Question

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 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 maths problems.

D．To write down a flash of inspiration（灵感）.

【小题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.

【小题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

【小题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.

【小题5】In the author's mind, her mother is ______.

A．strange in behavior

B．enthusiastic about her research

C．fond of collecting old things

D．careless about her appearance

Answer 1

【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】A
【小题5】B

解析试题分析：妈妈的厨房里总是放着一个记事本架子和一支铅笔。我很不解为什么她到现在还保持这用铅笔的习惯。母亲向我讲述了这件事请的起因……
【小题1】细节理解题。由“It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”可知这是母亲用来记录下自己突然的灵感的工具。故选D。
【小题2】细节理解题。由“I'm just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.”及下文可知我对母亲一直用很早以前的工具不解，认为她早就应该换新的了。故选B。
【小题3】细节理解题。由“ I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. ”可知我后悔没能像母亲那样珍惜自己的时间和精力。故选C。
【小题4】推理判断题。文中讲述了母亲大多数时间是在厨房干活，因此利用这小小的工具使得她能做得很好。故选A
【小题5】推理判断题。由“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.”可知我脑海中构建了母亲在轻松悠闲的状态下劳作的情景，因此母亲是很热情的对待她的“研究”。故选B。
考点：故事类阅读。