山西省太原外国语学校2016届高三上学期11月半月考 英语试题
第一部分 听力（ 共两节，满分30分）（略）
第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （共15小题; 每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和 D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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My mother was a therapist(治疗专家). Well, technically she was a hairdresser, but in reality she was a therapist. I grew up in the salon(美容店)，sitting on the chairs after school, listening to the ladies talk about their problems and watching my mother comb and listen. She gave every one of her customers her undivided attention. When they were in the chair, she was theirs. They told her stories of cancer, marriages and everything in between. As a child, I found it strange that these women would talk so openly to my mother about such deeply personal matters.
I remember once listening to one of my mother’s customers talking to her about some financial problems she and her husband were having . In the break room later that afternoon, I made some comments about it to my mother. I do not remember what I said but I clearly remember her response, “When people share their lives with you, it means they trust you. Trust is more important than money.” At the time, I had no idea what she meant.
My mother died on February 14th, 1999. It was a simple burial(葬礼). But there is one image that stands clear in my mind: the sea of faces at the service. There must have been over a hundred people that day. Among them was a man, whose wife used to be one of my mother’s customers. He came because of the special care my mother provided for his wife when she was dying of cancer. I did not find out until years later that my mother went to the hospital every morning for months to wash her, do her make-up and get her ready to face another day.
My mother was a hairdressers. She had a 4th grade education. In her lifetime, she didn’t earn millions of dollars and was not successful by today’s standards. But in my mind, she is one of the most successful women I know.
1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means that the authors mother__________.
A. was a very talented hairdresser B. had a lot of customers every day
C. sat together in the chair with her patients D. was a good listener of her customers
2. The customers of the author’s mother____________.
A. could save much money in the salon B. liked to share their life stories with her
C. enjoyed listening to her personal stories D. came to the salon because of her skill
