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A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house,
1 to waist-high
ruins, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I'd had my car
2 . When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill,
she
3 my Louisiana license plate.
"You from New Orleans?" she asked. I said I was. "No
4 ," she said, and firmly shook her head when I
reached for my wallet.
The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing
5 .
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to
6 there and tried to find a rental house that we
could
7 while also paying off a mortgage (抵押贷款) on our
8 house. We looked at many places, but none
was
9 . We'd begun to accept that we'd have to live in extremely reduced circumstances
10 , when I got a
very
11 e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He'd read some pieces I'd written about our
12 for Slate,
the online magazine and wanted to give us ("no conditions attached") a new house
13 the lake from New
Orleans.
It sounded too good to be
14 , but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional
15 , that we had no plans to
go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida
16 to rent his house to me while he went to England on his
one-year paid leave. The rent was rather
17 . I mentioned the poet's offer to James Kemmedy, and the next day
he sent a check
18 our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the
19 of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity.
It's almost worth
20 your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a
chance.
( )1.A. destroyed ( )2.A. fixed ( )3.A. examined ( )4.A. problem ( )5.A. repeated ( )6.A. move ( )7.A. supply ( )8.A. spoiled ( )9.A. satisfied ( )10.A. for a while ( )11.A. polite ( )12.A. marriage ( )13.A. across ( )14.A. correct ( )15.A. generosity ( )16.A. attempted ( )17.A. reasonable ( )18.A. hiding ( )19.A. quality ( )20.A. abandoning |
B. reduced B. stolen B. checked B. money B. happened B. go B. furnish B. repaired B. satisfactory B. in a while B. direct B. life B. under B. true B. possession B. encouraged B. believable B. covering B. state B. throwing |
C. damaged C. broken C. watched C. charge C. came C. leave C. afford C. new C. approved C. all the while C. strange C. struggles C. in C. accurate C. trust C. offered C. expensive C. consisting C. example C. losing |
D. made D. improved D. noticed D. parking D. appeared D. remove D. buy D. ruined D. agreed D. after a while D. disappointing D. family D. over D. exact D. politeness D. advised D. practical D. sharing D. kindness D. gaining |