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题型突破(七)　主旨大意之文章或段落大意题A(2017·南京九中模拟)Perhaps every old generation since ancient times has complained about young people，and today is no different.Isn’t it clear that compared with our glorious selves，kids these days are self-absorbed social network addicts?However，this summer，my impression of today’s kids has been restored by the story of Rachel Beckwith.She could teach my generation a great deal about maturity and unselfishness—even though she’s just 9 years old，or was when she died on July 23.At age 5，Rachel had her long hair shorn off and sent to Locks of Love，which uses hair donations to make artificial hair for children who have lost their own hair because of cancer or other diseases.After that，Rachel announced that she would grow her hair long again and donate it again.And that’s what she did.Then when she was 8 years old，her church began raising money to build wells in Africa through an organization called charity：water.Rachel was astonished when she learned that other children had no clean water，so she skipped her ninth birthday party.Rachel set up a birthday page on the charity：water website with a target of 300.Instead of presents，she asked her friends to donate 9 each to charity：water.Finally Rachel raised only 220—which had left her just a bit disappointed.Then，on July 20，a serious traffic accident left Rachel critically injured.Church members and friends，seeking some way of showing support，began donating on Rachel’s birthday page—charitywater.org/Rachel—and donations reached her 300 goal，and kept rising.But Rachel couldn’t hear that she had raised beyond the 47,544 that the singer Justin Bieber had raised for charity：water on his 17th birthday.“I think Rachel would have been overjoyed for she secretly had a crush on(迷恋……) him，” Rachel’s mom said.When it was clear that Rachel would never regain consciousness，the family decided to remove the life support system.Her parents donated her hair for the final time to Locks of Love，and her organs to other children