地名他很熟习,即使有时候绕点远也没有多大关系,好在自己有的是力气。拉车的方法,以他干过的那些推、拉、扛、挑的经验来领会,也不算十分难。况且他有他的主意:多留神,少争胜,大概总不会出了毛病。至于讲价争座,他的嘴慢气盛,弄不过那些老油子们。知道这个短处,他干脆不大到“车口儿”上去;哪里没车,他放在哪里。在这僻静的地点,他可以从容的讲价,而且有时候不肯要价,只说声:“坐上吧,瞧着给!”他的样子是那么诚实,脸上是那么简单可爱,人们好像只好信任他,不敢想这个傻大个子是会敲人的。即使人们疑心,也只能怀疑他是新到城里来的乡下老儿,大概不认识路,所以讲不出价钱来。以至人们问到:“认识呀?”他就又像装傻,又像耍俏的那么一笑,使人们不知怎样才好。
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。
在电话拨通等待的期间,我非常懊恼睡前没有检查手机,可能是白天开会把手机设成静音忘记调回来。我不停地祈祷老爸赶紧接电话,每滴一声,一分一秒都是无比漫长和煎熬,心想别晕过去了,不然老年手机的声音响起来,震耳欲聋的他不可能听不到啊。越想越怕,眼泪都急出来了,电话还是没人接。紧接着又打了一遍,很快就接通了,听到我爸熟悉的声音,心里顿时轻松了一些,我哽咽着问,爸,你没事吧?!爸说,怎么了,没啥大事呀,不是医生说不让喝米粥嘛,你给买的豆浆机收到了,但我按照说明书使用,为啥响了一会儿,又停了,然后再响一会儿又停了,是不是寄的路上被摔坏了!?
故乡味道还证明着你口味的正宗。如果你对自己故乡的食物有着清晰的记忆,那么在一个饭局上,尤其是和你的口味正好吻合的饭局上,你就有绝对的话语权。故乡甚至关乎个人的尊严。在我看来,没有哪个地方的食物更好吃,但是一个故乡感非常强烈的人,他能把故乡的“口味正确”上升到信数的水准。比如,哪个地方的辣椒最辣,这绝不是史高维尔指数能够标定的。羊肉更是这样,甘肃、宁夏都声称自己拥有世界上最好的羊肉,新疆和内蒙古更具体到南疆还是北疆、呼伦贝尔还是锡林郭勒。一个海南人过来插话,加积鸭、文昌鸡、和乐蟹、东山一羊字还没说出来,所有北方的网友不约而同地敲黑板:注意,我们在讨论羊肉的话题。
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___.
At the age of nine, Kelly dreamed of being abasketball player. But one day when she was playing basketball, she hurt herleft leg ____16____.
“Red Trip” in TonghuaTonghua is a good choice to have a “red trip”. It is aplace full of “red stories”. The well-known national hero Yang Jingyu oncefought here. Experience the “red spirit”!
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).
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.
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.
I joineda band (乐队)as a drummer in my middle school. I thought itwould be fun playing the drum and meeting new friends. At first it was easy,but a month later, it got difficult. I was the only one who couldn’t keep pace (节奏)with the other players. Our teacher,Angie, singled me out to keep practicing while everyone else got to relax. Ifelt ashamed (羞愧的)as my teammates watched me fail so many times.Finally I got so tired of practicing that I didn’t care about doing it right.
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).