题目内容
5.In the kitchen of my mother's houses there has always been a wooden stand (木架) with a small notepad (记事本) and a hole for a pencil.I'm looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am introducing to my mother.Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil,five houses later,the present 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 (原始的)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 those 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,as 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 (看不到的) exhibits at every meal.
56.What is the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 5?D
A.Simple but surprising
B.Easy but valuable
C.Funny and interesting
D.Clever and great.
57.What does the author think first about the wooden stand?B
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.
58.The author feels ashamed forC.
A.blaming her mother so much 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
59.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A
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.
分析 文章大意:本文从母亲一直在厨房使用的木头笔架说起,反映了母亲在繁重的家务工作中能抓住片刻的灵感做数学方面的记录,成为一个成功的数学家.
解答 56-59 DBCA
56题答案:D.词汇题.从One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline,and I had a brilliant thought,but the stand was empty.有一天,我正在做饭,看波琳宝贝,我有一个绝妙的想法,正确答案时D.
57题答案:答案:B.推理判断题.根据第三段中I"mjust amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil afterall these year.可推断,作者认为thewooden stand该换成更好的了.
58题答案:答案:C.细节理解题.最后一段中有I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time towork.可知我感到尴尬,我抱怨没有足够的孩子的自由时间工作,答案C.
59题答案:答案:A.推理判断题.根据最后一段的第一句This story-which happened before I was born-reminds me how extraordinary my mother was,and is also a gifted mathematician.我出生前发生的这个故事让我想起我母亲是多么的与众不同,也是一位天才的数学家.推断母亲在事业上很成功.
点评 针对生活感悟类文章的特点,做这类文章的阅读理解时,要特别注意以下几点:
1、重点理解全文的首句.如果是记叙文,找出when,where,who,what等基本要素.如果是散文随笔,充分理解文章的中心句-全文的主题.
2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句,有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等.
3、调动自己的背景知识和情感.
And some earthquakes even cause tsunamis (海啸).It was said that 300thousand people died in Indonesian tsunami as a result of the earthquake in 2004.
How awful it is when we talk about them!As natural phenomena (自然现象),earthquake happens just like it would rain and thunder.People can't avoid earthquakes but can try our best to predict and evacuate (疏散) before it happens.Building stronger houses and teaching people how to protect themselves when there is an earthquake are also good ways to reduce damage.
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| The date of earthquake in Japan in 2011 | (81)On March 11th. |
| What's the more serious danger in Japan after the extreme earthquake? | (82)Nuclear power station explosion. |
| The disaster which usually comes with earthquakes | (83)Tsunamis. |
| The number of the people who died in Indonesian tsunami | (84)300 thousand. |
| How to reduce damage? | (85)Building stronger housesand teaching people how to protect themselves in an earthquake |