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第二十三天 一.美文晨讀 What I love most about winter is its snow. The early snows fall soft and white and seem to heal the landscape. There are as yet no tracks through the drifts, no muddied slush in the roads. The wind sweeps snow into the scars of our harvesttime haste, smoothing the brow of hill, hiding furrow and cog and trash in the yard. Snow muffles the shriek of metal and the rasp of motion. It covers our flintier purposes and brings a redeeming silence, as if a curtain has fallen on the strivings of a year, and now we may stop, look inward, and rediscover the amber warmth of family and conversation. At such times, locked away inside wall and woolen, lulled by the sedatives of woodsmoke and candlelight, we recall the peting claims of nature. We see the branch and bark of trees, rather than the sugarscented green of their leaves. We look out the window and admire the elegance of ice crystal, the bravely patient tree leaning leafless into the wind, the dramatic shadows of the stooping sun. We look at the structure of things, the geometry of branch and snowflake, family and deed. When snowflake drifts the road we head indoors and resign ourselves to the quiet crackle of the wood fire. The example of the woodpile and the wellstocked larder tells us that we can achieve what we dream, and winter brings us long, silent nights to dream on. 二.詞匯訓(xùn)練 1. Oh, grow up! Behave in a more ______________ (成熟的 ) way. 2. There are only a few c______________ (貪污的 ) officials that have been condemned. 3. She is none the less beautiful for her ______________ (破爛的 ) clothing. 4. Many materials can be ______________ (再循環(huán) ), such as glass, paper and plastics. 5. He started to study ________ (生態(tài) ) and decided to devote his whole life to the science. 6. Unless we can get more ______________ (資金 ), we’ll have to close the store. 7. Glasses are ______________ (易碎的 ) and must be handled with great care. 8. Of all the c______________ (顧問 ), only Mr. Wang gave us some proposals in point. 9. Concerned about global warming, she is collecting ____________ (相關(guān)的 ) information. 10. He lay on the floor with a ______________ (墊子 ) under his head. 三.七選五 T