love for their children

B. the Internet is useful in finding information

C. Mother’s Day has a great effect

D. adopted children live a difficult life

[答案與解析]

1. C 綜合推理題。首段和末段提到的“the question”指的是“who is my biological mother?”，但第二段“what she looked like，why she did it，all the questions adopted kids have.”說明有許多問題想弄清楚，所以C項(xiàng)正確。

2. A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第五段提到的Gail Patterson就是Kathleen Englund的母親，原句有結(jié)婚后又離婚的內(nèi)容:had married…been separated。C項(xiàng)提到的地名Helena是提供線索的那位婦女所在的地方。

3. A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。倒數(shù)第三段“felt like she was looking into a mirror”說明母女兩個很相似，所以A項(xiàng)正確。

4. B綜合推理題。文章沒有母親愛子女的內(nèi)容，而是描寫一位從小遭受遺棄后被收養(yǎng)的女子尋找生母的故事，所以A項(xiàng)錯誤。根據(jù)第四段Kathleen Englund在母親節(jié)4天后才上的網(wǎng)，其實(shí)這件事與母親節(jié)關(guān)系不大，所以不選C項(xiàng)。D項(xiàng)內(nèi)容文中沒有交代。從第四段可知Kathleen Englund在網(wǎng)上遇到的那位神秘婦女查記錄 (look up records)起到了關(guān)鍵的作用，所以選擇B項(xiàng)。

編輯/梁宇清