At first glance she looked like any other old woman, plodding along in the snow ,alone,neglected,head bowed. A young couple, smiling,taking,laughing, arms loaded with Christmas presents,took no notice of the old woman. A mother with two small children hurried by, on their way to grandmother’s house. Like many others, they took no notice,either. If these people had noticed,they would have seen that the old woman wore no shoes. She walked bare foot in the ice and snow.
With both hands the old woman gathered her worn button-less overcoat at the collar to keep out the wind. She stopped and stood bent and bowed at the bus stop.A red and blue scarf covering her head, she waited for the downtown bus.
A gentleman carrying an Important looking briefcase waited near her,not too closely.After all,she could have something contagious (传染的）. A teenage girl also waited for the bus,She glanced repeatedly at the old woman's feet, but said nothing.
The bus arrived and the old woman slowly, painfully boarded.She sat on the sideways sent Just behind the driver.The gentleman and the teenage girl hurried to the back of the bus.A little boy pointed at the old woman,"Look,Mother,that old lady is bare foot."The embarrassed mother slapped his hand down. "Don't point at people, Andrew. I's not polite to point." She looked out of the window.
＂She must have sons or daughters," a lady in a fur coat suggested, “her children should be ashamed of themselves." She felt morally superior,because she took good care of her mother.
A man seated near the middle of the bus steadied the bag of gifts on her lap. "Don't we pay enough taxes to handle situations like this?" he said to a friend seated beside him.
“People have to learn to save their money," a well-dressed young college man added. “If that old woman had saved when she was young, she wouldn't be suffering now. It's her own fault."
And all these vain(虚荣的）people beamed with satisfaction that they had all given such deep analysis,totally ignoring the old woman who badly needed a pair of shoes immediately.
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A vain businessman felt offended by those talking without acting and reached into his wallet.
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At the next stop.a young man wearing expensive.new.brand-name shoes boarded the bus,
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Jack and Rose were sitting face to face. At this moment, the landlord came in and asked, “Are you sure you do not rent the house any more?” He kept silent and she only shook her head. They were going to divorce, so it was obvious that they would not continue renting the house any more.
Then the landlord began examining the house. After looking around,he screamed, “Goddamn! See how you have ruined my house? The walls are full of nails! How could I rent the house to others?"
Jack said,"The room is too small and can hardly accommodate all loads of our stuff. So we could only hang them on the walls."The landlord did not listen to him and turned around up to the floor.
Rose began looking around her familiar room. Four years ago, she became his bride here. On the night of their marriage, he felt deeply guilty to her, saying,“I feel so sorry for you for having you live in this small room. In the future I will earn a lot of money to buy our own house.”
The room was only 13 square meters with two nails on the wall next to the door, one for her to hang her bag and the other for hanging umbrellas. At that time,she threw all her stuff such as her bag and umbrella on the floor once she entered the room, staring at the whole mess and feeling terribly upset.
There were three nails on the left wall, on which he hung his clothes yesterday. After she lived in the room, he removed all the clothes boxes and bought her a desk in the spared room because he knew she loved writing and drawing.
There were four nails on the right wall that were used to fix their wedding photo frame. But now there were only four nails without the frame. She still remembered he got hurt on his fingers when trying to drive the nails home. It was her who pushed him to receive an injection against tetanus(破伤风)。
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The landlord tried to pry(撬动，撬开) the nails out when complaining at the same time.
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They hung all the things back to the wall.
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I woke up after surgery with my leg bandaged beyond recognition, with tubes coming out of various limbs(肢体），with my mouth dry and my mind confused.
The operation had required two bone transplants to fill the chunk(组块）I'd broken (it was in a million pieces, a doctor said). They'd inserted a titanium rod, a dozen or so screws. I wouldn't walk for three months, optimistically. I couldn't drive. I couldn't navigate the steps in our house. I couldn't even shower on my own.
I would be sent home to California with a machine designed to train my leg to regain its range of motion. I would sit in it for six hours a day, and when I wasn't sitting in the machine, I would be at physical therapy or limited to bed rest.
I was not thinking normally on my IV drip(静脉滴注） but my mind was clear enough and I turned to my husband Adam and asked,"How are we going to manage?" Who would get the kids to the bus at 7:15 a.m., since my husband was in his office by 6 am, each day? Who would deal with the dogs,who relied on my companionship and long walks? Who would prepare dinner?Who would drive to tennis practices and softball games and sleepovers?
＂We'll figure it out," Adam said. I nodded, because what was the alternative? But nowhere in any of my Vicodin-infused cells did I believe him. Not even a tiny bit.
I posted about my accident on Face-book. An image of me with tubes up my nose,and a picture of my leg,wrapped and swollen.
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1.续写的词数应为150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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Friends' responses flooded in asking for ways they could help.
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Both my children and husband learned to be autonomous and considerate.
