四、任务型阅读(每小题3分,共15分)
「2026 吉林长春力旺实验中学月考」
阅读下面短文,根据短文内容,完成下列各题。
It was my summer holiday. We just moved into a new apartment. Our old house was beautiful and big. How about now? Half the size and crowded (拥挤的). There were still boxes everywhere.
The day after the move, Mum and Dad went to work, so I opened some boxes and hung up the family photos on the wall. But it just didn’t feel like home. Then I came up with an idea. Perhaps I could make some chocolate biscuits, just like what my grandma used to do whenever I felt sad.
However, when I added eggs to the mixer (搅拌器) it suddenly stopped working. “How could it be?” I felt like crying. “What would Grandma do when facing this?” I thought. During those hard times, she did everything she could to support (支持) the family. I didn’t think Grandma would give up easily. Instead, she would find another way. So I ran to the boxes to hunt for Grandma’s old, white mixer. Finally, I found it and turned it on, but nothing happened. The old mixer was broken too and seemed hard to get repaired (维修), just like my life these days.
“Come on. Try again,” a small voice inside my heart said. I turned the switch back on. To my surprise, the mixer started to work slowly.
Two hours later, Mum opened the door. “Wow, biscuits! Thank you, George,” she said with tears in her eyes. For the first time, our new home felt like a real one. It even smelled like home, just like Grandma’s house always did.
This house probably wasn’t like our old one. But then again, maybe home wasn’t where we lived. It was where we shared the sweet moments and the small magic every day, like a broken mixer that worked again when I needed comfort most.
31. How was the writer’s new home at first?

32. What did the writer’s mum and dad do the day after the move?

33. Why did the writer feel like crying when he made some chocolate biscuits?

34. What did Grandma do during those hard times?

35. What did home mean to the writer?