拓展阅读 愚公移山

1、这篇文章来自国外一个学习网站”Myths and Legends”，希望通过阅读能给大家带来一个与课文不一样的视角，并且扩大阅读视野以及增加词汇量。The Foolish Old Man Removes the MountainsOnce upon a time, there were two high mountains between a place called Jizhou in the south and the Huang River in the north. One was called Taihang Mountain and the other was Wangwu Mou

2、ntain. They were standing there for many years. Both of them were very high.To the north of the mountains lived an old man named Mr.Fool who was nearly 90 years old. Fools family lived there for generations. With the two high mountains just in front of his house, all of his family members had to wal

3、k a long way to cross over the two mountains every time they had something to do on the other side of the mountains. At that time, Mr.Fool was the head of his family. He wanted to do something good for his descendants(后代) before he died. It didnt take him much time to find out the biggest problem wa

4、s the two high mountains. One day, Mr. Fool gathered all his family to have a discussion about how to move the two huge mountains away in order to make convenient access to the outer world. After hearing his idea, his wife said, Even a group of soldier cannot move a little hill, not to mention you,

5、an old weak man. Furthermore, the two mountains are so large that they contain(包含) thousands of peaks(山峰). Even if you can, where can you place so much earth and stone? The Bohai Sea would be a good choice because it is big enough to contain all the earth and stone, Mr.Fool said. After this meeting,

6、 the family finally decided to move the mountains. Mr.Fool started to lead his children to dig the mountains and carry the earth and stone to the Bohai Sea. The old man, helped by his son and grandson who could carry things, began to break rocks and dig earth, which they carried in baskets and dustb

7、ins to the shores of the Bohai Sea. The seven-year-old son of a widow named Jingcheng, one of the old mans neighbors, came running up to offer his help. One trip to the sea took them a long time： they left in winter and came back in summer.A man called Mr.Smart , who was considered very intelligent

8、and clever ,see what they are doing and try to persuade them to stop such a silly work. He says： “You are so foolish. As you are so old and weak that you cant even take away the grass and trees, its an unpractical work which can never be accomplished(完成). We couldnt change our environment. Compared

9、with those huge mountains, we are too weak. Do you really think that you can move the high mountains by yourself?”Youre wrong, Mr. Fool says with a sigh. Look, my sons can continue my work after my death. When my sons die, my grandchildren will continue. So generations after generations, theres no e

10、nd. But the mountains cant grow higher. Now you see we have enough power and ability to change the position of the two mountains. As long as we have confidence and power, nobody and nothing can change our mind. Do you still say I cant move them away? There is an immortal(神仙) live in the mountain. Wh

11、en hearing this, hes afraid that the Fools family will continue their work. So he rushes to the palace（宫殿） of the god and say： “my Master, theres an old man digging my mountain.” “Ha-ha-ha”, laughed the god. “Is that the only reason that you are so afraid?” ”But the old man leads their family to do

12、this work. Im afraid after several hundred years, my mountain will be disappeared by his descendants.” “Hmm, thats really a problem. But the Taihang Mountain and the Wangwu Mountain also make great trouble to them. The spirit of the Old man is quite great.” After a short thinking, the god makes a de

13、cision. “I will send two gods down to the earth and move the two mountains to different places. Then your mountains will be safe and the humans will also be happy.”At that night, the dark sky is thundering and the wind is roaring. All the people couldnt go out of their house. They just stay in their

14、 houses. When they wake up the next morning, they found that the two huge mountains have disappeared. People are so happy that they take a party to celebrate it. So they dont have any trouble to go out of their village.IRead the passage, and answer the following questions.1. From the title, who is t

15、he foolish old man? And what is his Chinese name?_ 2. Why does Mr. Fool want to move the two huge mountains away?_3. Where did they put all the earth and stone from the mountains?_4. Who is Jingcheng? Did he help Mr. Fool move the mountains?_5. Why was the immortal in the mountain so afraid?_II. Com

16、plete the summary of the passage.Once_ a time, there was a very old man. There were two _ near his house. There were so high and big that it took a _ time to walk to the other side. he old man told his family that they should all help him to move the mountains. But his wife said that he couldnt even

17、 move a small tree. Yugong said they could put the earth and stone into the sea. Then Yu Gong and his family _(begin) to move some of the earth and _(石头) to the sea. One day, a man saw Yu Gong and his children when they were working on moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could never do it because he was old and w_. As soon as the man finished _(talk), Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died. His family would l