Read the following passage and choose the most likely answer to each of the following questions.
It was one of those days, an ordinary October day. I woke up weary and all of the routines of life were chores, the people in it irritants. I wasn't feeling any sense of gratitude for comfortable home or lovely family. I dropped my two older children at school with a sense of relief and reluctantly headed to the supermarket to buy groceries with my youngest.
I was feeling resentful at having to go in the first place (why do they have to eat?) and my son, just four years old at the time and responding to my mood, was being difficult. I raced around with the trolley, thoughtlessly tossing items in with no regard to cost, while trying to control my naughty child whose behavior had now become completely unacceptable. Yet, I was that mother, shouting, threatening, and despairing at a small child. The kind of behavior you see in others before you have children and think, I will never be one of those people.
We eventually made it to the checkout, and stood in the queue waiting our turn. After a short time, I noticed that someone had joined the line behind us. I turned around and saw an old man. He was stooped (驼背) over and wore a dirty overcoat, tied around the middle with rope. His shoes were split and his trousers flapped around sockless ankles on this cold, wet day. In his hands he carried a small carton of long-life milk.
As I had trolley full of groceries, I asked him if he'd like to go ahead of me. It wasn't an act of kindness on my part, rather an automatic reaction, deeply rooted in me since childhood from the times I went shopping with my mother. Perhaps I just did it out of a sense of obligation or guilt. Perhaps I just wanted him gone. After all, his presence made me uncomfortable, in the same way I feel uncomfortable and turn away my eyes when passing a homeless person.
He looked shocked and uncertain. "No, I couldn't possibly, are you sure? How kind of you,"he stuttered. Reluctantly he went ahead, paid for his milk, and took his change.
Then, to my amazement, he turned to my little boy and gently pressed the change into his hand. I protested that it wasn't necessary but he was insistent. And my son, who had up to this minute been a thorn in my side, smiled his most beautiful smile, looked at this stranger frankly, and without judgment or hesitation, bear-hugged him around his dirty legs. The man gave a sheepish, gummy smile, then walked off, turning again to say thank you and wave.
I wondered at his life and at his reaction. Was he so rarely shown any humanity? Did he feel he needed to pay for being acknowledged?
I felt shame at my earlier self-pity. This humble, kind stranger had made me resolve to be more thankful—and made my little angel skip out of the supermarket with joy.
I never saw the man again but I think about him often.
Which of the following is true about the writer as a mother? ( )
A、
She was impatient and even bad-tempered with her children.
B、
She became the kind of mother she had wished to be.
C、
She sacrificed all her happiness for her children.
D、
She was indulgent and spoiled her children.
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：
本题考查对这位母亲的事实判断。
A选项“她对她的孩子很不耐烦并且爱发脾气”，定位到第二段，“Yet, I was that mother, shouting, threatening, and despairing at a small child.然而，我就是那个母亲，对小孩子大喊大叫、吓唬他、对他感到绝望。”，因此这位母亲对孩子很不耐烦，还爱发脾气，A项符合题意；B选项“她成为了她原先希望成为的那种母亲”，“The kind of behavior you see in others before you have children and think, I will never be one of those people.你在生孩子之前就看到的那种别人的行为(指对孩子大喊大叫等一系列行为)，然后想，我永远也不会成为那种人。”因此这位母亲在生孩子之前并非是想成为这种母亲，B项错误；C选项“她为孩子们牺牲了所有的幸福。”，文中未提及，C项错误，D选项“她很宽容，对孩子很宠溺”，事实上这位母亲对孩子是很不耐烦的，D项错误。故选A。