蔡元定①八歲能詩,及長,登泰山絕頂。日惟啖②薺③。于書無不讀,朱熹扣④其學(xué),大驚曰:“此吾老友也,不當(dāng)在弟子列。”
黃花梨是極其名貴的木材,是制作高檔家具的上好材料,有“鬼臉”的黃花梨更是其中的佼佼者,被視為佳品中的珍品,價(jià)值連城,受到世人的追捧。 其實(shí),所謂“鬼臉”就是黃花梨受到傷害之后留下的疤。因?yàn)辄S花梨生長于沿海地區(qū),常遭臺風(fēng)襲擊, 在風(fēng)雨飄搖中不是被扭曲,就是被折彎,甚至被折斷。盡管如此,也阻擋不了黃花梨的成長,只不過,為了彌補(bǔ)傷害,受傷處的紋理發(fā)生了變化,形成了各種各樣惟妙惟肖的圖形,有的像動物,有的像植物,有的像人物,形態(tài)各異,豐富多彩,形象逼真,十分迷人。
行路難李白金樽清酒斗十千,玉盤珍羞直萬錢。停杯投箸不能食,拔劍四顧心茫然。被渡黃河冰塞川,將登太行雪滿山。閑來垂釣碧溪上,忽復(fù)乘舟夢日邊,行路難!行路難!多歧路,今安在?長風(fēng)破浪會有時(shí),直掛云帆濟(jì)滄海。
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.”
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.
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).
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 (磨粉機(jī))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 (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.
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).
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___.
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℃!
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.
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.
“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”!
I joineda band (樂隊(duì))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 (節(jié)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 (欣賞) suchexperiences, these moments may improve how they see their own life. We callthis experiential appreciation (EA).
一般人在一個完整的夜間睡眠中,大腦在進(jìn)行著具有一定周期性的功能和狀態(tài)循環(huán)。依據(jù)多導(dǎo)睡眠圖描繪的腦電圖模式、眼動和肌張力特征,人的睡眠結(jié)構(gòu)可以分為兩種類型:非快速眼動睡眠和快速眼動睡眠。非快速眼動睡眠與快速眼動睡眠循環(huán)交替一次稱為一個睡眠周期。每次夜晚的睡眠通常有4~5個睡眠周期,每個周期約90~110分鐘。兩個睡眠周期之間通常伴有短暫覺醒,整夜大概出現(xiàn)4~6次。