The Colored Desert
Lei Lyran
Soon after leaving the city from Korla, the car left the national highway and entered the oil field highway. The newly repaired oil highway shoots straight ahead like a shiny black arrowhead. Ahead, is the vast Gobi, is the yellow sandy Taklamakan Desert, as well as the world-famous West-East gas delivery of the first gas well. The car ran on the Gobi at full speed. In our field of vision, far away on the horizon, there is an unobstructed dome and faintly rising clouds. The open Gobi, like a chessboard, occasionally see a group of two groups of round grass trees, like a deliberately set a game of chess. Survival and death, here difficult to play the game of fate. We came here in late autumn, gray, everywhere is gray.
Along the highway, we headed toward the Taizhong oil field. This road will split the Taklamakan Desert straight through the center of the Tarim Basin. There, there will be another landscape, another picture, another color.
The Tarim River is a river with scattered banks, and the surging water has become calm and thin in the summer. On both sides of the river, there are dense poplar trees. These trees, most of which have already drifted off the yellow leaves, presenting a kind of rigidity and bleakness. Car forward, dense woods, gradually become sparse. The foot of the tree, has been thinly and thickly paved with a yellow sand. Independent trees, some such as stone sculpture, some such as bronze sculpture. Although they may have died, year after year of wind and sand, broken branches, peeled off the bark, but the tree's residual trunk is still standing, like a group of strong dancers, to the sky and the earth tenaciously pouring out their will and faith. I love these trees and regard them as the spiritual example that God has signaled to mankind. Like me, the oil workers also love the poplar trees, and once they moved their wells seven times to protect 26 poplars, spending an extra 2 million yuan. The Tarim River is obviously no longer able to feed these plants, and the tall sand dunes of the Taklamakan have become more and more densely crowded on both sides of the road.
However, this desert highway is wide and flat, no less than any road I have seen in the mainland. The straight road goes up and down as the dunes rise and fall. The surface temperature reaches 60℃~70℃ in the hot summer. You can imagine how the heat, dryness, desert winds will torture the workers' flesh and blood; but you can not imagine how they fixed the quicksand with what wisdom, tamping the roadbed, so that the road as with the desert with the same innate.
Over a few sandy hills, a bright spot in front of us, only to see a piece of silver-gray oil tank towers towering, huge bends and twists of silver-gray pipeline in the towers around; there are also some majestic buildings and these towers and pipelines stand shoulder-to-shoulder. Under the sunlight, silver, gold, brown, all kinds of light radiated by the building, let a person suddenly shook off the long-distance Mercedes-Benz sleepiness and fatigue. The Tachung oil field had arrived. Looking up at those buildings, that moment, the mind suddenly flashed back to the Tang Monk teacher and disciples after all the twists and turns, saw the Western Heavenly triumph of that surprise and joy. Knowing that everything is real, you sometimes have to ask yourself: could this be an illusion?
In all these colors, the most vivid and eye-catching, is the red of the uniforms worn by oil workers. That is a color that makes people stand in awe. Red cap, red coat, red pants, like the morning sun, like spring flowers, more like **** and the country fluttering flag, shining in this desert. In the oilfield, I saw the most conspicuous and imposing two sentences: "There is only a desolate desert, not a desolate life." These words are written on the walls, carved on the stones and embedded in the sand dunes. It is heartfelt and written; it is a pep talk and a promise.
Our end point is the starting point of the great West-to-East Gas Delivery Project - Clarke No. 2 gas well. And the desert landscape is very different, here is a criss-crossed, monstrous Yardang landscape. There are no roads, and even helicopters have to be used to relocate the well. The oil workers have managed to drill wells, produce gas, build roads and lay pipelines in this rocky terrain. When I put my ear close to the pipeline and heard the sharp gasp of the gas running away, it was a bit of a thrilling moment. They are going over the mountains, crossing the rivers and going to Shanghai and Beijing, which are thousands of miles away. At that moment, I really want my friends and relatives in Beijing to know that when you gently turn the switch knob of the natural gas stove for making lunch, I can hear the crisp and quick sound, and my heartbeat is stirring in this place which is far away from you but close to you.
