— No. 5358.

    An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old, it could not run quickly, and it could not bite(咬), because it was so old. One day，the old cat saw a mouse; it jumped and c{#blank#}1{#/blank#}the mouse. But it could not bite the mouse, so the mouse got out of the cat's mouth and r{#blank#}2{#/blank#} away. Then the old woman became very a{#blank#}3{#/blank#}because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat.,The cat said, "Do not hit your old s{#blank#}4{#/blank#} I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but you should r{#blank#}5{#/blank#} what good work the old did when they were young."

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A Spring Morning

This spring morning in bed I'm lying,

Not to awake till the birds are crying.

After one night of wind and showers,

How many are the fallen flowers!

                                 (Translated by Xu Yuanchong)

    This poem{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (write) by Meng Haoran (689-740), who lived during the Tang Dynasty. It might be one of the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (famous) Poems about spring in China. People like to read it {#blank#}3{#/blank#}they wake up on a spring morning.

    Meng didn't directly say how much he loved spring. Instead, he wrote about the details(细节） of the season：the birds，wind， rain showers and fallen flowers． His descriptions（描述）of these things showed{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (we) the joy he felt during springtime.

    Meng chose to write about the sounds of spring. These sounds allow readers{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (picture) spring using their own imagination.