阅读理解填词(二) 哲理故事+说明介绍+社会热点
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Look out for others before yourself
Farmer John and his wife lived on a farm. They raised a pig, a cow and a chicken. One day, a mouse saw that John had set a mousetrap. He went around the farm and warned all of the 1.o animals about the trap.
“There is a 2.m in the house!”the mouse said to the chicken.
“That’s 3.b news for you, but it doesn’t bother me,” the chicken said.
Then, the mouse went to the pig and the cow. But the pig and the cow did not care, 4.e . They said they didn’t have to worry about it and wished the mouse good luck.
One night, a snake got 5.c in the mousetrap. John’s wife thought the snake was dead and tried to 6.r it. But the snake was still alive and bit her hand.
She became very sick and had a bad fever. The farmer decided to make some 7.c soup to treat her sickness—so he killed the chicken.
As John’s wife continued to become 8.s , many of her friends came to visit her. The farmer killed the pig and used it to make food for the visitors.
Sadly, John’s wife died from her illness. The farmer killed the cow as a sacrifice(祭品) for her funeral.
The mouse watched all of this with great sorrow.
When we learn that someone is 9.f difficulties or danger, all of us can be at risk. It is better to help and encourage one another instead of leaving others 10.a with their problems.
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Finding meaning in beans
Q: Why do red beans represent love and fidelity(忠贞) in Chinese culture?
A: As you may know people in China give red beans to their partners to 1.s their commitment(承诺) to the relationship. But why do they do this? As it turns out, there is an ancient story that can explain this.
2.T of years ago, there were long-lasting wars between the Han people and the non-Han nomads(游牧民族) who lived in the 3.n . During this time, a young man was forced to go to war. He had to 4.l his wife and children.
The wife spent every day 5.w for her husband to return. At 6.s and sunset, she would lean(倚靠) on a tall tree on a high mountain and look into the 7.d . But her husband never returned.
While she was watching and waiting, the woman would cry under the tree. As time passed, her 8.t turned to blood. 9.A the tears dropped to the ground, they became red beans. The red beans eventually grew into dozens of new trees.
This story 10.s far and wide, leading people to refer to red beans as “love beans”.
Did you know?
Wang Wei(701—761), a Tang Dynasty poet, wrote a famous poem about red beans. Let’s see the poem and its translation by Xu Yuanchong:
Red beans grow in southern land.
How many load in spring the trees?
Gather them till full is your hand.
They would revive fond memories.
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People in different countries speak different languages. But is there a language that can be 1.u by everyone in the world? Emojis might be the first truly universal(通用的) language.
Emojis are a kind of special language. Pictures are used to put meaning across. A group 2.c the Unicode Consortium is in charge of choosing official emojis. It has added new emojis every year since 2014.These new emojis do not come out of nowhere. They show 3.w people think about, like and care about.
