广东省湛江第一中学、深圳实验学校2021-2022学年高三上学期10月联考英语试题+

湛江一中—深圳实验学校高中部2022届高三两校联考

英语试题

命题人：湛江第一中学 审题人：湛江第一中学

（满分：120分；考试时间：120分钟）

考生注意：

1．本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。

2．考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷草稿纸上作答无效。

3．本卷命题范围：高考范围。

第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

BOLTON SCHOOL SIXTH RORM GIRLS

2021-2022 HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURES

Historical Association branch meetings have been a regular feature in the Girl’s Division for the past six years. Each year, a series of seven lectures are delivered by a range of academics from different universities and research institutes. Attendees meet in the comfortable surroundings of the Sutcliffe Suite and enjoy a chat over tea and biscuits before and after the highly interesting and exciting lectures. Over the past years, attendees have enjoyed lectures on the American Civil War and Simon de Montfort. The branch welcomes pupils from a number of surrounding schools-in particular at the Great Debate competition.

In order to allow for more time to adapt to ever changing circumstances with regards to COVID-19, the branch has decided to delay the start of the 2021 - 2022 season until January, 2022. There will be six lectures, running into June for the first time in the branch’s history.

While the branch has often provided comfort on cold winter nights, we do hope that members, new and old, will now join us as in the spring and summer of 2022. We hope to welcome lecturers who will be speaking about the Mayflower, the Jacobites and 17th Century Versailles. In the meantime, please follow@ boltonhistory on Twitter, or “Bolton Historical Association” on Facebook, for updates. Alternatively(或者), please speak to Mr. Owen, Head of History, in school.

1. What can students do during the lectures?

A. Hold a debate competition. B. Have a chat with peers.

C. Learn from experts.  D. Eat biscuits.

2. When will the first lecture of the 2021-2022 season will start?

A. In January, 2021.  B. In January, 2022.

C. In June, 2021.  D. In June, 2022.

3. How can students find out if there is a change in the schedule of the lectures?

A. By following up on Twitter.

B. By updating their Facebook.

C. By contacting Bolton Historical Association.

D. By talking to Mr. Owen about school history.

B

Greg Dailey closed his picture frame store due to the coronavirus pandemic(冠状病毒大流行), and his second job of delivering newspapers became his primary source of income.

Dailey’s grocery trips began when one of his elderly customers asked him for a favor. “Mrs. Ross called me on Wednesday before my store shutting down and asked if I could throw the newspaper closer to her house,” he tells Yahoo Life. “A couple of days later, I was standing in a grocery, and I called her and asked if she needed anything from a grocery. She was astonished. Moments later, she called me back and asked if I wouldn’t mind grabbing something from Mrs. Miller across the street.”

Soon, Dailey’s 800 customers found a note he wrote tucked in with their newspaper, offering his help. “And the next day I just decided, ‘You know, what? If there are two people that live within a hundred feet of each other having issues getting the essential things they need, I’m going to put out a note.’”

The words spread not only to his community but to surrounding ones. Since then, Dailey, with the help of his family, developed a system to keep track of the orders. To date, Dailey has made more than 600 trips to the grocery for his neighbors and delivered everything to their homes for free. “These last three months has changed my life... I get emotional because some of them have become really special to me,” he says.

Dailey reopened his frame store on June 15, and he promised to continue to help seniors not only with groceries but with anything else they need. He knows those he helps will remain a part of his life going forward.

“It’s moments like this, we need to step back and take a look in ourselves and realize that we can do more... and it’s something I live by,” Dailey says. “If you have the opportunity to do something nice for someone, just do it.”

4. What favor did Mrs. Ross ask Dailey to do?

A. Go across the street.  B. Give things to Mrs. Miller.

C. Do grocery shopping for her. D. Deliver the newspapers nearer to her house.

5. Why did Dailey put a note in the newspapers?

A. To help nearby neighbors. B. To offer help to his customers.

C. To give his customers essential things. D. To ask his customers to buy more newspapers.

6. What does the underlined word “something” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Dailey’s offering of help. B. Dailey’s frame store.

