Some young people refuse to take in their own elderly parents today, but Nyima Pantok chose to take care of a helpless older woman for 17 years, and 10 years ago took in a deserted girl as her own. Nyima Pantok works as a sanitation(环卫) worker in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet. The people around her speak highly of her generous contributions, although her job is not a highly valued one in Lhasa.
“She is a kind-hearted woman, and she always takes the interests as the whole into account,” says Basang, one of her colleagues.” Although she had an accident in the past, and she suffered from gallbladder and heart disease, she always helps others , “ she says.
In 1996, when Nyima Pantok was 26 and unemployed,she adopted a 62-year-old named Tsering, an orchard keeper in Tibet’s Daktse County 30 kilometers away from Lhasa. Tsering was childless, and had been living alone in the orchad since the death of her husband, Nyima Pantok says.
“I consider meeting the lonely older woman to be an arrangement of fate. It is not fair to leave her alone after meeting her ,”says Nyima Pantok.
The older woman made a living by collecting fruits in the orchard and selling them in the market. “Bad kids often came to steal her fruits, so there weren’t many left,” she says. The hard situation made Nyima Pantok think of her dead parents .She decided to adopt the old woman without any hesitation.
The old woman passed away in 2012. “I had promised her that when she
reached the age of 80, all my family would celebrate her birthday. What a pity! I could not fulfill the wish.”
Nyima adopted a deserted baby in 2004, whom she found in a vegetable plot and took home without a second thought. Nyima Pantok’s family was not rich then. She took odd jobs and her husband did not have a stable job. The arrival of an elderly woman and a baby girl added great burdens to her family. However, Nyima Pantok once helped send another colleague’s child with a birth disease to a hospital.” She paid all the medical costs for the child, and she treated the child as her own ,” says her colleague.
Nyima Pantok was honored as a national model in September,2013 by several government and semi-governmental institutions.
1. Nyima Pantok took the old woman home because______.
A. She considered caring for the woman to be an arrangement of fate.
B. She had a warm hart to help anyone in a hard situation.
C. She though it illegal to leave the woman alone after meeting her
D. the woman looked just like one of her dead parents.
2. How old was the old woman when she passed away?
A. 62 B. 68 C. 78 D. 80
3. What was Myima Pantok’s life like when she adopted the deserted child?
A. She had a good job envied by people around her.
B. She had a rich family and good living conditions.
C. She did some odd jobs and led a hard life
D. She made much money by collecting and selling fruits.
4. What can we learn about Nyima Pantok according to the text?
A. She treated her own elderly parents attentively
B. She cares more about herself than about anyone else.
C. She likes to mind other people’s affairs rather than her own.
D. She puts the general interests above anything else
Suggested Answers :
BCCD
