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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.
小题1: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 math problems. |
| D．To write down a flash of inspiration. |
| A．It has great value for the family. |
| B．It needs to be replaced. |
| C．It brings her back to her lonely childhood. |
| D．It should be passed on to the next generation. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
小题1:细节理解题。从I never knew when I might want to note down an idea到下一段的and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. 可知正确答案时D.
小题2:根据第三段中I"m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these year. 可推断，作者认为the wooden stand该换成更好的了。
小题3:细节理解题。最后一段中有I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. 可知答案。
小题4: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. 推断。
核心考点
试题【In the kitchen of my mother"s houses there has always been a wooden stand with a】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Yunte Huang, an English professor at the University of California, says that’s not the case. He has been exploring the character and real-life policeman who inspired him.
Charlie Chan has been a familiar character to readers and film-goers, beginning in the 1920s. The detective solved crimes around the world in more than 40 films through the 1940s, and with the invention of television, found a new audience in the 1950s and 1960s.
Huang discovered Charlie Chan through books by American author Earl Derr Biggers, who created the character.
“One day, I happened to find two Charlie Chan novels. At that point I thought I knew that he was a negative character against Asians, but when I read the book,” he says, “I was immediately attracted. Ever since then, I’ve been a fan of Charlie Chan.”
As a fan of the books and films, Huang was surprised to learn that Charlie Chan was based on a real detective named Chang Apana, who was born to Chinese parents in Hawaii around 1871. Apana worked as a cowboy, and joined the Honolulu police force in 1898.
“He almost immediately became a local legend because as a former cowboy,” says Huang, “he would walk the most dangerous areas in Chinatown carrying a bullwhip（皮鞭）instead of a gun. He didn’t need that.”
Although some say the image of Charlie Chan, with his broken English, is embarrassing for Asian-Americans, Huang believes Chan’s broken English and unusual ancient sayings were part of his charm（魅力）.
“Let me just quote（引用）a few – ‘Actions speak louder than French,’ or ‘Mind like parachute (降落伞). Only function when open.’ Charlie Chan always owes these instructive sayings to Confucius’ eastern wisdom.
For Huang, the fictional Charlie Chan is highly entertaining, while the real-life policeman, Chang Apana, is a Chinese-American success, whose story is worth telling.
小题1:The passage mainly talks about ______________.
| A．how Yunte Huang discovered Charlie Chan |
| B．how Charlie Chan became famous in the US |
| C．what Yunte Huang thought of Charlie Chan |
| D．how a cowboy became a famous detective |
| A．was a character in books and movies based on a real detective |
| B．was a famous actor starring in movies beginning from the 1920s |
| C．was a famous detective solving crimes all over the world |
| D．was a Chinese immigrant who became a local legend |
| A．he had his personal charm |
| B．he liked being a cowboy |
| C．he was not a true policeman |
| D．a bullwhip was more useful |
| A．American author Earl Derr Biggers gave an ill picture of Asian-Americans |
| B．Yunte Huang believes Charlie Chan represents Asian wisdom in some way |
| C．Chan’s story was more popular with TV audience than readers and film-goers |
| D．Charlie Chan became an ill image of Asian-Americans when it first appeared. |
When arriving in Canada in 2008, she had one 42 : to have what she had back home in Colombia. “I didn’t want to 43 what I do, like so many who come to a new country.” she said. “I 44 to open a store here in Canada but knew I had to 45 myself properly.”
Diana quickly realize that making her dream of shop ownership in Canada a 46 meant going to school to get the 47 education and certification. “My experience of owning a shop and working as a designer in Colombia gave me 48 in my abilities. But I couldn’t speak the language and I had to 49 how to do things in Canada. It was like having to 50 all over again,” said Diana.
51 , she found just the help she needed for relaunch（重新开张） 52 continuing education at George Brown College. She began taking 53 for both the Essential Skills in Fashion Certificate and the image Consulting Certificate in May 2009. 54 Diana met with the language barrier, she was always going 55 while at college.
By the end of October 2009, she had completed all certificate requirements. Within two years after her 56 in Canada, Diana at last achieved her 57 goal when her new store opened its doors in Toronto’s Sheppard Center．She was on the fast-track to 58 .
