"Hometown on Paper" is edited by Hu Lihua and Zhang Zhifang. This book contains the works of dozens of Tengchong literature lovers. These works revolve around "Six Cultures of Tengchong" and are written in Tengchong language from different perspectives. Tengchong people’s own stories. Below are the reading questions for “Hometown on Paper” that I collected and compiled. I hope you all like them.
Question content:
(A) Literary text reading (15 points)
Read the following text and complete questions 12-14.
Dengqin’s hometown on paper gave me a sentimental heart, which often inquired about news about my hometown in my dreams.
My hometown is thousands of miles away in southern Gansu. Every inch of its skin is immersed in red culture, in the faint fragrance of tea, and in the long singing in the fields. It is poor, but it is also rich. There are no speeding trains or roaring machines. Instead, there are tinkling running water and dark-colored mountains. Not to mention the endless flow of Zhangjiang River day and night, moisturizing everything; nor the vast stretches of rice fields lying quietly between heaven and earth like a huge carpet, benefiting thousands of families; let’s just say that the plum blossoms in Meiling, all over the mountains and plains, standing proudly in the cold winter, are already the world’s most beautiful sight. A must.
I have been away from home for many years and have been to many places, but the sight of my hometown is always lingering in my mind. During the autumn harvest season, the sound of threshing machines beating my eardrums reminded me that I was once a child in my hometown. A trace of uneasiness deep in my heart was also aroused, that is, I left my hometown because of my longing for the outside world. Now, although I am standing in the colorful world outside, every step I make in my struggle and every comfort I enjoy are branded as a "foreigner". My feelings for my hometown can only find solace in the poems of poets and the words of local writers, and I can only place them in my own immature words. Those distant memories drifted past the years when I least understood nostalgia, drifted over the hills of my hometown, and drifted into the pages of books, but they were so heavy that I couldn't speak loudly.
The most familiar image from childhood is the Tea Mountain. When spring comes, the tea trees all over the mountains and plains take out new leaves. The new leaves carefully poke their heads out from among the old leaves, looking curiously at this beautiful place. Only we children know how poor this beautiful place really is. On weekends, we would go to the tea farm and pick tea leaves like adults. Tea leaves cost ten cents a pound, and those who are fast can pick forty pounds a day. Four dollars was a huge amount of income at the time. In those poor years, Tea Mountain undoubtedly added a lot of fun to our pale life. And farmers’ innate attitude of diligence and frugality has begun to penetrate into our thinking.
What our hometown gives us is more of a spiritual influence. This is why no matter where we go, we can never let go of our hometown. I think that I will never forget the scenes of working in the fields in those years. When I was a child, my family harvested rice in the rice fields; when I grew up, I would pull out seedlings and peanuts alone, and hold a book to guard the grains on the drying field. In those years when I was ignorant of the world, such days were actually miserable. Now, I am deeply grateful for those tiring and hard years, and grateful to that land, which gave me the most precious spiritual wealth. If today I have a spirit that is not afraid of hardship, can be tolerant to others, and know how to cherish, it is all thanks to that red land.
This land has also suffered. Back then, the Red Army fought guerrillas here, leaving behind countless battle stories. From then on, my hometown had the status of an old revolutionary base. People who grew up in this land have received the baptism of their souls in the red culture since childhood, and have been nourished by the cultural ideas of their hometown. As a result, they have a deeper understanding of suffering. My entire childhood, I have been listening to the stories in it; my entire teenage years, I have been wandering and shocked by the words in this book. Sometimes, as soon as I touch my hometown on this piece of paper, my longing floods into my heart like a tide.
I can’t remember when I started. I was no longer satisfied with imagining my hometown from other people’s paper, and no longer satisfied with missing my hometown on the title page. Instead, I wrote my hometown in my heart on paper. Memories slowly come alive on paper, and attachment to hometown gradually becomes clear on paper. As an intellectual in the eyes of people in my hometown, I finally left something behind for my hometown. This can be regarded as a kind of compensation for my uneasiness about leaving my hometown ten years ago!
I am a migratory bird living in a distant place. I often fly back to my hometown to find my own warmth.
(Excerpted from "Selected Prose" Issue 4, 2015)
12. In the following summary and analysis of the work, two of the two incorrect ones are (5 points)
A. My hometown gave "me" a sentimental heart, which aroused "my" homesickness. "I" often seek solace in the memory of my hometown.
B． "I" have achieved some achievements in the outside world, but I am full of deep guilt for my hometown, which also gives rise to uneasiness deep in my heart.
C. The article describes the scene of children imitating adults to pick tea, which shows that although there is a poor and pale side of the hometown, it also has a side that adds fun to life.
D. "My" hometown is an old revolutionary area. It has experienced hardships and been baptized by war. Its rich red culture has infiltrated this land.
E. The first and last sentences of the article echo each other, emphasizing the indispensable and irreplaceable role of hometown in the writing of "I" and highlighting the theme.
13. The article says: "What our hometown gives us is more of a spiritual impact." What does the "spiritual impact" include? Please describe briefly. (4 points)
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14. Based on the text, analyze the meaning of the title "Hometown on Paper".
(6 points)
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