高中必修一 · 第 12 课
成长的一季 A Season of Growth
学期末，学校举办艺术展，四个朋友的作品都入选了。回望这一季，他们发现成长本身就是一件艺术品。
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学期末，学校举办艺术展，四个朋友的作品都入选了。回望这一季，他们发现成长本身就是一件艺术品。 读课文，先自己理解，再点 🔊 听朗读。
A Season of Growth
The end-of-term art exhibition filled the school hall with colour. Every student had contributed something: paintings, photographs, poems, and even a sculpture made of recycled bottles. The four friends walked through the hall together, stopping at each other's works. 'I still cannot believe you made this,' Lily said, looking at Han Mei's photograph of her grandmother's hands, now framed and lit.
期末艺术展让学校大厅充满色彩。每个学生都贡献了作品：画、照片、诗，甚至还有一座用回收瓶做的雕塑。四个朋友一起走过大厅，在彼此的作品前驻足。“我还是不敢相信这是你做的，”Lily 看着 Han Mei 那张装裱好、打着灯光的奶奶双手照片说。
Jack's exhibit was a series of sunrise photographs — twenty-one of them, one for each day of the habit challenge. 'I used to hate mornings,' he said. 'Now I chase them.' The photos hung in a long row, the sky growing brighter in each one. A note beneath read: 'If I had never started, I would never have seen these. The hardest step is the first alarm clock.'
Jack 的展品是一组日出照片——二十一张，对应习惯挑战的每一天。“我以前讨厌早晨，”他说，“现在我追逐早晨。”照片排成长长一行，天空一张比一张亮。下面有一行字：“如果我从没开始，就永远看不到这些。最难的一步是第一个闹钟。”
Li Lei had written a short poem and framed it beside a drawing of his father's old bicycle. The poem was simple: 'Small wheels, long roads, / my father's back, my hands held tight. / The bicycle is gone now. / The road is still there.' Cozy teacher read it twice, then said softly: 'This is what art is for — to keep what time takes away.'
李雷写了一首短诗，装裱起来，旁边画着他父亲的旧自行车。诗很简单：“小小的轮子，长长的路，父亲的背，我紧握的手。自行车已经不在了，路还在那里。”Cozy 老师读了两遍，然后轻声说：“这就是艺术的意义——留住时间带走的东西。”
The highlight of the exhibition was the wall of poems from the writing workshop. Dozens of poems hung on strings like laundry in the sun, and visitors wandered between them, reading. A first-year student stopped at Jack's poem about his dog and began to cry. Jack, flustered, offered her a tissue. 'It is a good cry,' she sniffled. 'Your poem is real.' Jack said nothing, but he stood a little taller.
展览的亮点是写作工作坊的诗墙。几十首诗像晾在阳光下的衣服一样挂在绳上，参观者在其间漫步阅读。一位一年级学生在 Jack 写狗的诗前停下来，哭了起来。Jack 手忙脚乱地递上纸巾。“这是好的哭，”她抽着鼻子说，“你的诗是真的。”Jack 什么也没说，但站得更直了。
At the closing ceremony, Cozy teacher gave a short speech. 'This term you learned subjunctive mood, inversion, and emphatic structures,' she said. 'But look around you. You also learned something grammar cannot teach: how to see, how to feel, and how to say it. If I had to grade this exhibition, I would give it an A — not for the art, but for the eyes that made it.'
闭幕式上，Cozy 老师做了简短的讲话。“这个学期你们学了虚拟语气、倒装和强调句，”她说，“但看看周围，你们还学到了语法教不了的东西：如何看、如何感受、如何表达。如果必须给这个展览打分，我会打 A——不是为了艺术本身，而是为了创造它的眼睛。”
That night, the four friends sat on the school steps, the hall lights glowing behind them. 'What a season,' Lily said. 'We wrote poems, ran races, saved turtles, and climbed mountains — inside our heads, at least.' Li Lei laughed. 'And if we keep going like this,' he said, 'the next season will be even better.' Above them, the stars arranged themselves, as always, into patterns that looked almost like a map.
那天晚上，四个朋友坐在学校台阶上，身后大厅的灯光闪烁。“多么美好的一季，”Lily 说，“我们写诗、跑步、救海龟、爬高山——至少在心里。”李雷笑了：“如果我们继续这样下去，”他说，“下一季会更好。”头顶上，星星一如既往地排列成几乎像地图的图案。
📖 读后理解（0/6）
1. What did the end-of-term exhibition contain?
2. What was Jack's exhibit?
3. What did Li Lei's poem keep alive?
4. What happened when a first-year student read Jack's poem?
5. What did Cozy teacher say grammar cannot teach?
6. What grade would Cozy teacher give the exhibition?
3语法小课堂：期末复习：全册语法综合
全册语法点回顾
虚拟语气 + 倒装 + 强调 + 被动 + 非谓语 + 从句
If I had started earlier, I would have done better. （如果我早点开始，会做得更好。）
Never have we learned so much in one season. （我们从未在一季里学到这么多。）
It was the exhibition that showed our growth. （正是这次展览展现了我们的成长。）
⚠️ 考前把虚拟/倒装/强调三类句型的例句各背熟一个，套用即可。
易错点盘点
虚拟 be 用 were / 否定词倒装 / 强调句去掉骨架
虚拟语气中 be 一律用 were（If I were...）。
否定词位于句首要部分倒装。
强调句去掉 It is/was...that 后句子仍完整。
suggest/insist 后的从句用 (should) + 原形。
⚠️ 看到 were/had 开头或 never/only 开头，优先想虚拟和倒装。
👨🏫Cozy 老师说：高中语法重在「在语境中理解」——多读课文里的例句，语法自然就活了。
4课后练习（0/13）
1. If I ___ earlier, I would have done better.
2. Never ___ we learned so much in one season.
3. It was the exhibition ___ showed our growth.
4. Virtual mood 中 be 动词一律用 ___ 。
5. suggest 后的从句用 (should) + ___ 。
6. Jack's exhibit was a series of ___ photographs.
7. The hardest step is the first ___ , wrote Jack.
8. Art is for keeping what ___ takes away.
9. Your poem is ___, said the first-year student to Jack.
10. We also learned how to see, how to feel, and how to ___ it.
11. The exhibition was given an A — not for the art, but for the ___ that made it.
12. We saved turtles and climbed mountains — inside our ___ , at least.
13. If we keep going like this, the next season ___ even better.