2020新高考英语补充训练美国高中阅读理解训练整理9.pdf

2020新高考英语补充训练美国高中阅读理解训练整理9 Passagel Village Opera The following passage is adapted from the short story Village Opera, by early 20th- century Chinese writer Lu Hsun The narrator recalls a childhood memory of being a guest, along with his mother, in his grandmothers home in Pingchao Village It was the custom in Luchen where we lived for married women who were not yet in charge of the household to go back to their parents home for the summer Although my fathers mother was 国then still quite strong, my mother had quite a few household duties She could not spend many days at her own home during the summer She could take a few days only after visiting the ancestral graves At such times I always went with her to [Estay in her parents house It was in a place called Pingchao Village, not far from the sea, a very out-of-the-way little village on a river, with less than thirty households, peasants, and fishermen, and just one tiny grocery We spent most of our days digging up worms, 151 putting them on little hooks made of copper wire, and lying on the river bank to catch shrimps Shrimps are the silliest water creatures: they willingly use their own pincers to push the point of the hook 演into their mouths; so in a few hours we could catch a big bowlful It became the custom to give these shrimps to me Another thing we did was to take the buffaloes out together, but, maybe because they are animals of a higher species, oxen and buffaloes 演are hostile to strangers, and they treated me with contempt so that I never dared get too close to them I could only follow at a distance and stand there What I looked forward to most was going to Chaochuang to see the opera Chaochuang was 旬a slightly larger village about two miles away Since Pingchiao was too small to afford to put on operas, every year it contributed some money for a performance at Chaochuang At the time, I wasnt curious why the