汉语分级阅读 1500词 史 迹 编著 Selected Abridged Chinese Contemporary Short Stories Reader 1500 Words Graded Chinese C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 1500fy pdf 2013 6 8 1 04 19 PM First Edition 2013 Fifth Printi[.]
Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words Selected Abridged Chinese Contemporary Short Stories 汉语分级阅读·1500词 史 迹 编著 First Edition 2013 Fifth Printing 2017 ISBN 978-7-5138-0555-1 Copyright 2013 by Sinolingua Co., Ltd Published by Sinolingua Co., Ltd 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing 100037, China Tel: (86) 10-68320585 68997826 Fax: (86) 10-68997826 68326333 http://www.sinolingua.com.cn E-mail: hyjx@sinolingua.com.cn Facebook: www.facebook.com/sinolingua Printed by Beijing Jinghua Hucais Printing Co., Ltd Printed in the People’s Republic of China V X 目录 Contents Preface Qiánn 前 言 Yī , Shíb` S Jìnxíngqǔ 1 一 、 十 八岁 进 行曲 99 二、 绿 肥 红 瘦 145 >r , Lǜféi=hóngshịu Sān , Gǎnqíng Wèntí 三 、 感 情 问题 Sì , Bā Yuè Shíwǔ Yuèliang Yuán 177 四 、 八 月十 五 月 亮 圆 213 五、 风 雪 夜 归 人 239 六、一 看 就是个新 警 察 289 Wǔ , Fēngxuě Guī Rén Liù , Kàn Jiù Shì Gè Xīn Jǐngchá Zǒng Cíhbiǎo 总 词 汇表 Preface It is an established fact that reading practice is effective in improving one’s proficiency in a foreign language Thus, for students of Chinese as a foreign language, learning how to read Chinese is essential to the process of becoming familiar with Chinese words To become effectively literate, students need to have a command of about 3000 to 5000 Chinese words However, mastering such a large amount of Chinese vocabulary can be quite a significant burden But students are eager to read in Chinese even with a limited amount of vocabulary I once taught in the Chinese Department of Venice University and found that the students needed simple Chinese materials to improve their reading ability This series, Graded Chinese Readers, is made up of such simple reading materials which have been specifically designed for students of Chinese as a foreign language to help them improve their reading comprehension These materials can be useful both inside and outside the classroom V Readability and language practicability are characteristics of the simplified stories in this series, based on contemporary Chinese novels, some of which are prize-winning literary works The stories describe Chinese people’s lives and the various social changes that have occurred since the 1980s in China By reading these literary works, students of Chinese as a foreign language can gain a better knowledge of the everyday lives of the Chinese people In order to help readers have a better comprehension of these works, each story has a “Guide to reading” which appears before the main text Questions based on the texts and brief introductions to the authors are also included following the stories The series has already published Graded Chinese Reader 500 Words, Graded Chinese Reader 1000 Words (originally Graded Chinese Reader 3), Graded Chinese Reader 2000 Words (originally Graded Chinese Reader 1), and Graded Chinese Reader 3000 Words (originally Graded Chinese Reader 2) Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words is the fifth book of the series The stories have been selected from a range of contemporary short stories and novellas The vocabulary is limited to about 1500 common Chinese words, VI which are mainly based on the 1500 high frequency words in the International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (2008) The book also includes some of the 1200 Chinese words listed in the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level (2010) In each story, words outside of these above mentioned categories, such as more advanced words, proper nouns, idioms, and complex sentence structures, are explained in notes at the side of each page along with some examples As for the words listed in the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level (2010) but not in the International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (2008), they are marked in this way: 安全 In order to make it easy for readers to look up new words, we offer a glossary at the end of the book, which includes the 1500 high frequent words in the International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (2008) and the words of the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level used in this book In Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words, the most common words appear frequently in the text so that students can memorize them more efficiently Additionally, the sentences are reasonably VII short, sentence structures are complete, complex sentences are avoided, and pinyin is used so that students can easily master each word’s pronunciation and be able to look each character up in a dictionary Each story has its own notes so that readers may choose whichever story they wish to read without having to refer to other stories’ notes In order to improve students’ listening comprehension, CDs in MP3 format are attached to the book Furthermore, a pinyin-invisible card is designed specially for those who wish to read only the characters In addition, the stories are all illustrated with pictures, which will help students better understand the plot of each story The main goal of Chinese Graded Reader 1500 Words is to reduce the difficulty of Chinese reading for students I would like to thank the College of Foreign Languages of Southwest Jiaotong University and my publisher Sinolingua for their helpful support, Professor Abbiati Magda of the Chinese Department of Venice University for all the valuable ideas she gave me when I was preparing the series, all the Chinese contemporary writers for their permission to adapt their works in the book, Fu Mei, Director of the Editorial Department and my editor VIII Lu Yu, of Sinolingua, for their constructive suggestions and sincere help, my friends Peter Moon and Pat Burrows for their suggestions, and my student Wang Guan for part of the English notes included in the book I would also like to thank my readers and all of the many other people who helped me, directly or indirectly, in the development of this book I sincerely welcome constructive criticism and helpful suggestions from both our esteemed colleagues and, of course, students of the Chinese language We hope that this series, Graded Chinese Readers, will be helpful to all CFL students and readers The author can be contacted at: shiji0612@126.com Shi Ji January 2013 Chengdu, China IX 前 言 众所周知，通过阅读提高语言水平历来是被广为接受 的、有效的语言学习途径。对于以汉语为外语的学生来说， 通过汉语阅读来学习汉语词汇是非常重要的学习途径。通常 情况下，要读懂一般的汉语材料，需要掌握 3000 至 5000 个 汉语词汇。然而，外国学生要掌握 3000 个常用词难度非常 大。但是学生们却渴望用他们有限的词汇进行汉语阅读。本 人在威尼斯大学中文系任教期间，了解到学生们很需要这方 面的阅读材料来提高他们的阅读能力。《汉语分级阅读》系 列就是为世界各国汉语学习者编写的简易读本。《汉语分级 阅读》系列的主要目的是帮助学生提高汉语阅读能力。该系 列既可以作为课堂的汉语阅读教材，也可作为课外的汉语泛 读材料。 《汉语分级阅读》系列所选的故事主要是中国当代作家 的中短篇小说，有些是获奖作品。所选作品重点突出了作品 X 324 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 听说 停 挺 通 通过 t~ngshu4 同 同时 同学 同样 同意 同志 痛苦 偷 头 头发 透 突然 tóng 图书馆 吐 吐 推 腿 túshūguǎn 外 wài 外国 外面 完 完成 wàig 完全 wánqn tíng tǐng tōng tōngg tóngshí tóngx tóngng tóng t5ngzh# tịngkǔ t4u t5u tóufa t7u tūrán tǔ tù tuī tuǐ hear of; be told to stop, to halt, to cease very, quite, pretty, rather lead to; through pass through; get past; to traverse; by means of; by way of; by, through; to adopt (a motion or proposal), to approve, to pass be the same; with at the same time student, classmate same, similar, alike to agree, to approve comrade suffering; painful to steal head hair to penetrate; (of clothes) soak through sudden, abrupt, unexpected; suddenly, abruptly, unexpectedly library to spit, to say; pour out to vomit; throw up to push leg W wàimiàn wán wánchéng outer; outside; not of one’s own family, clan, class, locality, school, etc foreign country out, outside, exterior to finish; be used up; run out to