名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Mrs. G in 3B 学案-高三英语二轮复习培优.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Mrs. G in 3B 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选Mrs. G in 3B 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 学会求助 五星 1170 【文章梗概】在我居住的公寓楼，经常有汽车司机做善事，开车送Green太太去化疗，而作为学生的我，经常步行去车站乘汽车去学校，不会向别人请求搭便车。三周后的一个下着大雪的晚上，我要赶去学校参加期末考试，怕迟到赶不上考试，我终于鼓足勇气向他人求助，而这次开车送我去学校的，竟然是身患癌症的Green太太，老太太也为再次像个正常人那样去帮助他人而很高兴。 The notice was posted next to the tenants’ mailboxes in the apartment building I’d just moved into in Brooklyn, New York. “A Mitzvah for Mrs. Green,” it read. “Sign up to drive Mrs. G in #3B home from her chemotherapy treatments twice a month.” Since I wasn’t a driver, I couldn’t add my name, but the word mitzvah lingered in my thoughts after I went upstairs. It’s a Hebrew word that means “to do a good deed,” or “an act that expresses God’s will.” It is more than that, really, more like a commandment to do things for others. And according to my grandmother, it also had another meaning. This was the one she was always pointing out to me because she’d notice how shy I was about letting people do things for me. “Linda, it’s a blessing to do a mitzvah for someone else, but sometimes it’s a blessing to let another person do something for you.” Grandma would be shaking her head at me right now. Several of my friends at the graduate school I attended nights had offered to help me settle in after the moving men left, but I’d said I could manage. Letting them help would have interfered with my image of myself as a capable and independent woman of 21. Snowflakes had been tumbling past my window for several hours when it came time to leave for class. I pulled on two sweaters, a coat, a wool hat and boots, bundling up for the trek to the bus stop that the real estate agent had dismissed as a short stroll. Maybe in May it was a stroll, but in this December storm it was a hike. As I topped off my outfit with a blue scarf that Grandma had crocheted for me, I could almost hear her voice: “Why don’t you see if you can find a lift?” A thousand reasons why popped into my head: I don’t know m