高三英语二轮复习学案-名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选：A Mother’s Love.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 A Mother’s Love（答案在最后） 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选A Mother’s Love 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 动物的爱 五星 1128 【文章梗概】我是一名消防员，在执行任务途中遇见一群受伤的小猫，它们的妈妈生死未卜，还惦念着孩子们。深受感动的我决定帮忙，幸运的是她们都勇敢地活下来了。 I am a New York City fireman. Being a firefighter has its grim side. When someone’s business or home is destroyed, it can break your heart. You see a lot of terror and sometimes even death. But the day I found Scarlett was different. That was a day about life. And love. It was a Friday. We’d responded to an early morning alarm in Brooklyn at a burning garage. As I was getting my gear on, I heard the sound of cats crying. I couldn’t stop—I would have to look for the cats after the fire was put out. This was a large fire, so there were other hook and ladder companies there as well. We had been told that everyone in the building had made it out safely. I sure hoped so—the entire garage was filled with flames, and it would have been futile for anyone to attempt a rescue anyway. It took a long time and many firefighters to finally bring the enormous blaze under control. At that point I was free to investigate the cat noises, which I still heard. There continued to be a tremendous amount of smoke and intense heat coming from the building. I couldn’t see much, but I followed the meowing to a spot on the sidewalk about five feet away from the front of the garage. There, crying and huddled together, were three terrified little kittens. Then I found two more, one in the street and one across the street. They must have been in the building, as their fur was badly singed. I yelled for a box and out of the crowd around me, one appeared. Putting the five kittens in the box, I carried them to the porch of a neighboring house. I started looking for a mother cat. It was obvious that the mother had gone into the burning garage and carried each of her babies, one by one, out to the sidewalk. Five separate trips into that raging heat and deadly smoke—it was hard to imagine. Th