accomplish, to complete, to finish, to achieve, to fulfill completely, absolutely, entirely, all, totally 总词汇表 玩（儿） 晚 晚饭 晚上 碗 万 往 往往 忘 忘记 望 危险 微笑 为 伟大 为 为了 为什么 未 位 味道 喂 文 文化 文明 文学 文章 文字 问 问题 我 我国 我家 我们 握 w1n(r) w2n w2nf3n wǎnshang wǎn wàn wǎng wǎngwǎng w3ng wàngjì wàng wēixiǎn wēixiào wéi wěidà wèi wèile wèi shénme wèi wèi wèidào wèi wén wénhuà wénmíng wénx wénzhāng wénzì wèn wèntí wǒ wǒ g wǒ jiā wǒmen wò have fun; to play; entertain oneself late; evening dinner, supper evening bowl; a bowl of ten thousand to, toward always to forget to forget; go out of one’s mind to watch; look into the distance dangerous; danger to smile to do; serve as great, mighty for; on account of for why not; not yet classifier used for people flavor, taste hello, hey, hi character, writing; written language culture, civilization civilization, culture literature essay, article character, writing to ask, to inquire question, problem I, me our country my family we, us to hold 325 326 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 屋里 屋子 无 无法 无论 五 五十 wū li 西 西方 西方 吸引 希望 习惯 xī 洗 喜欢 下 下班 下来 下面 下去 下午 吓 夏天 先 先生 鲜花 显得 现代 现实 现象 现在 相 相当 xǐ wūzi wú wúfǎ wúlùn wǔ wǔshí in the room room have not; there be not unable, incapable no matter what, how, etc.; regardless of five fifty X xīfāng Xīfāng xīyǐn xīwàng xíguàn xǐhuan xià xi3 b`n xiàlái xiàmi3n xiàqù xiàwǔ xi3 xi3ti`n xiān xiānsheng xiānhuā xiǎnde xi3nd3i xiànshí xiànxiàng xiànzài xiāng xiāngdāng west west the West to attract, to fascinate to hope, to wish; be desirous of be accustomed to; be/get used to; habit, custom; usual practice to wash, to develop (a picture) to like; be interested in under, below finish work; be off duty come down lower place; next go down afternoon to frighten, to scare summer first (addressing) Mr., Mister, sir fresh flowers to seem, to appear modern; modern time reality; real, realistic phenomenon, appearance now, nowadays; at present mutually; each other quite, fairly, considerably 总词汇表 相同 相信 xiāngtóng 香 箱子 享受 响 想 想到 想起 想象 向 相 象征 像 消失 消息 小 xiāng 小伙子 小姐 小时 小时候 小心 校园 笑 笑话 些 写 谢 谢谢 心 心里 心理 心情 心中 xiǎohuǒzi xiāngxìn xiāngzi xi2ngsh7u xiǎng xiǎng xiǎngdào xiǎngqǐ xiǎngxiàng xiàng xiàng xiàngzhēng xiàng xiāoshī xiāoxi xiǎo xiǎojiě xiǎoshí xi2osh!hou xiǎoxīn xiàoyuán xiào xiàohua xiē xiě xiè xièxie x~n xīnlǐ xīnlǐ xīnqíng xīnzhōng same believe in; be convinced of; have faith in; place reliance on fragrance; delicious chest, box to enjoy; enjoyment sound; make a sound to want; would like to; to think, to miss think of; call to mind to remember; call to mind imagination; to imagine to, towards appearance, image, photo to symbolize; symbol look alike; for example to disappear, to vanish information, news small, little; become smaller; the youngest young man Miss hour in one’s childhood take care; careful campus; school grounds to laugh, to smile to joke; to laugh at; to mock some; a little bit to write to thank, to decline to thank heart heart, mind psychology, mentality mood; frame of mind; temper heart, mind 327 328 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 新 新年 新闻 新鲜 信 兴奋 兴趣 星期 星期六 行 行为 形态 形象 醒 幸福 性格 xīn 姓 休息 修 需要 许多 选 选择 xìng 学 学会 学生 学问 学习 学校 雪 血 寻 xu9 呀 ya xīnnián xīnwén xīnxiān x#n xīngfèn xìngqù xīngqī xīngqīliù xíng xíngwéi xíngtài xíngxiàng xǐng xìngfú xìnggé xiūxi xi$ xūyào xǔduō xuǎn xuǎnzé xuéhuì xuésheng xuéwen xuéxí xuéxiào xuě xuè xún new, up-to-date New Year news fresh letter; believe in excited interest week Saturday to travel, to walk; capable action, behavior form, shape, pattern image, figure; vivid wake up happy; well-being, happiness, bliss character, nature, temperament, disposition surname; take … as surname to relax; have a rest; take a break to decorate, to repair to need; need many, much; great deal of; a lot of; to choose, to select to choose, to select, to pick; choice, selection, option to learn, to study to learn, to master student learning, knowledge to learn, to