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It was only a dollar. Belscher noticed it on the floor as he sat at the back of his English class. When the school day ended, Belscher wandered back to the classroom. The old bill was still there. He could easily have pocketed it without thinking twice. Instead, he picked it up and brought it to his English teacher, Mattison.
“It wasn’t my money,” Belscher says. Mattison was a little surprised he’d turned the dollar in, knowing a lot of people would have just kept it. She suggested that Belscher tape(贴) it to the whiteboard at the front of the classroom, where she always puts lost things.
Rose, another student, was in English class after break when he spotted the dollar on the whiteboard. After class, he asked Mattison why it was there. She was still waiting for the original owner to claim it, so she replied, “I don’t know.” Rose took the tape from Mattison’s desk and taped a second dollar to the board.
That got it rolling. The sight of the two dollar bills, side by side, started something in Mattison’s students. They started asking about the purpose of the money, to which Mattison always gave the same answer: She didn’t know. At that point, it was true.
More students, curious, taped up single dollar bills. Mattison started to leave the tape on the tray of the whiteboard. The effort snowballed. Even with no clear purpose, many students wanted to be part of whatever this was. The amount continued to grow over several weeks, until it reached $175.76.
That left Mattison to make the best decision. She kept thinking about her brother-in-law, Jack Hains. Eight years earlier, Jack had died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare and devastating neurological disease(神经疾病).
Mattison explained to her classes that Jack had raised money every spring for the ALS Therapy Development Institute, established to seek a cure for the disease. She asked the teens whether they minded if she donated the dollars in their names in honor of Jack.
Their answer was to tape enough money to the whiteboard over the next few days to push the amount to $321.06. Mattison, choking back tears as she recalls the moment, says she carefully picked the cash off the board and made the donation just before the beginning of May, which is National ALS Awareness Month. That was Saturday. By Monday afternoon, eight more dollars had been taped to the board.
21. When Belscher first found a dollar bill, .
A. he returned it to its owner
B. he donated it to the school
C. he handed it in to the teacher
D. he picked it up and pocketed it
22. What happened after Rose taped a second dollar on the whiteboard?
A. The money was stolen by someone.
B. More and more students did the same.
C. The whiteboard was no longer used for class.
D. The teacher asked the students to find the owner.
23. The teacher decided to donate the money to ALS institute because .
A. Jack had asked her to do so.
B. she had been cured of the disease before.
C. the students had no idea of the deadly disease.
D. she wanted to help those who suffered from ALS.
24. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. The students supported the teacher’s donation.
B. Only eight dollars were left on the whiteboard.
C. The teacher returned all the money to the students.
D. There would be no more money to be taped to the board.
