Ⅳ. 选词填空
从方框中选择正确的单词并用其适当形式填空,每个单词限用一次。
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(2025·淄博二模改编)A popular Chinese sayings says du wanjuan shu, xing wanli lu, or 1.
translates/is translated
as “to read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles”. The saying was 2.
first
from the book Notes from the Painting - Meditation Studio. It was written by Dong Qichang, a famous painter and politician (政客) in the Ming Dynasty.
Dong's saying was to encourage people 3.
to study
more and gain knowledge, and then put what they learned into practice. However, later on, some people twisted (曲解) Dong's saying to “to travel ten thousand miles beats reading ten thousand books”. The idea says that experience is 4.
more important
and meaningful than what we can get from books. The two ideas, no matter how you understand 5.
them
, both compare reading with travelling.
But this is not only a Chinese idea. Westerners have the similar 6.
expression
. For example, Augustine, a philosopher (哲学家), once said, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page.” Rockefeller, an American businessman and banker, once said, “I am a 7.
traveler/traveller
. Since I was a child, travel 8.
has formed
me as much as my formal education.”
All these opinions seem to agree on one point: by seeing new places and 9.
meeting
new people, travel can be as exciting and 10.
educational
as reading books. The unspoken lesson is: do both as much as possible.