这种美如此生动,直教我心灵震颤,甚至畏怯。是的,人可以直面威胁,可以蔑视阴谋,可以踩过肮脏的泥泞,可以对叽叽咕咕保持沉默,可以对丑恶闭上眼睛,然而在面对美的精灵时却是一种怯弱。
2009年美国网球公开赛。观众目不转睛地期待比赛开始,发球方运动员将球举过头顶,蓄势做随时发球状态,但裁判微笑示意他再等一等。
我从认字起,爸爸就给我买书刊,我关注的第一本文学书是爸爸在阅读的《红岩》,当时书名上的字我还识不全,就念成了“红山石”,别人都笑了,而爸爸微笑着说:“她聪明,大概的意思并没有错。”
熙宁九年,恩州武城县有旋风自东南来,望之插天如羊角,大木尽拔。俄顷旋风卷入云霄中。既而渐近,所经县城官舍、居民略尽,悉卷入云中。县令儿女奴婢卷去,复坠地,死伤者数人。民间死伤亡失者不可胜计,县城悉为丘墟,遂移今县。
牛是家乡的风景。春天的图画里少不了雨、离不开牛、缺不得迎春花。一犁春雨半亩洼,蓑衣斗笠半袖花,春风应时而至,春光烂漫无边,翠绿墨绿嫩绿鹅黄绿,梨花李花桃花栀子花,所有的草叶花蕊、溪流石泉都滴着青春的原汁。
米吃多了,就有了想法。诗人说“米是漫山遍野的精灵,是生长绿色的种子,是陆地结的珍珠”,我也有这个感觉。有时我看到掉在桌上的一粒米,会产生一番联想:这粒米,不知道是哪粒种子被种在土里,经过了多少风霜雨雪,又被哪个农民精心养育,浇水、施肥、捉虫、打药,顶着酷暑烈日收割了来,再冒着酷暑高温脱了粒。脱一遍还不算,再脱一层皮,再脱一层皮,成为白白亮亮的精米,大有缘法落到我的饭碗里,结果不等它入口,就被轻轻抛弃,假如这米有灵,不知道会不会伤心?
As a boy, Kevin visited national parks and helearned the Earth is in ___12___ condition. He felt worried, and hewanted to ___13___ the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in water nearNorth Pole(北极)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
Long ago, a poor old couple lived on the coast.One day, an old storyteller came to their village. The old couple gave him ameal. In return, he gave them a coffee mill (磨粉机)and said, “Say, ‘Mill, please grind (磨粉)’,”
Thinking that her dream could never come true,Kelly was in low spirits and ____18____ her studies at school. Hermother did all she could to cheer her up, ____19____ Kelly refused tochange. She even took out all her anger and ____20____ on her mother.
During 1907-1909, British explorer EarnestShackleton explored Antarctica on foot. In 1911, two explorers—a British mannamed Scott and a Norwegian named Amundsen—raced 1, 400 kilometres to the SouthPole (南极).Amundsen arrived first.
Taiping nijiaojiao is made of the mudfrom the local mountain. It takes more than ten steps to make the clay toy, andthe key step is to knead (捏) it with your hands. You can knead the clay toyinto anything, like animals and plants. The blowhole is the most difficult partto make, for the size of the blowhole makes a difference to the sound. Whilecoloring, you can use traditional cultural elements (元素) thatcarry good meanings. It’s hard to make taipingnijiaojiao. But when you finally make it, you will feel proud of yourself.
When itcomes to a meaningful life, we might think of love, happiness and health. Alife filled with meaning is what most of us want for ourselves. Then, whatmakes a meaningful life?Manyresearchers agree that a meaningful life comes down to three factors (因素): havinglong-term goals, believing that one’s life matters, and feeling that one’s lifefits together and “makes sense”.But we believe there is more to consider. Sometimeslife enables us to experience small moments of beauty. When people are open toappreciating (欣赏) suchexperiences, these moments may improve how they see their own life. We callthis experiential appreciation (EA).
Electric cars may seem like a recent invention,but they have been around for years. In the early 1900s, there were ___16___electric cars on the road than gasoline(汽油)cars, because at that time,gasoline was expensive compared with other fuels(燃料), electriccars were more popular.
Michelle,a famous lady, has found that more than 25% students are too fat in hercountry. It is a very serious problem. So she starts a Health Program to dealwith it. The Health Program is to reduce the number of fat students today andin the future.
Shuttlecock exercise doesnot require equipment(装备) and is perfect for people to perform at home.Liu Genghong helps you to keep going until the last minute, and you can burnyour fat fast.
Chinese taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping andYe Guangfu carried out the Shenzhou-13 spaceflight mission (任务) that started on Oct. 15,2021. This mission lasts 6 months, which was also a national record.
Every month, Julia and her cousins would go forthe big family meal at their grandparents’ house. On each visit, their grandpawould give them a few coins. Then all the children would run off to buy sweets.One day, he gathered the children together.
Each ofthem has their own experience- two people with synesthesia may both “feel”music, but they almost never feel the music in the same way. For example, onemay feel the music of the violin lightly brushing his face; the other may feelit on her ankle (脚踝). And one’s experience of synesthesia is alwaysthe same. If they see the number 5 in the color blue, then 5 is blue every timethey see it.
Tim: _______36_______,Bob.Bob: Good afternoon, Tim. Icalled you just now, but nobody answered. _______37_______?Tim: I went to the cinema.And I watched a movie named The Battle atLake Changjin.Bob: Oh, great. It’s very famous nowadays. _______38_______?
I often use old clothes that people don’t wearany more to make bags. I opened a small shop in my community and set up awebsite to sell the bags online. Many customers think they are fantastic. Now Iplan to write a new book about ways to use old clothes.