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My childhood was woven with bamboo and river water. My home is hidden in a bamboo forest. Not far from home, there is a ferry. The ferryman is a shriveled, emaciated and dumb old man. The villagers call it dumb ferry.

No one knows how old the mute is and how many years he has been ferrying here. In the first memory of crossing the river, the dumb old man is like this: wrinkled face, deep eyes, a lame leg, a pair of thick calluses that have been placed for many years.

But the dumb old man's boat is always clean, and its side is polished with tung oil, which is nothing like his wrinkled face. The dumb old man's boat rocked fast and steadily. No matter day or night, as long as he shouts on the shore, he will come out of the cabin, and then firmly send the people crossing the river to the other side, and never stop in spring, summer, autumn and winter (jiān jiàn). People who cross the river here need not worry about the journey.

That dumb old man is very lonely. It is said that he once had a daughter named Yaya, who was fished out of the river. He lifted her with a mouthful of rice soup. When she grew up to be a mother, she died in childbirth. Since then, the dumb old man has become more lonely. No one will notice him. He is so ordinary and insignificant that people seem to have forgotten him.

The river flows day after day and year after year. The dumb old man silently rocked the boat and crossed it. People are used to the existence of rivers, ferries and dumb old people, as if all this were taken for granted.

Until one day, the dumb old man fell ill and was taken to the hospital. The boat that took his place was slow and unstable, and everyone remembered the dumb old man who used to have only a pair of thick hands to talk. People remembered his steadiness in rowing. I remember the dime he crossed the river. I remember that he wore clothes in the middle of the night in winter just to send a pedestrian across the river. With the mute gone, people think the boat is empty.

A few months passed, and just as people were about to forget the dumb old man, an official suddenly appeared in the village. The township head said he was an old general. He has a box in his hand, which is the urn of the dumb old man. The dumb old man got liver cancer and died in the hospital. He donated all the money he spent on ferry crossing all his life and built a new bridge over the river. On the day when the new bridge was cut down, the old general told a shocking story in tears: In a battle of the Red Army's Long March, the old general of "Hong Haier" was ordered by his superiors to cooperate with the squad leader to blow up the stone bridge. The monitor risked his life to blow up the bridge, was seriously injured and became a basket case. He knew he couldn't go to war again and asked to stay. Later, he found a ferry, and silently began the days of dumb crossing until he came to the end of his life. z L*Q N

With tears in his eyes, the old general raised the urn in his hand and said, "The dumb old man on the ferry is my monitor! ..... "The river forgot to flow, and the birds forgot to fly.

Villagers are dumb, crossing the river is dumb, and heaven and earth are dumb. The ashes are raised in the wind, and the loyal soul of a Red Army soldier is flying all over the sky, slowly falling into the river, and falling into his ferry for more than 40 years, recording (zà i z m: i) his mother river, which he has devoted silently all his life. In the sun, three big characters flashed on the white bridge: dumb cross. The long river is telling you an eternal story. An old Red Army blew up a bridge here before his death, crossed it all his life, and left a bridge after his death.

1, add a suitable topic to the article. (2 points)

Please use "√" to choose the correct pronunciation and words from the brackets in the text. (3 points)

3. Choose the appropriate explanation for the words added in the following words. (2 points)

(1) It doesn't matter. A. Say B. Direction; Methods; To express (feelings) in words.

(2) Day after day A. Repeat B. Restore C; and

4. Draw sentences describing the appearance of the dumb old man in the text with horizontal lines. (2 points)

5. "... it seems that all this is taken for granted. What does "all this" mean in the sentence? (3 points) 6. Why do people miss the dumb old man after he is ill and hospitalized? (3 points) 7. After reading this article, what do you think of the dumb old man? (5 points)