2019中考英语阅读理解：家庭作业带来的尴尬

People often say, “Children can’t do math problem, it’s because parents can’t do their children’s hoork.” Here’s an example to sho hat I an.

The other day my daughter brought ho her math hoork. “I have to subtract (减) 179 from 202,” she said.

“It’s quite easy,” I said. “You put the 202 over the 179.”

“But e need a 10 here. Where is the 10?”

“I don’t kno here the 10 is. Let’s just subtract 179 from 202. Nine from to is three. You carry one and add it to seven. Eight from zero is to. The anser is 23.”

“We can’t do it that ay. We have to use the 10.”

“Well, I’m going to call your teacher to see ho she subtracts 179 from 202.”

Over the telephone, I said that I as having a bit of trouble ith the hoork she had given to my daughter. The teacher said, “In the right-hand lumn (栏) e have units of one. The to in that lumn unts for to ones. The zero in the center unts for zero tens. The to in the left-hand lumn unts for hundreds. Are you clear?” But I didn’t think I as clear.

I hung up and found my ay to the dicine box. My head as no hurting. I started putting pills of dicine into my mouth. “Ho many did you take?” my ife asked. “I took one and then I took another…I kno one and one as to, but don’t ask hat it is no.”

11. The daughter anted ______ the other day.

A. to give her father a lesson

B. to sho ho difficult math as

C. her father to phone her teacher

D. her father to help her ith her hoork

12. Which of the folloing sentences is not true?

A. The father had a different ay to do the math problem.

B. The father uldn’t do his daughter’s hoork.

C. The daughter uldn’t understand her father’s ay.

D. The daughter had so trouble doing the math problem.

13. From hat the teacher said, e kno that the ord “units” ans ______ here.

A. hole numbers less than 10 B. hole things

C. groups of lessons D. the smallest numbers

14. What the teacher said made the father _________.

A. angry B. orried C. sad D. tired

15. Can you guess hat ould happen next in the story?

A. The father ould go to school and begin to learn math.

B. The father ould bee very ill and have to take more dicine.

C. The father ould never do his daughter’s math problems again.

D. The father ould go to the school and fight ith the teacher.

答案

(C) 作者向我们讲述了很多人都可能遇到的一个问题父母往往回答不上来小孩子问的一些非常简单的数学问题。文中作者的女儿向他询问怎样计算202减去179这道题。结果，他的女儿不但弄不懂他的解释，而且他还无法解释清楚女儿提出的问题。他只好向女儿的老师求助，而自己被老师的解释搞得天昏脑胀……