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en she plains, as she frequently does, that children nowadays aren’t as wellbehavioure d as they used to be. She recounts in detail how she used to be told to respect her elders and betters. She was taught to speak when she was spoken to and when she went out on her own, she was reminded to say please and thank you. Children in her days, she continues, were expected to be seen and not heard, but these days you are lucky if you ever hear parents telling their children to mind her manners. If you give her the chance she then takes out of her writing desk, the old photograph album which she keeps there, and which she never tires of displaying. Of course when you look at pictures of her parents you feel sure that, with a father as strict looking as that, you too would have been “ seen and not heard”. Beside him sits his wife, with their children around her。 Granny and her elder brothers. It always occurs to me that perhaps those long, stiff, black clothes were so burdensome (heavy) to a little girl that she hadn’t enough breath left to be talkative, let alone mischi evous (淘氣的 ). It must have been a dull and lonely life too, for she stayed mainly at home during her childhood, while her brothers were sent to school from an early age. However, my childhood was much freer than Granny’s. I went to school with my brother. I played football with him and his friends. We all spoke a mon language, and we got up to the same mischief. I would have died if I had had to stay indoors, wearing tight, stiff clothes. 9. The writer thinks that her grandmother _________. A. makes mistakes about the youth B. plains too much about her childhood C. received good education at school D. led an unhappy life when she was a child 10. When Granny was young, children were expected ________. A. to speak to the elders loudly B. to hear and not to see C. to be present quietly D. to stay still and study 11. This passage is mainly about ________. A. Granny’s life story in the past B. Granny39。s plaints about the children C. women’s life in different times D. children in the past and at present 高二英語作業(yè)( 9)答案 ACBD BDBD DCD