An old and fragile woman approached a very busy road intersection. She stepped slowly forwards. She paused at the sidewalk’s edge, grasping a heavy bucket filled with fresh red apples. She aimed to cross the street.
The way to the intersection before her seemed like a tough journey. The traffic lights changed regularly, and the flow of cars seemed to be non-stop for the old woman. She knew she had to cross the street to reach her destination, a small grocery store on the other side, where she sold her apples to make ends meet.
As she slowly made her way to the crosswalk, she held the handle of the bucket. A kind-hearted driver in the first car, recognizing her struggle, stopped well before the sidewalk, allowing her to cross safely. Grateful for this act of kindness, the old woman nodded and offered the driver a slight smile as she inched forward.
A second car, in the next road, also came to a stop. Its driver also witnessed the old woman’s slow progress. The kindness of strangers warmed her heart, and with their help, she moved another step closer to her destination.
However, the third road was a different story. As the old woman moved carefully further into the road, a speeding car approached, its engine making loud sound like a beast. Panic flowed through the old lady as she realized the approaching danger. The driver of the third car had not noticed her until the very last moment.
With a jolt (颠簸) of terror, the old woman’s holding on the bucket weakened, and the bucket slipped from her weak grasp. The bucket fell to the ground, releasing its goods of apples, which scattered (散开) in all directions. The sound of the crashing bucket and rolling apples echoed through the busy city traffic.
In the emergent time, the driver of the speeding car stepped on the brake to a stop just inches from the old woman. The drivers’ heart pounded in their chest as they realized how close it had come to a tragedy.
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Shaken but unharmed, the old woman stood frozen, her eyes wide open with fear.
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Eventually, with all the apples collected, the three drivers helped the old lady cross the road.
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2 . When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Lower Ninth Ward, the city’s lowest neighborhood, was hit the hardest. And rebuilding work after the disaster was especially slow to come to that part of town.
Burnell, now 48, shared recently that people in the area went nine years after the storm without a grocery store (杂货店) .
“There was no place to buy things. You have to catch three buses to get to a store,” Burnell said. “My parents always taught me if there’s a problem, somebody’s got to make a move.”
Burnell made a big move. Using money he’d saved up, he bought a badly damaged building and got to work. Everybody thought he was crazy. Even his mother had her doubts. But Burnell insisted.
He put all his heart into the building, and usually worked up to 15 hours a day for months. The day finally came when Burmel’s grocery store opened. That was a moment he will never forget.
“The very first customer cried because she said she never thought the Lower Ninth Ward was coming back.”
“Just seeing so many people, the look on their faces, it’s a joy,” Burnell says. “It’s a headache back then but now it’s worth it.” The neighborhood now has a barbershop and a sweets shop — but there’s plenty of work still to be done. And Burnell isn’t resting.
“If it takes me doing it by myself, I’ll put one business at a time back into the Lower Ninth Ward.” he says. “Because it’s home.”
1. What was Burnell taught to do by his parents?| A．Open a grocery store. | B．Work hard for his dream. |
| C．Save Lower Ninth Ward. | D．Solve problems he met. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Worried. | C．Determined. | D．Negative. |
| A．To show her excitement. | B．To prove Burnell was right. |
| C．To remind us of her sadness. | D．To tell that life is difficult. |
| A．He is a clever businessman. | B．He wants to bring the town back to life. |
| C．He thinks he has done enough. | D．He is determined to make a big fortune. |
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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4 . 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. |
| A．Homeless people’s requests. |
| B．Official favorable policies. |
| C．The support from the society. |
| D．The prize from many associations. |
| 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. |
| A．It is still a concept. | B．It keeps expanding. |
| C．It is carried out globally. | D．It lacks future plans. |
5 . 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. |
| 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. |
| A．Honesty. | B．Wisdom. | C．Bravery. | D．Generosity. |
| A．To attract more viewers. | B．To recommend a website. |
| C．To motivate people to be good. | D．To introduce a grocery store. |
