problem is a technical one. Suppose I have a whole summer night at my disposal: should I answer the letter that was sent eighteen months ago, or that one that was sent seven month ago? After such a long delay even the expiry date for apology and selfrecrimination would surely have passed? In your friends’ eyes you have already stepped beyond the pale, are of no account. On the grapevine your reputation is “that impossible fellow”. (Thus Friends Absent Speak, tr. David Pollard)
(Passage 8)
河姆渡遗址是全国重点文物保护单位，为举世闻名的心石器时代遗址，位于余姚市罗江乡河姆渡村东北，面积约4万平方米，1973年开始发掘。遗址有4个相继叠压的文化层，其中第三、四层是长江下游和东南沿海已发现的新石器时代最早文化层，距今约6000-7000年。出土文物非常丰富，有人工栽培水稻的大量遗物，带榫卯的木构建筑构
件，以及数以千计的陶器、骨器，上刻有比较精细的装饰花纹。遗址中发现榫卯，是中国现今发现的古代木构建筑中最早的榫卯。在动物遗骨中，有人工饲养的猪、狗、水牛骨骸，其中猪骨的数量最多。人工栽培的水稻遗物，是中国迄今发现最早的农作物。以往的国际文献认为，印度是亚洲水稻的原产地。但印度最早的稻谷发现于该国的中部，经C14 测定，它的时代为公园前1700年，比河姆渡遗址出土的水稻晚3 000年。最令人感兴趣的是骨哨，现在还能吹出动人的音响。河姆渡遗址大量文物的发现，证明早在6000-7000年以前，长江下游已经有了比较进步的原始文化，它和黄河流域一样，都是中华民族古老文明的发祥地。
Known both in China and abroad as a famous New Stone age archeological site, the Hemudu Site is under state protection. It is located northeast of the village of Hemudu in the township of Luojiang of Yuyao City in eastern Zhejiang province and covers an areas of
40,000 square meters. Excavation of the site’s four overlapping cultural layers firsts began in 1973. The third and the fourth layers are the earliest cultural layers of the New Stone Age that have been found in the lower reaches of Yangtze River and the entire southeast coasts of China. They trace back to between 6000 and 7000 years ago. Among the multitude of findings unearthed are cultivated rice, wooden construction parts with mortice and tenon joints, and thousands of pieces of pottery and bone engraved with fine decorative patterns. The mortice and nenon joints unearthed here are present the earliest use of this type of joint in wooden structure in China. The remains of animal bones discovered included those of pigs, dogs and water buffaloes raised by the primitive inhabitants, the majority of them being pig bones. The cultivated rice remains are also the earliest cultivated crop that has ever been found in China. Previously, in the international literature, India was said to be the
country where Asian rice originated. However, the earliest rice discovered in central India has been carbon dated to 1700 BC, 3000 later than that unearthed at the Hemudu Site. Most interesting is the still playable bone flute. The large number of cultural relics unearthed at the Hemudu Site bears proof that as early as 6000 or 7000 years ago, there appeared in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River a quite developed primitive culture. This is evidence that both the Yantze River Valley and the Yellow River Valley are the cradles of ancient Chinese civilization. (The Hemudu Site, tr. Guo Jianzhong & Lennet Diagle)
(Passage 9)
在那间没有窗户的小耳房“罐儿斋”，尤其那个不正常的年代里，先生家里的藏书被抄光了，绘画毁了，唱片砸了。真是家徒四壁。但是黄先生全家人的亲情和他的智慧、达观让这个“罐儿斋”充满了真正的温馨和
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