When I was a little kid, a father was like the light in the fridge. Every house had one, but no one really knew what either of them did when the door was shut.
My dad left the house every morning and always seemed glad to see every one again at night. He opened the jar of pickles when no one else at home could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself.
Whenever it rained, he got into the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription(处方) filled. He set mousetraps. He cut back the roses so the thorns(刺) wouldn’t hurt you when you came to the front door. He oiled my roller skates, and they went faster. When I got my bike, he ran alongside me for at least a thousand miles until I got the hang of it. He signed all my report and cards. He took a lot of pictures, but was never in them. He tightened up Mother’s sagging(松垂的) clothesline every week or so.
I was afraid of everyone else’s father, but not my own.
Whenever I played house(玩过家家), the mother doll had a lot to do. I never knew what to do with the daddy doll, so I had him say, “I’m going off to work now,” and threw him under the bed.
When I was nine years old, my father didn’t get up one morning and go to work, he went to the hospital and died the next day.
There were a lot of people in the house who brought all kinds of good food and cakes. We had never had so much company before.
He never did anything; I didn’t know his leaving would hurt so much.
Father did a lot of things at home including______.

A．making roller skates

B．helping mom wash clothes

C．watering the flowers in the garden

D．taking photos for the family

The underlined phrase “got the hang of it” means______.

A．could hold the bike

B．could repair the bike

C．could ride the bike well

D．could run as fast as a bike

We can infer(推理；暗示) from the passage that______.

A．the writer thought her father was cool

B．the writer missed her father very much after his death

C．there were always a lot of people in the writer’s house

D．the writer was afraid of her father

The first paragraph tells us that______.

A．the writer loved her father because he often put delicious food in the fridge

B．the fridge in her house was very big and her father was a big man too

C．the writer didn’t know much about her father when she was young

D．the writer’s father loved to eat food from the fridge

From the passage, we can see that the writer’s father______.

A．loved his family very much

B．loved only about his work

C．was very careless

D．always acted strangely