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The only thing that troubled me more than the pain in my back that morning was my worries about money. I’d been excited to visit my sister--Therese, but all I could think about was how I’d hurt my back and had to down my hours at work. Even with my savings, I wasn’t sure I’d have enough to cover the bills.

“Are you OK?” Therese asked.

“Yeah,” I said. “Just wish I could stop worrying about .”

“Why don’t we make Mom’s cake?” she said. “Mom to make this kind of cake for all of us. It will you up.”

It wasn’t easy being a single mom, raising eight of us kids with money, but that couldn’t bring Mom down. She got that spirit from our grandmother, who was never about the hardships(艱難，困苦). Also, Mom was good at use of food. She always found a way to include a special(特別的) treat on birthday or Christmas--a tasty cake with 43 eggs, milk or butter.

“ how we’d all run around the living room singing,‘eggless, milkless, butterless cake’?” Therese asked, laughing.

“Those were good times,” I said. We didn’t have money, we knew how to have together.

Thinking about the eight of us gathered around the kitchen table waiting for Mom to cut the cake my worries. Mom would make the cake extra for Christmas--a coin was put into the cake. “Whoever finds the in their cake can keep it and they won’t have to do housework for a week.”she would say.

My siblings﹙兄弟姐妹﹚and I are now separated from each other, but the cake still us.

“Cake’s done,” Therese said. I pulled it out of the oven(烤箱), then called everyone in. We gathered around the kitchen table, like old times.

“Feeling any ?” Therese asked.

“Yeah,” I said. I looked at the around the table, reminded once again that whatever hardships come my way I can do more than just get through them.

I can find in my life, even in a simple cake, and share it the ones I love.

1.A.breakB. passC. putD. cut

2.A.moneyB. businessC. timeD. health

3.A. usedB. hadC. gotD. enjoyed

4.A. wakeB. cheerC. bringD. pick

5.A. littleB. extraC. goodD. easy

6.A. facedB. upsetC. surprisedD. caught

7.A. gettingB. havingC. makingD. finding

8.A. manyB. someC. fewD. no

9.A. WonderB. ExplainC. RememberD. Understand

10.A. andB. butC. ifD. as

11.A. freedomB. performanceC. funD. dream

12.A. endedB. hidC. deepenedD. kept

13.A. specialB. roundC. heavyD. large

14.A. candleB. prizeC. butterD. secret

15.A. connectsB. challengesC .treatsD. interests

16.A. alsoB. somehowC. soD. just

17.A. fasterB. closerC. youngerD. better

18.A. platesB. guestsC. facesD. chairs

19.A. limitB. joyC. respectD. luck

20.A. forB. atC. withD. to

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.A

4.B

5.A

6.B

7.C

8.D

9.C

10.B

11.C

12.A

13.A

14.B

15.A

16.D

17.D

18.C

19.B

20.C

【解析】

試題分析：文章講了一個關(guān)于親情的感人故事。相比于背部的疼痛，作者擔(dān)心的是錢的問題，作者的姐姐Therese帶作者回憶兒時的情景，那時家里不富裕，但她們堅強的媽媽仍然把他們八個孩子都養(yǎng)大了。文章重點講述了他們兒時吃蛋糕的事情，最后，作者重新振作了起來。

1.I’d hurt my back and had to down my hours at work作者背痛，這不得不讓她減少工作時間，cut down減少，砍倒，故選D。

2.The only thing that troubled me ...was my worries about money”可知，作者擔(dān)心的是錢的問題，故選A。

3.Mom to make this kind of cake for all of us媽媽過去常常為我們做這種蛋糕，used to do sth過去常常做某事，enjoy后跟動名詞，排除D，故選A。

4.It will you up.一起做蛋糕會讓你開心點，cheer sb up使某人振作起來，故選B。

5.It wasn’t easy being a single mom...”可知，作者的媽媽育他們七個孩子并非易事，作者姐姐提起母親是為了安慰作者，可推測作者母親當(dāng)時沒有太多的錢，故選A。

6.who was never about the hardships作者的母親從祖母那里繼承了吃苦的精神，沒有什么艱難能打敗祖母，be upset about sth對某事心煩意亂，故選B。

7.Mom was good at use of food媽媽善于利用食物，make use of sth使用某事，故選C。

8.a tasty cake with eggs, milk or butter一個沒有用雞蛋、牛奶和黃油做的蛋糕，根據(jù)or可知，句子是一個發(fā)否定句，排除A、B，milk和butter不可數(shù)，排除C。根據(jù)下一行“eggless, milkless, butterless cake”可知答案，故選D。

9.“ how we’d all run around the living room singing,‘eggless, milkless, butterless cake’?姐姐笑著問作者“還記得我們當(dāng)時圍著起居室跑著唱著‘沒有雞蛋、沒有牛奶、沒有黃油的蛋糕嗎’？”，故選C。

10.We didn’t have money, we knew how to have我們當(dāng)時沒有錢，但是我們知道怎樣玩的開心，故選B。

11.have together一起開心地玩，have fun玩得開心，故選C。

12.Thinking about the eight of us gathered around the kitchen table waiting for Mom to cut the cake my worries.回憶著小時候圍在廚房等待媽媽切蛋糕的情形，作者的擔(dān)心消失了，故選A。

13.a coin was put into the cake”可知，媽媽會在蛋糕里放一枚錢幣，以使圣誕節(jié)時的蛋糕顯得格外特別，故選A。

14.can keep it and they won’t have to do housework for a week無論是誰吃到那枚錢幣，都可以據(jù)為己有且一周不用做家務(wù)，由此可見，這枚錢幣是一個獎品，故選B。

15.My siblings﹙兄弟姐妹﹚and I are now separated from each other, but the cake still us.作者和兄弟姐妹現(xiàn)在各自分開了，但是吃蛋糕的記憶始終聯(lián)系著彼此，故選A。

16.the eight of us gathered around the kitchen table”可知，作者他們圍在餐桌周圍，就像小時候一樣，故選D。

17. “Feeling any ?” Therese asked.Therese問作者“感覺好點了嗎？”，根據(jù)前文可知，作者的擔(dān)心減少了很多，故選D。

18.I looked at the around the table作者看著圍在桌子周圍的兄弟姐妹的臉龐，根據(jù)上面兩行“then called everyone in”可知，圍在桌子周圍的是人而非僅僅是椅子，故選C。

19.I can find in my life, even in a simple cake,作者重拾兒時的記憶，堅定了不畏懼困難的信心，她認(rèn)為自己能從生活中找到歡樂，就像兒時一塊簡單的蛋糕一樣，故選B。

20.and share it the ones I love和愛的人分享歡樂，share sth with sb和某人分享某物，故選C。

考點：親情類短文閱讀