Looking back, Diana, a fashion designer, 59 her achievements to the goal she set, the education she received from the college, and 60 the efforts she made. Now Diana is very happy doing what she is doing.
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Once, while riding a street car in Berlin, he told the conductor that he had been given too much change. The conductor counted the change again and found it to be correct, so he handed it back to Einstein, saying “The trouble with you is you don’t know your figures.”
He had nothing and thought little of the things most people set their hearts on— fame and money. He didn’t want money or praise. He made his own happiness out of such simple things as his work and playing the violin and sailing his boat. Einstein’s violin brought him more joy than anything else in life.
He led a very simple sort of life, went around in old clothes that needed pressing, seldom wore a hat, He shaved （刮胡子）with the same soap that he used for his bath. The man who was trying to solve the most difficult problems of the universe said that using two kinds of soap made his life completely too complicated（复杂的）.
小题1:From the second paragraph we know Einstein _____.
| A．wasn’t good at maths |
| B．enjoyed playing jokes |
| C．had some trouble with figures |
| D．didn’t care about money at all |
| A．sailing his boat | B．fame and money |
| C．playing the violin | D．work |
| A．preferred to live a simple life |
| B．was a man of humor |
| C．was too poor to buy more soaps |
| D．liked to do something different |
I spotted two birds under a bush with red flowers. The roadrunners rushed out from under it. The birds moved rapidly on long skinny legs. Their feathers were brown and black. Their tails were seven inches long. Roadrunners use the tail for balance when running.
That day, the roadrunners performed a courtship（求婚）dance. They ran in wild circles. Suddenly, one stopped and stood still, its round eyes full of light. The second bird took hold of a small stick off the ground and presented it to the first, a gift serving as a symbol of their partnership.
I returned to the spot each day, leaving bits of boiled chicken hoping they would return. Roadrunners eat snakes, lizards, mice, beetles, and spiders. Food is in short supply in the desert, so my offerings were welcome. The pair grew used to me.
Soon after the pair finished building their nest six white eggs appeared in the nest bowl. In about three weeks, six roadrunner chicks, skin as black as coal, cried for food. Their parents brought food such as fence lizards and stink bugs. They fed their young until they were a month and a half old.
Early one morning, a coyote（丛林狼）came around, nose to the ground, for fresh bird meat. The roadrunners fearlessly drove the coyote away, but it was soon back. After three attacks the coyote went away for good, tail between its legs.
I stopped watching the nest when the little roadrunners, at two months of age, were ready to live on their own. It was hard to break away from “my roadrunner family.” Whenever I see a roadrunner now, rushing over the ground, I say hello to it as an old friend.
小题1:The author went to the Sonoran Desert to .
| A．go on a tour of the desert |
| B．carry out research into some animals in the desert |
| C．make an observation about a kind of bird |
| D．enjoy an adventure in southern Arizona |
| A．They have short tails and legs. |
| B．They move at a fast pace. |
| C．Their feathers are red and brown. |
| D．They don’t like boiled chicken. |
| A．brave | B．clever | C．easily-frightened | D．lazy |
| A．How do roadrunners seek a partner? |
| B．My close friendship with roadrunners. |
| C．Roadrunner family in the Sonoran Desert. |
| D．How did I find roadrunners in Arizona? |
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschweiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous（匿名）envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of €500 inside, with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
“I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told Der Spiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.”
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.
“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing,” Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know.” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.
小题1:The Braunschweiger Zeitung is name of _____.
| A．a church | B．a bank | C．a magazine | D．a newspaper |
| A．The donation amounted to €190,000. |
| B．The donation was sent directly to his house. |
| C．His mother felt greatly surprised at the donation. |
| D．All the money will be used for his treatment. |
| A．the donation will continue to come |
| B．the donator is a rich old man |
| C．the donation comes from the newspaper |
| D．the donator will soon be found out |
| A．Money Is Raised by the Newspaper. |
| B．Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes. |
| C．Newspaper Distributes Money to the Needy. |
| D．Robin Hood Returns to the city. |
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