2013年下半年教师资格证考试《初中英语》考试真题答案解析

请阅读Passage 1，完成第21—25小题。

Passage 1

        Every year on my birthday，from the time I turned 12，a white gardenia(栀子花)was delivered to my house in Bethesda，MD. No card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical，perfect white flower in soft pink tissue paper.

       But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.

        My mother contributed to these imaginings. She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I’d helped when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved during the winter so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy steps. As a teenager，though. I had more fun speculating that it might be a boy I had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though I didn’t know him.

       When I was 17，a boy broke my heart. The night he called for the last time，I cried myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning，there was a message scribbled on my mirror in red lipstick: “Heartily know，when half-gods 90，the gods arrive.” I thought about that quotation from Emerson for a long time，and until my heart healed。I left it where my mother had written it. When I finally went to get the glass cleaner，my mother knew everything was all right again.

        I don’t remember ever slamming my door in anger at her and shouting，“You just don’t understand!” Because she did understand. 

       One month before my high-school graduation，my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment，fear and overwhelming anger that my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, class play and the prom. But my mother，in the midst of her own grief，would not hear of my skipping any of those things.

      The day before my father died，my mother and I had gone shopping for a prom dress. We’d found a spectacular one，with yards and yards of dotted swiss in red，white and blue. It made me feel like Scarlet O’Hara，but it was the wrong size. When my father died，I forgot about the dress.

    My mother didn’t. The day before the prom. I found that dress-in the right size-draped majestically over the living-room sofa. It had just been delivered，still in the box. It was presented to me–beautifully，artistically，lovingly. I didn’t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did.

      She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable，creative and imaginative，imbued with a sense that there was magic in the world and beauty even in the face of adversity. In truth，my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia–lovely，strong and perfect–with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.

      My mother died ten days after l was married.1 was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped coming.

Passage 2

      They’re faithful，friendly and furry—but under their harmless，fluffy exteriors，dogs and cats，the world’s most popular house pets，use up more energy resources in a year than driving a car，a new book says.

       In their book Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living. New Zealand–based architects Robert and Brenda Vale say keeping a medium-sized dog has the same ecological impact as driving 10，000 km (6，213 miles)a year in a 4.6 liter Land Cruiser. “There are no recipes in the book，” Robea Vale said，laughingly，in a telephone interview.

      “We’re not actually saying it is time to eat the dog. We’re just saying that we need to think about and know the (ecological) impact of some of the things we do and that we take for granted.”

     Constructing and driving the jeep for a year requires 0.41 hectares(ha)of land，while growing and manufacturing a dog’s food takes about 0.84 ha-or l.1 ha in the case of a large dog such as a German shepherd. Meat-eating swells the ec0—footprint of canines，and felines are not that much better，the Vales found.

     The average cat’s eco-footprint，0.15 ha，weighs in at slightly less than a Volkswagen Golf，but still 10 times a hamster’s 0.014 ha—which is itself half the eco-cost of running a plasma television.

      By comparison，the ecological footprint of an average human in the developing world is 1.8 ha，while people in the developed world take 6 ha.

     With pets’ diets under the control of owners，how can their unsustainable appetites be trimmed?

     Convincing carnivorous cats and dogs to go vegetarian for the sake of the planet is a non-starter，the Vales say.

      Instead they recommend keeping “greener”，smaller，and more sustainable pets，such as goldfish，hamsters，chickens or rabbits.

     The book’s playful title and serious suggestion that pet animals may be usefully “ recycled”， by being eaten by their owners or turned into pet food when they die，may not appeal to animal fans.

     Off putting as the idea may be，the question is valid given the planet’s growing population and finite resources，Robert Vale said. “Issues about sustainability are increasingly becoming things that are going to require us to make choices which are as difficult as eating your dog. It’s not just about changing your light bulbs or taking a cloth bag to the supermarket.” he said. “It’s about much more challenging and difficult issues，” he added. “Once you see where (cats and dogs) fit in your over-all balance of things–you might decide to have the cat but not also to have the two cars and the three bathrooms and be a meat eater yourself.”

     教学片段:

     Teacher: Hello，everyone，today we’re going to learn the Present Perfect. What is the Present Perfect? The Present Perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and the perfect aspect，used to express a past event that has present consequences. For example:

    I have already finished my homework.

   She has worked out a plan.

   As you can see, the Present Perfect is made up of two parts: have past principle (done)…(Then the teacher began to illustrate different usages of the Present Perfect.)

My Family

Hi, I’m Jenny. Here are two nice photos of my family. My grandfather and grandmother are in the first photo. These are my parents，Alan and Mary. In the next picture are my brothers，Bob and Eric. These two girls are my sister Cindy and my cousin Helen. Coco is in my family, too.