Li Yaotang is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers in the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin. Ba Jin started writing his first work in the late 1920s.
Ba Jin was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. He was born in a rich family. As a child, Ba Jin was taught to read and write first by his mother. In 1920, he entered Chengdu Foreign Language School to study English. Three years later, he moved to Shanghai and studied in Dongnan University. On February 15th, 1927, he went to Paris with his friend for further study. After returning to Shanghai in 1928, he continued writing and working on translation. His first novel came out in 1929. Then he wrote a lot of famous novels during ten years. Most of his works could be easily understood by anyone with high school education, which made him one of the easiest modern Chinese writers.
Ba Jin died of cancer in Shanghai at the age of 100. His death marked the end of a century for Chinese literature. He was one of the masters of language.
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I have a friend. Her name is Beibei. She comes from America and she is five years old. Beibei is in China now. Her hair is blond, but her ears are white. Her eyes are small, round and black. She has a small nose and a small mouth. Her legs are short. She has four feet, and they are small and white. I want to buy a red coat and a pair of white shoes for her. Guess, who’s my friend? Yes, you’re right. She is a dog (狗).
Now she has two babies (幼崽). They are Huxiao and Langhao. Beibei and they are not the same. They have blond and black hair. Huxiao and Langhao are very nice. They look happy every day. I like them very much.
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5. What can you learn (学习) from (从) the passage (文章)?
I am Jack, a student. I am from New York, America. Now I live in Beijing with my parents. Tim is my father. He is a policeman at a police station. He is a cool man at the age of forty-five. He likes summer because he likes swimming. My mother, Anna, is a doctor. She works at a hospital. She is nice. She is forty-five years old, too. She likes going shopping when she is free(空闲的). My sister, Lucy, is eight years old. She is in Class 1, Grade 3. She likes singing. She has ever got the first prize(奖) on singing. I am in the same school with her. I’m in Grade 7. I like playing computer games at weekends. We are a happy family.
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【推荐3】Mr. Green works in a hospital. He is busy driving a car every day. His wife works in a school library. She’s strict with her only son, Tommy.
Half a year ago, when Tommy was six, Mrs. Green took him to her school. The boy was clever and studied well. But at first he couldn’t adapt (使适应) himself to the new life. In the morning, he woke up late and in the evening he didn’t go to bed on time. But his mother tried to make him do everything on time.
One evening, when Mr. Green was driving in a street, a traffic accident happened. He had to take the wounded (受伤的) people to the hospital and it took him about two hours. When he got home, he began to tell his family about it.
“It’s time for you to go to bed, Tommy,” said Mrs. Green.
The boy wanted to listen to his father tell the accident, but he had to do what his mother told him. When he lay down, he said, “I don’t think Mom can look after me at all!”
“Oh, why?” asked his father.
The boy said, “She always makes me go to bed when I am not sleepy (困的), but she wakes me up when I’m asleep.”
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On the Tower at Youzhou
Where are the great men of the past?
And where are those of future years?
The sky and earth forever last;
Here and now I alone shed (流) tears.
Traveling not only opens our eyes but also gives us a chance to think and express our feelings. On the Tower at Youzhou, written by Chen Ziang (661-702) in the Tang Dynasty, is an example.
Chen wrote this poem in 696. At that time, he was upset in his army career (生涯) under the rule of Empress Wu Zetian. He climbed to the top of Youzhou Tower and was amazed by the view of the earth and sky. He couldn’t help wondering where the great men of the past and future are.
Compared to the universe, the poet felt that people are small and unimportant. What lasts forever is the vast (广阔的) earth and sky. Nobody can be free from death. Even so, Chen still wanted to serve his country and people in his short life. But the rulers didn’t see his talents, so Chen felt sad and shed tears alone.
With the sincere (真挚的) feelings that fit the setting, Chen created a moving, sad scene in the poem. It is sad but not discouraging (令人气馁的). His language is simple but carries deep meaning. That’s why the poem is still popular now.
1. What can we get through traveling according to the passage?2. Where did Chen see the amazing view of the earth and sky?
3. Why did Chen cry alone?
4. According to Chen, are people important compared to the universe?
5. What does the writer think of the language in the poem?
【推荐2】阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题（请注意每小题的词数要求）。
I like reading. Up to now I have read (已经读了) a lot of books, such as magazines, newspapers and storybooks. But one of the books that I like best is The Story of My Life (《我的人生故事》). American writer Helen Keller wrote it in 1902. In the book, she wrote that she couldn’t see, hear or speak when she was one year and seven months old. It made her very sad.
Luckily, she met her good teacher, Miss Sullivan, at the age of seven. Helen was getting happier every day. Then, Miss Sullivan helped her learn how to write English words. At first, Miss Sullivan wrote some words on Helen’s hands with her fingers (手指) again and again. Helen was a very hard-working girl. She tried her best to remember words. After that, she wrote many famous works. The Story of My Life is one of them.
The Story of My Life tells us how she became a great writer of the world. We can learn an important thing from her: Nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it! This is why I like it best.
1. Who is the writer of the book The Story of My Life? (不超过3个词)【推荐3】
“Reading makes a full man (Bacon, 1597).” Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things.
Jane Austen was one of the most well-known women writers in the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice (傲慢与偏见) written in 1779 was the most popular.
Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the 19th century. The talent for writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (巴黎圣母院), was published in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe.
Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books like The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
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