Mia and Max, who were raised alone by their mother Jennifer, were angels (天使), or so their neighbors called them.
Since Jennifer couldn’t afford a nanny (保姆), her neighbors always gladly stepped in to care for the brother and sister in her absence.
Mia and Max were absolute sweethearts. They would help the neighbors in the garden, walk their dogs, and carry groceries from their cars to their homes.
“Mom says we should always help others in need!” Mia would say, and Max would agree with her with a broad smile. “Because a little help goes a long way!” he would add.
The two lovely children warmed the entire neighborhood with their sweet smiles and kind hearts. Everything was all right until one day Max fell down on the playground and was rushed to hospital. Sadly, it turned out he was very sick and needed some specific medicines to keep him going. “That’s going to cost a lot of money!” Jennifer sighed. But she didn’t tell anyone that she was in trouble.
She began setting aside money each month for Max’s treatment. Obviously, with her poor pay as a waitress in a bar, she couldn’t save enough. She began cutting down on money for gas and even food. She would walk miles every day to and from work and go to the grocery stores as less often as possible.
One night, Jennifer came home and opened the fridge, only to find they had just one can of tomato soup left. “I’m a total failure as a mother,” she cried, blaming (责备) herself. “I can’t even feed my children!”
Finally, Jennifer added extra water to the soup and served it to her children, who enjoyed their dinner as happily as usual. As soon as her children left the table, Jennifer burst into tears again, little knowing a pleasant surprise was waving at her and her kids.
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When Jennifer checked her mailbox the next day, she found an envelope.
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Kindness of Strangers
We depend upon a community where helping others is highly thought of. This helps form a web that holds us together in times of need.
Years ago, I was in the kitchen getting dinner ready when my fourteen-year-old daughter, Cassandra, called me from her room. “Mom, can you help me get downstairs?” She had lung disease and depended on oxygen twenty-four hours a day, so it was impossible for her to move up and down the stairs without help. I turned down the stove and ran upstairs to her room. Cassandra let out a sigh and closed her eyes. “Mom, I wish it wasn’t so hard for me to climb the stairs.”
“I know, honey. We’ll try to work something out.”
A month earlier, a company introduced an electric stairlift (座椅电梯) to us. It sounded wonderful. It would greatly improve my daughter’s life. Unluckily, we couldn’t afford it along with the medical bills although John, my husband, even took two jobs to support the family.
I asked the local organization for help once again. They had lent us a wheelchair and a shower chair; maybe they could help with a stairlift, too. I held my breath while the phone rang. “Do you have a stairlift I could borrow?” But they hadn’t.
A few weeks later, we bought a shower chair. Then we could return the borrowed one. I loaded it into my car and drove to the organization. As I got close to the gate of its building, I saw something looking like metal rails, and one of them had a chair attached.
I thought I was seeing things. I parked my car and got out to confirm it was real. I touched the cool metal of the rails and the soft cushion of the attached seat. There was even a remote control taped to a rail. It was a stairlift! I ran in to ask about it. A volunteer told me that someone left it here during the night. He added that a note was left on the stairlift, saying “For anyone who may need it.”
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“Can I take it away today?” I asked hopefully.
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After John fixed the stairlift on our stairs, we shouted at Cassandra to try it out!
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As a senior teacher in primary school, I deal with countless lovely children to help them learn and live, especially to help children deal with their parents. My experience over the years tells me not to be impatient in case of trouble. Think twice before you act. We must firmly believe that children have a kind heart.
The following is a real big story that happened in my class not long ago.
Katie was in trouble. She was such a sweet kid. A third-grade teacher always dreamed of having a classroom filled with students like Katie. She was never ever a discipline problem. I just couldn't imagine why she had made her parents so angry. Her parents complained to me anxiously and urgently asked me to tell the truth and give her a lesson.
It seemed that Katie had been spending a lot of money in the lunchroom. Her parents explained that Katie brought a great home-made lunch every day, and there was no reason for her to buy school lunch. They assumed a sit-down with Katie would solve the problem, but failed. So they asked me to help them get to the bottom of this situation. I comforted them and thought about how to get in touch with Katie.
So the next day, I asked Katie to my office. “Why are you spending much money on lunch, Katie? What happened to your home-made lunch?” I asked. “I lost it,” she responded. I leaned back in my chair and said, “I don't believe you, Katie.” She didn't care. “Is someone stealing your lunch, Katie?” I took a new track, “No. I just lost it,” she said. Well, there was nothing else I could do.
The problem was still unsolved the next week when I noticed a boy who was new to the school sitting alone at a lunch table. He always looked sad. I thought I would go and sit with him for a while. As I walked towards him, I noticed the lunch bag on the table.
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The name on the bag read “Katie”.
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I told Katie's parents the truth in secret.
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In a heartwarming event that has touched the nation, a police officer in Warren, Michigan, was considered as a true hero by saving the life of an 18-month-old boy who had suddenly stopped breathing. This event happened on the evening of August 29 and has since touched the hearts of many.
Officer Brandan Fraser was on duty, focusing on speed and absent-minded driving, when he noticed a car speeding past him. What in the beginning seemed like a common traffic violation (违规) rapidly turned into a life-and-death crisis.
As Fraser came up to the car, he was met with a sad cry from a woman, who screamed, “We got a baby in here dying. Help! Help!” Both the woman and the man in the car were frightened as they handed over the baby boy, who appeared to be lifeless, not breathing and turning blue.
