The immortal answer to insomnia reading (American reading for middle school students)

He failed the list! 1200 years ago. However, the list is big and long, but there is no his name. Ah! Unexpectedly, his name "Zhang Ji" cannot be accommodated alone.

The names of the people who took the exam are all written on the list, which is known all over the world. Strangely, in his feeling, it is well known that he failed in the exam, which made him feel ashamed and depressed.

Leave Beijing! After negotiating the price, he set foot on the boat. This is not the expected plot. There might have been an affair of arranging flowers and stepping on the street, and there was the glory of returning home in splendor. However, after ten years of cold window, although he was a thorn in his side, he didn't have a corner seat at Qionglin banquet.

The ship is sailing like the wind.

Jiang Feng is like a fire, holding a cold flame on the shore. At dusk, the ship arrived in Suzhou. However, this beautiful ancient city is just another place that touches Zhang's sad feelings.

If there is anything to do during the day, for a scholar, it is reading! What about at night? You should go to bed at night to keep your mental state and watch it the next day. However, tonight is a sad night. Tonight, in a foreign land, by the river, in the season of autumn cold and high geese, allow a down-and-out taxi to indulge his sadness. The river can hold the tears of all unfortunate people indefinitely.

On such a night, I sat cruelly, listening to the sound of my heart being bitten by something and disappearing one by one. And look at your life like a residual lamp in a strong wind. All your strength is spent on resistance, the oil is running out, and the small fire may go out all the time. However, what is hateful is that it has never been gorgeous and brilliant in its life!

The river slept, the boat slept, the boatman slept, and the people on the shore slept. Only he, Zhang Ji, can't sleep. The deeper the night, the more awake I am, awake like a dead tree with fallen leaves, like an empty nest beam where I went.

At first, it was sleep that rejected him. Let nature take its course, haven't you been rejected everywhere in your life? ) Then, he got angry. Well, if you don't sleep, you won't sleep If you wake up all night, you will simply take a thorough look at yourself. Why not?

The moon is slanting to the west, looking listless. There is a crow with a hoarse voice. The moon was darkened by its frequent cries. On the river bank, I think it's frost grass. The stars in the night sky are like clear frost, and the grains are all desolate.

In the corner of his beard and brow, he felt as if he were cold and gloomy, waiting for the frosty flowers in early autumn to decorate his bleak young face.

Fishing and fire on the river two three, what are they doing? Fishing, right, or shrimp? Do they also cast nets? Times are hard! Even a clever fisherman can't help jumping into the storm, can't he? However, hard work is also a kind of happiness! Tonight, the moon is bright, the frost is cool, the people at ease are sleeping, and the people at work go to work. Only I, Zhang Ji, don't accept anything. I have neither the right to work nor the right to sleep. ...

The bell rang, the strange late-night bell of Hanshan Temple. Generally, drums and morning bells are ringing in temples, and the "midnight bell" in Hanshan Temple is shaking the earth. The bell is near the water. For others, the sound is just the vague background music in their sleep. However, in him, one by one hit the heart, right in the middle. The bell is beautiful, but does it hurt? He couldn't sleep, so he pushed the pillow up and wrote the word "a night-mooring near maple bridge" in the dark. Then, just copy the remaining 28 words. I say "copy" because those 28 words stand out in his mind, just like the black words on the white wall:

Crows fell on the moon, crowed coldly, slept on maple trees, and slept in fishing lanes by the river. In the lonely Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou, the bell that rang in the middle of the night reached the passenger ship.

Thank God, if there were no last Zhang Ji, there would be a good poem missing in the history of poetry, and no one would speak for us in a certain mood.

1200 years later, who is the champion on that long list (that is, the paper gold list that Zhang Ji can't squeeze in)? Ha! No matter who he is. The name that is really remembered is "Zhang Ji, a laggard". Will anyone remember the grand parade of the champion in red? Don't! We only remember the frustrated man on the autumn night passenger ship and his immortal insomnia.

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In a foreign land, by the river, the geese are high in autumn, the moonlight is bright, the crow is hoarse, the stars are lonely, the fishing fire on the river, and the midnight bell of Hanshan Temple rings ... How can you arouse your thoughts tonight? Zhang Ji, who was frustrated in the list, "copied" this eternal swan song that people can't finish singing. The unique atmosphere of the environment beat in Zhang Ji's deep helplessness, which made him surpass his life again: his creative contribution to human culture was far better than Xuanhe's Temporary Champion and All over the Streets and Alleys; Even a small poem will remain immortal. On the contrary, the painful purgatory can promote the sublimation and transcendence of the soul, from which we have a new view of life and the world.

1. Explain the words added in the text.

There may be a flower arrangement parade and frivolous romance.

(2) Make a down-and-out scholar indulge his sorrow.

2. The third paragraph of the article, "Wandering in the streets with flower arrangement and horseshoe ailment", is a description of the post-to beno. 1 scene. Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a similar poem after graduation: ","

Please talk about the function of the sentence "the ship is sailing like the wind" from the structure of the article.

4. Answer the following questions in the simplest language.

(1) The author said that "the bell came from the water" and "on him, it struck his heart one by one". In the author's opinion, what effect does this clock have on Zhang Ji?

(2) What kind of emotion does "a certain emotion" in the penultimate underlined sentence mean?

In the last paragraph of the article, it is said that the champion of that year has been forgotten, but the immortal poem makes the loser Zhang Ji immortal. What does this fact tell us?

6. Among the following comments on the article, two are incorrect.

A. In this article, the author gives full play to association and imagination and deduces a story from a four-line poem. Vivid characters, ups and downs of feelings and rich meanings can be described as innovation.

B. The first half of the article describes Zhang Ji's frustration and satirizes his negative and pessimistic side; Later, someone wrote that Zhang Ji was immortal because of his poems and praised his spirit of facing reality.

C. The title of the article is pun intended: Insomnia not only refers to the sadness of not being able to sleep at night, but also refers to transcending the world and entering a new realm.

D. Fishermen "sometimes cast nets" and "can't help throwing themselves into the storm", which contains a profound philosophy of life: life will not be smooth sailing, and difficulties and setbacks are inevitable.

E. Most people interpret the phrase "midnight strikes the passenger ship" as it not only sets off the quietness of the night, but also reveals the depth and clarity of the night, expressing Zhang Ji's unspeakable psychological feelings at that time. But we read another meaning from this article.

Answer and analysis

1.① Elegant and unrestrained ② Indulge and unrestrained.

2. The spring breeze is proud, the horseshoe is urgent, and you can see all the Chang 'an flowers in one day.

3. Structurally, this sentence changed from the failure of writing Zhang to writing about a night stay near Fengqiao, which completed the natural transition in writing (or played a connecting role).

4.( 1) Warning and urging. (2) Feeling lost and depressed after encountering setbacks.

A temporary setback does not mean the end of your career. The real strong should face the reality with an optimistic and open-minded smile and create an immortal life.

6. The article "b c (b)" is more sympathetic to Zhang Ji's frustration after failing the list, and has no "irony" meaning; C "Immortal Insomnia" refers to Zhang Ji's insomnia tossing and turning, and his poems have been passed down through the ages, adding a much-told story to the poetry circle. )