2023年内蒙古区包头市中考 – 阅读理解B

I’m about to begin my fifth season of tree planting. Each year, around this time, I have mixed feelings about the job. After enjoying the warmth of my home for the winter months, I begin to miss the challenges of life in the bush.
我即将开始我的第五个植树季节。每年的这个时候，我都对这份工作有着复杂的感受。在享受了家里温暖的冬季几个月后，我开始怀念丛林中生活的挑战。

In the early hours of the morning, we join our team—normally 6 to 12 men and women. Some of us will be covered in suncream and dirt. Our trucks travel deep into the woodlands. When we step out of the trucks, we’re faced with a hillside that has just been logged and is covered with piles of logs and branches.
在凌晨，我们加入我们的团队——通常是6到12名男性和女性。我们中的一些人会被防晒霜和泥土覆盖。我们的卡车深入林地。当我们走出卡车时，我们面对的是一个刚刚被砍伐的山坡，堆满了原木和树枝。

We quickly fill our bags with hundreds of tiny trees. Skilled tree-planters treat this more like a sport than a job, and competition fills the air. Once our bags are full, we jump from log to log. We fall many times, always pushing ourselves to go faster.
我们很快就给袋子装满了几百棵小树。熟练的植树者把植树看成是一项运动，而不是一份工作，空气里充满了竞争。一旦我们的袋子装满了，我们就从一根原木跳到另一根原木。我们跌倒了很多次，总是强迫自己走得更快。

Daily pains get to us all. We feel uncomfortable in the heat, deal with cold at night and suffer from anger. But beautiful moments are always waiting. I remember, lying in my tent one night, listening to a pack of wolves howling in the distance. The season afterward I came across a bobcat that was sitting and calmly staring at us.
每天的痛苦折磨着我们所有人。我们在炎热的天气里感到不舒服，在夜晚应对寒冷，并饱受愤怒之苦。但美好的时刻总是在等待。我记得有一天晚上，我躺在帐篷里，听着远处一群狼的嚎叫。之后的那个季节，我遇到了一只山猫，它坐着平静地盯着我们。

I’ve worked with a 62-year-old tree-planting legend called Grant—believed to have planted seven million trees in 40 years. Once he got caught in a rockslide and broke his back. It took him years to recover, but he came back stronger than ever. His passion for the job reminds me of what I love about it.
我曾与一位62岁的植树传奇人物格兰特共事——据信在40年内种植了700万棵树。有一次，他被岩石滑坡困住，摔断了背部。他花了好几年才恢复过来，但他回来时变得更强壮。他对这份工作的热情让我想起了我喜欢这份工作的原因。

Tree planting is a laboratory of self-growth. You master your mind and face the worst and the best in your nature. A new version of yourself awaits at the end of the experience. And after sleeping in a tent all summer, you learn never to take your bed for granted. So value what you have had and face the challenges in your life with great passion.
植树是自我成长的实验室。你掌握你的思想，面对你本性中最坏和最好的一面。在体验结束时，一个全新的自己正在等待着你。在帐篷里睡了一整个夏天之后，你学会了永远不要把你的床视为理所当然。所以，珍惜你所拥有的，以极大的激情面对生活中的挑战。