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.

第=节书面表达(满分25分)(注意：在试题卷上作答无效)

    假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛(speech

contest)．希望附近某大学的外籍教师Smith女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写

一封信。

英语演讲比赛

主题；人与自然

时间：6月15好下午2:00-5:00

地点：501教室

参赛选手：10名学生

联系人：李华（电话：44876655）

欢迎大家光临

注意：词数100左右。

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Dear Ms. Smith,

With best wishes,

Li Hua

I'll spend half of my holiday practicing English and————————half learning drawing

  A another    B the other    C other’s     D other

Dina, __________for months to find a job as a waitress, finally took a position at a local advertising agency.

     A. struggling       B. struggled        C. having struggled  D. to struggle

一When shall we restart our business?

    一Not until we____________our plan．

   A．will finish       B．are finishing   C．are to finish      D．have finished

     Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws (爪) on its wings when young. They build their homes about 4.6m above the river, an important feature (特征) for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin.

      In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking feature, though, is only found in the young.

      Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip. Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly, they lose their claws.

      During the drier months between December and March hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.

1．What is the text mainly about?

    A．Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.

    B．The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.

    C．Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.

    D．The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.

2．Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that__________．

    A．they look like young cuckoos

    B．they have claws on the wings

    C．they eat a lot like a cow

    D．they live on river banks

3．What can we infer about primitive birds from the text?

    A．They had claws to help them climb.

    B．They could fly long distances.

    C．They had four wings like hoatzins.

    D．They had a head with long feathers on the top.

4．Why do hoatzins collect together in smaller groups when the rainy season comes?

    A．To find more food.

    B．To protect themselves better.

    C．To keep themselves warm.

    D．To produce their young.

第二节  读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

In junior high school, one of my classmates, Ethan, was addicted to TV. This boy simply knew everything about such pop shows as Who’s the Boss?

Then one day Ethan’s mother made him an offer in order to draw him back to his school subjects. She promised that she would give him $200 if he could go a full month without watching any TV. None of us thought Ethan could do it, but he did quit TV. His mom paid him $200. He went out and bought a TV, the biggest he could find.

       In recent years, hundreds of schools have carried out experiments with paying kids with cash for showing up or getting good grades. All school kids admire this trend. But it upsets adults. Teachers say that we are rewarding kids for doing what they should be doing of their own will.Psychologists warn that money can actually make kids perform worse by making the act of learning cheap. The debate has become a typical battle over why our kids are not learning at the rate they should be despite decades of reforms and budget increases.

       [写作内容]

       1.以约30词概括上文的主要内容。

       2.以约120词对用金钱鼓励孩子学习的现象进行议论，内容包括：

       (1)你对用金钱鼓励孩子学习的看法：

       (2)你的父母（或其他亲人）是如何鼓励你学习的；

       (3)你认为怎样才能更好地鼓励孩子学习

        [写作要求]

       1.作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

       2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

       [评分标准]

       概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。

—Can I help you? Are you looking for anything in particular today?

   ---_________We’re just looking.

A.Yes please    B.No, thank you    C.Yes ,you can    D.No, you needn’t

书面表达（满分25分）

    假设你是李华，于2010年6月3日搭乘国外某航空公司航班（flight number BA793）回国后，发现遗失了一个行李箱（suitcase）。现请用英文给该航空公司写一封信，请他们帮你寻找。

信件要点包括：

·陈述写信原因

·简要描述该行李

·说明其重要性

·期待回复并表示感谢

He had lost his temper and his healch in the war and mever found              of rhem ngnin .

A.neither                   B.eitner

C.each                     D.all