C. Dailey’s reflection.  D. Dailey’s emotion.

7. Which word can best describe Dailey?

A. Helpful. B. Friendly. C. Practical. D. Responsible.

C

In the west of the city Seville in Spain, a sea of giant mirrors is reflecting the sun’s energy to provide “concentrated solar power (CSP)” while brightening the path to a new wave of green energy projects.

The 624 carefully positioned mirrors reflect the sun’s heat towards a 50-meter-tall central tower where it is concentrated and used to boil water into steam. The superheated steam is then used to turn a turbine(汽轮机) that can produce up to 11 megawatts of electricity—enough power for 6,000 homes—according to Solucar, the Spanish company that has built the power plant.

The Spanish tower, known as PS10, is the first stage of an ambitious development. By 2025 it is hoped that additional towers will create “a solar farm” with an output of 500 megawatts, which would be enough power for 180,000 homes, almost the entire population of nearby Seville.

CSP produces no greenhouse gases and the only pollution is visual. There is also the possibility that production can keep going around the clock-even when the sun has gone down. Solucar is currently testing technology at a plant near Granada that will pump 50 percent of the electricity generated in the day into the Spanish national grid(国家输电网), and use the other 50 percent to melt salt, which will then act as a kind of battery, storing the sun’s power. When dusk falls, the heat stored in the molten salt can be used to generate power through the night.

The Sahara, the world’s largest desert, has always been seen as a problem. But with large-scale CSP projects, suddenly all that empty space, with its year round clear skies and hot sun, has a value that could transform local economies. It could potentially turn Africa into an exporter of energy to power-hungry Europe.

8. What is the Spanish tower PS10 used to do according to the text?

A. Store boiled water.  B. Generate electricity.

C. Reflect the sun’s energy. D. Brighten the path nearby.

9. The underlined phrase “a solar farm” in paragraph 3 refers to a place where       .

A. towers like PS10 are set up

B. greenhouses are built to make profits

C. crops are grown with new technology

D. farmers mainly use solar energy at home

10. The plant near Granada melts salt in the day so that       .

A. molten salt works better than water when producing electricity

B. melting salt can reduce environmental pollution

C. some sun power can be saved for the night use

D. salt is easy to melt in the sun

11. Which word can best describe the author’s attitude towards the future of CSP?

A. Critical. B. Doubtful. C. Subjective. D. Optimistic.

D

Pluto(冥王星) is a cold world far from us in the outer part of our solar system. But researchers believe Pluto may have been born as a much warmer place. They say it may even have sheltered(隐藏) a subsurface or underground ocean—one that still exists today.

A report on Pluto appeared in the scientific journal Nature Geosciences. The lead author was Carver Bierson, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the report, researchers pointed to evidence for a “hot start” situation at Pluto’s beginning, some 4.5 billion years ago.

Their study was based on images of the dwarf(矮小的) planet’s surface as well as computer models of the subsurface. “When Pluto was forming, new material would have been coming in and impacting its surface,” Bierson said. “Each impact is like an explosion that would warm the nearby area.” Bierson explained that if Pluto had formed slowly, the surface would have cooled between each impact and generally stayed very cold. But if Pluto had formed quickly, the surface may not have had time to cool down.

“If Pluto formed in less than 30,000 years, the heat from these impacts could have been sufficient to lead to an early ocean. Pluto may have an icy outer shell hundreds of kilometers thick on the top of an ocean of water, possibly mixed with salts and ammonia(氨). A solid rocky core could lie below,” Bierson said.

The researchers believe that parts of the ocean would gradually freeze over time. Water expands as it freezes, and cracks on Pluto’s surface may be evidence of this. At present, Pluto’s surface temperature is about minus 230 degrees Celsius.

A subsurface ocean could make Pluto a possible, although unlikely, candidate for having living organisms. Bierson said it was possible that contact between water and the rocky core could have created certain chemical elements. “Are those the right elements for life? We don’t know. We need to learn more about how life forms, or how life could form, to find these answers,” Bierson said.

