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读后续写 善行助人改编自小说《最后一片叶子》
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Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Two young women named Sue and Johnsy shared a studio apartment at the top of a three-story building.In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit the city. This disease, pneumonia,killed many people. Johnsy lay on her bed, hardly moving. She looked through the small window.
One morning, a doctor examined Johnsy. Then he spoke with Sue in another room.“She has one chance in ten," he said.“And that chance is for her to want to live.”After the doctor had gone, Sue went to Johnsy's room. Johnsy lay with her face toward the window. Sue heard a low sound, several times repeated. She went quickly to the bedside Johnsy was looking out of the window and counting backward. “Twelve,” she said, and a little later “eleven”; and then “ten”and “nine”: and then “eight”and “seven”,almost together.
Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only an empty yard and the blank side of the house seven meters away. An old ivy vine, going bad at the roots.climbed half way up the wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken leaves from the plant until its branches,almost bare,hung on the bricks.
What is it,dear?” asked Sue.
“Leaves. On the plant. When the last one falls I must go, too.”
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building. He was a failure in art. For years, he had always been planning to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. He was a fierce, little, old man who protected the two young women in the apartment above him.
Sue told Behrman about Johnsy and how she feared that her friend would float away like a leaf. They looked out of a window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other without speaking.A cold rain was falling,mixed with snow.
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The next morning,the last ivy leaf was still there.
Behrman died of pneumonia two days after the rai