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(1)细节理解题。根据第一段中"After waiting at school for an hour,I walked the three miles home,and when I got to my house,I shut our front door with anger,stormed into the kitchen and screamed in my mom's face that she'd forgotten me. "(在学校等了一个小时后,我走了三英里回家。到家后,我生气地关上前门,冲进厨房,冲着妈妈喊叫,说她把我给忘了)可知,作者那天生气的原因之一是她不得不自己走回家。故选D。
(2)词句猜测题。根据第二段中"But she just held her ground,and that day,I walked to school.And I missed my tests. (但她坚持住了,那天,我步行去了学校。我错过了考试),可知,作者的妈妈坚持没有送作者去学校的立场,因此猜测划线短语held her ground意为"坚持她自己的看法"。故选A。
(3)推理判断题。根据第三段中"My mom didn't save me from failure.She let me suffer from it.She let me figure it out.She let me learn.Now,as a mom myself,I've realized that I want my kids to experience failure because failure is how we grow,learn and think outside of ourselves. "(我妈妈没有把我从失败中拯救出来。她让我受苦。她让我自己想办法。她让我学习。现在,作为一个母亲,我意识到我想让我的孩子经历失败,因为失败是我们成长、学习和思考的方式)可知,作者认为她童年的经历是有意义的。故选A。
(4)主旨大意题。根据第一段中"If the kids don't fall,they don't learn to get up. "(如果孩子没有摔倒,他们就无法学会爬起来)和第三段中"Now,as a mom myself,I've realized that I want my kids to experience failure because failure is how we grow,learn and think outside of ourselves.It's how we self﹣educate to learn what's right and respectable,and what's not.It's how we become responsible and enthusiastic.Falling down makes us better because we learn how to get up. "(现在,作为一个母亲,我意识到我想让我的孩子经历失败,因为失败是我们成长、学习和思考的方式。这是我们自学的方式,让我们知道什么是正确的,什么是值得尊敬的,什么是不值得的。这是我们变得负责任和充满热情的方式。跌倒使我们变得更好,因为我们学会了如何爬起来)可知,作者通过自己童年的亲身经历讲述了让孩子经历失败具有重大的价值,故选C。