Blind poet's concert The blind poet and folk singer Zhou Yunpeng will hold a concert in Beijing. He will perform The Blind Man's Cinema and Silent Breaths Like Puzzle. Losing his sight at age 9, Zhou, now 45, became popular after releasing his first album, The Silent Breath, in Beijing in 2002. The Chinese rock band Sound Fragment will be the guest performers. 7:30 pm, Jan27-30 Century Theater, 40 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District Tel : 84004774 |
Ballet: The Nightingale and the Rose The Nightingale and the Rose will be performed at the 7th anniversary of Beijing Contemporary Dance Theatre. The show wants people to think more about love and sense of worth in modern society through their performance. 7:30 pm, Jan 14-15 Tianqiao Theater, No. 30, Beiweilu Street, Xicheng District Tel: 83156338/39 |
For much of my childhood, my mother filled the evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted (编织) hats for babies, and at other times she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn't when one evening my mother announced she'd start a new project.
"I'm going to telephone neighboring every night," said my mother.
"Every night? But you don't even these people. "
"Doesn't matter," she said. "What's important is that I want to listen."
I was sixteen years old and couldn't figure out why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers. She had friends and my two elder sisters to call she felt lonely.
My didn't affect my mother's project. That evening after supper, she settled on the sofa with the phone and began making phone calls.
For a while, I listened as she asked the lady on the phone about her day, what she had eaten for dinner, and asked if she had that the beautiful roses had come out in a neighboring park. When she finished the call, I said, "What do you whether she had cookie or cream pie for dessert?"
My mother replied, "I'm the person she talked to today."
It took me nearly thirty years to understand the of what she was doing. Now, as my mother is nearing sixty, I find myself thinking about those nightly she used to make.
I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I'm the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just as she describes a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole a piece of cheese from the kitchen.
I that my mother's calls were lifelines (生命之线 ) that kept lonely seniors connected to the world. Somehow, she managed to work full-time and a family while improving the lives of others.
That kind of needs commitment (奉献，投入) and organizational skills that I do not have. While she freed several seniors from , I struggle to call just one － my mother.
1.A. interested B. satisfied C. surprised D. excited
2.A. teenagers B. children C. juniors D. seniors
3.A. meet B. know C. pass D. find
4.A. because B. if C. though D. until
5.A. doubt B. advice C. answer D. praise
6.A. decided B. felt C. noticed D. imagined
7.A. hate B. love C. mean D. care
8.A. only B. early C. first D. last
9.A. difficulty B. importance C. possibility D. difference
10.A. visits B. orders C. calls D. cries
11.A. think B. listen C. talk D. write
12.A. realize B. explain C. express D. recognize
13.A. protect B. start C. affect D. support
14.A. service B. experience C. promise D. tradition
15.A. hopelessness B. illness C. loneliness D. helplessness
Jim rode ____________ home, looking forward to showing his friends his new bicycle.
A. calmly B. skillfully C. proudly D. stressfully
We ________ a sign at the park entrance to tell people to protect the trees and flowers.
A. put down B. put up C. put away D. put off
What are you doing out of bed? It's very late. You are ________ to be asleep.
A. supposed B. believed
C. challenged D. invited
－You haven't switched off the light.
－Oh, don't worry.I ________ and turn it off.
A. will go B. go
C. have gone D. went
