2023年广东省广州市中考英语复习阅读理解训练——记叙文

记叙文： A（记叙文-平叙类） Miss Martha kept a little cake shop. Two or three times a week a customer came in who she began taking an interest in. He was a middle-aged man. His clothes were worn but he looked neat, and had very good manners. He always bought two loaves of stale bread. Never did he call for anything but stale bread. Once Miss Martha saw a red and brown mark on his fingers,She was sure that he was a very poor artist. She wanted to add something good to eat to his stale bread,but her courage failed at the act. She knew the pride of artists. One day the customer came as usual, laid his coins on the showcase, and called for his stale bread. While Miss Martha was reaching for them, a fire-engine came lumbering past. The customer hurried to the door to look. Suddenly inspired, Miss Martha took the chance. On the bottom shelf was a pound of fresh butter. With a bread knife Miss Martha made a deep cut in each of the stale loaves,put in a lot of butter, and pressed the loaves tight again. When the customer came again, she was tying the paper around them. When he had gone, Miss Martha smiled, not without a slight beating fast of the heart. For a long time that day she imagined the scene when he discovered her little kind trick. Suddenly the front doorbell jangled viciously. Miss Martha felt a little scared and hurried to the front. A young man and her artist were there. His face was very red, his hat was on the back of his head, and his hair was in a mess. "Silly!" he shouted loudly."You have destroyed me!" He held his two fists and shook them angrily at Miss Martha. "Come on,"the young man said,"you've said enough." He pulled the angry one out, and then came back."He's an architectural draftsman," he said."He's been working hard for three months drawing a plan for a new city hall. It was a prize competition. He finished inking the lines yesterday.You know, a draftsman always makes his drawing in pencil first. When it's done, he rubs out the pencil lines with stale brea