题目内容

  In the kitchen of my mother's houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.

  I'm looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later,the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can't be the same pencil The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.

  "I'm just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years." I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. "You still use a pencil. Can't you afford a pen?"

  My mother replies a little sharply. "It works perfectly well, I've always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days.,

  Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, "One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back, It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I Was working on."

  This story, which happened before I was born, reminds me how extraordinary my mother was,and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a

cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.

41. Why has the author's mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?

  A. To leave messages.         B. To list her everyday tasks.

  C. To note down maths problems.     D. To write down a flash of inspiration.

42. What is the author's original opinion about the wooden stand?

  A. It has great value for the family.

  B. It needs to be replaced by a better one.

  C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood.

  D. It should be passed on to the next generation.

43. The author feels embarrassed for____________

  A. blaming her mother wrongly

  B. giving her mother a lot of trouble

  C. not making good use of time as her mother did

  D. not making any breakthrough in her field

44. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

  A. The mother is successful in her career.

  B. The family members like traveling.

C. The author had little time to play when young.

  D. The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.

45. In author's mind, her mother is__________

  A. strange in behavior           B. keen on her research

  C. fond of collecting old things       D. careless about her appearance

练习册系列答案
相关题目
Italy Finally Defeats UKin Football

 TURIN, June 14 (AP).— Italy defeated England tonight for the first time in 40 years scoring(得分)a 2-0 victory in an exhibition game which meant a lot to the pride of Italian football

 Asellout(客满的)crowd of 70,000, filling the Turin Municipal Stadium, saw Italy's first victory over England in nine gamesThe eight previous(先前的)games ended in four victories for England and four ties.(平局)

 Center-forward Pietro Anastasi put Italy ahead at the 38th minuteInside-right Fabio Capello scored Italy's second goal(进球)at the 52nd minuteBoth Capello and Anastasi play for Italian champions Juventus of Turin

 The game celebrated the 75th birthday of the Italian Football Federation in this north Italian industrial cityIt was also the world record 107th game with the English national team for its captain Bobby Moore

 In the closing minutes, the English missed two good chances to scoreEven Moore tried to shoot at the Italian goal form far outThe play became a bit rough and the referee(裁判)booked Englishman Mcfarland

(1) Where was the game played?

[  ]

AIn England.

BIn an Italian city in the west.

CIn china.   

DIn an Italian city in the north.

(2) How many people watched the game?

[  ]

ASeventeen thousand.

BSeven million.

CSeventy thousand.

DSeventy hundred.

(3) How many times has Bobby Moore played for England?   

[  ]

A107   B108   C109   D106

(4) How many victories did Italy win in the eight previous games?   

[  ]

AEight.   BZero.   CSeven.   DFour.

(5) Which two of the following are Italian players?   

[  ]

ATurin, McFarland   BAnastasi, Moore

CAnastasi, Capello   DCapello, Juventus

阅读理解

  When people don’t know the language, the most common way to communicate is through gestures.However, many gestures have different meanings, or no meaning at all, in different part of the world.

  In the United States, for example, nodding your head up and down means “yes”.In some parts of Greece and Turkey, however, this motion can mean “no”.In Southeast Asia, nodding your head is a polite way of saying “I heard you”.

  In ancient Rome, when the emperor wanted to spare someone’s life, he would put his thumb up.Today in the United States, when someone puts his/her thumb up, it means “Everything is all right”.However, in Sardinia and Greece, the gesture is insulting and should not be used there.

  In the United States, raising your clasped hands above your head means “I’m the champion.” or “I’m the winner”.It is the sign fighters make when they win a fight.When a leading Russian Statesman made this gesture after a White House meeting, Americans misunderstood and thought he meant he was a winner.In Russia, however, it is a sign of friendship.

  In the United States, holding your hand up with the thumb and index finger in a circle and the other three fingers spread out means “Everything is O.K.” and is frequently used by astronauts and politicians.In France and Belgium, it can mean “You’re worth nothing.”

(1)

Which statement is NOT right?

[  ]

A.

People have been using gestures for a long time.

B.

People never use gestures after they knew gestures.

