I have been trying to give up smoking（ ）.
A:give off B:put up C:quit D:accept
I have been trying to give up smoking.
A:give off B:put up C:quit D:accept
I have been trying to give up smoking.
A:give off B:put up C:quit D:accept
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? ?My mother knew how to knit(编织), but she never
taught me. She assumed, as did many women of her generation, that knitting was
no longer a skill worth passing down from mother to daughter. A combination of
feminism (女权主义), consumerism (消费主义) and household gadgetry made many women feel
that such homely accomplishments were now obsolete. My grandmother still
knitted, though, and every Christmas she made a pair of socks for my mother and
me, of red wool. They were the ones we wore under our ice skates (冰鞋) , when it
was really important to have warm feet.
? ?Knitting is a nervous
habit that happens to be productive. It helped me quit smoking by giving my
hands something else to do. It is wonderful for depression because no matter
what else happens, you are creating something beautiful. Time spent in front of
the television or just sitting is no longer time wasted.
? ?I love
breathing life into the patterns. It’s true magic, finding a neglected,
dog-eared old book with the perfect snowflake design, buying the same Germantown
knitting worsted my grandmother used, in the exact blue to match my daughter’s
eyes, taking it on the brain with me every day for two months, working
feverishly to get it done by Christmas, staying up late after the stockings are
filled to sew in the sleeves and weave in the ends.
? ?Knitting has
taught me patience. I know that if I just keep going, even if it takes months,
there will be a reward. When I make a mistake, I know that anger will not fix
it, that I just have to go back and take out the stitches (针脚) ?between and
start over again.
? ?People often ask if I would do it for money,
and the answer is always a definite no. In the first place, you could not pay me
enough for the hours I put into a sweater. But more important this is an
activity I keep separate from such considerations. I knit to cover my children
and other people I live in warmth and color. I knit to give them something
earthly that money could never buy.
? ?Knitting gives my life an
alternative rhythm to the daily deadline. By day I can write about Northern
Ireland or the New York City Police Department and get paid for it, but on the
time train home, surrounded by people with laptops, I stage my little rebellion.
I take out my old knitting bag and join the centuries of women who have knitted
for love. |
The word "quit" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to______.
A:"speed up" B:"give up" C:"slow down" D:"build up"
I have been trying to give up smoking.
A:give off B:put up C:quit D:accept
I have been trying to give up smoking.
A:give off B:put up C:quit D:accept
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