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I have been led to think that one of the pretty family arts is going out altogether. There is such a spirit of buying ready-made things, to save work and time. I never see a home-made patchwork（拼布工艺）quilt but I have a kindly feeling for the maker. I know some gentlemen who feel the same way.
I remember how sweet, tidy and happy girls looked: they had completed all the morning's work, and left a quiet, cool house for their mother, and were spending their spare afternoon in actively putting together different blocks, comparing patterns, and learning from each other, someone now and then cheering up the rest with a sweet or happy song, and all enjoying themselves when they finished something useful.
Once I saw a lady buying calico(厚棉布) in short lengths, and she explained to the clerk that it was for patchwork. “Who is going to make patchwork?” he asked. “My daughters.” Is it possible? I did not know any of the girls that still did that kind of work. I thought that was one of the lost arts. I'd like to get to know girls of that kind.
I remember a very rich gentleman who paid a high price for a patchwork quilt. When I expressed my surprise, he said, “The patchwork quilt can call up such beautiful thoughts for me. When I enter my room, I see that red and white quilt, and my rest is all the sweeter when I know this is over me. I see and hear many things that happened when I was small.”
Another gentleman, sick for many months, one day asked if he could have a patchwork quilt on his bed. He was so tired of a white one. “My mother once made a patchwork quilt just for me, and I knew all the pieces by heart,” he said. I am quite sure that the memory of that quilt did much to take his mind from his sickness, and when he was well again he felt sorry for parting with it, so the quilt became his property.
英语嗨吧
唯美经典语录/名句
Happiness is beneficial to the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind.
快乐有益身体健康,但悲伤才是培育心灵的力量。
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Now, girls, take any patchwork quilt you have. The older it is, the better. And look back on the time when you made it, and who was at the quilting. Who made the pies and cake? Did you pick up the quilt and throw it over somebody's head, saying “It's your turn next”, creating confusion(混乱局面) and fun? Did you clear everything away after supper and have a little dancing? Do you remember who of the guys came to take the girls home? Are the pretty fingers that quilted it still warm and quick in life? Are some of those friendly hands whiter than ever before or still?
Pleasure and industry, usefulness and comfort, the past and the present, all are stitched in and folded up into that priceless patchwork quilt.
()1. What do you know about a patchwork quilt in the passage?
A. Some gentlemen feel it friendly.
B. Nobody likes patchwork quilts.
C. A patchwork quilt is very expensive.
D. The art of patchwork has disappeared.
()2. Why did the writer admire the girls of that kind?
A. Because the girls were smart and outgoing.
B. Because he liked doing some shopping.
C. Because he enjoyed the art of patchwork.
D. Because the girls enjoyed doing housework.
()3. What is TRUE about Paragraph 5?
A. The man still kept the patchwork quilt his mother made.
B. The gentleman paid a high price for a new patchwork quilt.
C. Remembering the patchwork quilt helped the man get better.
D. The man threw away the patchwork quilt on his bed after getting better.
()4. What is the CORRECT order of the writer's experiences and feelings about patchwork quilts?
① He met a lady buying calico for her daughters' patchwork.
② He admired the happy girls making patchwork quilts together.
③ He learned that a rich gentleman bought an expensive patchwork quilt.
④ He realized the patchwork art carries precious memories and emotions.
A. ②①③④ B. ①②③④ C. ②③①④ D. ③①②④

本文作者通过对若干场景的描述，表现他与一些绅士对拼布被子的怀旧情结。拼布被子将快乐与勤勉、实用与舒适、过去与现在，所有的情结都缝在一起，给人以精神上的慰藉。
1. A 细节理解题。由第一段中“I never see a home-made patchwork quilt but I have a kindly feeling for the maker. I know some gentlemen who feel the same way.”可知，有些绅士觉得拼布被子亲切。
2. C 推理判断题。由第三段中“I thought that was one of the lost arts. I’d like to get to know girls of that kind.”可知，作者欣赏那种女孩是因为他欣赏拼布艺术。
3. C 推理判断题。由第五段中I am quite sure that the memory of that quilt did much to take his mind from his sickness可知，回忆拼布被子帮助男子恢复健康。
4. A 信息排序题。作者先在第二段描绘女孩们一起做拼布被子的温馨场景，流露出对这种传统工艺的欣赏；接着在第三段描写偶遇为女儿买棉布做拼布的女士，感慨这是“失传的艺术”；随后在第四、五段，通过两位绅士的故事，展现拼布被子如何唤起童年回忆、抚慰病痛；最后在结尾段总结，点明拼布被子是“无价的”。