Even though it was late fall and the grass was dying, I saw the most unforgettable colors in the desert. (Abridged)
14. The first paragraph of the article describes what characteristics of the Gobi Beach? In connection with the whole article, talk about what the author intends to write this way. (4 marks)
15. Explain the meaning of the following two sentences in the article. (4 marks)
(1) I love these trees and regard them as the spiritual examples that God has signaled to mankind.
(2) There is only a desolate desert, not a desolate life.
16. Why does the author say that of all the colors he saw, the most vivid and eye-catching was the red of the oil workers' uniforms?
17. At the end of the article, what methods does the author use to write about the Clarke No. 2 gas well? What kind of thought and feeling is expressed? Please analyze briefly. (8 marks)
Answer:
14. Answers (4 marks) First question: the harshness of the environment of the Gobi Beach; the monotony of the colors of the Gobi Beach. The second question: for the performance of oil workers for the people of the motherland to do great contribution to lay the ambush; and the following to describe the colorful desert form a sharp contrast; first suppressed and then raised to stimulate the reader's interest in reading.
Solution guide to this question examines the ability to sift and summarize the information in the text, the ability level for the C level. On the basis of the overall grasp of the text, we should find the screening area and summarize accurately.
15. Answers (1) The poplar tree in the harsh environment, as if endowed by heaven with tenacity and faith, has the power to attract people. (2) Although the desert is desolate and monotonous, people can make life colorful through labor.
Solution GuideThis question mainly examines the ability to understand the meaning of the main sentences in the text, and the ability level is B. The answer to the question is to pay attention to the ability to understand the meaning of the main sentences in the text as a whole. When answering the question, pay attention to the overall grasp of the meaning of the text on the basis of the context of the generalization and integration.
16. Answers (1) Compared with the color of the desert and the oil field buildings, the red of the oil workers' uniforms looks more dazzling (2) The red of the uniforms is like a flower and a haze, which expresses the author's praise and admiration for the beautiful hearts of the oil workers (3) The red of the uniforms is like the color of the **** and the national flag flag, which sends the author's patriotic feelings.
Solution GuideThis question mainly examines the ability of the meaning of important words in the text, and the ability level is B. The question is based on the meaning of the important words in the text. To find the relevant passage, according to the requirements of the question stem, that is, based on the text, but also combined with their own reading experience to talk about the understanding.
17. Answer to the first question: the author uses comparison, prose, simile and imagination to write about the Clarke 2 gas well.
Second question: (1) Through the contrast between the Yadan landscape and the desert landscape where the Clarke No. 2 gas well is located, it shows that the oil workers are full of passion, defying difficulties and overcoming difficulties. (2) Through the platitude of different labor scenarios, it shows that the oil workers are firm in their determination and unrelenting in their determination. (3) Through the comparison of the sound of the gas from the natural pipeline, it shows that the oil workers have done a great deal of work to send gas to the west and east. West-East Gas Transportation (4) expresses the admiration and gratitude to the oil workers by calling and imagining their relatives in faraway places.
Solution GuideThis question examines the ability to grasp the writing techniques of the article and the main idea of the text, and the ability level is F. The question is about the ability to grasp the text as a whole. It is important to pay attention to the overall grasp of the text and to clarify the common writing techniques.
Second National Volume 2
The first time I went to Changbai Mountain was the summer of 1995. And only since then have I known that Yue Birch is the name of a tree. That is a kind of tree only in the Changbai Mountain.
At that time, Changbai Mountain, there is no large-scale tourism development, so there is no so-called "attractions", many people go to Changbai Mountain, there is only one purpose, is to see the Tianchi. We are probably the same way, so a climb on the car, people's hearts and spinning car wheels reached a high degree of tacit understanding, all the way circling up, straight to the peak. Despite the endless stream of great flowers, trees, and scenery along the way, none of it seemed to matter to us. Afterwards, when I re-read the memory of that day, in addition to the sun is not out of the beauty of the silhouette of the pine and the last of the pool of water is still clear, most of the intermediate fragments are some of the red and green interlaced, blurred silhouettes, such as a piece of the focal length of the photo is not aligned.