C.

Gestures have different meaning in the different part of the world.

D.

Gestures sometimes play an important role in communication.

(2)

Nodding your head means _________.

[  ]

A.

“Yes” in America

B.

“No” in America

C.

“I heard you.” in Asia

D.

“I heard you.” in Southeast Asia

(3)

The gesture “put one’s thumb up” can not be used to mean _________.

[  ]

A.

sparing one’s life

B.

“everything is all right”

C.

insulting somebody

D.

“I am the winner”

(4)

Holding your hand up with the thumb and index finger in a circle and the other three fingers spreading out, putting up your thumb, raising your clasped hands above head are _________.

[  ]

A.

good expressions

B.

bad manners

C.

body language to tell something instead of speaking

D.

useful gestures to show you are important

(5)

The passage doesn’t say but we can infer that _________.

[  ]

A.

we should use body language in a proper way

B.

you may be misunderstood if you use body language

C.

we should not use body language if we can speak

D.

it is difficult to use body language properly

阅读理解

  When people don’t know the language, the most common way to communicate is through gestures.However, many gestures have different meanings, or no meaning at all, in different part of the world.

  In the United States, for example, nodding your head up and down means “yes”.In some parts of Greece and Turkey, however, this motion can mean “no”.In Southeast Asia, nodding your head is a polite way of saying “I heard you”.

  In ancient Rome, when the emperor wanted to spare someone’s life, he would put his thumb up.Today in the United States, when someone puts his/her thumb up, it means “Everything is all right”.However, in Sardinia and Greece, the gesture is insulting and should not be used there.

  In the United States, raising your clasped hands above your head means “I’m the champion.” or “I’m the winner”.It is the sign fighters make when they win a fight.When a leading Russian Statesman made this gesture after a White House meeting, Americans misunderstood and thought he meant he was a winner.In Russia, however, it is a sign of friendship.

  In the United States, holding your hand up with the thumb and index finger in a circle and the other three fingers spread out means “Everything is O.K.” and is frequently used by astronauts and politicians.In France and Belgium, it can mean “You’re worth nothing.”

(1)

Which statement is NOT right?

[  ]

A.

People have been using gestures for a long time.

B.

People never use gestures after they knew gestures.

C.

Gestures have different meaning in the different part of the world.

D.

Gestures sometimes play an important role in communication.

(2)

Nodding your head means ________.

[  ]

A.

“Yes” in America

B.

“No” in America

C.

“I heard you.” in Asia

D.

“I heard you.” in Southeast Asia

(3)

The gesture “put one’s thumb up” can not be used to mean ________.

[  ]

A.

sparing one’s life

B.

“everything is all right”

C.

insulting somebody

D.

“I am the winner”

(4)

Holding your hand up with the thumb and index finger in a circle and the other three fingers spreading out, putting up your thumb, raising your clasped hands above head are ________.

[  ]

A.

good expressions

B.

bad manners

C.

body language to tell something instead of speaking

D.

useful gestures to show you are important

(5)

The passage doesn’t say but we can infer that ________.

[  ]

A.

we should use body language in a proper way

B.

you may be misunderstood if you use body language

C.

we should not use body language if we can speak

D.

it is difficult to use body language properly

阅读短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  Harry Porter has turned a whole new generation of children on to reading but editors at the Frankfurt Book Fair said the boy Wizard was proving a hard act to follow for authors.According to a poll(问卷)among children between the ages of 9 and 15.68 percent said that Harry Potter had made them feel like reading.

  It is a happy event, it has developed the children's book market and not only helped books of that particular kind, but other genres(体裁)too.A competitor in the French market, Actes Sud Junior, said it had also felt the effect of the J.K.Rowling phenomenon among French children, though its current success was a German series translated as“Les Enquetes dea Main Noire”that gave junior readers mind riddles not magic.

  In the United States, the same thing happened.If you go into a bookshop, you are told“read this while you wait for the next Harry Potter”or“if you have liked the last Harry Potter, you will like this too”.It has changed the market and become a way of selling books.And of course everybody is waiting to see what the next big thing will be.

