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“停课不停学”：2020 高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十一) Passage1《空色勾玉》：光明与黑暗的对立，爱与使命的抉择。 词数 417 建议阅读时间 6分钟 Light and darkness The modern fantasy book may have begun in the West,buttheEasthasaddeditsown culturetothemix tomake fantasy atruly international literary genre (体 裁).OgiwaraNoriko’sbest-selling Dragon Sword and WindChild,from 1988,isavery good exampleofthis. Ogiwara draws on legends of Japan’s Warring States period in a tale with the power to delight and inform theyoungpeopleoftoday. Saya is a young girl in ancient Japan. She’s an orphan, and she goes to live with an old couple. Though Saya is happy with the old couple, her past holds bad memories for her. Saya’s mother and father died violently and she can’t get that violenceout ofherhead. The people who Saya lives with worship the God of Light and his two children, Princess Teruhi and Prince Tsukishiro. The pair are immortals. They do not fear death, as they know that when they die they will be born again in another form. Teruhi and Tsukishiro are very different characters.The Princess is a fiery (脾气火爆的) girl, while her brother is often sad and dejected (忧郁的). Saya is contacted by the People of Darkness. The People of Darkness are other gods, different to the Light gods. They inform her that in a past life she was the Water Maiden, the princess ofthe People of Darkness. She hasinherited apower from thispast life which will allow her to defeat the Fire God, whom her father, the King, killed. Her father killed the Fire God because he burned hiswife, the Queen,to death.It’s clear that the People of Darkness want Saya touseherpowertohelp them. Later, Saya is delighted when Prince Tsukishiro invites her to be his handmaiden (侍女) at his palace, Mahoroba. But when she gets there, she discovers that the People of Light know her true identity. The Prince wants her power, and the Princess hates her because Saya looks