Clara Daly was seated with her mother on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?”
Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn’t understand what he needed.
Clara ,who was dyslexic, had started learning sign language over the past year to help her communicate without reading or writing She walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the aisle seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she signed, “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water.
When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for the rest of the flight..
“He didn’t need anything. He was lonely and wanted to talk,” Clara says.
So for the next hour, she talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had gradually become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she looked attentively at his face with such kindness.
Clara's generosity didn't go unnoticed. The passengers around him were all taken by Clara. A passenger named Lynette Scribner took a photo of one of the moments Clara was communicating with Cook and shared it on Facebook. The post has received more than 1100,000 likes, 500,000 shares .
【小题1】What do we know about Clara Daly?| A．She had learned ASL for many years |
| B．She was good at reading and writing |
| C．She had shot to internet fame . |
| D．She was feeling lonely on board. |
| A．Some company | B．a watch . | C．a photo | D．Some water |
| A．She was generous and impatient. | B．She was optimistic and serious |
| C．She was traditional and helpless | D．She was considerate and selfless |
| A．No passengers noticed Clara’s kindness except Lynette Scribner. |
| B．The passengers around were all taken good care of by Clara. |
| C．Clara’s act of kindness was spread through internet. |
| D．Lynette Scribner took a photo of Clara and her mother. |