  “But Harry Potter has helped all of us.In England it is exactly the boys in the age group that were reading less that are now reading him.”Said Victoria Wilkins from Robert Frederick publishers.

  And Gallimard's Pasquet says people are wrong to confine(把……限制在)the Potter books to the magic genre.“This is not the main thing in the books, they are first and foremost about relations between people.That is what makes them universal”

  Other editors admit Harry Potter is still by far the biggest thing on the market and if they cannot match its great success-more than 300 million copies were sold even before the sixth book hit the shelves in July-they cannot complain either.

(1)

According to the Poll, Harry Potter is very popular with________.

[  ]

A.

the girl students

B.

the adult people

C.

the young people

D.

the old people

(2)

The second paragraph mainly tells readers that________.

[  ]

A.

Harry Potter helps widen children's book market

B.

Actes Sud Junior is another great story author

C.

Les Enquetes de la Main Noire is popular in Germany

D.

in Germany Harry Potter is popular as well

(3)

The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means that in the United States________.

[  ]

A.

young people like every book about Harry Potter

B.

people are eager to get the last Harry Potter

C.

children's book market is greater than Germany's

D.

Harry Potter becomes a way of selling books

(4)

The followings are about the effect of Harry Potter on children EXCEPT________.

[  ]

A.

some students show great interest in writing novels

B.

children learn to keep proper relations with other people

C.

students become interested in reading

D.

children get a certain magic from the book

阅读理解,阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项ABCD中选出最佳选项。

  A recent Living Social survey showed that Americans may live up to their poor reputation while travelling abroad.But what's more surprising is that many of those surveyed self-identified themselves as ‘ugly’ Americans and the world's worst travelers.

  Those in the U.S.ranked themselves as the worst travellers by a shocking 20 per cent, followed by 15 per cent saying the Chinese were the most substandard tourists.

  Americans topped the list as being the worst-behaved travelers in a survey of 5, 600 respondents, 4, 000 of whom were Americans.Other respondents were in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom.But even American respondents considered their compatriots(同胞)as the worst travelers from a list of 16 nationalities.

  Canadians and Australians also put Americans in the No.1 spot.Irish respondents pointed to U.K.residents and U.K.respondents gave Germans the nod.On the other hand, 37% of Americans opted for "none of the above" in answer to the worst-tourists question, displaying more tolerance and open-mindedness than the other nationalities.

  Other survey questions had respondents admitting pilfering from hotels.Four in ten U.S.survey-takers said they'd stolen something-mostly towels(28%)and bathrobes(8%).Other popular pinched items included pillows, remote controls, Bibles and sheets.

  Not surprising is that Americans have less time off from work than other nationalities.Americans reported getting 16 days off, compared with 28 days for the Irish, 27 days for Australians, 23 days for U.K.workers; and 21 days for Canadians.

  In the travel mishaps department, the most common travel disaster reported by Americans was lost luggage on an airline(21%); bad weather(21%); and getting very lost(16%).

  As for places Americans most want to see, Disney World and Las Vegas made the top 10, but they weren't at the top of the heap.And New York didn't make the cut.

(1)

What percentage of American respondents is in the survey?

[  ]

A.

20%

B.

15%

C.

71%

D.

37%

(2)

The underlined word “pilfering” in Para.5 most probably means ________.

[  ]

A.

taking

B.

bringing

C.

stealing

D.

borrowing.

(3)

According to the survey, what kind of things are most taken away by Americans?

[  ]

A.

towels and pillows

B.

bathrobes and remote controls.

C.

towels and Bibles

D.

bathrobes and towels.

(4)

What can we infer from the passage?

[  ]

A.

New York is not one of the top 10 destinations Americans most want to see.

B.

U.K.has the most time off work than other nationalities.

C.

Most Americans think it is not a big deal for them to steal from the hotels.

D.

Germans think the British are the world's worst travellers.

(5)

What's the best title of this passage?

[  ]

A.

Chinese were announced as the world's worst travellers.

B.

The global worst travellers were announced.

C.

Disney World is the best destination to Americans.

D.

European travellers were the best in the world

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网