Wild Crossing (Prose Reading)

Ling Ke

Have you ever been to the water town in eastern Zhejiang? -that's a crystal state.

As usual, there is a mirror-like lake outside the village, and a smoke has been floating into the distant sky. Running into the village, the square was covered with fishing nets, rowing in rows and berthing on the shore. The river flows quietly to all parts of the village, winding and knotting flowers like ribbons, dividing a village into many islands. If you climb the mountain and have a bird's eye view, it is like a lotus leaf in the field. -this geographical situation, the country has a "lotus leaf land." Therefore, the whole village is a movable slab bridge, which is transited by boats on a wider river surface.

At the foot of the cliff or on the wild shore of Pingchou, there are few people nearby, but there is always an old hut by the boat. It's "Meat Capital". It must be Luting, but it is Du Yao. Then it may be the boatman's residence.

In the afternoon, when it is quiet, the dissolved river hums like a hypnotic song, and sometimes there are chickens and insects in the distance. Suddenly a string of slang songs came from the foot of the mountain, and then a figure flashed out of the Woods, perhaps with a wrapped umbrella and a bamboo cage bag, singing while walking. As soon as he put his things in the pavilion, he squatted on the ferry, picked up the rope tied to the boat in the water and grabbed the shovel one by one. Jump on the boat and then pull the rope to drag people to the other side. Or another kind of "ferry", between the deserted paths, came a foreign traveler from a distance, accustomed to tramps, stood by the river, raised his voice and cried:

"Ferry!"

The fields quietly set off this sound with a little primitive loneliness, and then the other side soon made a murmuring sound, and a boat was swaying.

It seems that most of the people rocking the ferry are old people with white beards and white hair coming and going on the water. It is very natural and unrestrained, reminiscent of the egret in Qiu Jiang. They started when they were young, or they were old heroes who traveled all over the rivers and lakes and broke the trap of fate, but they were finally defeated by time, so they came to this river all the year round to cross the river for the world, rain or snow. Once, I watched the life of an old ferryman, but he seemed extremely indifferent.

The old man has a family, a little wife, a son and daughter-in-law, and the whole family lives in a small temple in Watou. Although life is simple, twilight does not seem desolate; But except for the wrinkles carved by years, his face is always as cold as frost. He seldom got on the boat until someone called him, and he seldom spoke. Sometimes a village boy came, impatient and crying loudly, and he had to listen to the old man mumbling curses when he got off the boat.

The needs of the elderly seem to be provided by the ancestral hall of the big clan in the village, and the villagers don't have to spend money as usual. Some people who travel back and forth from the ferry every day will be rewarded with some rice flour and wheat cakes at the end of the year. They help vendors, but they always owe their courtesy and integrity to outsiders. When they got to the shore, they smiled and thanked them, then took out a copper coin or two, jingled it and threw it into the belly of the boat, then picked up the burden and shook the drum. The old man didn't answer, just rocking the boat back alone when there was no transition here.

Every morning is the busiest time on the ferry. Soon after the sun rose, according to the emerald cliffs and the distant shore, argon fog was scattered on the river, and villagers rushing into the city came one after another. People have been in the ranks for a long time, so that the old people can return to the place in the future and carry them to the other side. When the sun came back from the city to the village, the old man had to be busy taking them back.

In the afternoon, the old people usually hide in a small temple, or sit in front of the temple and smoke silently, looking at the distant sky and flowing water for a long time like a philosopher.

It's getting late, in the sunset, there are three or five figures moving, lonely and empty call way:

"Ferry!"

Probably idle people who came back from the market. On the boat, he told the news he heard in the small teahouse, and his comments were long and short. Speaking of his pride, crisp laughter flew from the water. But the old man was silent all the time, shaking his ferry, as if he didn't want to hear these vulgar things.

I am always tempted by the sight of the general ferry. I sat around the road pavilion for a while, then lingered on the shore for a while, looking at the simple personnel. I think there is always a lack of places worth chewing. I like the old man's silence, but his indifference makes me think. Do you think that there are too many restrictions on living in cross-strait rivers, and that a solemn job that attracts the world is too humiliating for him?

1935 10 month

What is the role of the paragraph 14. 1 in the full text? (4 points)

15. Explain the meaning of the following two sentences in the text. (4 points)

(1) As usual, there is a mirror-like lake outside the village, and a wave of smoke continues to float into the sky.

(2) The four fields quietly set off this sound, with a little primitive loneliness.

16. From what aspects does the article show the "wild" in the title "Wild Crossing"? Please summarize. (6 points)

17. What is the image of the old man in the article? Please discuss the author's emotional orientation with the full text. (8 points)

14, has been writing about the characteristics of water towns in eastern Zhejiang, laying the foundation for the following description of water towns in eastern Zhejiang; Use questions to arouse readers' interest in reading.

15, (1) by analogy, explains the geographical situation of the village near the lake, and writes the bright and quiet living environment of the people in the water town.

(2) The silence of the four fields shows the quaint charm of foreign travelers' cries of "ferrying"; Suggesting the remoteness of the ferry and the ugliness of the hut; Draw a picture of people's quiet and peaceful life in Shuicun village.

16. On the one hand, it is a field scene: a crystal-like water town; Pictures of wild fun (the ferry at the foot of the cliff, the hut in Guluo water, the crow of chickens and insects in the distance, the village language at the foot of the mountain, pedestrians carrying umbrellas and burdens).

On the other hand, it is a land of idle clouds and wild cranes: the secluded life of lonely and silent ferrymen, and the profound meaning of the simple personnel of Shuicun people.

17, silence is like the image of an old ferryman who is extremely indifferent. From the old man with white beard and white hair, there is a sigh of time and fate; In the silence of the old man, there is a judgment and transcendence of vulgar life; From ferry work to silent dedication to attract the world's life, what is realized is actually a kind of happiness and detachment.