A
I have never taken cooking classes. I
learned cooking from my mother because she was really interested in teaching me
how to cook. The main reason for this was that when my mother got married, she
didn’t know how to cook anything, not even an egg. My grandmother never allowed
her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking.
My mother did not start to cook until she
was 25 years old. In the beginning, it was very hard for her. Therefore, she
had to take cooking classes to prepare our meals. After having that experience,
she dec
ided to teach me how to cook because she
didn’t want me to have the same experience.
I remember when I was seven years old, and my mother was cooking, I
was with her in the kitchen enjoying cooki
ng. I always helped her. Sometimes we
prepared meals that my mother already knew how to make, and sometimes we
prepared them from recipes. Nowadays, I am really thankful for that
experience of people, it doesn’t matter.
I will do the same with my children because
I don’t want them to have the same experience as my mother. If one day I am not
with them, I want to be sure that they can carry on their lives without me.
( ) 56. The
writer’s mother learned cooking .
A. from the writer’s
grandmother
B. all by herself
C. by taking cooking
classes
D. from cooking books
( ) 57. The
writer’s mother taught the writer how to cook because .
A. she wanted the writer
to be more independent (独立)
B. the writer was
interested in cooking
C. she thought it a must
for a woman to learn
D. she needed more help
when she was cooking
( ) 58. The
underlined word “recipes” in this passage most probably means .
A. instructions on how
to prepare food
B. experiences of
cooking food
C. some well-known
cooks
D. she needed more help
when she was cooking
( ) 59. We can learn from the passage that the writer’s
children will .
A. hate cooking B. learn cooking C. teach cooking D. forget cooking
( ) 60. The writer
must think cooking is to learn in life.
A. interesting B. difficult C. enjoyable D. important
Last August there was a fire
at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon．The next
day，this news was on page two of
the town's newspaper-THE BELDON POST： 