水陆草木之花,可爱者甚蕃。晋陶渊明独爱菊。自李唐来,世人盛爱牡丹。予独爱莲之出淤泥而不染,濯清涟而不妖;中通外直,不蔓不枝;香远益清,亭亭净植,可远观而不可亵玩焉。
伯牙善鼓琴,钟子期善听。伯牙鼓琴,志①在高山,钟子期曰:“善哉,峨峨②兮若泰山!”志在流水,钟子期曰:“善哉,洋洋③兮若江河!”伯牙所念,钟子期必得之。
那一年,我即将大学毕业,为了找个单位,天天出去“扫街”,但仍一无所获。我学的是建筑设计专业,找了几家建筑设计院,人家要的不是博士就是硕士。一负责人看着我的简历说,你读书时,还获过不少奖,不错!可是,我们这里暂时不缺建筑设计方面的人才,要不你先来我们这里干个保安什么的吧!等有机会再安排你。
柯尔比找到了全是最著名的音乐辅导老师玛丽,玛丽老师感动地说:“我去,我去!”⑧在玛丽老师娴熟的指导下,孩子们每天练习唱歌,当然是在伊丽莎白接受治疗的时候。
女儿没有见过她妈妈,在她出生的那一刻,她的妈妈便因为难产离开了我们。仿佛一切都有预感一样,在妻子的日记里,我看到了她写给自己未出生孩子的信。
金风换成了北风,秋去冬来了。冬天刚刚冒了个头,落了一场初雪,我满庭斗艳争娇的芳菲,顿然失色,鲜红的老来娇,还有各色的傲霜菊花,一夜全白了头。两棵丁香,叶子簌簌辞柯了,像一声声年华消失的感叹。
我走过湖畔山林间的小路,山林中和小路上只有我;林鸟尚未归巢,松涛也因无风而暂时息怒……突然间听到自己的身后有脚步声,这声音不紧不慢,亦步亦趋,紧紧地跟随着我。我暗自吃惊,害怕在荒无人烟的丛林间碰上了剪径。回过头来一看:什么也没有,那声音来自于自己的脚步。
In the late autumn, John was badly ill andbecame bedridden (长期卧床的).After the doctor visited John several times, he told Sue, “His condition isquite ___22___.John seems to have lost all will to live. If he doesn’t want to live, medicineswill not help him.”
YangHongwei, 56, was born into a kite-making family in Weifang. When she was young,she often saw kites with bright colors and different shapes in hergrandfather’s workshop.
In the large yard stood thirteen trees ofdifferent sizes. One day, while Joey was playing with his sister under thetrees, he noticed that a tree trunk (树干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
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)’,”
In the large yard stood thirteen trees ofdifferent sizes. One day, while Joey was playing with his sister under thetrees, he noticed that a tree trunk (树干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
As a boy, Kevin visited national parks and helearned the Earth is in ___12___condition. He felt worried, and he wanted to ___13___ the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in waternear North Pole(北极)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
The app — called Sit With Us — is ___15___. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon,he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ___16___ that invitation. They can then use the app todecide when and where to ___17___.
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.
At the age of nine, Kelly dreamed of being abasketball player. But one day when she was playing basketball, she hurt herleft leg ____16____.
Antarctica lies in the most southern part of theworld. It is the coldest area on Earth. There isn’t much rain, but there is alot of snow and wind. The lowest temperature was on 21 July in 1983 at -89.2℃!
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.