最后一次沖浪中的慰藉

安徽 張 嵐

主題語境：體育

篇幅：354詞

建議用時：6分鐘

As a child,Fischer loved going to the beach and riding a bike along the coastline with his father,Karl Fischer.So when he lost his dad to a severe cancer,he turned to the healing power of the ocean.

At the start of this year,Fischer wrote his father's name on his surfboard and took it out to sea in Newport,Rhode Island.His father's name shone in the sun on what felt like a shared adventure.Inspired,Fischer made a video and posted it on social media on the same day.“If you love the ocean,or you know someone who loves the ocean,or maybe you lost someone who just loved being outdoors,you can comment on this video with their name and a bit of their story,and I'll put their name on my board here,just like I've done with my father's name,”he said in the video.“And I'll take them out in the ocean for you.”

Names poured in from thousands of strangers grieving the loss of loved ones.And with that,the One Last Wave Project was born,the aim of which was to exchange stories with a community of people going through the same pain.They were essentially healing together.About two months later,Fischer received over 5,000 names and wrote most of them on two surfboards.The first two surfboards ran out of space,so he's working on to get more.He wrote the names in neat letters on the surfboard and put a clear acrylic (丙烯酸顏料) coat over them so they didn't wash off.

Though a lot of people have been struggling with grief since the pandemic broke out,Fischer was amazed by the responses that have poured in.“If I am able to help one person or one person shares his or her name,that is enough for me,”he said.“But I am blown away—by not just the number of people sharing,but the depth of stories and love that they are sharing.”And he plans to take his project around the world and connect with even more people—through shared grief and the power of the ocean.

Reading Check

1.How did Fischer share his idea with others?

A.By giving a live broadcast online.

B.By posting a video on the Internet.

C.By going to the beach with his father.

D.By writing his father's name on the surfboard.

2.Why did Fischer start the One Last Wave Project?

A.To memorize his father.

B.To attract public attention.

C.To face the pandemic bravely.

D.To help people out of sadness.

3.What does Fischer intend to do next?

A.To share his experience at sea.

B.To extend the project worldwide.

C.To connect to more social media.

D.To sail around the world with strangers.

4.What can we learn from the story?

A.A good beginning makes a good ending.

B.Actions speak louder than words.

C.He who laughs last laughs best.

D.Sharing can help heal the pain.

Language Study

Ⅰ.Difficult sentence in the text

And with that,the One Last Wave Project was born,the aim of which was to exchange stories with a community of people going through the same pain.帶上這些已逝者的名字，“最后的沖浪項(xiàng)目”產(chǎn)生了，其目的是與一群經(jīng)歷同樣痛苦的人交換故事。

【點(diǎn)石成金】句中的with that為with結(jié)構(gòu)，在句中作伴隨狀語；which引導(dǎo)的是一個非限制性定語從句，先行詞為the One Last Wave Project；going through the same pain 為現(xiàn)在分詞短語。

Ⅱ.Text-centered chunks

turn to 求助于

comment on 對……發(fā)表評論

a bit of 一點(diǎn)……

run out of 用完

wash off 被沖洗掉；被洗掉

blow sb away 給某人留下深刻印象；使某人很高興