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A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was, “No charge.” She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage(抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d began to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded a good to her return, but I replied, thinking him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. Then the University of Florida offered to let him house to me. While he want to England on his one year, paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing you wordy possessions to be reminded that people really when given had a channel.
21. What do we know about James Kemnedy?
A. He was a writer of an online magazine
B. He offered the author a new house free of charge.
C. He was a poet at the University of Florida.
D. He learned about the author’s sufferings.
22. It can be inferred from the text that .
A. houses were difficult to find in the hurricane stricken area
B. rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster
C. the author’s family was in financial difficulty
D. the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank
23. Which would be the best title for the text?
A. Terrible Hurricane Katrina but comfortable life on our own.
B. The Importance of Helping Others in reward.
C. Life and study free of rent in Florida,feeling grateful.
D. Hurricane Is Heartless While Strangers Are Kind.
