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I' m a seven year old girl but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that mak

英语试题 08-21
I' m a seven year old girl but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: We don't go to school.
Dad worries that the government will force us to go but it can't because it doesn't know about us. Four of my parents' seven children don't have birth certificates. We have no medical records because we were born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse. We have no school records because we've never set foot in a classroom. When I'm 9, I will be issued a Delayed Certificate of Birth, but at this moment, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I do not exist.
Of course, I did exist. I had grown up watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. I spent my summers bottling peaches and my winters rotating supplies.
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Our lives were a cycle—the cycle of the day, the cycle of the seasons—circles of lasting change that, when complete, meant nothing had changed at all. I believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, and that we were, in some sense, eternal(永恒的). But eternity belonged only to the mountain.
All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley. He never told me what to do if I left the mountain, if I crossed oceans and continents and found myself in a strange land. He never told me how I'd know when it was time to come home.
4. Why don't the kids in the writer's family go to school?
A. There are no schools nearby. B. They have delayed birth certificates.
C. The government doesn't know their existence. D. Their father doesn't want them to go to school.
5. What does the underlined word “cyclical” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Normal. B. Irregular.
C. Circular. D. Traditional
6. What does the writer try to express mainly in the last paragraph?
A. She wasn't prepared for her future life. B. Her father loved the mountain and valley.
C. She enjoyed listening to her father’s stories. D. Her father didn't want her to leave the family.
7. Where is this text most probably taken from?
A. An interview. B. An autobiography.
C. A play script. D. A news report.
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