题目内容
The only thing that troubled me more than the pain in my back that morning was my worries about money. I’d been excited to visit my sister--Therese, but all I could think about was how I’d hurt my back and had to down my hours at work. Even with my savings, I wasn’t sure I’d have enough to cover the bills.
“Are you OK?” Therese asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “Just wish I could stop worrying about .”
“Why don’t we make Mom’s cake?” she said. “Mom to make this kind of cake for all of us. It will you up.”
It wasn’t easy being a single mom, raising eight of us kids with money, but that couldn’t bring Mom down. She got that spirit from our grandmother, who was never about the hardships(艰难，困苦). Also, Mom was good at use of food. She always found a way to include a special(特别的) treat on birthday or Christmas--a tasty cake with 43 eggs, milk or butter.
“ how we’d all run around the living room singing,‘eggless, milkless, butterless cake’?” Therese asked, laughing.
“Those were good times,” I said. We didn’t have money, we knew how to have together.
Thinking about the eight of us gathered around the kitchen table waiting for Mom to cut the cake my worries. Mom would make the cake extra for Christmas--a coin was put into the cake. “Whoever finds the in their cake can keep it and they won’t have to do housework for a week.”she would say.
My siblings﹙兄弟姐妹﹚and I are now separated from each other, but the cake still us.
“Cake’s done,” Therese said. I pulled it out of the oven(烤箱), then called everyone in. We gathered around the kitchen table, like old times.
“Feeling any ?” Therese asked.
“Yeah,” I said. I looked at the around the table, reminded once again that whatever hardships come my way I can do more than just get through them.
I can find in my life, even in a simple cake, and share it the ones I love.
1.A.breakB. passC. putD. cut
2.A.moneyB. businessC. timeD. health
3.A. usedB. hadC. gotD. enjoyed
4.A. wakeB. cheerC. bringD. pick
5.A. littleB. extraC. goodD. easy
6.A. facedB. upsetC. surprisedD. caught
7.A. gettingB. havingC. makingD. finding
8.A. manyB. someC. fewD. no
9.A. WonderB. ExplainC. RememberD. Understand
10.A. andB. butC. ifD. as
11.A. freedomB. performanceC. funD. dream
12.A. endedB. hidC. deepenedD. kept
13.A. specialB. roundC. heavyD. large
14.A. candleB. prizeC. butterD. secret
15.A. connectsB. challengesC .treatsD. interests
16.A. alsoB. somehowC. soD. just
17.A. fasterB. closerC. youngerD. better
18.A. platesB. guestsC. facesD. chairs
19.A. limitB. joyC. respectD. luck
20.A. forB. atC. withD. to
1.D
2.A
3.A
4.B
5.A
6.B
7.C
8.D
9.C
10.B
11.C
12.A
13.A
14.B
15.A
16.D
17.D
18.C
19.B
20.C
【解析】
试题分析：文章讲了一个关于亲情的感人故事。相比于背部的疼痛，作者担心的是钱的问题，作者的姐姐Therese带作者回忆儿时的情景，那时家里不富裕，但她们坚强的妈妈仍然把他们八个孩子都养大了。文章重点讲述了他们儿时吃蛋糕的事情，最后，作者重新振作了起来。
1.I’d hurt my back and had to down my hours at work作者背痛，这不得不让她减少工作时间，cut down减少，砍倒，故选D。
2.The only thing that troubled me ...was my worries about money”可知，作者担心的是钱的问题，故选A。
3.Mom to make this kind of cake for all of us妈妈过去常常为我们做这种蛋糕，used to do sth过去常常做某事，enjoy后跟动名词，排除D，故选A。
4.It will you up.一起做蛋糕会让你开心点，cheer sb up使某人振作起来，故选B。
5.It wasn’t easy being a single mom...”可知，作者的妈妈育他们七个孩子并非易事，作者姐姐提起母亲是为了安慰作者，可推测作者母亲当时没有太多的钱，故选A。
6.who was never about the hardships作者的母亲从祖母那里继承了吃苦的精神，没有什么艰难能打败祖母，be upset about sth对某事心烦意乱，故选B。
7.Mom was good at use of food妈妈善于利用食物，make use of sth使用某事，故选C。
