题目内容
A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was. “No charge,” 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 happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage(抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d begun to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for Slate, the online magazine, and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans.
It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no plans to go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me while he went to England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kennedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance.
59. The garage employee’s attitude toward the author was that of ____.
A. unconcern B. sympathy C. doubt D. tolerance
60. What do we know about James Kennedy?
A. He was a writer of an online magazine.
B. He was a poet at the University of Florida.
C. He offered the author a new house free of charge.
D. He learned about the author’s sufferings via e-mail.
61. It can be inferred from the text that____.
A. the author’s family was in financial difficulty.
B. rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster.
C. houses were difficult to find in the hurricane-stricken area.
D. the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank.
62. The author learned from his experience that ____.
A. worldly possessions can be given up when necessary.
B. generosity should be encouraged in some cases.
C. people benefit from their sad stories.
D. human beings are kind after all.
谁说人间无情？遭遇飓风之灾的我处处感受到了人间的温情：免费加油、免费理发，甚至房子都有人提供。你难道不为此感动吗？
59. B 推理题。由文章的第二段得知当加油站的工作人员得知我来自新奥尔良时，说“No charge”，对我的态度显示出的是“sympathy（同情）”。
60. C 细节题。由文章的第三段最后一句得出答案。
61. A 推理题。文章的开头提到作者家乡遭遇飓风，接下来讲免费加油、免费理发，后来又讲想租房子，从这一系列情况可推测出作者一家遇到了财政困难。
62. D 推理题。由文章最后一段可得出答案。而且全文以作者被人间温情所感动为线索来展开。
