Joan Fournier and her daughter stopped at a fast food restaurant in Cornwall for some lunch.
Later in the evening when they went shopping, Fournier realized the money wasn’t there.
Fournier returned to get the money.
For Patterson’s part, doing anything — but returning the money never crossed her mind.
| A．Her first thought was to put it in her pocket. |
| B．Fournier thought she would be getting it back. |
| C．Moreover, she never expected anything in return. |
| D．In her pocket, Fournier had her cellphone and a $100 bill. |
| E．She also brought along a card and a cash gift to express her thanks. |
| F．After searching everywhere, she decided that maybe it fell out at the restaurant. |
| G．When Fournier called, she heard the story of how Patterson had turned in the cash she’d found. |
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【推荐1】A man recently helped a woman, who had been knocked down by a car in Taizhou, Jiangu province, reach a hospital. But before doing so, he took a photograph of the scene with the woman to avoid being charged with knocking her down. Several similar cases were reported across the country during the Spring Festival, leaving people with mixed feelings, says Cao Pengcheng in an article in People's Daily.
Altruism(利他主义) is part of Chinese culture, and there is no lack of good Samaritans(乐善好施者) in the country. But recently, says Cao, some good Samaritans were blackmailed by the people who they helped. It made altruism a tough issue.
Cao says that it is a good thing for people to become more business-minded.but it is one thing to do as cost-benefit analysis (分析) in business, and quite another to measure whether a person in need is worth helping. I people always make such materialistic calculation(物质计算),they will further lower social and moral (道德) standards.
Fortunately,says Cao,there are still people like the man in Taizhou who deepen our belief in altruism and kindheartedness by continuing to help others, despite knowing that the existing system and rules in the county do not offer enough protection for good Samaritans.
1. What did the man do in Taizhou?| A．He charged the woman with knocking him down. |
| B．He helped the woman knocked down by a bicycle. |
| C．He sent the woman knocked down by him to a hospital. |
| D．He took a photo of the scene before helping the woman. |
| A．Appreciated. | B．Threatened. | C．Killed. | D．Helped. |
| A．will lower social and moral standards |
| B．is bad for doing business with others |
| C．is good for helping a person in need |
| D．will slow down people's business mind |
| A．To Help or Not to Help | B．Traditional Chinese Culture |
| C．A Bad Traffic Accident | D．How to Do Good Business |
【推荐2】Li Jing, 29, is a native of Cuijiaba, a small town in Hubei Province. She was one of the first people from her community to go for higher education. After graduation, she worked in Wuhan first, and then she changed her decision last year to return to her village.
“I want to be a part of my hometown’s development and bring about real changes to our villagers while realizing my own personal value,” Li said.
After returning to her hometown, Li received strong support from her family, while there were some villagers who questioned her decision. She decided to show her love to the hometown through action.
Her job included a great deal of communication with the villagers mainly to increase potato production. “We regularly hold meetings in the village square, where we share ideas on potato planting skills, selling methods, market changes and more,” Li said.
To increase sales outside the village, the young workforce in the village chose to go into the world of livestreaming(直播). This new marketing method has produced satisfying results. Together with other methods like doing online business on websites and apps, the money that a family can get from potato sales in a year has risen sharply from 1,000 yuan to the present number of 20,000 yuan, according to Li.
However, the road to success is not always easy. “At first, some people were not willing to accept the new ideas,” Li said. But Li didn’t force them. Instead, she chose to communicate with effort. Li and her workmates would also search online for other villages’ success stories about the application of livestreaming, and shared them with villagers. She knew communications took a lot of time and energy, but she believed it’s all worth it. Li said, “True smiles on the faces of the villagers are the best gifts for me.”
In the near future, Li hopes to continue helping her villagers raise their potato production and earn more money. Her long-term goal is to help rural areas further develop and integrate(结合) with the city. She said hopefully, “We will continually find ways to bring happiness to the villagers and the long-term development to the countryside.”
1. Li Jing returned to her hometown mainly to ________.| A．work in the government |
| B．bring great changes to her family |
| C．realize her dream of being a farmer |
| D．contribute to the local development |
| A．turned to her family for help |
| B．defended herself at meetings |
| C．took action to help the villagers |
| D．immediately went back to cities |
| A．putting up ads on TVs |
| B．taking up livestreaming |
| C．producing satisfying results |
| D．communicating with other villagers |
| A．Promising. | B．Doubtful. | C．Challenging. | D．Fearful. |
| A．All good things come to an end. |
| B．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
| C．You cannot eat your cake and have it. |
| D．A single flower does not make a spring. |
【推荐3】Sydney Raley has been working at McDonald’s for about seven months and it’s been her typical after-school job. When she headed into her weekend shift on Saturday, December 18, she likely expected to do more of the same: Stand at the drive-through window, take orders over the headset, and hand each customer their meal with a smile.
In fact, that’s exactly how it started. But a few hours into her shift, things took a dramatic turn. After handing a customer some of their food, Sydney let them know that more would be coming as soon as it was ready. But just seconds later, she noticed a terrible look of panic spread across the woman’s face. Then came the coughing. She was coughing like crazy. Her daughter in the passenger seat looked terrified.
Sydney immediately knew she was choking. For an instant, Sydney remembered the first aid training she had received more than four years earlier. Most 15-year-olds might panic at the sight of this (even most adults might, too). But not Sydney. Instead, the teen remained calm and quickly shouted to both her manager and the woman’s daughter to call 911. Then, she drove through the drive-through window and came to the rescue.
The teen flung the driver’s side door open and got the choking woman to her feet. Then she began to use the Heimlich maneuver (海姆立克急救法). However, she had never actually had to use the life-saving technique before, and after a few tries, it wasn’t quite working. Luckily, another customer was just a few feet away in the parking lot. She shouted for help, hoping that another person’s strength combined with hers, would help force whatever was in the woman’s mouth to finally come out. Next, a man who heard the call for help ran over and started using Heimlich with the woman. Fortunately, it worked and the woman spat out the food stuck in her throat. Needless to say, the woman was very grateful. Just as she began to catch her breath, first responders arrived on the scene, and when officers asked what happened, she told them all about Sydney’s heroic act. “They said, ‘Congratulations, you’re a lifesaver; you’re a hero.’” Sydney recalled.
1. What can we learn about Sydney from the first two paragraphs?| A．She is patient and confident. |
| B．She is kind and knowledgeable. |
| C．She is hard-working and careful. |
| D．She is generous and warm-hearted. |
| A．She was in the car. |
| B．She was on the street. |
| C．She was in a restaurant. |
| D．She was in the parking lot. |
| A．Slipped gently. |
| B．Pulled violently. |
| C．Threw suddenly. |
| D．Rushed slowly. |
| A．What happened to the woman. |
| B．How to do the Heimlich maneuver. |
| C．Why to use the Heimlich maneuver. |
| D．How the choked woman was rescued. |
