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1. “妈妈，你为什么对这个陌生人这么慷慨，而当我要酸奶的时

候，对我那么吝啬？”

2. 我解释说，如果我们对这个可怜的人的处境视而不见，他会冻

僵的。

3. 他毕竟没有家，也没有吃的东西。

4. 即使我们经济上有压力，我们也可以省下五块钱。

5. 最后，我的儿子点点头，眼睛盯着他的酸奶。

6. 他看了看酸奶，递给窗外的人。

7. 即使只是几勺酸奶，那也是他仅有的，他把它送给了比他更需

要的人。

8. 他让我知道作为母亲的我做得很好。

9. 只要我们睁开眼睛，总会有幸福可言，我们总有机为别人带来

幸福。

10. 他把Tiara拉向他。她的身体虚弱，没有呼吸。

11. 他把她搂在怀里站了起来。

12. 他感到两颊上火苗的热度。

13. 他转过身来，在浓烟中挣扎，不假思索地跑进了黑暗中。

14. Surrell把Tiara放在门廊上。他第一次做心肺复苏术。

15. 很快她睁开眼睛，自己吸了一口气。Surrell的喉咙阻塞了。

16. 他的气管和肺上部严重烧伤。

17. 他在医院呆了一个多星期。

18. 大火使Surrell的肺状况恶化，甚至两年后他也感觉到了这种

影响。

19. 因此，他需要额外的药物来帮助他打开呼吸道。

20. “这是一个很小的代价，”他说。“我会很快再做一次。毫不犹

豫。”

21. Reuben又冷又饿，在街上徘徊，仔仔细细地寻找装钉子的麻

袋。

22. 为了积攒更多的钱，他甚至决定一大早送报纸。

23. 尽管他感到筋疲力尽，但他仍然坚持这个计划。

24. 商店橱窗里的胸针提醒他，他所做的是值得的。

25. 经过长时间的努力，他终于成功了。

26. 他拿出汽水罐，把硬币倒出来，开始数。

27. 五美元！他的努力得到了回报！

28. Reuben紧紧地拿着汽水罐，冲到商店去买胸针。

29. 他一拿到漂亮的胸针，就冲进前门，把胸针放在Dora的手里。

30. Dora从来没有收到过这样的礼物。

31. 她说不出话来，高兴极了，把儿子紧紧地抱在怀里，眼里噙

满了泪水。

参考答案：

1. “Mum, why are you so generous to this stranger while so mean to me

when I asked for a yogurt?”

2. I explained that if we were blind to the poor man’s situation he would

be freezing.

3. He didn’t have a home or food to eat after all.

4. We could spare five dollars even if we were financially stressed.

5. Finally my son nodded and fixed his eyes on his yogurt.

6. He looked his yogurt and handed it to the man outside his window.

7. Even if it was just a matter of a few spoonfuls of yogurt, it was all he

had, and he gave it to someone who needed it more than he wanted it.

8. He showed me that I was doing well as a mother.

9. There are always blessings to count if we open our eyes, and we

always have the opportunity to be a blessing for someone else.

10. He pulled Tiara toward him. Her body was weak and she wasn’t

breathing.

11. He hugged her into his arms and stood.

12. He felt the heat of the flames on his cheeks.

13. Turning, he fought through the smoke and ran blindly into the

blackness.

14. Surrell put Tiara down on the porch. He started CPR — the first

time he’d ever done so.

15. Soon she opened her eyes and took a breath on her own. Surrel’s

throat closed off.

16. He suffered severe burns to his windpipe and the upper portion of

his lungs.

17. He spent over a week in the hospital.

18. The fire worsened Surrell’s pulmonary condition, and he feels the

effects even two years later.

19. As a result, he takes extra medication that helps open his airways.

20. “It’s a small price to pay,” he says. “I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Wouldn’t give it a second thought.”

21. Cold and hungry, Reuben wandered the streets, searching for the

nail bags carefully.

22. To save more money, he even decided to deliver papers in the early

morning.

23. Exhausted and tired as he felt, he still stuck to the plan.

24. It was the brooch in the shop window that reminded him that what

he did was worthwhile.

25. After a long time of hard work, he made it eventually.

26. He took out the soda tin, poured the coins out and began to count.

27. Five dollars! His hard work paid off!

28. Holding the soda tin firmly, Reuben rushed for the shop to buy the

brooch.

29. The moment he got the beautiful brooch, he burst through the front

door and placed it in Dora’s hand.

30. Never had Dora received such a gift.

31. Speechless and happy, she held her son tightly into her arms, with

tears welling up in her eyes.