During the Spring and Autumn Period， there was a great musician" Yu Boya（俞伯牙）. He was good at playing the Guqin（古琴）.

One day during a boat trip， Yu Boya took out his Guqin and played. A young woodsman stood on the riverbank enjoying the music. His name was Zhong Ziqi（鐘子期）.

Yu Boya invited Zhong Ziqi to the boat and played the Guqin for him. He played the Guqin to express his love for the mountains.

Wonderful！ It seems that the mountains are just before my eyes！

Oh！ Really？

Beautiful！ It is like hundreds of boats sailing down big rivers！

Boya was surprised. He then played another tune.

Now it is like the spring rain dripping on lotus leaves; now like the autumn breeze singing in the moonlight; now like the strong wind...

Oh！ My goodness！ Whenever I play a different tune， you can tell what I am thinking！ You really understand my music.

So they became best friends. And they made plans to meet again in the same place next year.

The following year， Boya arrived on time. But he found that Ziqi had died of an illness. This made Boya very sad. He took out the Guqin and played the music of the High Mountains and Flowing Water. He said， “My best friend is dead. No one understands my music now.” Then he broke the Guqin and never played it again.

Boya and Ziqi shared the same interest（興趣愛好相同）. They understood each other well. How good it is to have a friend like this！

1.Spring and Autumn Period春秋戰(zhàn)國時期

2.musician /mju?z??（?）n/ n.音樂家

名詞后綴-ian表示：

①從事某職業(yè)或精于某技術(shù)的人。如：librarian圖書管理員，musician音樂家

②某國家或地區(qū)的人。如：Canadian加拿大人，Italian意大利人

3.woodsman /?w?dzm?n/ n.樵夫

名詞后綴-man表示從事某種職業(yè)的人。 如：

4.riverbank /?r?v?b??k/ n.河岸

這是一個合成詞。river意為“河流”，bank在此處意為“河岸”，riverbank意為“河岸”，即河流旁邊的陸地部分。

5.express /?k?spres/ v. 表達(dá)

如：Words cannot express how happy I am.

言語無法表達(dá)我的愉快心情。

6.seem /si?m/ v.似乎

It seems that...看起來好像……

如：It seems that Mr Brown doesn’t like his job very much.

布朗先生好像不是很喜歡他的工作。

7.hundred /'h?ndr?d/ n. 百

①數(shù)字+hundred+可數(shù)名詞復(fù)數(shù)，表示具體的數(shù)目“幾百”，如：

one hundred books 一百本書

two hundred trees 兩百棵樹

five hundred cars 五百輛汽車

②hundreds of+可數(shù)名詞復(fù)數(shù)，表示“數(shù)百的”。如：

hundreds of books數(shù)百本書

hundreds of trees數(shù)百棵樹

hundreds of cars數(shù)百輛車

8.sail /se?l/ v. 航行

短語：go sailing

去航行

拓展：sailor n.水手

9.tune /tju?n/ n.曲子

如：She is trying to play that tune on the piano.

她正嘗試在鋼琴上彈奏那首曲子。

10.drip /dr?p/ v.滴下

11.lotus /'l??t?s/ n.荷花

詞組：lotus leaves荷葉

12.breeze /bri?z/ n.微風(fēng)

13.moonlight /'mu?nla?t/ n.月光

die of表示“死于……”，如：

The old man died of heart trouble.這個老人死于心臟問題。

15.break /bre?k/ v.打破，打碎，折斷（過去式：broke）

如：I’m going to break the pencil.我要折斷這支鉛筆。

He broke the window of his neighbor.他打碎了鄰居家的玻璃。