练习材料：

Firemen had been fighting the forest fire for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control. A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around. Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills. Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction, for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well. When the fire had at last been put out, the forest authorities ordered several tons of a special type of grass-seed which would grow quickly. The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aero planes. The planes had been planting seed for nearly a month when it began to rain. By then, however, in many places the grass had already taken root. In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.

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任务配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：

1.词汇：

*control n.控制

*smoke n.烟

*desolate adj.荒凉的

*threaten v.威胁

*surrounding adj.周围的

*destruction n.破坏，毁灭

*flood n.洪水，水灾

*authority n.当局

*grass-seed草籽

*spray v.喷散

*quantity n.量

*root n.根

*patch n.小片

*for miles around 方圆数英里

*blacken v.变黑，发暗

*in huge quantities大量地

*take root 生根

*in place of 代替

练习感悟：

今天中午背诵这篇文章时，总是不能完全背下来，可能也快到下午了，也可能是在背诵之前一直拖延，知道12.30以后才开始背。后来一直背不下来。暂时先放着，过段时间再背。于是 我开始在网上找了找背新概念的方法。准确地来说，我是在微博上搜索了“背新概念”这四个关键词。不过也没找到什么方法。又在“持续力”公众号里搜了搜“背新概念”，方法倒没看到，只是突然看见一篇文章，S说“死记硬背的前提是‘记’和‘背’。”这篇文章中也提到S在学英语时，他通过死记硬背用半个学期的时间背完一个学期的课文，因而英语成绩非常好。其实，我也想过自己以前背古诗、古文什么的。那时候确实是用了死记硬背的方法，当时我觉得我最厉害的一件事是，居然可以把高中学的《离骚》背下来，并且也能默出来。不过，这也只是我个人的想法。我想，比我更厉害的人才不会觉得能把《离骚》背出来是件很厉害的事情。

总之，我想说的是，我不能够因为不想背东西而不去死记硬背，至少我还是要‘记’和‘背’。因为就算如此，我也并不能完全吸收文中的全部知识。从这个角度想，那我现在能够做到的——‘记、背’也变得微不足道了。