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阅读理解精选24 a month after hurricane katrina, i returned home in new orleans. there lay my house, reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty. before the trip, i’d had my car fixed. when the office employee of the g arage was writing up the bill, she noticed my louisiana license plate. “you from new orleans?” she asked. i said i was, “no charge.” she said, and firmly s hook her head when i reached for my wallet. the next day i went for a haircut, and the same thing ha ppened. as my wife was studying in florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage(抵押贷款) on our ruined house. we looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. we’d began to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when i got a very curious e-mail from a james kemmedy in california. he’d read s ome pieces i’d written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from new o rleans. it sounded a good to her return, but i replied, thinkin g him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. then the university of florida offered to let him house to me. while he want to england on his one year, paid leave. the rent was rather reasonable. i mentioned the p
