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D) She was fashionably dressed and walked with her head held high. 2. Why did the old woman come into the store?

A) Because she needed some food. B) Because she wanted to take a rest.

C) Because the store looked bright at night.

D) Because the store was warmer than the outside. 3. What was the speaker’s attitude toward the woman?

A) She was just polite to her. B) She was honest with her. C) She felt sorry for her.

D) She was impatient with her.

4. Did the woman get food from the store?

A) Yes, she bought some canned food.

B) Yes, the speaker gave her some food for free. C) No, she didn’t like the food sold in the store.

D) No, she left with no food because she couldn’t pay. 5. How did the speaker feel afterwards?

A) She felt relieved when the woman left.

B) She was glad that she was a good employee. C) She regretted not having helped the woman.

D) She was worried that the woman might complain to her boss. Key:

1. B 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. C

Section C Task Two: Zooming In on the Details

Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.

1) The store was brightly lit and the shelves were .

2) The woman was wearing a(n) , a and a pair of .

3) In the store, the old woman stopped before the rows of canned and picked up a can of and looked at the . 4) The speaker found it harder to her smile because the woman’s hands were covered with and the rose from her clothes.

5) The speaker was to say ―Take the corn‖, but the rules came to her mind.

6) The speaker wished that she had acted like a rather than a .

▇ Answers for reference:

1) The store was brightly lit and the shelves were neatly arranged.

2) The woman was wearing a(n) old dress , a thin sweater and a pair of black slippers .

3) In the store, the old woman stopped before the rows of canned vegetables and picked up a can of corn and looked at the label .

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4) The speaker found it harder to maintain her smile because the woman’s hands were covered with dirt and the smell of sweat rose from her clothes. 5) The speaker was tempted to say ―Take the corn‖, but the employee rules came to her mind. 6) The speaker wished that she had acted like a human being rather than a robot.

Script:

At the 7-Eleven Store

One night, while I was working in the 7-Eleven Store, I saw an old woman walking as if each step were painful. She slowly pushed open the glass door. The moment she entered, she presented a sharp contrast to the store. The store had bright lighting and neatly arranged shelves. On such a cold night, she was wearing only an old dress, a thin sweater too small to button and a pair of black slippers.

After walking around the aisle for several minutes, the old woman stopped in front of the rows of canned vegetables. She picked up a can of corn and looked at the label. I decided to be a good employee and asked her if she needed help. As I stood close to her, my smile became harder to maintain. Her hands were covered with layer upon layer of dirt, and the smell of sweat rose from her clothes.

―Can I help you?‖ I asked brightly. ―I need some food,‖ she muttered. ―Are you looking for corn, madam?‖

―I need some food,‖ she repeated. ―Any kind.‖

―Well, the corn is ninety-five cents,‖ I said in my most helpful voice. ―I can’t pay,‖ she said.

For a second, I was tempted to say, ―Take the corn.‖ But the employee rules said, ―Remain polite, but do not let customers get the best of you‖. For a moment, I even believed that this woman was someone from the head office testing my loyalty. I replied, ―I’m sorry, ma’am, but I can’t give away anything for free.‖

The old woman’s hands trembled as she put the can back on the shelf. She hobbled past me toward the door. Her torn and dirty clothing barely covered her bent back.

For the rest of my shift, the image of the woman stayed in my mind. I was young and healthy, while she was old and sick. I wished with all my heart that I had acted like a human being rather than a robot.

Part III Read and Explore Text A

Section A Discovering the Main Ideas

Exercise 1: Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. 1. Why did the narrator hesitate to hire Stevie? 2. What removed the narrator’s doubts? How? 3. What was the life of Stevie and his mother like?

4. How was it that Stevie missed work one morning in three years?

5. How did the staff and the trucker regulars react to the news of Stevie’s health conditions? 6. Was Stevie looking forward to the day when he could return to work? Why?

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7. How did people react when Stevie and his mother were presented with the $10,000 donation tucked within the napkins? What did Stevie do then? 8. What does the story tell us?

▇ Answers for reference:

1. Stevie was mentally handicapped and the narrator was not sure how his customers would react to a handicapped busboy in the restaurant.

