Mother and daughter adventure at the laundromat

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“贈人玫瑰，手留余香”。在太陽初升的清晨，一對母女帶著精致的透明塑料袋在洗衣店中開啟了她們的“愛心冒險之旅”。她們在這次“冒險”中，向素不相識的人們傳遞著內心的溫暖與善良，與此同時，她們也收獲了生活的美好與快樂。

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My daughter and I have just returned from an adventure.We headed over to our local laundromat（自助洗衣店）near the community college.Kelsey and I had made small clear plastic bags of 8 quarters each with a Smile card inside,and we brought three bags to leavein plain view.

We entered when the laundromat had just opened at eight o'clock.The place was very quiet and areas toset outour bags were easily found.We then went next door to get ourselves a coffee and pastry（糕點）.As we were paying we heard the squeal（尖叫）of delight,a lady with two little preschoolers had found one of our LOVE leaves of quarters.She was sharing with her young sons how some kind person had given her a special gift by placing quarters for her first load of laundry right in plain view by the commercial washer.

Kelsey and I sat outside the open door to the laundromat and were pleasantly surprised to have our second bag “found” by two college-age men.They also were very pleased with their good fortune.With their bedding and towels in hands,they used the quarters to wash their large load.

The third bag was discovered by asingle woman,observably sunburned andwith a gaunt（瘦削憔悴的）appearance.She used the bag's worth of quarters for a cup of coffee at the coffee shop.We were pleased to have been able to give her a morning jolt of caffeine.

Fifteen minutes later we were bothheading out toourrespective places of employment,grateful in this opportunity to leave some LOVE and quarters at the laundromat.

Reading check

In our society,we can also see the similar phenomenon expressing love and help to people in need.What about your opinion after reading this text?Would you do something to help people in difficulty?

Language study

Difficult sentences

1.With their bedding and towels in hands,they used the quarters to wash their large load.

翻譯：

【點石成金】本句中的With their bedding and towels in hands是with復合結構作方式狀語的用法。

2.The third bag was discovered by a singlewoman,observablysunburned and with a gaunt appearance.

翻譯：__________________________

【點石成金】本句中，過去分詞sunburned作后置定語修飾a single woman。

Using language

Ⅰ.Important phrases in the textin plain view 明顯地；顯而易見地set out陳列；擺出……head out to出發去……respective places of employment各自的工作地點

Ⅱ.Complete the following sentences in correct forms with the phrases given above.

1.Department stores_____________________their goods in the windows.

2.Hang your workout clothes_____________________________________and always have them ready for your workout.

3._____________________an office supply store and try out all the chairs to find one that you like.

4.My parents'______________________are reasonably clean amd well-lighted during the winter and air conditioned in the summer.