Once a week my aunt would announce, "I am going to have my bath today."Now

Once a week my aunt would announce, "I am going to have my bath today."

Now most people find it fairly simple to have a bath.You probably remember how it goes.You enter the bathroom, you put the plug in, turn on the hot water, get into the bath, wash, sing, get out, dry yourself and exit.My aunt's approach was more epic(宏大的), like one of those long Eisenstein films where people seem to be climbing up the same flight of stairs forever.

My aunt would first slowly collect her clean linen(亚麻布衬衫), so as to have it all ready for changing into after her bath.This involved sorting out her linen, which took up most of the morning.Sometimes she would find an old letter buried among her linen, become interested in the memories it aroused and have to postpone the bath until the next day.But if all went well, she would have a bite of lunch and start Phase Two around two o'clock.

Phase Two was washing out the bath.She would wash the bath very thoroughly, rinse(冲洗) it with running cold water, rewash it and then carefully feel the whole surface with her fingers.If there was the slightest blemish, she would clean the whole bath out again.This took about an hour.Then she would fill the bath.

By this time she was feeling a bit hungry and exhausted.So she would put on the kettle for a cup of tea.Several cups of tea and several cream crackers (her favourite food) later, she would go back to the bathroom.And find the water stone cold.

1.According to the writer, most people().

A.read magazines in the bath

B.make bath time a special occasion

C.sing when they are in the bath

D.have a bath once every other week

2.The writer's aunt().

A.never got used to taking a bath regularly

B.always treated bathtime as an event

C.hated climbing the stairs to the bathroom

D.would collect her new linen quickly

3.How did she use to spend most of the morning？()

A.Reading old letters.

B.Preparing lunch.

C.Getting the bath water hot.

D.Sorting out her linen.

4.Why might the writer's aunt put off bathing until the next day？()

A.She might get fascinated by an old letter.

B.She would sometimes get too tired.

C.She would sometimes have lunch instead.

D.She might start ironing the linen.

5.She would never fill the bath until she().

A.had cleaned it at least three times

B.had had several cups of tea

C.had polished it inside and outside

D.had made sure it was perfectly clean