《2025年课课练译林出版社八年级英语上册译林版安徽专版》

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When I was 24, I found a job in the city and moved into a flat. Because I had to work at night, I always went to bed around noon. Unluckily, the family next door were noisy all the time. After putting up with (忍受) it for a couple of weeks, I decided to face them and politely ask them to be quiet after lunch.
I knocked at their door and an old lady answered. I introduced myself first. Then she asked if I came over to complain about the noise. I said yes. She explained both she and her husband were going deaf (聋的), so they needed to speak loudly to hear each other. She invited me in and offered me a cup of coffee, and we started talking. Suddenly, we heard a loud noise in the kitchen. Then we found that her husband fell onto the ground. We sent him to the hospital at once.
When I came home from work the next day, there was a knock on the door from the lady. She asked me if I could drive her to the hospital. I said “No problem”. When we got to the hospital, I followed her to her husband's room and helped them with different things. Soon I became a friend of this couple and kept helping them before they moved away a year later.
One day after ten years, I got a letter. It was from the old couple's children. After reading the letter, I knew that the couple asked their children to find me. They often told their children stories about our friendship. They said that I was a kind young man. In this way, I met the family again and continued our friendship.
1. When did the writer move into the flat? ______
2. Why did the old couple need to speak loudly to hear each other? ______
3. What happened to the old man when the writer visited the old couple for the first time? ______
4. Who wrote a letter to the writer after ten years? ______
5. What can you learn from the story? ______

答案： 1. When he was 24.
2. Because both she and her husband were going deaf.
3. He fell onto the ground.
4. The old couple's children.
5. Kindness can bring friendship.