My Grandmother was from a town in Michigan. She was always using her hands for something exciting ... she would make little sandwiches and we'd have tea parties, she'd plant flowers and carefully tend them. She'd knit toy sweaters for her grandchildren as well as making beautiful quilts for each one. I remember the small thimble (頂針)she would use while doing her needle work. Placing her thimble on her finger she'd remark,“ I wouldn't want to sew without one. ”

A few years ago when Grandma left this earth, I bid farewell to a loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change. We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much,but I noticed it mostly on a birthday, as there was no card from Grandma. She'd never forgotten my birthday !

On one particular birthday, when I was feeling a little low and a lot older, something happened to make me feel like she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow, it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (接縫)that I carefully opened, and to my delight out came a tiny silver thim­ble!

How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her. Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing it in that little pillow that I just “happened,,to place on my bed­spread that day, I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others I've collected over the years, where I could continue to see the gift.

What a precious memory of a very special lady who somehow,I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble inside my pillow. I heated the tea kettle and made some tea,using my best china,as Grandma always did,and enjoyed my tea and Grandma's thimble. What a wonderful birth­day that was!

39.The underlined word “one” refers to _____.

A. a sweater B. a quilt                           C. a finger               D. a thimble

40.      How did the writer feel when she found the thimble?

A. Lucky.            B. Cheerful.                 C. Sad.                   D. Puzzled.

41.The writer wrote the passage to  . _____

A. celebrate the writer's birthday         B. remind the writer of her sweet childhood

C. show her love for Grandmother      D. call on people to care for the old

42.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Grandma's Thimble                        B. Colorful Pillows

C. My Childhood                                D. Grandma's 91st Birthday

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