一次善意的救助

江西 丁彩虹

主題語境：好人好事 篇幅：306詞 建議用時：6分鐘

1They had just finished lunch at a café——Chuck Rees,his wife,Laurie,and her mother,Ann Marie Effert.Then Rees,51,spotted smoke rising from a hill a few blocks away.“Let's get up there!”he cried.

2Keeping the dark smoke in sight,the three drove through unfamiliar streets and eventually came to a white two-storey house.Rees pulled his car alongside a couple standing in front of the house.“Anybody in there?”he asked them.“I knocked,but nobody answered,”the man said.“We've called 911.”

3Rees parked his car.“Chuck,don't,”Laurie said,although she knew he wouldn't listen.He'd once dropped the phone in the middle of a conversation with her to chase a purse snatcher(搶劫者).He pointed to the flames.“Laurie,I've got to,”he said,and jumped out of the car.

4Rees ran up the driveway along the right side of the house,hoping to find the source of the fire.A locked gate blocked his way into the backyard.He climbed over it.Soon he spotted an elderly woman through the back window.Barefoot and dressed in jeans, she looked confused,as if he had awakened her.She opened the door for him.The fire raged(肆虐) in the kitchen and dining area to their left.He quickly guided the woman back through a doorway and took the woman to safety.Moments later,flames swallowed the house.

5Exhausted and covered in soot (煤煙),Rees climbed back into his car and drove his wife and mother-in-law home before anyone got his name.That night, the local news reported that an anonymous man had rescued an elderly woman with dementia(癡呆)from her burning house.Effert proudly called the media to identify her son-in-law as the hero.

6But he didn't do it for fame.Rees said,“It was something that needed to be done.”

Reading

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Detail

1.How did Rees and his family find the burning house?

A.They followed the smoke.

B.They checked door by door.

C.They used a city map.

D.They asked a couple.

Inference

2.Where was the elderly woman when Rees found her?

A.In the house. B.In the pool.

C.In the backyard. D.In the garage.

Vocabulary

3.Which word could possibly replace the underlined word“anonymous”in paragraph 5?

A.Ambitious. B.Unknown.

C.Irresponsible. D.Elderly.

Inference

4.What can we infer about Rees from this text?

A.Rees got famous after the incident.

B.Rees told the press his name.

C.Rees had helped other people before.

D.Rees was the first one to get to the house.

Language

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Ⅰ.Text-centered chunks

spot 看見；發現

in sight 看得見；被看到

unfamiliar 不熟悉的；陌生的

jump out of 跳出

climb over 爬過

source 來源；根源

identify 確認；認出

Ⅱ.Difficult sentences in the text

1.Barefoot and dressed in jeans,she looked confused,as if he had awakened her.她赤著腳，穿著牛仔褲，看上去很困惑，好像他吵醒了她一般。

【點石成金】此句中，Barefoot and dressed in jeans 為形容詞和過去分詞短語作定語；as if 引導的狀語從句使用了虛擬語氣，對過去的情況進行了相反的假設，運用了過去完成時。

2.That night,the local news reported that an anonymous man had rescued an elderly woman with dementia from her burning house.那天晚上，當地的新聞報道說，一個匿名男子從燃燒的房子里救出了一位患有癡呆癥的老婦人。

【點石成金】此句中，that 引導賓語從句，從句作reported 的賓語；with dementia 為介詞短語作定語，修飾an elderly woman。