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英语泛读2The beautiful scenery of the mountainous country of Nepal attracts many tourists. In this story, what struck the author was not the scenery but the miserable life of a young girl. Who was she? What happened to her? What did the narrator do for her? Read the following story to find out. 尼泊尔，这个多山的国度，以其美丽的景色吸引了众多游客。在这个故事里，打动作者的不是风景，而是一个小女孩的痛苦生活。她是谁？在她身上发生了什么事？叙事者是怎样帮助她的？请阅读下面故事，寻找问题的答案。The entrance door of Mr. Chom Gom Chombis house in Kumjung, Nepal, is so low that even I, standing barely five feet two inches tall, had to stoop while stepping from bright daylight into the smelly darkness of the straw-covered ground floor, where abundant yak manure left no doubt as to the identity of its tenants. Then I banged my forehead against a beam. A curse died on my lips, because we were in a deeply religious Buddhist region and I didnt want to offend the gentle Gautama or his followers. 在尼泊尔的昆坰，茨翁?贡?茨翁比先生的房门很低，甚至象我这样身高只有五英尺二的人,从明亮的室外迈进昏暗的室内时，也得弯下腰。屋内的地上铺了草，有许多牦牛粪，一看便知房客们的身份。接着，我的前额撞上一根横梁。一声咒骂没有出口，因为我们是在一个笃信佛教的地区，我不想冒犯高贵的乔达摩或他的追随者。When my eyes accommodated to the darkness, three yaks took shape, who were chewing their afternoon snack without paying the slightest attention to me. These usually docile and good-natured Central Asian cattle, who carry fierce-looking horns, play a vital role in the Himalayan economy. People use them as beasts of burden, weave their hair into fabrics, drink yak milk or churn it to butter, eat yak meat, and gather the yak droppings as an excellent fuel. 双眼适应了黑暗后，三头牦牛露出形体，它们正在咀嚼着下午的草料，毫不在意我的存在。这些中亚牛性情温顺，头上长着可怕的犄角，在喜玛拉雅地区的经济中起着重要作用。人们用牦牛驮运重物、用它们的毛编织衣服、喝牦牛奶、用牦牛奶制奶油、吃牦牛肉，并把牦牛粪当 作上好的燃料。For a moment, while my forehead was still throbbing, I stopped to think back to the events of the past few days. Our party of four old-timers, of whom I, at seventy-one, was the oldest, had convened a week earlier in Kathmandu, the capital, and had met our journey leader Nancy Jo there. She is a young American woman who lives in Nepal and speaks the language fluently. Fo