8.a tasty cake with eggs, milk or butter一个没有用鸡蛋、牛奶和黄油做的蛋糕，根据or可知，句子是一个发否定句，排除A、B，milk和butter不可数，排除C。根据下一行“eggless, milkless, butterless cake”可知答案，故选D。
9.“ how we’d all run around the living room singing,‘eggless, milkless, butterless cake’?姐姐笑着问作者“还记得我们当时围着起居室跑着唱着‘没有鸡蛋、没有牛奶、没有黄油的蛋糕吗’？”，故选C。
10.We didn’t have money, we knew how to have我们当时没有钱，但是我们知道怎样玩的开心，故选B。
11.have together一起开心地玩，have fun玩得开心，故选C。
12.Thinking about the eight of us gathered around the kitchen table waiting for Mom to cut the cake my worries.回忆着小时候围在厨房等待妈妈切蛋糕的情形，作者的担心消失了，故选A。
13.a coin was put into the cake”可知，妈妈会在蛋糕里放一枚钱币，以使圣诞节时的蛋糕显得格外特别，故选A。
14.can keep it and they won’t have to do housework for a week无论是谁吃到那枚钱币，都可以据为己有且一周不用做家务，由此可见，这枚钱币是一个奖品，故选B。
15.My siblings﹙兄弟姐妹﹚and I are now separated from each other, but the cake still us.作者和兄弟姐妹现在各自分开了，但是吃蛋糕的记忆始终联系着彼此，故选A。
16.the eight of us gathered around the kitchen table”可知，作者他们围在餐桌周围，就像小时候一样，故选D。
17. “Feeling any ?” Therese asked.Therese问作者“感觉好点了吗？”，根据前文可知，作者的担心减少了很多，故选D。
18.I looked at the around the table作者看着围在桌子周围的兄弟姐妹的脸庞，根据上面两行“then called everyone in”可知，围在桌子周围的是人而非仅仅是椅子，故选C。
19.I can find in my life, even in a simple cake,作者重拾儿时的记忆，坚定了不畏惧困难的信心，她认为自己能从生活中找到欢乐，就像儿时一块简单的蛋糕一样，故选B。
20.and share it the ones I love和爱的人分享欢乐，share sth with sb和某人分享某物，故选C。
考点：亲情类短文阅读
任务型阅读（每空一词）(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious(恶性的) circle of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female 1. in developing countries
Viewpoint | Educating girls is more 2. and worthy of being invested. | |
Families | From low-income families | From educated mothers’ families |
Attitudes | Girls are of 3. importance than boys. | Development should be for all the 4. . |
Practices | There is little 5. in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home, 6. housework. | It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be 7. equally. |
Consequences | A vicious circle | A virtuous circle |
Significance | Educating women contributes to social 8. , has economic advantages and 9. health practices significantly, including family planning. | |
10. | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. | |
A recent study shows that nearly 50 percent of the school kids in Beijing do not have breakfast. They tend to feel sleepy all day and have bad memories, so it is hard for them to get high marks in all kinds of tests.
Some students who study deep into the night choose to miss breakfast so that they can have a few extra minutes in bed. Others are given money to buy their breakfast on the way to school because their parents are too busy to prepare it for them. In addition, a few school girls want to stay slim and often go to school without breakfast.
In fact the morning meal plays an important part. It can provide 30 percent of the whole day’s energy. For a creative mind and better judgment, school kids should start their days with a regular breakfast.
Having no breakfast
Reasons | Results | Suggestions |
They 1. up late at night studying and want to sleep 【小题2 for a while. | They tend to feel 2. all day. | The morning meal is important, which provides 30% of the day’s 3. . |
The parents give them money to buy 4. . | They usually have bad 5. . | It is useful for6. thinking and better judgment. |
Some girls want to keep 7. and go to school without breakfast. | It’s hard for them to get 8. marks in all kinds of exams. | School kids should have breakfast 9. . |