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  3. While mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. They

While mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. They

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问题      While mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. They were incredibly conscientious about me. They loved me very much; sadly, much better than they were able to love each other or, in my grandmother’s case, to love my mother. Of course, I was blissfully unaware of all this at the time. I just knew that I was loved. Later, when I became interested in children growing up in hard circumstances and learned something of child development from Hillary’s work at the Yale Child Study Center, I came to realize how fortunate I had been. For all their own demons, my grandparents and my mother always made me feel I was the most important person in the world to them. Most children will make it if they have just one person who makes them feel that way. I had three.
     My grandmother, Edith Grisham Cassidy, stood just over five feet tall and weighed about 180 pounds. Mammaw was bright, intense, and aggressive, and had obviously been pretty once. She had a great laugh, but she also was full of anger and disappointment and obsessions she only dimly understood. She took it all out in raging tirades against my grandfather and my mother, both before and after I was born, though I was shielded from most of them. She had been a good student and ambitious, so after high school she took a correspondence course in nursing from the Chicago School of Nursing. By the time I was a toddler she was ’a private-duty nurse for a man not far from our house on Hervey Street. I can still remember running down the sidewalk to meet her when she came home from work.
     Mammaw’s main goals for me were that I would eat a lot, learn a lot, and always be neat and clean. We ate in the kitchen at a table next to the window. My high chair faced the window, and Mammaw tacked playing cards up on the wooden window frame at meal times so that I could learn to count. She also staffed me at every meal, because conventional wisdom at the time was that a fat baby was a healthy one, as long as he bathed every day. At least once a day, she read to me from "Dick and Jane" books until I could read them myself, and from World Book Encyclopedia volumes, which in those days were sold door-to-door by salesmen and were often the only books besides the Bible in working people’s houses. These early instructions probably explain why I now read a lot, love card games, battle my weight, and never forget to wash my hands and brush my teeth.  [br] What books may be found in working people’s houses at that time?
选项 A、Dick and Jan.
B、World Book Encyclopedia.
C、Dick and Jan & World Book Encyclopedia.
D、Bible & World Book Encyclopedia.
答案 D
解析 推断题。第三段第五句说，每天她至少要给我念一次《迪克和简》里的故事，直到我自己能看懂为止。她还给我一卷卷地念《世界图书百科全书》。那时，这类书是推销员挨家挨户地上门销售的。在劳动阶层家庭，除了《圣经》之外，这往往是唯一的书。由此可以判断，当时劳动阶层家庭里都有《圣经》和《世界图书百科全书》。
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