brothers.

　　答案与解析：C　推理判断题。通读全文，根据对文章的整体理解可知，作者的妈妈对他们很严格，早上不准他们吃糖是因为她认为糖果对身体不好。选C项。

　　2．The author's mother made her children work because ________.

　　A．she had trouble falling into sleep

　　B．she had no time to do the housework

　　C．she was teaching her children to live by themselves

　　D．she couldn't keep such a big family without her children's help

　　答案与解析：C　推理判断题。通读全文，根据对文章的整体理解可知，作者的妈妈让他们做家务是想让他们学会自理。选C项。

　　3．What can we infer from the text?

　　A．The author is strict with her children.

　　B．The author is not happy to have such a mean mother.

　　C．The author's mother broke the Child Labour Laws to make money.

　　D．The author's mother failed to educate her children to be honest.

　　答案与解析：A　推理判断题。根据文中"I am now trying to raise my three children this way."可知，作者也是用妈妈教育他们的方法教育自己的孩子，所以她对自己的孩子很严格。选A项。

　　4．From the text we learn that the author ________.

　　A．dislikes her mother

　　B．is very grateful to her mother

　　C．is polite to her mother

　　D．is tired of her mother

　　答案与解析：B　推理判断题。根据文中最后部分"I am filled with pride when my children call me 'mean'. Why? Because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world."可知，作者很感激她的妈妈。选B项。

　　B

I had a lot of teachers that I loved. However，the teacher that I remember most was Mrs Green from Marianna，Florida. She was my 5th grade teacher. Since I was a new student，not only in her class，but