Passage 40
学霸导读 快节奏的生活可能会让我们忽略了生活中的一些美好或温暖的细节。不要忘了偶尔停下来听一听心中“上帝的细语”。
A young and successful man was traveling down a street， going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar （ 捷豹汽车 ）. He was watching for kids rushing out from b 1 parked cars. As his car passed， no children appeared. I 2 ， a brick （ 砖 ） went f lying into the Jaguar’s side door. He was very a 3 and drove the car back to the place where the brick had been thrown. The driver jumped out of the car and caught the nearest kid， shouting， “Who are you？ What are you doing？ That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost you a lot of money. Why did you do that？”
The young boy was apologetic. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know what else to do,” he said. “I threw the brick because no one else would s 4 .”
With tears dripping down his face, the young boy pointed to a spot just around a parked car. “It’s my brother,” he said, “he fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up.”
With tears in his eyes, the boy asked the man. “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too h 5 for me.” Moved beyond words, the driver hurriedly lifted the boy’s brother into the wheelchair.
“Thank you and God bless you,” the thankful child told the stranger. Too excited for words, the man simply watched the little boy push his brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long and slow walk back to the Jaguar. The d 6 was very noticeable， but the driver never tried to r 7 the dented （ 凹陷的 ） side door. He kept it there to remind him of this message： Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.
God whispers in our souls and speaks to our heart. Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, he has to throw a brick at us.
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高频词汇
apologetic /əˌpɒlə'dʒetɪk/ adj. 道歉的；愧疚的
lift /lɪft/ v. 提起，举起
hurriedly /'hʌrɪdli/ adv. 匆忙地，仓促地