revolutionaries whom it is dangerous to recruit. It follows therefore that
closed-doorism is the sole wonder-working magic, while the united front is an opportunist tactic.
43. As expected, the sun soon appeared revealing half of its face, which was very red but not bright. It kept rising laboriously bit by bit as if weighted down with a heavy burden on its back until, after breaking through the rosy clouds，it completely
emerged from the sea aglow with a lovely red. Then, before I knew it, the dark red orb began to shine blazingly, dazzling my eyes until they stung and all of a sudden lighting up the surrounding clouds.
44. It wasn't Ma Bong's fault-it wasn't as if he'd been disloyal or irresponsible abut meeting the request, or that he had lacked the ability to win her hand, or that he'd never really been attracted to her, or any such thing. In those days, all the young men in the brigade would have been prepared to fight to the death for a woman like Yang Yang, if the policy had permitted to do so.
The problem was Yang Yang herself. After Niu Ben revealed the truth behind the incident, Yang Yang vanished without a trace. More precisely, Yang Yang disappeared two months after the disappearance of Fu Zhenglian, at the end of the dayon which he \Yang Yang had got up around midnight to use the outhouse, and never returned.
45. I remind myself that a woman of forty should dress down and wear light make-up; that she should not let an unrestrained guffaw ruffle the wrinkles in her face, and force the sight on others. Toward the young, she should display tolerance to blunt the edge of their challenge; to the old, she must exercise restraint to save their sensitive ego firm being hurt. It is inappropriate for her to bustle about, spread rumors, or act as go-be-tween or get very enthusiastic or very busy over anything. On the other hand, she should not droop in self-pity and sigh at the sight of her own shadow, either. Perhaps what she should do is to enrich herself by thinking, reading and writing, and to work in a down-to-earth manner with persistence and an eye for detail.
46. My face and ears blush scarlet instantly, and couldn't tell what has happened. I know from novels and films that a kiss on the hand is merely a conventional
politeness, but it feels as if I have done something shameful, and I dare not look him in the eye. Flustered, I hurry out and stand outside in the odd air, looking back at the
cream-colored building, looking out at the snow swirling on the broad streets, at the stream of traffic and the snow-covered pines. And by my side I sense countless pairs of flashing eyes, each and every on forget-me-not blue.
47. I remember fondly the sounds of my birthplace-the sounds of thunder and of rain. Those mighty crashes rumbled and reverberated from mountain valley to mountain valley, as if the new shoots of spring were shaking in the frozen ground, awakening, and bursting forth with a terrifying vigor. Threads of rain, soft as fine grass would then caress them with a tender hand, so that clumps of glossy green leaves would sprout forth and red flowers burst open. These fond recollections lingered with me like a kind of homesickness, leaving me dejected. Within my heart, the climate seemed as parched of rain as this leaden sky, for a long time not a single tear of tenderness had fallen from my arid eyes.
48. Tourism, a fast developing economic sector over the last two decades in all parts of the world, is now receiving increasing attention among the Chinese public．Many people have written to the press making suggestions for the promotion of tourism in China. It is believed that the development of tourism will help promote mutual understanding and friendship between the people of China and other countries, and facilitate ex-changes in the field of culture, science and technology. Moreover, it will help accumu-late funds for China's great cause. Furthermore, the experience of other countries shows that tourism directly and indirectly helps promote the growth of，economic sectors such as communications, commerce, service trades, light industry, arts and crafts industry and urban construction.
49. Several years later when I moved to the western suburbs, I kept my habit of rising at four to begin work at the window. The glittering spire atop the tower of the Beijing Exhibition Center, which I could see in the daytime through my window, would no longer be visible now in the early morning haze．Nevertheless I knew that, though invisible，it remained there intact, towering to the skies to inspire people with hope and the urge for moving ahead. At this, I would be beside myself with joy and feel as if my heart were also flying high up into the skies.
Ten years later, I moved again. In the new home of mine, I had no silk trees, nor could I get of limpid blue in front of my door. In the first few years after I moved there, lotus flowers continued to blossom on the surface of the pond. In the
summertime, when day broke early at four, a vast stretch of lotus leaves looking skywards outside my window came dimly into sight while the quiet fragrance of the
lotus flowers assailed my nose. All that delighted me even more than the silk trees and the flittering spire.
50.Locust trees in the North, as a decorative embellishment of nature, also associate us with autumn. On getting up early in the morning, you will find the ground strewn all over with flower-like pistils fallen from locust trees. Quiet and smelless, they feel tiny and soft underfoot. After a street cleaner has done the sweeping under the shade of the trees, you will discover countless lines left by his broom in the dust, which look so fine and quiet that somehow a feeling of forlornness will begin to creep up on you. The same depth of implication is found in the ancient saying that a single fallen leaf from the wu-tong tree is more than enough to inform the world of autumn’s presence.