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画龙点睛 勾勒篇章结构 Passage A A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans.There lay my house，reduced to waist-high rains, 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.“Are 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 State，an 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 of the University of Florida offered to let his house to us 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 backs my faith in humanity.It’s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people really want to be kind when given a chance. 1．Which one shows the right time order? ①James Kennedy sent us a check. ②A poet offered his house to us. ③Our home was reduced to ruins. ④The garage employee charged us nothing. ⑤James Kennedy offered a new house from New Orleans. A．④③⑤①② B．③④⑤②① C．④③⑤②① D．③④⑤①② 2．What do you know about James Kennedy? A．He was a friend