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英语四级听力美文第25篇:Friendship
One family, which had emigrated from Japan and settled at the turn of the
century near SanFrancisco, had established a business in which they grew roses
and trucked them into SanFrancisco three mornings a week. The other family was a
naturalized family from Switzerlandwho also marketed roses, and both families
became modestly successful, as their roses wereknown in the markets of San
Francisco for their long vase-life. For almost four decades the twofamilies were
neighbors, and the sons took over the farms, but then on December 7, 1941, Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor. Although the rest of the family members were Americans,
thefather of the Japanese family had never been naturalized. As they planned to
leave the country, his neighbor made it clear that, if necessary, he would look
after his friend's nursery. It wassomething each family had learned in church:
Love thy neighbor as thyself.“You would do thesame for us,” he told his Japanese
friend. It was not long before the Japanese family wastransported to a barren
landscape in Canada. A full year went by. Then two. Then three. While the
Japanese neighbors were in Canada, their friends worked in the greenhouses,
thechildren worked before school and on Saturdays, and the father's work often
stretched to 16 and 17 hours a day. And then one day, when the war in Europe had
ended, the Japanese familypacked up and boarded a train. They were going home.
What would they find? The family wasmet at the train station by their neighbors,
and when they got to their home, the wholeJapanese family stared. There was the
nursery, intact, scrubbed and shining in the sunlight — neat, prosperous and
healthy. And the house was just as clean and welcoming as the nursery. And there
on the dining room was one perfect red rosebud, just waiting to unfold — the
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发表于 2018-4-28 14:44:11