语言朋友(29)l morning, but the fog is lifting now.The little seaside villages are__1__,one by one.“There is my grandmother's house”I say,__2__across the bay to a shabby old house. I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, hter,seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)__3____4__from house to house in childhood.She longs for a sense of__5__, and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors__6__for 200 years. We soon__7__by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories__8__back, swift as the tide(潮水)。__9__where I was once so gloriously a child.It still__10__a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while.We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk__11__the rooms in memory.Here, my mother__12__in her bedroom window and wrote her diary.I can still see the enthusiastic family__13__into and out of the house.I could never have enough of being__14__them.However, that was long after those childhood days.Lise__15__attentively as I talk and then says, 揝o this is where Ia__16__; where I belong.”__17__her roots.To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human__18__.To be rooted is“to have an origin”.We need__19__origin.Looking backward,we discover what is unique in us; learn the__20__of “I”.We must all go home again - in reality or memory. 解题导语:在一个浓雾笼罩的清晨作者驱车带着孙女到海边的破旧老房子去寻根访祖追忆乡思。根据上文的“but the fog is lifting now”雾开始消散了可知appear“出现”。A |