1涿州市涿州市 20142014 高考英语阅读理解、短文改错系列训练（高考英语阅读理解、短文改错系列训练（9 9）及答案）及答案( (第第 篇篇) )I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language the way it can evoke (唤起)an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.Language_is_the_tool_of_my_trade. And I use them all all the Englishes I grew up with.Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken” , as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. Ive heard other terms used, “limited English” , for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people s perceptions (认识) of the limited English speaker.I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up，my mother s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I wont get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”； and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal (内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence，but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show: her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.语篇解读 本文主要记叙了作者在不同时期对母亲所使用的语言的不同看法。1By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”， the author means 2that_.A. she uses English in foreign tradeB. she is fascinated by languagesC. she works as a translatorD. she is a writer by profession解析 推理判断题。此句中 the tool of my trade 中的 trade 指的是职业。由本文第一句可知“我”是一名作家；此句又说语言是“我”的职业工具，故此句指的自然是“我”的职业为作家。答案 D2The author used to think of her mother s English as _.A. impolite B. amusingC. imperfect D. practical解析 推理判断题。由文中倒数第二段中“.because she expressed them imperfectly，her thoughts were imperfect”一句可知选 C，作者一度以为自己妈妈所说的英语是不完美的。答案 C3Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?A. Americans do not understand broken English.B. The author s mother was not respected sometimes.C. The author s mother had positive influence on her.D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.解析 细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段最后一句话可知选 B。此题易误选 D。其实，此句只是“我”小时候对妈妈的一种误解，由最后一段可知这种误解已经消除了，因此 D项的说法是不对的。答案 B4The author gradually realizes her mothers English is_.A. well structured B. in the old styleC. easy to translate D. rich in meaning解析 推理判断题。由最后一段可知，我写小说时开始运用她与我说话时所用的英语。我尽力地保留她语言的精髓，但未运用她所使用的英语或汉语的结构。我想领悟语言能力测试中所不能反映但我妈妈语言中所包含的意思。故选 D。答案 D5What is the passage mainly about?A. The change of the author s attitude to her mother s English.3B. The limitation of the author s perception of her mother.C. The authors misunderstanding of “limited” English.D. The author s experiences of using broken English.解析 主旨大意题。本文以时间为线索，讲述了作者对妈妈所使用的语言的不同态度，故选 A。答案 A*结束Parents, our first teachers, play a highly significant role in our livesHowever, doesnt it seem that many of us come to have conflicts with them when we start high school? Were less likely to listen to them and take their suggestions-we even rebel against them.Why? It may be the so-called “generation gap”. A generation gap appears when we begin to feel our parents are ignoring us, dont understand us, and we feel we can no longer share our feelings with them.The key reason is our desire for independence. In senior high school, we start to want to take responsibility for our own lives and make our own decisions. But parents resist this. They still want to control us and try to force us to do things they think we should do. Debate and discussion often come to nothing. Gradually, we talk with them less, and keep our feelings locked up inside.Zhang Xiaoyun, 16, of Ningbo, Zhejiang, has talked less and less with her mother since she started senior high school. “She believes studies should be my priority, not my inner world,” Zhang said. “Each day, she asks me the same old questions like, How was your last exam? or Have you made any progress in physics?” To Zhang, these questions are annoying and so she always tries to ignore them and answers perfunctorilyperfunctorily. “Sometimes, when I get upset, I quarrel with her. After, she com