12. According to Bierson, what may result in the underground ocean?

A. Something like an explosion. B. Long distance from the sun.

C. Salts mixed with ammonia. D. Low temperature.

13. Why are there many cracks on Pluto?

A. Life on it had made them. B. Planets crashed billions of years ago.

C. Aliens from other planets created them. D. There might be water and it expands when freezing.

14. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A. Pluto used to have life.

B. Pluto has living organisms.

C. Scientists are working to figure out the origin of life.

D. Chemicals created by water and rocky core are the right elements for life.

15. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Pluto Was Born with a Universal Explosion

B. Pluto May Have Ever Started Out Very Hot

C. Pluto Lies at the Edge of the Solar System

D. Pluto Is a Cold World

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Marriages in Egypt are somewhat different from those in the West. They will discourage dating if single men and women aren’t related. Among the middle and upper classes, the man and woman know each other from schools or universities, where young people gather in groups like in the West.    16    Sometimes families negotiate a marriage for an unmarried son or daughter.

However, the steps toward marriage are the same as those in the West.    17    The discussion usually covers such topics as the dowry(嫁妆) and wedding expense, etc. The two families then arrange a meeting between the potential bride and groom.    18    

The wedding usually takes place quickly, unless the groom-to-be is going abroad to work or study, in which case the marriage may be postponed. The marriage may be very simple, consisting only of the mosque priest(清真寺牧师) to declare the marriage contract between the groom and the bride’s father, who speaks on behalf of his daughter.

   19    According to Egyptian law, both men and women have the right to ask for a divorce. Upon divorce the father is granted custody(监护人) of any children. Any dowry paid by the groom to the bride’s family must be returned.

Egypt is trying to bridge the difference between traditional interpretations(方式) and modern models. At one time, Egypt gave women the right to ask for a divorce only in certain circumstances, such as her husband’s being mentally ill.     20    Now in Egypt and other countries, traditional interpretations are being challenged.

A. Either one can say no to the marriage.

B. Weddings are a time of celebration as in the West.

C. The two families need to discuss the terms of the marriage.

D. Since revolution, women have entered the work place in force.

E. Divorce is not very common in Egypt, although it does still happen.

F. In the lower classes, the chance for socializing with the opposite sex is rarer.

G. A woman’s right to ask for a divorce in any case was put into law in Egypt in 1999.

第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Ever since I was a little girl, I have dreamed of being a model. But back then, girls were meant to be at home and if they wanted to work, it had to be a “   21    job”. So I started sneaking(偷摸) around to participate in plays. I’d try to    22    famous actress Zeenat Aman. I even got a (n)    23    for a movie—I was so    24   , but my father didn’t allow me to do that.

I went about    25    my graduation and then got a job as an officer. Soon I got married. I quit my job and got involved in family affairs. I was so devoted    26    being a good wife and a good mother that my life centered around them. I lost my    27   .

After 20 years of marriage, I    28    a job as a teacher. Again, it was difficult because I was 45 and they    29    young teachers. But I    30    everyone wrong by winning the “most active teacher” award!

Once, while surfing on the Internet, I    31    a beauty pageant(选美比赛)ad that said, “   32    is no barrier.” That was my moment—I applied    33   . That evening, I told my family that I wanted to give this a    34   —they were so supportive!

I    35    myself for the pageant and won second prize. And I took part in more pageants and won again and again! And at 50, I became a model.

21. A. powerful B. permanent C. demanding D. respectable

22. A. attract B. copy C. watch D. praise

23. A. promotion B. advertisement C. offer D. award

24. A. puzzled B. excited C. serious D. crazy

25. A. designing B. continuing C. completing D. celebrating

26. A. on B. as C. for D. to

27. A. courage B. love C. identity D. interest

28. A. applied for B. resigned from C. gave up D. carried out

29. A. comforted B. wanted C. admired D. hated

30. A. proved B. considered C. confirmed D. told

31. A. put aside B. came across C. put up D. came out

32. A. Language B. Background C. Size D. Age

33. A. liberally B. carefully C. immediately D. widely

34. A. shot B. chance C. result D. check

35. A. behaved B. enjoyed C. expressed D. prepared

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Lushan Mountain is famous in China. It’s not one single mountain, but rather a larger upland area    36    (consist) of 90 continuous peaks, in which the highest one is 1, 474 meters above sea level. Over tens of thousands of years, tectonic (构造) movements, flowing water and other    37    (geology) processes have created the diverse landscapes of Lushan Mountain. Running to the north of Lushan Mountain is the Yangtze, the    38    (long) river in China. The intense humidity(潮湿) provides Lushan    39    abundant water resources. There are twenty- two.     40    (waterfall) within the mountain.

