Question

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

When I spent the last summer with my Grandmother in Warwick, N.Y., she sent me down to the grocery store with a long shopping list. Staring at all the items on the list, I wondered how I could find anything on the packed shelves around me. But she insisted.

I walked up to the counter. Behind it was a lady like no one I’d ever seen. Thick glasses rested on the tip of her nose, gray hair was piled on her head.

“Excuse me,” I said. She looked up.

“You’re that Clements kid,” she said. “I’m Miss Bee. Come closer and let me get a look at you.” She pushed her glasses up her nose. “I want to be able to describe you to the policeman if something goes missing from the store.”

“I’m not a thief!” I was shocked. I was too young to be a thief!

“Maybe not, but I can tell you’ve got potential.” She went back to reading her newspaper.

“I need to get these.” I said, holding up my list.

“So? Go get them.” She ignored my need of a favor, “There’s no one here except you and me and I’m not your servant, so I suggest you start looking for the things on that list.”

The store was a puzzle to a seven-year-old, and it seemed to hold all the goods in the world. I complained about this task Grandma had set me to do while trying to find all the items on my list. It took me one and half an hour to do it, and the mean lady behind the counter didn’t even bother to look at me once.

I visited Miss Bee a couple of times a week that summer. Sometimes she sold me an old newspaper instead of one that was the latest. Sometimes she overcharged me and didn’t seem embarrassed when I pointed it out. Going to the store was more like going into battle, but I survived. By summer’s end the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes. The morning I was to return to Brooklyn, I stopped in to get a soda.

Para. 1:

“All right, Miss Potential, what did you learn this summer?” she said.

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Para. 2:

One day after all those years my seven-year-old daughter came to me with homework troubles.

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Answer

“All right, Miss Potential, what did you learn this summer?” she said. “That you’re mean!” Finally I said it, thinking that I didn’t have to deal with her again. To my amazement, Miss Bee laughed. “I know what you think of me,” she continued “Well, I don’t care! Each of us is put on this earth for a reason. I believe my job is to teach every child I meet some life lessons to help them.” Embarrassed as I felt, I wasn’t capable of appreciating the lessons she claimed she had given me at such a young age, and I only wished that I had never met her. After checking out, I left.

One day after all those years my seven-year-old daughter came to me with homework troubles. “It’s too hard,” she complained. “Could you finish my math problems for me?” “If I do it for you how will you ever learn to do it yourself?” I responded. Suddenly, I was back at the grocery store where I had learned the hard way to deal with my own business. Had I ever been overcharged since? As my daughter went back to her homework, I wondered: Had Miss Bee really taught me something all those years ago? Sure enough, she didn’t act as a servant but she inspired potential in a seven-year-old.

【解析】

这是一篇读后续写。

短文叙述了作者七岁时，祖母列出了采购的清单，让作者独自去购买采购清单上的物品，而商店的女店主对待作者一点也不友好，她甚至怀疑作者是小偷，不帮助作者选购商品，让作者独自去采购，而那个夏天作者多次去那里购物，而这位女店主，不是多收她钱，就是卖给作者过期的报纸，在这里购物如同战争一样，不过作者都能成功的应付。一天早上，作者又去了这家商店……续写由此开始。

第一段续写以“All right, Miss Potential, what did you learn this summer?” she said.开始，这时要着重续写，女店主与作者的对话，女店主说了什么，作者是怎么想的。第二段续写以One day after all those years my seven-year-old daughter came to me with homework troubles.开使，本段承接第一段续写，这段要着重续写作者与女儿之间的对话，女儿说了什么，作者突然间思绪回到了当年去杂货店买东西的时候，作者意识到了当年女店主Miss Bee激发了自己的潜能。

续写的词数应为150左右。