我对雨虽不特别爱好,也不怎样嫌恶。如果头戴帽子在不大不小的雨中行走,我并不觉 得难过,毋宁有一种超然的心情。你只要不以打湿衣帽为意,便可悠然不迫而有余情去欣赏那织女机中的雨丝。真的,那就和春蚕刚吐出来的丝一样光亮、细长,而且整齐地排列着,似乎要把天空和大地缝织起来。 那时你就像一把梭子,从那些雨丝中穿过。雨不仅可看,而且可听。听雨最好是在夜里,没有市声混杂,你可以清晰地辨出什么是芭蕉上的雨声,什么是残荷上的雨声。池中之雨清彻,瓦上之雨沉重。倾盆大雨如怒号,霏霏 细雨如呜咽,一个是英雄气短,一个是儿女情长。
话是说给他媳妇王凤凤的。王凤凤知道这是张六九的第一句话。每天到了麻花铺前,张六九说的第一句话就是这句。每天早起,张六九骑了三轮车收破烂时,第一个到的地方就是街头的这个麻花铺,买一根麻花给媳妇吃。刚炸出来的麻花,油乎啦啦的,飘着白腾腾的热气,老远就闻上了香。王凤凤喜欢吃麻花。王凤凤说,这世上没有比麻花好吃的了。就她的这一句话,结婚八年,张六九给她买了八年的麻花。
①苏格兰公投落下帷幕之际,吸引人们眼球的不仅仅是票选的结果,更有英国人那奇葩的计票方式。计票的人竟然是在纸上一条条地画竖杠杠,视觉效果非常凌乱。这引得人们议论纷纷:“想不到发达国家竟然采取这种刀耕火种的计数方式”,“这不数着数着就乱了吗?”②对比之下,我国的“正”字计数法立刻显得又机智又高端。这个方法广泛流行,为大家所喜闻乐见。五笔一字,整齐划一,视觉效果简洁明了,能够大大提高统计效率。③这么好用的方法,究竟是谁先想到的呢?目前尚不得而知,至于真正使用“正”字来计数,则要追溯到清末民初的上海。起初进戏园看戏并不凭票,仅由服务人员领座,领座员将卖座情况在“大水牌”上注明。由于怕误记,同时为了稽核总数,所以每满五个看客,就写一个“正”字,或者是领一个看客就划上一笔,划上五笔便成一个“正”字。后来戏园规模扩大,用水牌计票的方法逐渐被戏票所取代,但“正”字的计票方法却被商家和选举计票所借鉴,广泛应用起来。
⑤我愣在那里,半天不知道如何反应。突兀的一句话,仿佛是对我心理的突袭,我的确猝不及防,因为那画画得太好了。他背对着我,似乎心中有所料定,笑了,然后急促地去了房间,拿出一叠纸,冲着我,拍一拍,真的是我画的,这些都是我画的!⑥这回我相信了,但还是惊愕未消。老汉异常兴奋,此刻话语已如小河流水,绵绵不断。⑦上个世纪六七十年代,这里几乎人迹罕至、与世隔绝的。山里的人,不知山外有城。见过世面的,只有几个村干部。那时的老汉尚年轻,心里却一直埋着一桩心思。看日渐衰落的爹娘,想给他们留个影,做身后的纪念。打听好了去城里的车与路,下了排除万难的决心。这时爹娘却先后病倒在床,难以长途跋涉了。⑧某天,老汉扛着锄头上山挖树桩,遇见了一位写生的画家。一枝铅笔,一袋烟的功夫,就将眼前的东西搬到了纸上。老汉觉得太神奇了,讷讷地向他请教,画家说这可不是一日之功啊,但还是教了他一些基本的训练方法。于是,回家练。开始,握惯了锄头的手握铅笔,戳出满纸筛眼一样的小窟窿。老汉不放弃,见纸就画。
中国绵延几千年的文学,贯穿始终的, 就是肩负建构民族精神之使命。传统文学以养护人心、培育人格见长, 尤其高扬民族气节。古往今来, 中国文学使命的履行, 围绕这两个纬度进行。
在古代,炼金术士声称他们能将铅之类的金属变成贵重的黄金,当然这是不可能的。现在,数据科学家正在将大量数据变成信息,这些信息虽然不是黄金,但价值胜似黄金。数据科学家可以说是现代的“炼金术士”。
又转过一个山包,是一大片连着的庄稼地,现在全荒了。转过得水家,月亮看见祠堂了。守祠堂的孤老头七叔公会点香火。都是岁月,都是故事。前些年,祠堂香火很盛,除了年节、醮会,村里红事、白事都在那里上香鸣炮,禀告先人。祠堂,是一个村的中枢,是圣地哩。月亮想起了官厅前面两块石碑上刻着的字:月出满地水,云来一天山。今天是十四,往年这时候,祠堂已经开始祭祀的一些仪式了,而眼下,祠堂一片虚空,分明是一个孤独的老人,正在月光下品着这无边的寂寞呢。
京剧是流行全国的戏曲剧中之一。自清乾隆五十五年起,四大徽班陆续进京演出,他们相互影响,并接受昆区和秦腔的部分剧目、曲调、表演方法,又吸收了一些民间曲调,就是在这样的融合、演变和发展中京剧逐渐形成。在京剧发展的历程中,产生过许多优秀的演员。
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.
Once upona time, two brothers lived in a village. They were both famers and grew corn.The elder brother had many children to feed. The younger brother also had a bigfamily to look after. Although the brothers were poor, they lived happily.
Studying is not always the most interesting taskwithin your day, but it is a necessary one. Even though it is required,everyone has got bored at one time or another while studying.
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_______?
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.
Theoil paper umbrella is a traditional Chinese handicraft(手工艺品).It has a history of over 1,000 years in China.In early TangDynasty, it was introduced to Japan and Korea, so it was called the “TangUmbrella”. Later oil paper umbrellas were spread to other Asian countries, suchas Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, and each had its own style. However, assteel-ribbed(钢骨的)umbrellas appeared in the last century, thehand-made oil paper umbrellas became less used in daily life. They were turnedinto decorative artifacts(装饰性工艺品).
The fantasticman-made “forest” is a Singapore landmark. It is made from steel and concrete(水泥) covered in localflowers and plants. At night, 18 solar-powered tree-like towers which get theirenergy from the sun often light up the city.
There was an old oak tree in the garden. Holly’sfather wanted to cut it down and build a new office there. Holly felt sad anddidn’t agree. She moved into the old tree house which was her favourite place in the world.One day, it rained all night.
“Her daughter passed away a few days ago. Now,she can’t do the same things she used to do with her daughter. She doesn’t knowwhat to do. Even little things like making dinner and cleaning the house areharder for her to do now. Maybe you can think of a way to help her,” her mothersaid.
For a long time, I guarded the garden of peaceand quiet. When the children followed me into the garden, I would expect themto be out of sight (视野). And I would hand out tasks.
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.
All thefamily—my grandparents, my parents, my aunt and uncle, my cousin, my sister andI— ___22___ the turkey. However, turkey is not the easiestthing to ___23___. It takes a lot of time to prepare and a lot ofwork to cook…and there are a lot of chances for things to go wrong.