However, those Yue Birch trees for me, is an accident, but also a surprise.
As I approached the top of the mountain, I unintentionally turned my weary gaze from the noisy crowd to the car, and suddenly I sensed that something I didn't know was happening or had happened. The trees, in droves, crept their bodies down along the mountain and strained their tops up at an angle. In the transparent, slightly trembling air, it was as if I could see a mysterious force or will being added to the trunks of these trees, causing these stubborn beings to utter ragged gasps and shrill cries in their struggle.
The name of these trees is called Yue Birch.
Originally, trees and trees standing side by side in a place should be called forest or forest, but many many Yue Birch trees coexist in a place, we can not "forest" this hieroglyphic word to define the collective. Because they are not standing, but creeping, like some hidden under cover ready to charge or be suppressed by fire on a high ground under the soldiers, the collective lying on the north slope of Changbai Mountain near the Tianchi. If we have to give them a word, perhaps it is more appropriate to call them "formation" and "camp". So, what kind of team constitutes this huge camp? What is their mission?
I don't know what connection between the white birch and the birch in the blood, don't know whether they are the same kind of plant, but I firmly believe that they are very different from each other, even if their genes come from the same class of the same birch tree on the same seed.
Birch tree was born in the mountains, and streams, red maple, accompanied by a pampered, flamboyant romantic days, the wind to dance, rain, spring, a top of green crown, autumn full of golden hair, to enjoy all the envy of the world, accounted for all the colors of the wind, such as the lucky son of a rich family, such as the star of the ten thousand people in pursuit of. But Yue Birch is destined to escape the desperate situation, look at the road in front of and behind, look back at the situation of life, but it is inexhaustible pallor, pallor and pallor.
Some people assert that "character determines destiny". Let's not talk about whether this sentence is accurate with the pre-person, but with the tree, it is certainly inaccurate, in fact, it should be fate determines the character. Yue Birch, the reason why it looks stubborn and heroic, it is because of the cruelty of the environment in which they are located.
In the beginning, all the birches are white horses in the Changbai Forest, the peaks and valleys are free to gallop. Later, the powerful volcanic eruption, all the trees forced down the peak, in the process of running down, fate stretched out its invisible feet, part of the birch will fall. A heel fall, fell into the trap of time, and then get up, everything is not like before. The front is already lush, each kind of tree along the hillside to occupy their own vantage point, there is no more space, there is no way to go; and behind, it is a volcanic eruption left behind all the devastation and ruins, as well as the cold of the high altitude, but there is a Jedi's huge space, despite the wind, snow, thunder and lightning, there is a hot rock and cold water, in the end, they still chose to turn around Upward.
Once they chose to turn back upward, the birch became Yue Birch. Now, no matter how much emotion and wish we give to the Yue Birch, Yue Birch can not become those bright and easy birch, as the white birch under the mountain will never be able to stand to their height, they can never return to the original ordinary and plain. Because from the white birch to the Yue Birch, as a tree has completed the tree itself or the forest beyond, their lives have undergone a qualitative change. Now, compared with those trees in the mountains, they look more like a wind; compared with those various forms of material existence, Yue Birch is more like an abstract spirit. (Abridged)
14. In the second paragraph, the author inserted a paragraph of memories afterward when describing the trip on Changbai, what is the effect of this writing? (4 marks)
15.Explain the meaning of the following two sentences in the text. (6 points)
(1) I seemed to see a mysterious force or will that was being added to the trunks of these trees, causing these stubborn beings to let out ragged gasps and shrill cries in their struggle.
(2) Fate stretched out its invisible foot, part of the birch then fell in response. A heel fall, fell into the trap of time, and then get up, everything is not like before.
16. The author firmly believes that Yue Birch is very different from the white birch, what is his main reason? Please make a brief summary according to the context.
