福建省南平市2019-2022学年高二上学期英语期末试卷汇编：读后续写

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The e-mail request came into Ekiben restaurant late on a Thursday afternoon in March. Brandon Jones, the man who sent the e-mail didn’t actually want the food itself. He was writing on behalf of his mother-in-law, Shirley, who loved the broccoli (西兰花) dish with fresh herbs and cucumber vinegar. He went on to explain that she was now in the final stage of lung cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to get the recipe (烹饪法) to make it for her there. Steve Chu, one of the restaurant’s co-owners, read the e-mail and quickly replied, “Thanks for reaching out,” he wrote. “We’d like to meet you in Vermont and make it fresh for you.”

Brandon was shocked. “I emailed back, saying, ‘You do know that this is Vermont we’re talking about, right?’ ” says Brandon. “But Chu responded, ‘No problem. You tell us the date, time and location and we’ll be there.”

For the past six years, every time Shirley visited Baltimore, the first place she wanted to go was Ekiben so she could order that dish. “She loves that broccoli, and I really wanted her to have it one more time,” Brandon says.

“She had always told us, ‘When I’m on my deathbed, I want to have that broccoli,’ ” recalls Brandon’s wife, Rina Jones. That Friday after work, a day after receiving Brandon’s e-mail, Chu loaded his truck with a hot plate and a cooler and then headed for Vermont with his business partner, Ephrem Abebe, and an employee. They stayed overnight in a tent and drove the next day to the small town where Shirley lived.

As soon as Chu and his team pulled into the parking lot, they got to work. They pulled down the gate of the pickup, fixed the hot plate on the truck’s power port, and started cooking and deep- frying. In addition to broccoli, they made tofu with peanut sauce and fresh herbs and some steamed rice. After neatly boxing everything up, they knocked on their customer’s door.

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