2020届中考英语阅读理解50篇(含答案).pdfVIP

2020 届中考英语阅读理解 50 篇 (绝对精品训练题，接近实战考题，值得下载练习 ) 1 When I was a kid in Minnesota, watermelon was expensive. One of my father ’friends,s Bernie, was a rich businessman, who owned a large store in St. Paul. Every summer, when the first watermelons arrived, Bernie would call. Dad and I would go to Bernie on the edge of the dock （码头）, feet dangling （摇晃）, and got ready for a big meal. Bernie would take his knife, cut our first watermelon, hand us both a big piece and sit down next to us. Then we our faces in watermelon, eating only the heart — thereddest, juiciest, firmest, sweetest, most seed-free part — andthrow away the rest. Bernie was my father ’s idea of a rich man. I always thought it was because he was such a successful businessman. Years later, I realized that it was not Bernie ’ how to stop working, get together with friends and eat only the heart of the watermelon. What I learned from Bernie is that being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to eat only the heart of the watermelon. If you don ’ and enjoy life ’s small pleasure, your work is probably hurting your life. For many years, I forgot that lesson I ’ could. Well, I ’ve relearned it. I hope I have time left to enjoy the success of others and to take pleasure in the day. That heart of the watermelon. I have learned again to throw t he rest away. 1. We learned from the second paragraph that the writer and his father were feeling ______. A. relaxed B. worried C. hungry D.