2024届高考英语阅读理解五步法专项带练（42）讲义

①In March 2018, at a high school in New York, Dylan Belscher found an old dollar on the floor during an English class. Rather than keeping it, he turned it in to his teacher, Katie Mattison. Mattison, surprised by his honesty, suggested taping it to the whiteboard at the front of the classroom, where she always puts lost things. Maybe the dollar was lunch money or bus fare for the student who dropped it. ②Neither the teacher nor her student thought twice about the dollar. Hunter Rose, then a senior, spotted the dollar on the whiteboard. “There is a mystery to it,” Rose said. 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, stimulated something in Mattison’s students. ③Mattison, recognizing a phenomenon in the making, wrote students’ initials on each bill, and she started to leave the tape on the tray of the whiteboard. The effort snowballed. Even with no specific purpose, many students wanted to be part of whatever this was. Jake Braniecki, another senior, said everyone understood that the eventual plan for the dollars would be for “something good” and that their teacher “wasn’t going to do anything stupid with the money”. The students, among themselves, decided Mattison had some unspoken goal. They figured bigger donations could only help them get there faster. ④Over weeks, donations reached $175.76. The original owner of the lost dollar never came forward, leaving Mattison to decide the best solution. ⑤Mattison shared the story of her godfather, Jack, who died of ALS eight years prior, and his sister, Jean, who had the same disease three years later. Jack had been married to Mattison’s sister, Terry Stephan Hains, who raises money for the ALS Therapy Development Institute each spring. Mattison asked her students if she could d