Lushan Mountain is covered in mist for nearly 200 days of the year. The average temperature here is 5-6 degrees Celsius lower than    41    in the plains at the same latitude. It    42    (be) a famous summer resort since ancient times. There’s a city “in the clouds” about 1,100 meters above sea level in the mountains. More than 100 years ago, a British man from the UK built large houses here. The average temperature in summer is only 22 degree Celsius,    43    it’s named Kuling, a name    44    comes from the English “cooling”. Today, these ancient houses are still serving tourists who come here    45    (spend) the summer.

第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假定你是英语戏剧社团的负责人李华。你校英语戏剧社团将于下周演出莎士比亚的经典名著《罗密欧与朱丽叶》，请用英语给你校的外教Chris写一封邮件。主要内容包括：

1．邀请他观看演出；

2．告知演出时间、地点；

3．希望他参加并提出一些指导意见。

参考词汇：莎士比亚：Shakespeare；《罗密欧与朱丽叶》：Romeo and Juliet

注意：

1．写作词数应为80左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

第二节（满分25分）

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。

On February 21, 2018, the news brought Christine Cheers to her knees: “There’s been an accident.”

Her son, 32-year-old Navy flight surgeon James Mazzuchelli, had been injured in a helicopter training mission.

Machines were keeping James alive when Christine arrived at the hospital. The doctors told Christine that what she was seeing was likely his future-that her scuba diving, world-traveling, overachiever of a son was never going to wake up. He would never breathe on his own. He would never smile at her again.

It was time for Christine to honor the spirit of a man who had switched his major from commerce engineering to premed(医学预科)because he wanted to help people. It was time to make her very worst day some stranger’s best one. Christine instructed the hospital to begin the organ donation process.

Mike Cohen was just 18 when he’d been diagnosed(诊断)with a serious cancer in 2004. Doctors warned him that the treatment could cause lasting damage to his heart. At the time, surviving cancer seemed like the more pressing concern. He took his treatment seriously, doing the radiation and chemo(化疗). The risk had paid off—two years after his diagnosis, he was cancer-free. But six years later, his heart was beginning to fail. He would need a new one. He had to hope he survived waiting for a new heart.

Fortunately, on February 24, the hospital said they’d found him a heart. The next morning, Mike woke up in a hospital bed with a new heart beating in his chest.

After two weeks, he was sent home with instructions to report to recovery center, where he was limited for the first few days to slow walking. Across the room he spied a stationary(固定的) bike. And two weeks later, with his doctor’s OK, he threw a leg over and began to ride the bike.

注意：

1．续写词数应为150左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

湛江一中—深圳实验学校高中部2022届高三两校联考·英语

参考答案、提示及评分细则

[文章大意]本文是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了波尔顿女子分校及其历史协会举办的活动等相关信息。

1. C细节理解题。由文章第一段中的第二句话“Each year, a series of seven lectures are delivered by a range of academics from different universities and research institutes.”可知，讲座过程中学生可以向一些专家学习。

2. B细节理解题。由文章第二段第一句话中的“the branch has decided to delay the start of the 2021-2022 season until January,2022”可知，第一场讲座被推迟到2022年1月份举行。

3. A细节理解题。由文章最后一段中的第三句话“In the meantime, please follow @ boltonhistory on Twitter, or ‘Bolton Historical Association’ on Facebook, for updates.”可知，学生能通过推特或者脸书及时了解讲座安排的更新。

