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。

Not many years ago a man rented a store in a street named Market Street. While very busy getting boxes and other things inside the store, he happened to see a boy of eleven years standing by. So the merchant （商人）called to the boy, "See here, boy, if you help me today, I'll pay you well. " The boy looked at him but made no answer. The merchant asked "Don't you want to work?" The boy made some sorts of gestures, but remained silent. “Oh! you're some lazy, I guess. Well, if you don't want to work or even speak, just pass along about your business. " The merchant thought the boy's lazy attitude and silence meant disrespect and defiance （蔑视），and soon began to feel angry about it. "A young thief, I guess, watching his chance to steal something and run," thought the merchant. Soon he approached the boy with a threatening look. To his amazement, The boy stood back, making strange gestures and expressions.

"I'll teach you how to make faces and laugh at me. You've been doing this long enough." And without further delay the merchant raised his hand. But the boy, instead of running off, fell down on the pavement. Several people hurried to the spot and inquired what was the matter. "Why! That lazy boy refused to work when I offered him pay and hung around even when I ordered him away, and finally made faces and disrespectful gestures at me. So I was going to scare him and he dropped like that. He was not hurt enough to even cry about it. " One looker-on said, "Sir, that is poor Danny, he is deaf and dumb, perfectly inoffensive when you know him. We all humor him and let him stay around as long as he pleases, for his eyes are the chief blessings he possesses, and they can't injure anything."

When they lifted Danny, they found a wound upon his forehead, and tears were slowly creeping down his cheeks. Danny was carried into a store, and one of his friends who understood how to communicate with him, explained the merchant's mistake.

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Paragraph 1:

The merchant was heartily ashamed. Anxious to prove that he was sorry, the merchant walked down to the plain house where Danny lived. There was an old table in the house, on which were full of the poor boy's homemade artwork. The merchant did all in his power to relieve the Danny’s sadness and pain. Knowing Danny likes drawing, he transformed the plain house into an interesting one. And he often took the lonely boy for a ride by carriage or railway to draw pictures.

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Danny's mother was very grateful to the new friend—the merchant. She was proud of her son's artwork. In winter they sat by the fire, she was sewing, Danny was busy with painting, and the merchant was quietly ad-miring his work, which formed a delightful picture. But to this good outcome, the merchant often said,"If I had known the truth, had not been so rushed in judgment and had not made him cry, I might have done the same things without doing any harm.”

【解析】

本文是一篇读后续写。

本篇书面表达是读后续写。通过阅读所给文章可知，一个男子本来想给一位11岁男孩提供一份工作。在被拒绝之后，因为误解以为那个小男孩是小偷并且举手吓唬那个小男孩，导致小孩子受伤倒地。最后在众人的解释之下，理清了误会。

续写部分分为两段，第一段开头是：商人感到由衷的羞愧….所以这一段应该写商人的补救措施，讲他如何帮助这个可怜的小男孩。第二段开头是：丹尼的妈妈非常感激这位新朋友——商人…。本段应该写丹尼的母亲很欣慰的看到他儿子情况的好转，同时本段也应该写商人的反思。

续写时要求使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语增加了写作难度，我们要熟悉所给划线词语，恰当的时候加以运用。最后还要注意所续写短文的词数应为150左右；续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。按要求完成写作任务。