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I remember the green coat in my fifth and sixth grades.
When I needed a new jacket, my mother asked what kind I wanted. I described something like bikers wear. She listened long. I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted.
The next day when I got home from school, I discovered, on m y bed, a jacket which was not what I had expected. I went close to the jacket slowly, as if it were a stranger.
From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet. I rushed and pulled at the clothes in the closet, hoping the jacket on the bed wasn’t for me but my brother. No luck, I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big. But I knew I’d have to wear it a long time before I’d have a new one. I looked at the jacket, like an enemy, thinking bad things before I took off my old and small jacket.
I put the big jacket on. I stood in front of the mirror（镜子）, turning right and left. I looked ugly.
I threw it on my brother’s bed and looked at it for a long time before I put it on and went out, smiling a “thank you” to my mom.
The next day I wore it to school. At the morning break, my best friend, Steve, looked at me for a long time. The girls turned away to whisper. The teachers looked my way and talked about how foolish I looked in my new jacket. When it was time for the whole school to get together on the playground,____Although they didn’t say out loud, “Man, that’s ugly!” I heard their talk and even laughter.
And so I went, in my jacket. So embarrassed, so hurt, I couldn’t even do my lessons the rest of the day. I received Cs on tests.
I wore that thing for three years. All in those years no love came to me.
I blamed（指责）that jacket for those bad years. I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways. It was a sad time for the heart. Anyway, I spent my sixth-grade year, looking forward to something good to happen to me.
And it was about that time I began to grow, still in that green ugly jacket, which had become my brother who went along wherever I went.
10．The writer went to school in the new jacket because _______.
A．his jacket was too old and small B．his brother asked him to do so
C．he wanted to show it to his friends D．he would act in school play
11．The sentence that shows the writer cared about his mother’s feelings is “________”.
A．I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted
B．I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways
C．I put it on and went out, smiling a “thank you” to my mom
D．From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet
12．Which of the following sentences can be put in the ?
A．it began to rain B．everyone saw me C．my mother came D．I got angry
13．The changes of the writer’s attitude（态度）to the jacket can be described as ________.
A．enemy→stranger→brother B．brother→stranger→enemy
C．stranger→brother→enemy D．stranger→enemy→brother