(6 points)
17. What rhetorical methods are used in the last paragraph of the article to show Yue Birch? What are the advantages of this writing? (6 points)
Answer:
14. In the second paragraph, the author inserts a memory after the fact when describing the trip to Changbai Mountain, what is the effect of this writing? (4 points)
Answer: (1) to supplement the explanation of the impression of the trip (2) for the following description of the Yuehua Birch to pave the way
Analysis, this question examines the role of the use of the insertion, insertion plays the first is to fill in the role of the description of the trip to Changbaishan, of course, the trip, memory of course, is the impression of the inevitable answer to this, the complementary description of the impression of the trip to Changbaishan (during the trip); the third paragraph, only those Yuehua Birch trees , for me, is an accident, but also a surprise, indicating that the following is written about the Yue Birch trees, naturally get for the following description of Yue Birch to pave the way to the conclusion or lead to the following description of the Yue Birch trees.
15. Explain the meaning of the following in the text. (6 marks)
(1) It was as if I saw a mysterious force and will being added to the trunks of these trees, causing these stubborn beings to let out ragged gasps and shrill cries in their struggle.
Answer: The Yueh Hua in the Jedi burst out with tremendous life energy for survival, the struggle for survival is costly, and the pain of life and hope are the same.
Answer: the trees, one after another, creep their bodies down along the mountain and strain the tops of their trees up at an oblique angle. In the transparent, slightly trembling air, this is the front of the text; from the back, the article constantly emphasize Yue Birch's situation, 8 paragraphs, Yue Birch but destined to escape the desperate situation, 9 paragraphs, the cruelty of the environment in which they are located. All in the description of Yue Birch in the desperate situation, "will body prostrate down, and in the oblique above the treetop strain to warble" shows the mysterious power and will; in the desperate situation, prostrate body point out Yue Birch suffered suffering; strain to warble shows in the desperate situation in the struggle and pay the hard work or price, for the pain of life and the hope of the same! In, it is a little reluctant, it is difficult for students to answer, so the answer to the college entrance examination can not be answered from the point of view of scholars, should stand in the student's point of view to cognize will be better.
(2) Fate stretched out its invisible feet, part of the birch fell in response to the sound of the fall, a heel fall, fell into the trap of time, and then climbed up, everything is not like before.
Answer: Unfortunate fate often comes in unprepared. Birch's life trajectory and living environment has been fundamentally changed by the disaster; they will face new choices
Answer: part of the birch again when the unfortunate fate came, fell into the trap of time, not like before, that is to say, the life trajectory has been changed (good living space disappeared,), faced with the choice, can only turn back to the upward, the Jedi to survive. In the answer, "Misfortune often strikes without preparation," the student will probably not be able to answer.
16. The author firmly believe that Yue Birch and white birch is very different, what is his main reason? Please make a brief summary according to the context. (6 points)
Answer: their destinies are different, the birch grows in the mountains under the pampered, and Yue Birch grows in the mountains, in a desperate situation; their form is different, the white birch erect and bright, and the Yue Birch body prostrate; their personalities are different, the white birch is romantic Yue Birch stubborn and strong.
This question is not difficult students can find in the original text, from the seventh paragraph, "they are very different from each other" to find
17. The last paragraph of the article used what rhetorical methods to show the Yuehu Birch? What are the advantages of this writing? (6 points)
Anaphora and simile; through anthropomorphism can make the process of Yue Birch from the bottom of the valley to the peak, the ordinary to the outstanding more vivid, through the metaphorical techniques can make Yue Birch's inner temperament can be revealed and upgraded
Analyze: (1) First, find the sentence, anthropomorphism: once you chose to return to the upward direction, the birch will become Yue Birch. Metaphor: compared with those trees in the mountains, Yue Birch is more like a wind; compared with those various forms of material existence, they look more like an abstract god. (2) Catch the key phrases and learn to look ahead. Simile, the rhetorical role is vivid, the sentence itself illustrates the change and the original text against, as the birches at the bottom of the mountain will never be able to stand to their height, (the valley floor and peaks) they can never go back to the original ordinary and banal (used to be ordinary has now accomplished the transcendence, that is, there is ordinary to the transcendence). The metaphorical rhetorical role is the image, a wind, abstract God, is a highly generalized Yue Birch, of course, is the Yue Birch Yue Birch the most essential kind of revelation and sublimation