2. Stevie’s popularity with the customers and the staff freed the narrator from worries. Stevie was cheerful, hardworking, and meticulous in his work. He took pride in doing his job exactly right, and the customers loved how hard he tried to please each and every person he met. Within a month the trucker regulars had adopted Stevie as their official truck-stop mascot.

3. Stevie lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled after repeated surgeries for cancer. They lived a very harsh life on their Social Security benefits. Money was tight. Besides, with his Down’s syndrome, Stevie had a heart problem.

4. He was in hospital receiving heart surgery ? getting a new valve or something put in his heart. 5. The staff were very sad at the news of Stevie’s heart problem, then they got excited to learn that he was out of surgery. To help Stevie cover the medical expenses, trucker regulars began to donate money to him.

6. Yes. Because he was eager to come back to work and he was afraid that he might have been forgotten and his job might be lost.

7. They were all very much touched. Everybody cheered except for Stevie, who had already started working earnestly.

8. This is an inspirational story. It tells us that handicapped people can support themselves and find a meaningful life in which they may take a pride. It also shows how those who offer help may find their life more enjoyable when they contribute to others’ happiness.

Exercise 2: Text A can be divided into four parts. Now write down the paragraph number(s) of each part and then give the main idea of each in one or two sentences.

Part Paragraph(s) Main Idea

The author was worried about hiring Stevie because he was

mentally handicapped and the author wasn’t sure how some One 1-2

of his fault-finding customers would react.

The author’s worries vanished when he found that Stevie

was very pleasing, hardworking and very attentive, and Two 3-5

consequently he became popular with the author’s staff and regular customers.

Having learned that Stevie and his mother lived a hard life,

the other staff and the truck drivers made efforts to help him Three 6-14

after he had had heart surgery.

On Stevie’s return to work, the mother and son received a

warm welcome, a free breakfast and a donation of over Four 15-18

$10,000 in cash and checks.

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Section B In-Depth Study

Stevie, a mentally handicapped boy, is given a job as a busboy in a truck-stop restaurant. He takes pride in doing his job exactly right and regular trucker customers soon adopt him as their official truck-stop mascot. When the boy undergoes heart surgery, the truck customers and their companies reach out helping hands.

Something for Stevie

Dan Anderson

1. I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His placement counselor assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee and wasn’t sure I wanted one. I wasn’t sure how my customers would react. Stevie was short, a little dumpy, with the smooth facial features and thick-tongued speech of Down’s syndrome.

2. I wasn’t worried about most of my trucker customers. Truckers don’t generally care who buses tables as long as the food is good and the pies are homemade. The ones who concerned me were the mouthy college kids traveling to school; the yuppie snobs who secretly polish their silverware with their napkins for fear of catching some dreaded ―truck-stop germ;‖ and the pairs of white-shirted businessmen on expense accounts who think every truck-stop waitress wants to be flirted with. I knew those people would be uncomfortable around Stevie, so I closely watched him for the first few weeks. 3. I shouldn’t have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my staff wrapped around his little finger. Within a month my trucker regulars had adopted him as their official truck-stop mascot. After that I really didn’t care what the rest of the customers thought.

4. He was a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes, eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to his duties. Every salt and pepper shaker was exactly in its place, not a bread crumb or coffee spill was visible when Stevie got done with the table.

5. Our only problem was convincing him to wait to clean a table until after the customers were finished. He would hover in the background, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, scanning the dining room until a table was empty. Then he would hurry to the empty table and carefully bus the dishes and glasses onto the cart and meticulously wipe the table with a practiced flourish of his rag. If he thought a customer was watching, his brows would pucker with added concentration. He took pride in doing his job exactly right, and you had to love how hard he tried to please each and every person he met.

6. Over time, we learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled after repeated surgeries for cancer. They lived on their Social Security benefits in public housing two miles from the truck-stop. Their social worker, who stopped to check on him every so often, admitted they had fallen between the cracks. Money was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between them being able to live together and Stevie being sent to a group home.

7. That’s why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning last August, the first morning in three years that Stevie missed work. He was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a new valve or something put in his heart. His social worker said that people with Down’s syndrome often have heart problems at an early age, so this wasn’t unexpected. There was a good chance he would come through

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