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.
What can be learned about the mother from Paragraph 1? ( )
A、
She was used to being a housewife.
B、
She was tired of doing routine chores.
C、
She was satisfied with her home and family.
D、
She was bothered by the neighborhood relationship.
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：
本题考查对第一段中关于母亲的事实信息的理解与推断。
定位到第一段，“那是十月中普通的一天，我疲惫地醒来，日常生活被琐事占据，身边的人都会让我感到烦恼。我对舒适的家和可爱的家庭没有一点感激之情。我把两个大一点的孩子送到学校，如释重负，然后不情愿地和我最小的孩子一起去超市买东西。”本段出现了一系列的表示“厌倦、疲惫”含义的形容词：weary“疲惫的”，irritant“令人烦恼的事物”，reluctantly“不情愿地”，可以推断，这位母亲对生活的日常琐事的心态是厌倦、疲惫的，B选项“她对日常琐事感到厌倦”符合题意。A选项“她习惯了当一个家庭主妇”在本段中并没有很明显的体现，A项错误；C选项“她对她的家和家庭感到满意”，她对舒适的家和可爱的家庭没有一点感激之情，因此不应是“感到满意”，C错误；D选项“她被邻里关系所烦扰”，本段未提及，故选B。