Sujet Brevet des collèges Anglais 2015

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A 91-year-old widow in New York had a funny way of saving her money.

She stashed it in a zipper pocket in the arms of her old sofa. She felt it would be safe there.

And so it was, until one day when she was having some health problems and her family
5 gave away the couch to a Salvation Army thrift shop without realizing how valuable it was.

That couch gave three young New Yorkers the thrill of their lives. When they bought a used couch and chair for $55, they thought they were just furnishing their living room.

They thought the arms seemed a bit lumpy. After they’d had the couch for a while, one of the roommates decided to investigate the problem.

10 She opened a zipper on the arm of the couch and found some bills wrapped in “bubble wrap.” Her [...] roommates opened the other one and found more money.

They counted it: $44,800 altogether.

There was a lot of screaming coming from the apartment after that, the roommates’ next- door neighbour told news service The Associated Press. Excited screaming.

15 One of the packages also contained a piece of paper with a woman’s name on it.
They called her and she told them that she’d hidden a lot of money in the sofa and she

needed it back.

She cried when the three [...] visited her to give the money back to her.

The three said they thought about keeping the cash, but wouldn’t have been able to live 20 with themselves if they had.

By Joyce Grant, teachingkidsnews.com, 19/05/2014 

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