世有伯樂,然后有千里馬。千里馬常有,而伯樂不常有。故雖有名馬,祗辱于奴隸人之手,駢死于槽櫪之間,不以千里稱也。馬之千里者,一食或盡粟一石。食馬者不知其能千里而食也。是馬也,雖有千里之能,食不飽,力不足,才美不外見,且欲與常馬等不可得,安求其能千里也?策之不以其道,食之不能盡其材,鳴之而不能通其意,執(zhí)策而臨之,曰:“天下無馬!”嗚呼!其真無馬邪?其真不知馬也!
熙寧九年,恩州武城縣有旋風自東南來,望之插天如羊角,大木盡拔。俄頃旋風卷入云霄中。既而漸近,所經縣城官舍、居民略盡,悉卷入云中??h令兒女奴婢卷去,復墜地,死傷者數人。民間死傷亡失者不可勝計,縣城悉為丘墟,遂移今縣。
第二年的端午節(jié),我到離沙地稍遠一點的一個村子里采訪。這個地方幾乎家家房前屋后都是沙棗,就像成都平原上一叢竹林一戶人家。過去我以為沙棗總是臨沙傍堿而居,其葉總是小而灰,色調總是暗而舊。但在這里,沙棗依水而長,一片蔥綠,最大的一片葉子居然有一指之長,是我過去看到的三倍之大。
我繞到山的背后,人卻很少,只有一老者在山坡上彎腰尋覓著什么東西。我以為他掉了鑰匙或手機之類的物件,白雪上落黑物,應該很容易找到,便上前幫忙尋找,他卻提醒我道:“小心別踩了!”
門前廣場上臨時拉了一些電燈,將堡門下半截依稀照見,上半截和高高在上的門樓混在如墨的夜色里。一個正在熔化鐵水的大爐子起勁地燒著。鼓風機使爐頂和爐門不停地吐著奪目的火舌。
第二天打早,母親便端一小凳,坐在這些水淋淋的盆具間,像一位老到的藝術家,開始了熟練的操作。包粽子說難不難,但真要把它包得大頭尖尾,見棱見角——按母親的說法要“俊模俊樣”,也不容易。
這種美如此生動,直教我心靈震顫,甚至畏怯。是的,人可以直面威脅,可以蔑視陰謀,可以踩過骯臟的泥濘,可以對嘰嘰咕咕保持沉默,可以對丑惡閉上眼睛,然而在面對美的精靈時卻是一種怯弱。
2009年美國網球公開賽。觀眾目不轉睛地期待比賽開始,發(fā)球方運動員將球舉過頭頂,蓄勢做隨時發(fā)球狀態(tài),但裁判微笑示意他再等一等。
我從認字起,爸爸就給我買書刊,我關注的第一本文學書是爸爸在閱讀的《紅巖》,當時書名上的字我還識不全,就念成了“紅山石”,別人都笑了,而爸爸微笑著說:“她聰明,大概的意思并沒有錯?!?/p>
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 (樹干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
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 (樹干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
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℃!
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.
In the late autumn, John was badly ill andbecame bedridden (長期臥床的).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.”
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(北極)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
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(北極)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
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 (南極).Amundsen arrived first.