Rather than giving in to the pressure of the moment, Fraser immediately sprang into action. He examined the baby and doubted that he might be choking (窒息). Fraser quickly positioned the baby on his forearm and performed a series of back blows to force any obstruction (阻塞物) from the baby’s airway out.
However, the baby still showed no signs of breathing. Fraser’s heart raced, but his training kicked in here. After making sure the baby’s airway was clear, he then continued to perform CPR on the baby. His hands pressed the baby’s tiny chest and at the same time, he blew some air into the baby’s mouth to help make his heart beat again. Fraser continued these life-saving efforts tirelessly, knowing that every second counted.
Surprisingly, the baby began to breathe once more. Fraser described the moment, saying, “The baby started breathing, and you saw that color started coming back around his lips. You realized that something happened here, and we were heading in the right direction.”
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After a while, the baby gave out a cry, a sign that life was returning.
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Then the baby was quickly transported to a nearby hospital.
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At first, Michael Surrell didn’t see the black smoke or flames shooting from the windows of his neighbors’ home. He and his wife had just parked around the comer from their own house when they got a call from one of his daughters: “The house next door is on fire!” He went to investigate. That’s when he saw two women and a girl screaming on the porch (门廊).
“The baby’s in there!” one of the women cried. Though the fire department had been called, Surrell, then 64, immediately ran inside. “The baby” was 8-year-old Tiara Roberts, the woman’s granddaughter and a playmate of Surrell’s three youngest kids.
Entering the burning house was like running into a bucket of black paint. The thick smoke caused Surrell to stumble blindly around, burned his eyes, and made it impossible for him to breathe. The conditions would have been dangerous for anyone, but for Surrell, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (慢性阻塞性肺病), they were life-threatening.
After a few minutes in the smoke-filled house, he went outside to catch his breath. “Where is Tiara?” he asked desperately.
“The second floor,” her aunt shouted back.
Surrell knew he couldn’t hold his breath for long. Taking a deep breath, he went in a second time. The darkness was overwhelming. Yet because the house had a similar layout (布局) to his, he found the stairs and made it to the second floor. He turned to the right and was met by intense heat. He was already out of breath.
“Baby girl, where are you?” His throat and lungs burned as if he’d breathed in fire instead of the smoke in the air. Every blink stung (使疼痛) his eyes. All he could hear was the cracking and popping of burning wood. Then a soft moan emerged. Still unable to see, Surrell fell to his knees on the hot wood floor. He crawled toward the sound, feeling around for any sign of the girl. A terrible thought crossed his mind: I’m probably gonna die up here.
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1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
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Finally Surrell touched something.
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Surrell hugged Tiara tight, saying “Uncle’s got you,” and then passed out.
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Wrapping paper flew everywhere as Cali opened her gift. The box had a picture of a pretty girl in a red dress. She was wearing white ice skating shoes, dancing on a frozen pond.
“Ice skating shoes? Wow! How nice of you! But. . . I don't know how to skate. " She looked embarrassed.
“Don't worry," said Aunt Lisa. "That's the fun part-learning how to do it!”
“That’s right,"said Uncle George. “We will take you to the ice rink (溜冰场) and all go skating together. ”
"I don't know... ,” said Cali. She wasn't too sure whether she was able to do it Sometimes she had a hard time learning new things. She looked again at the happy girl on the box. It did look like fun. Cali imagined herself gliding (滑行) and turning around on the ice like a real skater. “Okay," she agreed. “Let's do it!”
The next day Cali went to the skating rink with her aunt and uncle. She sat down on the bench and slipped her feet into the ice skating shoes. Holding the shoelaces in her fingers, she could not figure out how to tie them up. "I don't know how to do it. ” She said She felt sad for this was another thing she couldn't do.
“Let me show you," her aunt bent down on one knee, explaining how to tie the shoelaces around the small hooks. Then she tied them into a tight bow."Now, you do the other one yourself." Cali bent over and did what her aunt had shown her. After a few tries. she worked out how to tie the shoelaces around the hooks.“You did it! Let's start out!’ smiled her aunt.
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1.所续写短文的词数为130左右;
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
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Holding Cali's hands, they slowly made the first step on the smooth ice.
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“Now you try it on your own," suggested her uncle.
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When I moved to Boston from the less traffic-filled Midwest, all I heard was, “Boston drivers are terrible. You must be careful on the roads!”I lived in Boston for four years while in college. But I didn’t need a car then, because Boston’s subways and buses could take me anywhere I needed to go. When I graduated, moved to the suburbs and got a job, I had to buy a car. I began to share the roads with the crazy drivers I’d heard about with much anxiety.
I found the stories were all true! I always get cut off and shouted at. Very seldom am I actually doing something wrong. I can’t count the number of times I’ve almost been in an accident because people refuse to give way to me when I have the right of way. Almost too late, I realize I have to turn if I want my car to stay untouched. And I’ve only been driving here for six months!
I learned how to drive in a friendlier environment, so I’ve always been in the habit of letting people go in front of me if they need to turn or pull out. However, people here are hardly thoughtful enough to help other drivers that way. They usually cut right away in front of me without even showing thanks.
In my home environment, the thank-you wave is standard driving behaviour to show politeness. Having nothing in return for my kindness in Boston had been so discouraging that I was almost ready to give up trying to be nice. I thought I’d just move along very quickly with the rest of the cars, without a thought for anyone else.
Then one day on my way home from work I was stuck in the heavy traffic with so many cars almost touching each other. And I noticed a young man was also trapped in the next driveway three or four cars ahead of mine.
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As I moved slowly along the road, I felt tired and hungry.
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The young guy gave me a huge thank-you wave right away.
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