2019中考英语阅读理解题目：Mother's love

母爱 慈母手中线，游子身上衣，谁言寸草心，报得三春晖。母爱是世界上最伟大、最无私的，她宽容大度，她不求回报，她为子女付出很多很多…… I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I as just tall enough to see above the of it as mother sat doing

letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and hite paper, I decided that the act of riting must be the more onderful thing in the orld. Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth. ” I never sa her angry, never sa her cry. I kne she loved ; she shoed it in action. But as a young girl, I anted heart-to-heart talks beteen mother and daughter. They never happened. And a gulf opened beteen us. I as “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface(表面)”. As years passed I had my on family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I rote to her in careful ords and asked her to let kno in any ay she chose that she did five(原谅) . I posted the letter and aited for her anser. None ca. My hope turned to disappointnt(失望),

then little interest and, finally, peace— it seed that nothing happened. I uldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only kne that I had ritten it, and I uld s trying to make her into soone she as not. No the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she as pleased that riting as my chosen ork. I cleaned the desk carefully and found so papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many tis. Give an anser, my letter asks, in any ay you choose. Mother, you alays chose the act that speaks louder than ords. 根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

1. The riter began to love her mother’s desk ______. A. after Mother died B. before she beca a riter C. hen she as a child D. hen Mother gave it to her 2. The passage shos that ______. A. mother as ld on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter B. mother as too serious about everything her daughter had done C. mother cared much about her daughter in ords D. mother rote to her daughter in careful ords

3. The ord “gulf” in the passage ans ______. A. deep understanding beteen the old and the young B. different ideas beteen the mother and the daughter C. free talks beteen mother and daughter D. part of the sea going far in land 4. What did mother do ith her daughter’s letter asking fiveness? A. She had never received the letter. B. For years, she often talked about the letter. C. She didn’t five her daughter at all in all her life. D. She read the letter again and again till she died. 5. What’s the best title of the passage? A. My letter to Mother B. Mother and Children C. My mother’s Desk D. Talks beteen Mother and Me

【答案及解析】 1. 选C。根据I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I as just tall enough to see above the of it as mother sat doing letters. 可知作者当时还是个小孩子，故选C。 2. 选A。由But she lived “on the surface ”. 和全文内容可知，作者的母亲表面上很冷漠，但心里充满了对作者的爱，正确答案是A。

3. 选B。从I as “too emotional”. But she lived “on the surface”. 可知此词是指两人之间不同的看法和观点，应选B。 4. 选D。根据…a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded and refolded many tis. 可知应选D。 5. 选C。文章的开头I’ve loved my mother’s desk…以及后面的No the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to…可知作者是托物思人，以表达自己对母亲的怀念之情，所以最佳标题应是C。