Literary Reading Work Sample Asssment
High School – For Classroom U
He-y, Come on Ou-t!
Shinichi Hoshi, The Best Japane Science Fiction Stories, 1989
The typhoon had pasd and the sky was a gorgeous blue. Even a certain village not far from the city had suffered damage. A little distance from the village and near the mountains, a small shrine had been swept away by a landslide.
"I wonder how long that shrine’s been here."
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"Well, in any ca, it must have been here since an awfully long time ago."
"We’ve got to rebuild it right away."
While the villagers exchanged views, veral more of their number came over.
"It sure was wrecked."
"I think it ud to be right here."
"No, looks like it was a little more over there."
Just then o ne of them raid his voice. "Hey what in the world is this hole?”
Where they had all gathered there was a hole about a meter in diameter. They peered in, but it was so dark nothing could be en. However, it gave one the feeling that it was so deep it went clear through to the center of the earth.
There was even one person who said, "I wonder if it’s a fox’s hole."
"He—y, come on ou—t!" shouted a young man into the hole. There was no echo Notes on my thoughts, reactions, and questions as I read:
Instructions
Read the following story carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.
架子鼓教程Your notes may include:
Comments that show you understand the story and your reactions to it.
Questions you have that show what you are wondering as you read.
Notes and obrvations on the literary elements (theme, character, plot, tting, narrator,
characterization, tone, mood, etc.) and how the author us them to create an impact.惠普鼠标驱动
Notes and obrvations on the literary devices (figurative language, imagery, point of view,
foreshadowing, flashback, symbolism, etc.) and how the author us them to create an impact in the story.
Margin notes are optional, but they may add to your score for this asssment.
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Created by: Tina Kuchinski, Gresham-Barlow Words 1376, Lexile 880
from the bottom. Next he picked up a pebble and was about to throw it in.
"You might bring down a cur on us. Lay off," warned an old man, but the younger one energetically threw the pebble in. As before, however, there was no answering respon from the bottom. The villagers cut down some trees, tied them with rope and made a fence which they put around the hole. Then they retired to the village.
"What do you suppo we ought to do?"
"Shouldn’t we build the shrine up just as it was over the hole?"
A day pasd with no agreement. The news traveled fast, and a car from the newspaper company rushed over. In no time a scientist came out, and with an all-knowing expression on his face he went over to the hole. Next, a bunch of gawking curiosity ekers showed up; one could also pick out here and there men of shifty glances who appeared to be concessionaires.Concerned that someone might fall into the hole, a policeman from the local substation kept a careful watch. One newspaper reporter tied a weight to the end of a long cord and lowered it into the hole. A long way down it went. The cord ran out, however, and he tried to pull it out, but it would not come back up. Two or three people helped out, but when they all pulled too hard, the cord parted at the edge of the hole. Another
reporter, a camera in hand, who had been watching all of this, quietly untied a stout rope that had been wound around his waist.
The scientist contacted people at his laboratory and had them bring out a high-powered bull horn, with which he was going to check out the echo from the hole’s bottom. He tried switching through various sounds, but there was no echo. The scientist was puzzled, but he could not very well give up with everyone watching him so intently. He put the bull horn right up to the hole, turned it to its highest volume, and let it sound continuously for a long time. It was a noi that would have carried veral dozen kilometers above ground. But the hole just calmly swallowed up the sound.
In his own mind the scientist was at a loss, but with a look of apparent composure he cut off the sound and, in a manner suggesting that the whole thing had a perfectly plausible explanation, said simply, "Fill it in."
Safer to get rid of something one didn’t understand.
The onlookers, disappointed that this was all that was going to happen, prepared to disper. Just then one of the concessionaires, having broken through the throng and come forward, made a proposal.
"Let me have that hole. I’ll fill it in for you."
"We’d be grateful to you for filling it in," replied the mayor of the village, "but we can’t very well give you the hole. We have to build a shrine there."
"If it’s a shrine you want, I’ll build you a fine one later. Shall I make it with an attached meeting hall?"
Before the mayor could answer, the people of the village all shouted out. "Really? Well, in that ca, we ought to have it clor to the village."
"It’s just an old hole. We’ll give it to you!"
So it was ttled. And the mayor, of cour, had no objection.
The concessionaire was true to his promi. It was small, but clor to the village he did build for them a shrine with an attached meeting hall.
About the time the autumn festival was held at the new shrine, the hole-filling company established by the concessionaire hung out its small shingle at a shack near the hole.
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The con cessionaire had his cohorts mount a loud campaign in the city. "We’ve got a fabulously deep hole! Scientists say it’s at least five thousand meters deep! Perfect for the disposal of such things as waste from nuclear reactors." Government authorities granted permission. Nuclear power plants fought for contracts. The people of the village were a bit worried about this, but they connted when it was explained that there would be absolutely no above-ground contamination for veral thousand years and that they would share in the profits. Into the bargain, very shortly a magnificent road was built from the city to the village.
Trucks rolled in over the road, transporting lead boxes. Above the hole the lids were opened, and the wastes from nuclear reactors tumbled away into the hole. From the Foreign Ministry and the Defen Agency boxes of unnecessary classified documents were brought for disposal. Officials who came to supervi the disposal held discussions on golf. The lesr functionaries, as they threw in the papers, chatted about pinball.
The hole showed no signs of filling up. It was awfully deep, thought some; or el it might be very spacious at the bottom. Little by little the hole-filling company expanded its business.
Bodies of animals ud in contagious dia experiments at the universities were brought out, and
to the were added the unclaimed corps of vagrants. Better than dumping all of its garbage in the ocean, went the thinking in the city, and plans were made for a long pipe to carry it to the hole.
The hole gave peace of mind to the dwellers of the city. They concentrated solely on producing one thing after another. Everyone disliked thinking about the eventual conquences. People wanted only to work for production companies and sales corporations; they had no interest in becoming junk dealers. But, it was thought, the problems too would gradually be resolved by the hole.
Young girls who betrothals had been arranged discarded old diaries in the hole.
打屁股作文打赌There were also tho who were inaugurating new love affairs and threw into the
hole old photographs of themlves taken with former sweethearts. The police felt comforted as they ud the hole to get rid of accumulations of expertly done
counterfeit bills. Criminals breathed easier after throwing material evidence into
the hole.
Whatever one wished to discard, the hole accepted it all. The hole cleand the
city of its filth; the a and sky emed to have become a bit clearer than before.
Aiming at the heavens, new buildings went on being constructed one after the
other.
One day, atop the high steel frame of a new building under construction, a
workman was taking a break. Above his head he heard a voice shout:
"He—y, come on ou—t!"
But, in the sky to which he lifted his gaze there was nothing at all. A clear blue sky merely spread over all. He thought it must be his imagination. Then, as he
二程集resumed his former position, from the direction where the voice had come, a small pebble skimmed by him and fell on past.
The man, however, was gazing in idle reverie at the city’s skyline growing ever
more beautiful, and he failed to notice.
Demonstrate Understanding
1. Write a summary of the story. Include main ideas and details that are important.
Demonstrate Understanding
2. According to the story, why did the scientist suggest that the villagers fill in the hole? U details to support your answer.
Develop an Interpretation士兵服役条例
3. Comprehension in cludes understanding the characters’ thoughts and feelings, even when they do not tell you how they feel. Fill in the chart below to explain how you think each character felt about the hole, as well as the clues from the story that support your answer.
