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高中英文（二）Outside Reading —  FILENAME 627409-58f4df22a34c3.doc -  PAGE 4 - Unit 9 Blameless Part A 閱讀－Reading Section 　　I was a freshman in college when I met the Whites. They were completely different from my own family, yet I felt comfortable with them immediately. Jane White and I became friends at school, and her family welcomed me as their own daughter. 　　In my family, when anything bad happened, it was always important to put the blame on somebody. 　“Who did this?”my mother would yell about a mess in the kitchen. 　“This is all your fault, Katherine,”my father would say when the dishwasher broke. 　　But the Whites didn’t worry about who had done what. The beauty of this was driven home to me the summer Jane died. 　　In July, Jane, her two sisters and I decided to take a car trip from their home in Florida to New York. Jane and her older sister, Sarah, were both college students. Amy, the youngest in the family, had recently turned 16. She was the proud owner of a brand-new driver’s license. She was excited about practicing her driving on the trip. 　　The big sisters shared the driving of Sarah’s new car during the first part of the trip. But when they reached areas where there was less traffic, they let Amy drive. Somewhere in South Carolina, we stopped to eat. 　　After lunch, Amy got behind the wheel. She came to an intersection with a stop sign for her direction only. Whether she was distracted or just didn’t see the sign, no one will ever know, but Amy continued into the intersection without stopping. 　　The driver of a large truck, unable to brake in time, crashed into our car. 　　Jane was killed instantly. 　　I survived the accident with only a few bruises. The most difficult thing that I’ve ever done was to call the Whites to tell them about the accident and that Jane had died. As painful as it was for me to lose a good friend, I knew that it was far worse for them to lose a child. 　　When Mr. and Mrs. White arrived at the hospital, they found their two surv