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开始练这一级 →A boy moved from a village to a big city and began studying there.一个男孩从村庄搬到大城市，并在那里开始学习。 He thought he would find a contradictory world inside its walls.他以为会在那堵围墙里发现一个「矛盾的」世界。 He looked for that contradiction every day.他每天都在寻找这样的「矛盾」。 The curriculum of the city school was the same as home.这所城市学校的「课程」和家乡那所学校是一样的。
His teacher asked the class to correspond with students elsewhere.他的老师要求全班与别处的学生「通信」。 A good correspondence was simple for him.对他而言，一封好的「信件往来」很简单。 His answers came slowly, so he asked one question that might contradict theirs.他的回信很慢，所以他问了一个可能与他们的说法「相矛盾」的问题。 Both schools read the same books and did an equivalent set of problems.两所学校读同样的书，做「对等」的一套题。
That equivalence of work surprised him greatly.这种「对等性」让他十分吃惊。 The teacher distributed new books, then told a boy to distribute paper.老师把新书「分发」下去，又让一个男孩「分发」纸张。 The distribution took one afternoon, but nobody complained.这次「分发」花了一下午，但没有人抱怨。 It was hard to believe that the material never changed from place to place.很难相信这些材料从一个地方到另一个地方竟然毫无变化。
More surprisingly, the same page waited in his old classroom.更让人意外的是，原来教室里还有同样的一页在等着他。 Knowledge, he learned, is not a thing of one country.他明白了，知识不是某一个国家的东西。 It is a language everyone can share.它是一种大家都能分享的语言。 That idea kept him reading for many years.这个想法让他继续读了多年。
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