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南昌高英 第七期命题坊高阶研修 读后续写组 黄丽娜 江西师大附中
重庆市高2022届学业质量调研抽测(第二次)
英语读后续写试题
第二节 读后续写(满分 25 分)
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Last December, Alvin Bamburg, was deep in the woods in Grand Cane, Louisiana, when something caught his eye. As Alvin approached, he figured out that the object was a broken balloon. Attached was a piece of paper decorated with bright star stickers. It was a child’s New Year’s wish list.
“Dear Uncles or Aunts,” the handwritten note reads. “My name is Luna. I am four years old. I live in Liberal, Kansas. This year I have been nice. I would only like candy, a Spider-Man ball, a frozen doll and a puppy (小狗) for my coming new year. With Love. Luna.”
Alvin’s heart hammered in his chest. Ever since he was a child, he had dreamed of this very scene. He believed this was exactly like his own childhood New Year’s wish, which eventually broke. At the thought of this, he determined that he would make Luna’s wish come true too. He just wasn’t sure how to do it.
Liberal is more than 600 miles from Grand Cane. But Alvin’s wife was not held back by the distance. As a passionate user of social media, she had seen people find all sorts of connections through the social media site and she thought it might help her husband find Luna.
Alvin came to know how to find the sender. So Alvin posted a photo of the balloon and the child’s New Year’s wish list on his social media site, asking for help to locate the sender. At first, he wasn’t sure whether it would work. But as he noticed the number of people sharing his post climbed up to the hundreds and thousands, his hope grew into expectation.
Meanwhile, Leticia, the mother of five-year-old Luna had no idea that such an effort was underway. It had definitely been a hard year for Leticia and her daughter. As COVID-19 spread, the family felt lonely, desperate, scared and isolated. On a particularly tough day last December, Leticia came up with the idea of letting her daughter send a letter to someone by balloon.
One day in earl