2017年高考英语（深化复习+命题热点提分）专题14-阅读理解.docVIP

专题14 阅读理解 A It was a cold night in Washington D．C., and I was heading back to the hotel when a man approached me. He asked me for some money so he could get something to eat. Id read the signs: Dont give money to beggars. So I shook my head and kept marching. I wasnt prepared for a reply, but he said, “I am really homeless and I am really hungry! You can come with me and watch me eat！” But I kept on marching. The incident bothered me for the rest of the week. I had money in my pocket and it wouldnt have killed me to hand over a dollar or two even if he had been lying. On a freezing cold night, I still assumed the worst of a fellow human being. Flying back to Anchorage, I couldnt help thinking of him. I tried to seek excuses for my failure to help by assuming government agencies, churches and charities were there to feed him. Besides, youre not supposed to give money to beggars. Somewhere over Seattle, I started to write my weekly garden column for The Anchorage Daily News. Out of the blue, I came up with an idea. Beans Cafe, the soup kitchen in Anchorage, feeds hundreds of hungry Alaskans every day. Why not try to get all my readers to plant one row in their gardens devoted to Beans? Before long my idea took_off. People would fax me or call when they took something in. Those who only grew flowers donated them. Food for the spirit. And relief for my conscience. As more and more people started working with the Plant a Row concept, many companies gave free seeds to customers and displayed the logo, which also arose in national gardening publications. Row markers with the Plant a Row logo were distributed to gardeners to set apart their “Row for the Hungry”． It is unexpected that millions of Americans are threatened by hunger. If every gardener in America — and were seventy million strong — plants one row for the hungry, we can lower the number of neighbors who dont have enough to eat. Maybe then I will stop feeling guilty about abandoning a hungry man I could h