“天使”就在身邊

江西 侯昌偉

主題語境：做人與做事 篇幅：329詞 建議用時：7分鐘

1Dee Harkrider recently swung by a supermarket in Forest City,Arkansas to grab three jugs of washer fluid.After she loaded them into her car,she absentmindedly left her wallet in the shopping cart and then drove away.Dee,a grandmother of seven,didn't even realize she'd left the wallet behind.

2Dee was halfway to a friend's house in Palestine when her cellphone rang.It was her friend,Elaine Keown,asking if she knew a young man named Delivontae Johnson.“No,I've never heard that name,”Dee recalled.“I have no idea who that is.”

3It turns out that 19-year-old Delivontae visited the supermarket right after Dee and spotted her wallet in the shopping cart.He opened the wallet and found Dee's license,but with no phone number to contact her,he turned to the Internet.Once he matched her profile picture with the one on her driver's license,he sent her a message.

4Dee didn't reply,so Delivontae reached out to her friend Elaine,who'd recently interacted with Dee on the platform.It certainly took some detective work to track down the wallet's owner,but Delivontae wasn't finished going above and beyond just yet!

5Dee called Delivontae and they arranged to meet at a restaurant in Palestine,about a 20-minute drive for the teen.At the restaurant,Delivontae handed over the wallet and Dee pulled a $20 from it to give him as a reward.“I just felt like he was an angel,”said the grateful grandmother.

6Delivontae said he felt“great”to help someone in need, and urged others to perform random acts of kindness when presented with the chance to brighten someone's day.He believes that what he did to help Dee was just the right thing to do.

7“You've just got to be honest,”said Delivontae.“You don't know what the outcome might be.If you do good things,good things will follow.”The two have now become friends,visiting each other and meeting family members.Dee even had lunch with Delivontae's mom,Rachel Johnson.

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Detail

1.What made Dee leave her wallet in the shopping cart?

A.Her carelessness.

B.Her poor memory.

C.An urge of her friend.

D.A lot of her purchases.

Detail

2.How did Delivontae contact Dee?

A.By the Internet.

B.By Dee's friend.

C.By her profile picture.

D.By Delivontae's mom.

Inference

3.Which of the following can best describe Delivontae?

A.Humorous.

B.Confident.

C.Ambitious.

D.Warm-hearted.

Inference

4.What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A.Delivontae's mom is proud of him.

B.We should help others more often.

C.Delivontae feels he did a right thing.

D.We can get a lot by doing good deeds.

Language

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Ⅰ.Text-centered chunks

swing by 路經；短暫拜訪

drive away（把車）開走；離去

leave...behind 把……遺留在

match...with...把……與……相匹配

hand over 交出；移交

track down 搜尋到；追查到

Ⅱ.Difficult sentence in the text

Delivontae said he felt“great”to help someone in need,and urged others to perform random acts of kindness when presented with the chance to brighten someone's day.德利文塔說，他覺得幫助有需要的人感覺“很棒”，并呼吁其他人在有機會照亮別人的一天時，做一些隨意的善舉。

【點石成金】本句是一個主從復合句，Delivontae said 后面是一個省略了that 的賓語從句；句中的when...day是一個省略了主語和系動詞的時間狀語從句。