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话题导读
[导语]本文介绍了Nicholas Winton的生平，向读者传递着他的国际主义精神和对社会的贡献，启发读者深入思考他的事迹和影响。
THE POWER of GOOD
“The British Schindler”: the life of Nicholas Winton
It is August 1939, and a group of frightened children are boarding a train at Prague’s Wilson Station. Their heartbroken parents do not join them. Indeed, they fear they may never see their children again. But they know that their children will live. These are among the 669 children, most of them Jewish, that Nicholas Winton will go on to save from death at the hands of the Nazis.
Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 in London, to German-Jewish parents. The family later took British nationality. On leaving school, Winton worked in banks in Germany and France. He returned to Britain in 1931, where he worked in business.
In December 1938, a friend asked Winton to come to Prague to aid people who were escaping from the Nazis. In Prague, Winton saw people living in terrible conditions and whose lives were in danger. He decided to help transport children to safety in Britain. He established an office to keep records of the children, and then returned to Britain to find temporary homes for them. He used donated funds and his own money to pay the 50 pounds per child that the British government required. By August 1939, Winton had saved 669 children.
阅读理解
1. Why did Nicholas Winton decide to aid the children?
2. Why did the children board a train at Prague’s Wilson Station without their parents?

答案： 1.His sympathy for the children’s fate.
2.They were Jewish, under the control of the Nazis, and Nicholas saved them.