广东省广州地区2021-2023年中考二模英语试卷分类汇编：阅读理解

广东省广州市增城区 2021-2023年中考二模英语试卷分类汇编 阅读理解 2023年广东省广州市增城区中考二模英语试题 三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从26~40各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 (A) My mom’s life was a busy one. Raising four kids on her own was her full time job, but she also had to work outside the home to make money. Surprisingly, she always seemed to find extra time to stay with us. She would take us over to my aunt’s house in the evening when she worked as a waitress. After school we would have to hurry so my mom would be on time for work. I thought she would pass us over to our aunt and hurry off, but that didn’t happen. Instead, we would rock in my aunt’s big wooden swing (秋千), my mom in her waitress uniform, and talk about what happened that day. “I learned how to add numbers up to the hundreds,” my sister Sandy would say. “That’s wonderful,” my mom would reply, holding her tight. “I learned how to write my name!” Larry, my younger brother, would shout. My mom would get a piece of paper and a pencil out of her purse and hand it to my brother. “Show me how you do it,” she’d ask softly. “Do you have enough time to hear what I did today?” I’d ask her. Mom would smile at me and nod. “I’m never too busy for something valuable like that!” She gave us the gift of time again and again. When she came to live with us after her retirement (退休), my mom gave the gift of time to my children, too. They would ask their grandma if she would play with them. By then my mom had health problems, but she would always nod and sit down and read to them or tell them stories. Those moments were a wonderful gift that my children still talked about and treasured. In the last few years of her life, I would take her to lunch or sit with her, and we would talk about the past, the dream of the future, and just enjoy being with each other. My mom would listen as I talked. I would look at her and ask her if she minded me taking up so much of her free time. “Nonsense,” she’d tell me, “I’m never too busy to spend time with you. It’s