and I rode it all the way to Brooklyn...just for the hell of

I moved from Chicago to Brooklyn in July of 2010，just in time to watch my mother die. Our parents were both gone now； I took with me as many things they had left behind as I could.
I was out walking one Saturday later that summer when something caught my eye - a pale green dress. Laid out on the pavement was stuff like earrings, glass candle-holders, books. Hanging on the fence behind were a few pairs of jeans and a green cotton dress.
The woman, the host o£ the stoop (门廊）sale, looked like she was getting rid of a past she didn’t need or want. A dress that was too big for her. A chest of drawers that took up too much space, space she needed, maybe, to heal ，recover, or grow.
I wasn’t planning on buying anything really, but now I needed to show her that I appreciated her things and I would give them a safe home. Then I had my first stoop sale —I paid her 20 dollars for her green cotton dress and her blue candle-holder,
From that day on, I became interested in stoop sales. Some of my favorite things are from someone else’s life. I find no joy in shopping at regular stores any more. I love trying to sniff out a memory from a bud vase or a drawer. It is comforting to know that someone has breathed and laughed inside a sweater before me.
A few weeks ago, I carried my mother’s dresses to a friend’s stoop. These were her best items ，which were once worn by the most important person in my life. For many hours, I watched from across the path people advancing the stoop, some leaving with Mom1S dress. I used to think that her stuff was as forever sacred (神圣的）as my memory of her, I know now that once I love a scarf or shirt too dearly，it needs to find a new home. Even that green dress is long gone by now.
小题1:The author took her mother*s dresses after her death because ______

A．she valued the things used by her mom

B．she didn’t want to throw them, away

C． she could sell them later

D． they were her mom’s best items

小题2:From the passage, we know that ______.

A． the things the author bought from the woman are too big

B． the author is fond of imagining others’ life experiences

C． the author will never shop at regular stores any more

D． the author still keeps most of her mom’s things

小题3:In the last paragraph ，the author tries to tell us that ______.
A her mom is the number one person in her life
B. she didn’t really want to sell her mom’s dresses
C. she still thinks of her mother quite often
D. love doesn’t mean holding on to something tightly
小题4:It can be inferred that the author will ______.

A． not sell her own things at stoop sales

B．keep her mom in her mind in another way

C． be sad about all the memory of her mom

D． move to another city for a new life

New York City consists of five parts: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The population is about 7.5 million and there are 1.5 million in Manhattan alone.
Manhattan, the center of the city, is on the island between the Hudson River and the East River. Most of the famous buildings such as the Empire State and the United Nations and other skyscrapers are in Manhattan. Some of its districts are: Broadway, which has many theatres and cinemas, Fifth Avenue, with stores and apartments, Greenwich Village, where many artists and writers have lived, and Central Park, with a skating rink (溜冰场). From Manhattan you have to cross to the other parts of New York City through a tunnel or over a bridge. The bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island is the longest in the world.
New York is the second biggest port in the world and it has two airports. The people who live there come from all over the world and speak many different languages. There are 324,000 Germans and 390,000 Poles as well as people from Greece, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and Romania. People call one district "Little Italy" and another "China town".
小题1:The most important part of New York is _______.

A．Hudson River	B．East River
C．Bronx and Staten Island	D．Manhattan

小题2:The Empire State is ______.
A. a state of the U.S.A. B. a country
C. a skyscraper D. a district in New York
小题3:If you are going to do some shopping in Manhattan, you will go to _______.

A．Broadway	B．Fifth Avenue
C．Greenwich Village	D．Central Park

小题4:From the article we understand ________.

A．Staten Island and Brooklyn are separated by the sea

B．Staten Island and Brooklyn are one landmass

C．Manhattan and Queens are one landmass

D．Brooklyn and Queens are separated by the sea

小题5:Many ________ live in the New York.

A．people from Poland and China

B．children from Brooklyn and Staten Island

C．people from Germany and Italy do not

D．children from Greece and Romania do not