话题10 公益事业与志愿服务-2020高考英语【试吧大考卷】高中全程训练计划

话题十　公益事业与志愿服务 A [2019·福州市质量检查] Steve Brosnihan is the “resident cartoonist” at the Children's Hospital, who wanders from room to room drawing and chatting and doing whatever else he can think of to cheer up the sick children. During one visit, he was saying good night to a teenage patient when he had a bright idea. Steve told the teenager to look out of the window after he left. Outside, Steve flickered (闪烁) his bike light up toward the hospital. To his surprise, the teen responded, flickering his own room lights right back. Every night after that, Steve flickered his light, and more and more kids flickered back. When he mentioned it to a friend working at a restaurant, the owner said he wanted in too. He started to flicker the restaurant sign for one minute every night at 8：30. Soon enough, the customers started joining in with flashlights and cell phones. Almost by accident, a simple action was changing into a powerful connection between local people and sick children. Now more than 20 groups are on board for the 8：30 p．m. flicker. Every Wednesday night, police officers line up their cars and flash them. Even boats on the river join in to give their bright good­night wave to kids who are going through frightening situations and sleeping in a strange place. “It is all I look forward to basically all day，” says Abigail Waldron, aged ten. “It just shows you that somebody is helping you through your whole experience in the hospital.” “It would be very hard not to do this，” says Steve，“once you start.” The most powerful of all, he adds, comes from the families of children who have died. They continue to return to the hospital to flicker a light outside in support of children who are still patients. 体裁：记叙文　题材：公益事业　主题：闪烁灯光活动 【文章大意】　本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了Steve Brosnihan在儿童医院外向医院闪烁车灯使生病的孩子振作起来的故事，后来更多的人参与到闪烁灯光的活动中。 【难句分析】　Steve Brosnihan is the“resident cartoonist”at the Children's Hospital，who wanders from room to room drawing and chatting and doing whatever else he can think o