阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能回答所提问题或能完成所给句子的最佳选项。

①	Mrs. Li is over 70 years old. She has lived in Beijing all her life. A reporter interviewed her yesterday. The following are their questions and answers.
②	Reporter: What was your life like in the past?
③	Mrs. Li: My family lived in a tiny house. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl before she met my father. She was a kind and loving mother. She didn’t go out to work. There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
④	The food we ate was simple. We could only eat meat once or twice a year. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it.
⑤	Reporter: How has life changed?
⑥	Mrs. Li: Families have got smaller than they were in the past. The role of women has changed too. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education. I’m happy that she can go to work even after getting married, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often.
⑦	Transport and travel are easier today. When I was young, I went everywhere on foot or sometimes by bike. Now you can take the bus, the underground or a plane to travel. What I don’t like is that there’s so much more traffic. It’s so difficult to cross the road. And, of course, we have television today and I really enjoy watching TV. But I hate some of the shows because they are too noisy for me.
⑧	Generally speaking, I think life is better today. We eat better and we live longer.

（1）Who does Paragraph 3 (第3段) mainly talk about?

A．	Mrs. Li’s father and mother.	B．	Mrs. Li’s mother and Mrs. Li.
C．	Mrs. Li’s brothers and sisters.	D．	Mrs. Li’s father and the children.

（2）Mrs. Li’s mother ________.

A．	worked very hard at home	B．	was very strict with her children
C．	often gave her children meat to eat	D．	worked on a farm after getting married

（3）The passage tells us that Mrs. Li ________.

A．	can often see her daughter
B．	has lived in Beijing for 50 years
C．	usually went out by bike when she was young
D．	couldn’t go to school because her family was poor

（4）Mrs. Li thinks ________.

A．	her daughter is not lucky	B．	it’s easy to cross the road
C．	the food she eats is simple	D．	some TV shows are too noisy

（5）The passage above can probably be found in the part of _________ in a newspaper.

A．

Business

B．

Nature

C．

Life

D．

Travel

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