[文章大意]本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了Greg Dailey因为新冠病毒而关闭了自己的相框店，此后他通过给邻居们送包裹，从而带来物质上的收入以及心灵上的抚慰的故事。

4. D细节理解题。由文章第二段第二句Dailey说的话“Mrs. Ross called me on Wednesday before my store shutting down and asked if I could throw the newspaper closer to her house”可知，Mrs. Ross让Dailey帮忙把报纸送到她家附近。

5. B细节理解题。由文章第三段中的第一句话“Soon, Dailey’s800 customers found a note he wrote tucked in with their newspaper, offering his help.”可知，Dailey在报纸中放纸条是为了帮助他的顾客。

6. C词义猜测题。由画线词所在段落的上下文可知，此处的something是指代上文中的“…step back and take a look in ourselves and realize...”,也就是Dailey的反思。

7. A推理判断题。通读全文尤其结合第五段第一句话中的“and he promised to continue to help seniors not only with groceries but with anything else they need”可推知，Dailey是个乐于助人的人。由此可知答案选A。

[文章大意]本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了CSP技术，它即将开创清洁能源的新纪元。

8. B细节理解题。由文章第二段内容，尤其是“The superheated steam is then used to turn a turbine that can produce up to 11 megawatts of electricity”这句话可知，PS10是被用来通过利用太阳能发电的。

9. A细节理解题。由文章第三段内容可知，更多的像PS10一样的高塔将被建起来，成为一个发电的“太阳能农场”。故此处的“a solar farm”指的是像PS10一样的高塔被建立起来的地方。

10. C推理判断题。由文章第四段最后两句话可推知，这家电厂在白天融化盐是为了储存太阳能以供晚间发电使用。

11. D推理判断题。纵观全文，尤其结合文章最后一段中的后面两句话可以推知，作者憧憬CSP技术的美好前景，故其态度应该是乐观的。

[文章大意]本文是一篇科普说明文。文章主要介绍了一项新的研究发现——冥王星在形成之初可能是非常热的。

12. A推理判断题。由文章第三段中的第二、三两句话“‘When Pluto was forming, new material would have been coming in and impacting its surface,’ Bierson said. ‘Each impact is like an explosion that would warm the nearby area.’”以及第四段中的第一句话“If Pluto formed in less than 30,000 years, the heat from these impacts could have been sufficient to lead to an early ocean.”可推知，是类似于像大爆炸这样的因素导致形成地下海洋的。

13. D细节理解题。由文章第五段中的第二句话“Water expands as it freezes, and cracks on Pluto’s surface may be evidence of this.”可知答案选D。

14. C推理判断题。由文章最后两段内容可知，冥王星的地下冰冻海洋使得这颗星球（尽管不大可能）成为有机物质存在的候选星球。研究专家说水和地核物质曾经可能创造了某些化学元素。但科学家也不确定这些元素就是生命形成刚好需要的物质。综合这些信息可知，C项（科学家正在致力于探寻生命的起源）为正确答案。而D项是肯定性的表述，与原文“有可能”的推测性表述是有差异的。

15. B标题归纳题。纵观全文，尤其结合文章第一段中的第二句话“But researchers believe Pluto may have been born as a much warmer place.”可知，C项（冥王星在形成之初可能是非常热的）最适宜作为文章标题。

[文章大意]本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了埃及年轻人婚姻方面的一些细节以及传统的婚姻习俗正受到的挑战。

16. F空格前句中出现了“the middle and upper classes”,故空格处应填F项，其中的“the lower classes”刚好和“the middle and upper classes”形成一个鲜明对比。

17. C空格后句中出现了“The discussion...”，故该处空格应填C项，其中的关键信息词“discuss”刚好和“discussion”对应，前后句衔接得自然又紧密。

18. A空格前句“The two families then arrange a meeting between the potential bride and groom.”的意思是两个家庭安排准新娘、新郎见面。故此处应填A项“Either one can say no to the marriage.（任何一方都有可能拒绝这桩婚姻。）”符合这里的语境和逻辑。

