黄石市高考英语 阅读理解训练题（5）.doc

湖北省黄石市 2014 高考英语阅读理解训练题( 5 )及答案 When I learned that my 71-year-old mother was playing Scrabble –a word game – against herself, I knew I had to do something. My husband suggested we give her puter to play against. I wasn ’t sure my mother was ready for it. After all, it had taken 10 years to persuade her to buy an electric cooker. Even so, we packed up our puter and delivered it to my parents ’ home. And so began my mother ’s adventure in the world puters. It also marked the beginning of an unusual teaching task for me. I’ ve taught people of all ages, but I never thought I would be teaching my mother how to do anything. She has been the one teaching me all my life: to cool and sew; to enjoy the good times and put up with the bad. Now it was my turn to give something back. It wasn ’t easy at the beginning. There was so much to explain and to introduce. Slowly but surely, my mother caught on, making notes ina little notebook. After a few months of Scrabble and other games, I decided it was time to introduce her to word processing( 文字处理). This proved to bea bigger challenge( 挑战) to her, soI gave her some homework I asked her to write mea letter, using different letter types, colors and spaces. “ Are you this demanding with your kindergarten pupils? ” she asked. “ No, of course not, ”I said. “ They already know how to use puter. ” My mother isn ’t the only one experiencing a fast p