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Life is wholly unpredictable. No one can be entirely sure what will happen from one moment to the next. Sandy, a US policewoman, was on the high way in Hanover County, Virginia, traveling to the airport. She was going to take on a fight to Ohio, where she was looking to carry out a special duty.

While Sandy drove her car smoothly, something unexpected happened. The vehicle in front of Sandy, for some unexplained reason, ran out of the roadway at full speed. With the brakes never hit, the car hit a tree badly. Sandy, who witnessed the crash, stopped and approached the vehicle. She wondered whether the driver was OK in such an accident. From the broken window, Sandy saw there were three persons in the vehicle: a mother and her two young children.

“As I approached the car, I could hear a lady screaming, ‘Help! Help! My children are there!’” Sandy recalled. The car was damaged seriously and Sandy found it really hard to open the door of the vehicle. Some smoke began to appear. It seemed that the vehicle might get on fire or, even worse, explode at any moment. After she was finally able to open one of the vehicle’s doors in the back, Sandy noticed the two children totally panicked, shaking all over. And the mother who was stuck in the seat was still screaming, “Help please! Get my babies out of the car.”

Sandy sprang into action. She freed the two children from the vehicle and got them to a safe area, away from the crash scene at once. When she was sure that the two children were not injured so seriously, she let out a deep breath.

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One of the children asked Sandy, “Are you going to save my mommy?”

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“Don’t panic! Calm down!” Sandy shouted.

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2 . Linda Brown is a softly-spoken realtor (房地产经纪人) with a passion for helping the homeless. She’s moving mountains by combining her understanding of real estate (房地产) with her kindness-fueled determination to create beautiful permanent homes for disabled homeless people in her community.

In 2020, Mrs. Brown was awarded the Good Neighbor Award. This honor is initiated by The National Association of Realtors in the US. As its website details, working alongside her husband, Dr. David Brown, she has been transforming abandoned mobile homes into villages of tiny homes that offer permanent housing for homeless people who’re disabled.

The wish to help homeless people, and restore their dignity and self-worth, as Mrs. Brown explains, had been a joint mission for some years. As local blogger Aaron Nichols shares, the couple ran a local evening drop-in center for local homeless people called Gardening Tree, for almost a decade. This functioned as a shelter where people experiencing homelessness could grab a bite, shower, do laundry and relax.

But they wanted to do more than that. With local individual organizations’ help, the couple succeeded in raising almost $5 million, which enabled them to transform unused mobile homes and a deserted trailer park into a small village of tiny homes that opened in 2018. They named the shelter “Eden Village”.

As Mrs. Brown revealed in her award acceptance speech about her journey to creating Eden Village, helping homeless people is something personal, “I watched as my homeless friends walked off into the darkness to a hidden, wet and cold camp while we went home to a warm bed. I had to do something.”

Today, Eden Village includes a 4,000-square-foot community center offering cooking and laundry facilities, as well as a medical center and community gardens. Additionally, more sites are being developed thanks to the land donated to the nonprofit founded by the Browns. Eden Village 2 and 3 are at the planning stage. In the next six years, Mrs. Brown hopes to create five similar villages housing up to 200 people experiencing homelessness.

1. How does the author introduce the couple’s devotion to helping the homeless?

A．By mentioning local realtors’ praise.

B．By referring to related online descriptions.

C．By recording homeless people’s evaluations.

D．By detailing their interaction with the homeless.

2. What else plays a role in building Eden Village besides the couple’s devotion?

A．Homeless people’s requests.

B．Official favorable policies.

C．The support from the society.

D．The prize from many associations.

3. Why is Mrs. Brown’s award acceptance speech mentioned in paragraph 5?

A．To express her sympathy for her friends.

B．To highlight the influence of the village.

C．To show her sincere gratitude for the award.

D．To give her reason for setting up the village.

4. What can we learn about the couple’s project?

A．It is still a concept.	B．It keeps expanding.
C．It is carried out globally.	D．It lacks future plans.

3 . Anna and her husband, Gray, got an unexpected delivery earlier this month after a security guard from a local grocery store appeared at their front door.

Anna said when she was in a hurry shopping at a grocery store in Kahului, she lost her wallet. But luckily, one of the store’s security guards, Johnson, found the wallet. After he finished his work that day, he rode a bike over 5 miles to Anna’s address to return the wallet.

When asked, Johnson said, “You know, I once lost a wallet too and it’s the worst thing in the world. I was just doing what I felt was right.”

Anna and Gray were greatly moved because Johnson would put in so much effort to help a stranger. Gray was so thankful for Johnson’s kind act that he shared the story to Facebook. One of Gray’s friends, Adam, also praised Johnson’s selflessness and he organized a GoFundMe to raise money to buy him a car. Before Christmas, they sent the car to Johnson, who had been riding a bike to and from work for the past five years.

“It means a lot,” said Johnson when he received the gift. “It’s not only about having better transportation. I can do more for my family now. That’s the bigger part of the picture.” Johnson said he thanked the Anna family for their kindness, although he still believed he did not do much. He said he only did what he believed was right.

1. Who lost the wallet?

A．Anna.

B．Gray.

C．Adam.

D．Johnson.

2. How did Gray show his thankfulness to Johnson?

A．By making friends with him.	B．By asking Adam to help Johnson.
C．By starting a GoFundMe project.	D．By posting the story on the Internet.

3. What great quality does Johnson show in the text?

A．Honesty.

B．Wisdom.

C．Bravery.

D．Generosity.

4. What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To attract more viewers.	B．To recommend a website.
C．To motivate people to be good.	D．To introduce a grocery store.