19. E此处是段首主题句，其后主要讲述了离婚的话题。所以这里应填E项“离婚在埃及并不常见，尽管有时会发生”。

20. G此处是讲述埃及的传统正逐渐被改变。故G项“女性在任何条件下都有权利提出离婚在1999年被写入法律。”在此符合段落主题。

[文章大意]本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者如何在50岁的时候实现自己最初梦想的故事。

21. D但那时候，女孩们应该待在家里，如果她们想工作，那就必须是一份“体面的工作”。做模特在很多国家被认为是不体面的工作。

22. B“我”想模仿著名演员Zeenat Aman。

23. C“我”甚至得到了一部电影的邀请——“我”太兴奋了，但“我”父亲不同意“我”去拍电影。

24. B解析同上。

25. C“我”完成了“我”的学业，然后得到了一份职员的工作。

26. D“我”致力于成为一个好妻子和好母亲，所以“我”的生活都围绕着他们。be devoted to doing sth.意为“致力于……；献身于……”

27. C“我”失去了“我”的身份。“我”的生活都围绕着别人而活。

28. A结婚20年后，“我”申请了一份教师的工作。

29. B同样，这很困难，因为“我”45岁了，而他们想要年轻的老师。

30. A但“我”获得了“最活跃教师”奖，证明了别人对“我”的看法是错误的！

31. B有一次，在上网时，“我”偶然看到了一个选美比赛的广告，上面写着：“年龄不是障碍。”

32. D解析同上。

33. C那是“我”的时刻，于是“我”马上申请了。

34. A那天晚上“我”告诉“我”的家人，“我”想去尝试一下——他们十分支持“我”！give sth. a shot意为“尝试一下”。

35. D“我”为选美做好了准备，并获得了二等奖。

[文章大意]本文是一篇说明文。文章向我们介绍了庐山的一些情况。

36. consisting考查非谓语动词。现在分词作后置定语。

37. geological考查词形转换。此处用形容词修饰名词，geological process意为“地质作用”。

38. longest考查形容词最高级。定冠词the+形容词最高级。

39. with考查介词。provide sb./sth. with sth.意为“给某人/某物提供某物”

40. waterfalls考查名词复数。前面有数词“twenty-two”修饰，且瀑布是可数名词，故此空填waterfalls.

41. that考查代词。此处that指代前文的“The average temperature”。

42. has been考查时态。根据句末的时间状语“since ancient times”可知，此空应用现在完成时主语是it，表单数意义，故此空填has been。

43. so考查连词。前后句之间是因果关系，故此空填so。

44. which/that考查定语从句。先行词是a name，关系代词在定语从句中作主语，故此空填which/that。

45. to spend考查非谓语动词。动词不定式表目的。

第一节

One possible version

Dear Chris,

I’m Li Hua, who is in charge of the English club. There will be an English drama performance in our school next week. I’m writing to sincerely invite you to attend it.

The event will take place from 4:00 p.m.to 6:00 p.m. on Friday at the Student Activity Center. The play we choose to perform is Romeo and Juliet, a masterpiece written by Shakespeare. We all love it very much and we have rehearsed it for three weeks. I’m wondering if it is convenient for you to watch our performance and give some practical suggestions.

Hope to meet you there!

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节

One possible version

Two months after his surgery, Mike Cohen got a letter from Christine. Surprised by a stranger’s name on the envelope, Mike hesitated but finally opened it. It reads, “Dear boy, thank you for lengthening my son’s life. He’ll certainly be extremely happy if he could see that in heaven.” Having known the whole thing, so moved was Mike that he couldn’t hold back his tears. Therefore, he decided to write a letter back to Christine.

Mike’s letter was a comfort for a wound that Christine felt would never recover. “I’m lucky to have a second life because of your kindness.” The first sentence went like a bullet to Christine’s heart. “Not only can I breathe normally but I can ride bikes on my own now. Thank you again.” Looking at the sunny boy who was riding. joyfully in the picture attached to the letter, something different from sorrow welled up in Christine. The day of James’s death was also the very time that made her worst day some stranger’s best one. Recognizing this, it seemed that the ocean of sadness in Christine was drying little by little. It was love and kindness that have healed both of them.