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The Meredith familylived in a small community. As the economy was in decline, some people in thetown had lost their jobs. Many of their families were struggling to make endsmeet. People were trying to help each other meet the challenges.

Mrs. Meredith was a mostkind and thoughtful woman. She spent a great deal of time visiting the poor.She knew they had problems, and they needed all kinds of help. When she hadtime, she would bring food and medicine to them.

One morning she told herchildren about a family she had visited the day before. There was a man sick inbed, his wife, who took care of him and could not go out to work, and their littleboy. The little boy—his name was Bernard—had interested her very much.

“I wish you could seehim,” she said to her own children, John, Harry, and Clara. “He is such a helpto his mother. He wants very much to earn some money, but I don’t see what hecan do.”

After their mother leftthe room, the children sat thinking about Bernard. “I wish we could help him toearn money,” said Clara. “His family is suffering so much.”

“So do I,” said Harry.“We really should do something to assist them.”

For some moments, Johnsaid nothing, but, suddenly, he sprang to his feet and cried, “I have a greatidea! I have a solution that we can all help accomplish (完成).”

The other children alsojumped up all attention. When John had an idea, it was sure to be a good one.“I tell you what we can do,” said John. “You know that big box of corn UncleJohn sent us? Well, we can make popcorn (爆米花), and put it into paper bags, and Bernard can take it around tothe houses and sell it.”

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1. 续写词数应为150左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

When Mrs. Meredith heardof John’s idea, she thought it was a good one, too. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

With everything ready,Bernard started out on his new business. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________