题型:阅读选择 题类: 难易度:普通
湖南省长沙市华益中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试卷
Beijing hutongs are both the living place of the locals(当地人) and an important part of this city. Although hutongs look the same, each one has its special features(特征). Do you know some special hutongs? And do you want to visit some of them?
Dongjiaominxiang is the longest hutong in Beijing. It's 1.552km long from the east road of Tian'anmen Square to Chongwenmennei Street. The oldest locals living in Dongjiaominxiang have only lived there for about 60 years, because the hutong had been the embassy area(使馆区) of the Old China for over 700 years since the Yuan dynasty. | |
Yichidajie (or One Foot Street) is the shortest hutong in Beijing. It is only about 30m long from east to west and there are only six stores on the street. Now it is a part of Yangmeizhu Xiejie. | |
Lingjing Hutong is the widest hutong in Beijing. It is 664m long and 32.18m in its widest part. It is in the Xicheng district of Beijing, and lies between Fuyou Street on the east and Xidan North Street on the west. |
D=Dongjiaominxiang Y=Yichidajie L=Lingjing Hutong
Happy Rain on a Spring Night Good rain knows its time right; It will fall when comes spring. With wind it steals in night; Mute, it moistens each thing. O'er wild lanes dark cloud spreads; In boat a lantern looms. Dawn sees saturated reds; The town's heavy with blooms. —Translated by Xu Yuanchong Du Fu |
When Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770) wrote this poem, he was living in Chengdu. Sometimes he went to farm in the field. The poem shows his care for farmers.
The very first word, "good", shows the poet's joy and love for the spring rain. The rain is good indeed, as it "knows" the right time to come. Here the poet uses personification (拟人), as if the rain were smart enough to know that it should come in time for the farmer's busy plowing (农耕) season.
When the rain comes, it appears during the night. Unlike the thunder (雷) and lightning of summer storms, the quiet spring rain makes its contributions (贡献) without being known.
In the night sky, the clouds look dark and heavy, showing that there will be enough rain during the night. Then the poet imagines: tomorrow morning, all of the flowers in the city will bloom (盛开) after the rain.
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