2013高考英语二轮阅读理解强化训练（01）及答案

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In our old neighborhood, neighbors chatted over fences. Newcomers were welcomed with chocolate and bread. It had been easy to find friends there. Our new community was difference. It seemed that family roots grew deep. Deep as the Mississippi River that flowed past the tiny river town.

We’d moved to decrease my husband’s commute to work. Only thirty miles.

After living there for six months, I was ready to move back home. I was lonely for a friend. My three boys were lonely. My husband, Lonny, fared okay, but he spent his days at work..

Lonny noticed my sinking disposition.

“Shawnelle, you look unapproachable,” he said. He and I were sitting in lawn chairs. Samuel, our three-year-old sat in his own little chair.

“What do you mean?” “Body language. You placed our chairs fifteen yards away from everyone else.”

“It doesn’t matter. I’m not going to have friends hers.” Just then Samuel looked up. “Mom’s right