General reading Please read the fol

General reading Please read the following text and do the comprehension exercises. When you come across a word or phrase in blue, you may click it and watch a short video clip explaining a relevant cultural phenomenon. However, we suggest when you read the text for the first time, you should not watch any video to distract your attention. After you finish the comprehension exercises, you may go back and click for further understanding of American and British culture. The Last Leaf O.Henry 1 At the top of a three-story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio. “Johnsy” was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at a cafe on Eighth Street and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted. 2 That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. She lay, scarcely moving on her bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house.