Ⅵ. 跨学科 六尺巷传说 完形填空
同学们,你们听说过"六尺巷"的故事吗?这是关于清朝年间张英一家与邻居因地界争执后,张英写诗劝解家人与邻居各退一步,形成六尺宽巷的故事。它体现了中国人崇尚的宽容美德,成为现在人文教化的象征,这个故事有什么值得我们思考的呢?
An about 2-metre-wide alley(巷子), or "Liu Chi Xiang"(六尺巷) in Chinese, now attracts floods of visitors in east China's Anhui Province. There is an old story hidden behind it. It explains the nature of tolerance(宽容) widely accepted in China.
During the Qing Dynasty, one of the ministers(宰相), Zhang Ying,
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1 a letter from his family in his hometown of Tongcheng City in Anhui one day.
From the letter, Zhang learned that his family
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2 with their neighbour Wu's family about the dividing line of the two houses. The local officials couldn't make the two families reach a
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3 agreement(共识) because both families had a high reputation(声誉) in Tongcheng. Zhang's family wrote the letter hoping that Zhang could force the Wu's family to give in.
Then, Zhang wrote a poem back saying, "Writing a letter from home, miles away, just for a
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4. All the argument over one metre or two. Looking at the ten-thousand-mile-long Great Wall, long gone is its builder Emperor Qinshihuang."
His
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5 made his family members understand that getting along well with the neighbours was the most important thing. They decided to move their wall about one metre
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6 for their neighbour. In return, the Wu's family was deeply touched and they moved another metre backward. It
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7 an about two-metre-wide narrow "alley" between the houses.
Hundreds of years later in modern China, Tongcheng has become a national historical and cultural city.
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8 all the valuable historical places in the city, the narrow alley is very popular. It serves for education, making people
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9 public rules and value harmony(和谐).
Many locals still live in tiny houses next to each other and
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walls with their neighbours. Some problems like noise are common. Thanks to the traditional Chinese virtue of harmony, many problems are successfully solved.
1. A. got B. wrote
C. saw D. mailed
2. A. shared B. parted
C. argued D. agreed
3. A. polite B. correct
C. secret D. final
4. A. wall B. corner
C. business D. river
5. A. note B. visit
C. request D. reply
6. A. up B. right
C. back D. forward
7. A. changed B. fixed
C. created D. noticed
8. A. Among B. Under
C. With D. Between
9. A. follow B. pass
C. develop D. make
10. A. clean B. share
C. need D. build