作者rnylbw (我是窮鬼... N )
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時間Mon Aug 2 15:41:38 2004
嗯..又到了賺錢養家的時候了..我想我應該自己開個專欄才對..OH~NO~是大家都要吧...
賺P幣專欄...養那隻瞇安碰真是花了我不少錢阿...少說也好幾千了吧..所以我現在都不
給它吃大補丸了..我現在可是用新注音賺錢高手呢...對了..我都是想到啥就講啥..所以
如果看不懂就算了..來練習英文的好了..可是我英打怕太快耶..管他的先練一篇..請猜它
是高中課本哪冊哪課??我是湊字數一我是湊字數二我是湊字數三我是湊字數四...123456
A Fable for Tomorrow
There was one\ce a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live
in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard
of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where in
spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak
and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across
a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed
the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.Along the roads,
widflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year. Even in
winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed
on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow.
The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird
life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall,
people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the
streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pool
where trout lay.So it had been from the days many years ago when the first
settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.Then a
strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil
spell had settled on the community:mysterious maladies swept the flocks of
chickens;the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of
death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town
the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearin
among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths,
not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddunly
while at play and die within a few hours. There was a strange stillness. The
birds, for example-where had they gone?Many people spoke of them, puzzled and
disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds
seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly.It was
a spring without voices. On the morinigs that had once throbbed with the dawn
chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, and scores of other bird voices there was
now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. On the
farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that
they were unable to raise any pigs-the litters were small and the young surviv
only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned
among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.
The roadsides, once so attractive, wher now lined with browned and withered
vegetation as though swept by fire. These,too, were silent, deserted by all
living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers no longer visited
them, for all the fish fad died. In the gutters of the roofs, a white powder
still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon
the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams. No witchcraft, no enemy
action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people
had done it themselves. This town does not actually exist, but it might easily
have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world. I know of
no community that has experienced all the misfortunes I describe. Yet every
one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communit
have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept
upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark
reality we all shall know.
呼..打完嚕..不知道一課有多少錢..目前我最高445吧..不知道這有沒有700以上= ="
有點想太多..
看成績嚕...
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