Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight flying from Boston to Los Angeles. Suddenly,a flight attendant asked a(n)1 question over the loudspeaker, "Does anyone on board2 American sign language?"
Clara, 15 at the time,3 the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the4 ，"We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf,"she said. "The passenger seemed to5 something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn't6 what he needed. ,,
Clara had been studying American sign language for the past year to help with her dyslexia(读写困难)and knew she'd be7 to finger spell into the man's palm(手掌). So she stood up, walked toward the front of the plane, and8 by the seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently9 his hand, she finger spelt, "How are you?
Are you OK?" Cook asked for some water.
When it arrived, Clara returned to her10 . She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third11 ,she stopped and stayed for a while. ssHe didn't need anything. He was just12 and wanted to talk,"Clara says.
So for the next hour, that's what they did. She13 her family and her plans for the future(she wants to be a politician). Cook told Clara how he had14 become blind over time and shared15 of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn't16 her， she looked attentively at his face with such17 ．
"Clara was18 ，"a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in an interview. "You could tell Cook was very19 to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel. "
Cook's20 ,"Best trip I've ever had. "
