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My kids sit in Gee's living room and excitedly lit old New Year decorations out of a well-loved card...
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My kids sit in Gee's living room and excitedly lit old New Year decorations out of a well-loved cardboard box. She tells me that she and Tom built their decoration collection piece by piece during each year's after-New Year sale. She smiles as we leave with the box
We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage, someone had been returning our garbage cans to the garage each garbage day, and Jim and I had wondered who. Then one day we spotted him: an elderly man who lived across the street.
I baked cookies and left them on a bench outside the garbage with a thank-you note. When we got home from work that day, a typed letter had replaced the gift. The letter was from Tom and explained how he had come to walk the neighborhood on garbage day, retuning cans for people he barely knew. Back where he'd been fighting a war, his young wife, Gee, had found herself living alone. Neighbors had taken the time to handle her garbage cans so she didn't have to, and he never forgot. Now he paid it forward by doing the same for all of us. Unfortunately a few years after we'd moved in, Tom died.
These days, we're piling up boxes of our own. We're planning a move. The house that seemed so huge six years ago is filled to capacity with furniture and books and toys and, of course, people, We know it's time to go, and yet we can't seem to stick the For Sale sign up on the grassland. Gaining a third bedroom and maybe an office sometimes seems like a lousy trade for all we stand to lose.
It's not just Gee and Tom. It’s the man who lets our kids pick peaches of the tree in his front yard. It's the ladies who call Jim when their pool filter breaks and leave overflowing baskets for our kids on Easter. It's the officer who smiles and waves and makes me feel a little safer when Jim is away. It is they who teach us what it means to be a neighbor.
1.What do we know about the New Year decorations according to paragraph 1?
A.The kids don't like them.
B.Gee is willing to give them to us.
C.Gee sees them as useless now. ,
D.Gee and Tom made them by themselves.
2.How did the author get to know Tom?
A.Tom lived across the street.
B.Tom liked the cookies the author baked.
C.Tom returned the garbage cans for the author.
D.Tom shared their decorations with the author.
3.Tom decided to help his neighbors because
A.they had just moved into the community
B.he had been saved by a neighbor during the war
C.his wife had been helped by the neighbors during his absence
D.there were so many garbage cans in the neighborhood at that time
4.What can we infer from the underlined sentence?
A.Their house couldn't be sold at a high price
B.The author didn't want to leave their neighbors
C.The author's family was in bad need of a third bedroom
D.Their moving out would be a great loss for the neighbors
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