2004年高考英语全国1卷 - 阅读理解B

Giving Back
回馈

Fair Way
公平之路

The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong on one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Wobum High had won. "No one would have known," said Wobum's instruc­tor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn't a difficult decision: "The prize wasn’t ours to take."
韦斯特伯勒高中高尔夫球队已经和全国联赛奖杯合影留念，而其他球队正失望地坐在回家的巴士上。韦斯特伯勒的教练格雷格·罗塔注意到有张记分卡出了问题，9被记录为7。他们没有赢得联赛奖杯；沃本高中赢了。“没有人会知道，”沃布姆高中的教练鲍勃·多兰说。对罗塔来说，这不是一个艰难的决定：“这个奖杯不该我们拿。”

Coin Stars
硬币之星

"College students are lazy, but they also want to help," says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her " Change for Change" effort has collected $40,000 for charities, which were decided upon by students.
宾夕法尼亚大学的研究生德纳·霍克说：“大学生懒惰，但他们也想帮助人”，所以她让事情变得简单，把杯子放在学生可以留下多余硬币的房间里，并把杯子分发给一年级学生留在他们自己的房间里。她的“为零钱而改变”的努力为慈善事业筹得了4万美元，所有这些都是源于学生。

Never Forgotten
永不忘记

A school in Massachusetts received a $ 9.5 million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took offi­cials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age 89.
马萨诸塞州的一所学校收到了雅克·勒贝茅斯寄来的950万美元支票，但校方花了几天时间才发现他与学校的联系。记录显示，勒贝茅斯来自比利时，20世纪20年代曾在该校学习。当他的家庭陷入困境时，他获得了免费食宿。勒贝茅斯成了一名交易员，拥有AT&T的股票，并靠盈利生活，直到89岁去世。