I’m glad to receive your letter and know yourunforgettable(难忘的)experience.Now I’d like to share mine. Last Friday, I was cleaning my room and found anold photo in a drawer. While I was looking at it, the ___16___ memory of that day came back to me.
Mr. Zhang was a cook in Canada. He ___11___ in Guangzhou, and he learned to cook in HongKong. He moved to Canada for work when he was 26 years old. Everything was goodtill COVID-19(新冠病毒)brokeout. Last year, he returned to China because the economy(经济)inCanada began ___12___down.
Jared ___15___ to stay at home, but his mom sent him anyway.He had to sit next to Jessica. At reading time, Mrs. Thomas asked Jared toread. Reading aloud always made Jared ___16___ . As he picked up the book, his hands shook.“He can’t read,” Jessica said. “I didn’t call on you, did I?”
Du, 23,is a student from Shanghai University. He won third place at the ninth IOIO (国际折纸奥林匹克) in February this year. A total of 803 competitors from 59countries and areas took part in this year’s event.
Russia’s skating silver medalist AlexandraTrusova, 17, amazed the world with five quadruple jumps (四周跳)during free skate at the Beijing Winter Olympics. No other woman has everfinished five quadruple jumps in an Olympic competition.
ThreeRiver-Source National Park on the Qinghai-TibetPlateau(青藏高原),is the largest national park in China. Because it is home to the sources of theYangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, people call it “China’s water tower”.
Everyone knows how similar chimpanzees (黑猩猩)are to humans. So it’s no surprise that their greetings are also close to ours.The most common ways of greeting between chimpanzees are hand touching andhugging. Sometimes they also kiss each other. Some chimpanzees can even learnsimple sign language.
Raden Roro Hendarti, nearly 50 years old, is alibrarian in Muntang village. She started a “trash library”, hoping to makechildren read more as well as make them realize the importance of environmentprotection. Each weekday, Raden puts all kinds of books on the back of herthree-wheeler (三轮车)and rides to Muntang village. There, children line up to exchange plastic cups,bags and other trash for books from Raden’s mobile library. After finishing theexchange, Raden carries back all the trash.
十年春,齐师伐我。公将战,曹刿请见。其乡人曰:“肉食者谋之,又何间焉?”刿曰:“肉食者鄙,未能远谋。”乃入见。问:“何以战?”公曰:“衣食所安,弗敢专也,必以分人。”对曰:“小惠未遍,民弗从也。”公曰:“牺牲玉帛,弗敢加也,必以信。”对曰:“小信未孚,神弗福也。”公曰:“小大之狱,虽不能察,必以情。”对日:“忠之属也。可以一战。战则请从。”
余友李公择,少时读书于庐山五老峰下白石庵之僧舍。公择既去,而山中之人思之,指其所居为李氏山房。藏书凡九千余卷。公择既已涉其流,探其源,采剥其华实,而咀嚼其膏味,以为已有,发于文词,见于行事,以闻名于当世矣。而书固自如也,未尝少损。将以遗来者,供其无穷之求,而各足其才分之所当得。是以不藏于家,而藏于其故所居之僧舍,此仁者之心也。
“我会帮您拿包裹,给您买咖啡,帮您跑邮局……每一分钟,您都会看到我从这里进进出出。感受一下这双鞋子,桑德森先生,想象它会带着我跑得多么快。感觉到里面的弹簧了吗?感觉到鞋子内部在奔跑了吗?感觉到我能够飞快地干完这些事情不让您操一点心了吗?您悠闲地待在凉爽的店里,而我在满城跑!不过,到处跑的可不是我,而是鞋子。它什么地方都可以去!”
Remember that it’s better to fail than it’s togive up, and the key is to learn from your failure(失败). But along withdifficulties, there will also be ____18____ wonderful waiting for you.
For Yang, one of the long-expected activitiesduring the Spring Festival is to take photos with family members. On the earlymorning of the second day of the Chinese New Year when the whole family reunite,he would dress up and wait for the photo to be taken.
Excitedly, he went to draw water(抽水), ___15___ he couldn’t pump water no matter how hard hetried. He sat on the ground ___16___.Just at that time, he saw a small bottle with a cork(瓶塞).
All the family—my grandparents, my parents, myaunt and uncle, my cousin, my sister and I— ___27___ the turkey. However, turkey is not the easiestthing to ___28___.It takes a lot of time to prepare and a lot of work to cook…and there are a lotof chances for things to go wrong.
Paper cutting or tearing is a cultural traditionin China. For centuries, it has been passed down from one generation(一代人) tothe next, especially from mothers to daughters. This beautiful art created byskillful artists is used to decorate(装饰) doors, ceilings, and bedsin people’s homes, or at celebrations such as birthdays and weddings.
When youand your friends turn to each other to talk about problems or troubles, yougive each other advice and help. One important thing of our growth is to makedecisions to help our friends and learn to support each other. This requires usto learn what it means to help friends and how to help them in right ways.
我刚离开学校,手里拿着写有地址的纸条。我拖着脚慢慢走,这样就能晚到一些。我的腿又细又长,所有袜子都会往下掉。今天,我的袜子就像两个厌倦了总是演奏同一首曲子的手风琴一样,懒洋洋地滑下来,堆在一起。我不打算把它们提上去。在卡维萨大街立着圣母玛利亚塑像的那个街角,有一个男人正在弹吉他,旁边有一只流浪狗安静地听着。他给那只狗戴了一顶红帽子和一副小小的太阳镜。我一路看着门牌号,在大门前停下来。一个一头黑色卷发的女人把我带到一个宽敞漂亮的起居室。一位妇人坐在一把大扶手椅上,面带微笑看着我。她应该上了年纪,脸上满是细细的皱纹,但是引起我注意的是那双几乎透明的眼睛。
元代是题跋的兴盛期。到了元代,倪瓒那一批画家就彻底不顾忌“签名"。他们的文人画,讲究"诗书入画”,有诗有序,作品才算完整,于是题跋成了书画的重要组成部分。题跋中除了签名,一般还要交代创作的时间、地点、人物,或者写首诗配合画面,生怕后人感受不到画家的情绪。这样一來,对画家的要求就高了,不仅要会写诗,还要书法好,最重要的是会搭配,整体美观。画画的人变了,画作自然也就不同了,就好比文艺青年喜欢往各种“无聊”的地方增加难度,并且乐此不疲。
一位食客说道:“怎么个比法?”小福子说:“我和师父各耍一趟面,要是我赢了,师父就得让出得月楼总厨的位置。”一听此话,众人顿时议论纷纷,有人问:“那你要是输了呢?”小福子一笑:“我要是输了,就头顶面盆,膝跪案板,向师父赔礼道歉,并永世不再耍面。”大伙心里一惊、这小子来真的了。得月楼的老板怕事情闹大不好收场,准备过来劝劝。谁知,余师傅对着小福子一笑:“好,我答应你。”