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 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 year.” I say to her, walking bank 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, 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.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. In the 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.

短文改错（10%）。

I often quarrel about my mother over whether I can watch TV after school. She hold the view that Senior

Three students have to make fully use of every minute to work hard at their lessons. It seems to me that

once I am allowed to do that, I’ll unable to control myself and forget all about my study. She also thinks

it is bad for my eye. But I really can’t accept her ideas. In my opinion, watch TV can set my mind at rest

after a day’s hard works. Besides, it is important for us to know what had happened at home and at

abroad. Thus, we shouldn’t be forbidden to watch TV.t—

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   此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

    此行错一词：在错词的下面划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：请在答题卡上作答。

I often quarrel about my mother over whether I can watch          ________

TV after school. She holds the view senior three students           ________

have to make fully use of every minute to work hard at           ________

their lessons. It seems to me that once I am allowed to                   ________

do that, I’ll unable to control myself and forget all                      _______

about my study. She also thinks it is bad for my eye.              ________

And I really can’t accept her ideas. In my opinion,                _______

watch TV can refresh my mind after a day’s hard work.            _______

Besides, it is important for our students to know what has happened _______

at home and at abroad. Thus, we shouldn’t be forbidden to watch TV. ________

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（）,并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I often quarrel about my mother over whether I can watch TV after school. She holds the view what Senior Three students have to make fully use of every minute to work hard at their lessons. It seems to her that once I am allowed to do that, I’ll be unable to control myself and forget all about my study. She also thinks it was bad for my eyes. But I really can’t accept his ideas. In my opinion, watch TV can set my mind at rest after a day’s hard works. Beside, it is important for us to know what has happened at home and at abroad. Thus, we shouldn’t forbidden to watch TV.

以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正：

   此行多一词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉, 在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

   此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

    此行错一词：在错词的下面划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：请在答题卡上作答。

I often quarrel about my mother over whether I can watch          1.________

TV after school. She holds the view senior three students           2.________

have to make fully use of every minute to work hard at           3.________

their lessons. It seems to me that once I am allowed to                   4.________

do that, I’ll unable to control myself and forget all                      5._______

about my study. She also thinks it is bad for my eye.              6.________

And I really can’t accept her ideas. In my opinion,                7._______

watch TV can refresh my mind after a day’s hard work.            8._______

Besides, it is important for our students to know what has happened 9._______

at home and at abroad. Thus, we shouldn’t be forbidden to watch TV. 10.________