专题20 阅读理解25篇（名校最新期中真题）-2023-2024学年九年级英语上学期期中复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津译林版）

牛津译林版九年级上学期期中复习 查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新期中真题) 专题20 阅读理解25篇 （2022秋·江苏南通·九年级统考期中） When asked whether he would still come to this life if he knew the hardships that wait for him, Zhang Xiping, a 58-year-old blind egg farmer, smiled and said, “Of course I would come! I accept what is mine. Even if I know what it’s going to be like beforehand, I would come and live it to the fullest.” Zhang was chosen to be one of the 2022 Chinese Filial Piety figures (中华慈孝人物) during the 8th Chinese Filial Piety Cultural Festival. He has been raising chickens and selling eggs to support his adopted (收养的) daughter and now 87-year-old mother for the past 38 years. Zhang was born in 1964 in the village of Mawang, Chang’an district of Xi’an city, Shanxi province. He got serious eye problems at birth and darkness went with him for his whole life. “Ever since I started to understand my situation, I have always been thinking about what I can do not to trouble my family,” said Zhang. From working hard on building sites to gathering sand at the bottom of river beds, Zhang said that he had already done many jobs before he turned ten. “My father passed away early and it was hard for my mother to raise me by herself. I wanted to make big money so that my mother could live comfortably, but my disability influences my choices,” said Zhang. In 1984, Zhang, in his twenties, heard that his sister-in-law was raising chicken and selling eggs, so Zhang decided to learn and master the trade himself. Every night, he would spend three hours choosing eggs for sale the next day and pile each one carefully on top of another inside two baskets. Every morning, he would get on a bus carrying the two baskets which weighed over 90 kilograms, and head to a market street more than 30 kilometers away from home. The back-and-forth trip was not easy. He told a reporter that he often ran into electric poles and had fallen into small pools and even deep wells before he knew the new areas well. In 1990, Zhang adopted an ab