study school, college snow blood to seek; look for Y exclamation to show surprise 总词汇表 烟 研究 颜色 眼 眼睛 眼泪 眼前 演员 羊 阳光 养 样子 要求 yān 摇 咬 药 要 要是 钥匙 爷爷 也 也许 夜 夜里 一 一百 一般 一半 一辈子 一边 y1o 一部分 一点（儿） 一定 yíbùfen yánjiū yánsè yǎn yǎnjing y2nl-i yǎnqián yǎnyuán y1ng yángguāng yǎng yàngzi yāoqiú yǎo yào yào yàoshi yàoshi yéye yě yěxǔ yyèlǐ yī yìbǎi bān bàn bèizi biān diǎn(r) dìng to smoke; cigarette to investigate, to examine; go into color, countenance eye eye tear before one’s eyes; at the moment actor, actress sheep sunshine, sunlight to raise, to cultivate appearance, shape, form to ask, to request, to demand; requirement, claim to shake, to wave to bite, to snap medicine to want, to demand; be going to if; in case key grandfather, grandpa also; as well probably, perhaps, may night at night one one hundred general, ordinary, common half; one half all one’s life; one’s whole life while, as; at the same time; simultaneously one part a bit; a little certainly, necessarily; fixed, specified, regular 329 330 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 一个 一共 一会儿 一家 一句话 一口气 一块 一面 一年 一起 一切 一生 一时 一天 一下 一下子 一些 一眼 一样 一阵 一直 衣服 医生 医院 依然 乙 已 已经 以 以后 以及 以前 以上 以外 以为 gè gịng hr jiā jù h kǒuqì ki miàn nián qǐ qiè shēng shí tiān xià xiàzi xi8 yǎn ng zhèn zhí yīfu yīshēng yīyn yīrán yǐ yǐ yǐjīng yǐ y@h7u yǐjí yǐqián yǐshàng yǐwài yǐwéi a, one altogether; in all a moment one family in a word; in short one breath; in one breath one piece; one chunk one side; at the same time one year together all, every all one’s life; one’s whole life a period of time; for a short time one day; the whole day once; in a short while once; in a short while a number of; some a glance the same; alike a period of time always; all the time clothing, clothes, dress doctor, surgeon hospital still; as before second to stop, to end; already already, yet by, with; because of; so that after, afterwards and; as well as before, previously, formerly over; more than; the above-mentioned beyond, outside; other than to think, to believe, to suppose 总词汇表 椅子 艺术 意见 意思 yǐzi 意义 意愿 因 因此 因为 音乐 银行 引起 yìyì 印象 应 应当 应该 英文 英语 樱花 营业员 赢 影响 应 硬 永远 用 尤其 由 由于 邮局 游 游戏 友好 有 yìnxiàng shù jiàn si yn yīn yīncǐ y~nw-i yīny nháng yǐnqǐ yīng yīngdāng yīnggāi Yīngwén Yīngyǔ yīnghuā ngyn ng yǐngxiǎng ng ng yǒngyuǎn ng uqí u u ujú u uxì yǒuhǎo yǒu chair art view, opinion, idea meaning, hint, opinion, idea, interest, enjoyment significance, meaning to wish, to desire; aspiration for; on account of so, therefore, consequently because music bank to cause; lead to; give rise to; bring about impression, feeling should; ought to should; ought to should; ought to English English cherry blossom shop assistant; salesclerk to win to influence, to affect to answer, to respond hard, tough forever, perpetually to use; usage especially, particularly; in particular from due to; owing to; as a result of post office to travel, to swim game, recreation friendly, amicable to have, to be, to exist; there be 331 332 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 有的 有点（儿） 有关 有名 有趣 有人 有时 有时候 有些 有意思 又 于 于是 鱼 愉快 与 雨 语法 语汇 语言 预报 遇到 元 园林 原来 原谅 原因 圆 远 院子 愿 愿意 约 约会 月 yǒude y6udi2n(r) yǒuguān yǒumíng yǒuqù yǒurén yǒushí y6u sh!hou y6uxi8 yǒu si u shì ki yǔ y^ yǔfǎ yǔh yǔn ýbào ýdào yn ynlín ynlái ynliàng ynyīn yn yuǎn ynzi yn yn yuē yuēhuì yuè some some; a little bit have sth to with; related, concerned famous, celebrated interesting, fascinating, amusing someone sometimes; now and then sometimes some interesting again; once more at, from, by therefore; as a result fish happy, glad, joyful and, with rain grammar vocabulary; word stock language forecast; to forecast to meet, to encounter RMB yuan garden, park former, original to forgive reason, cause round; circle far yard, courtyard to hope, to wish; be willing be willing; be ready to arrange; make an arrangement appointment; date with moon, month 总词汇表 月亮 越 越来越 云 运动 yuèliang 杂志 再 再见 在 在家 咱们 脏 早 早晨 早就 早上 早已 造成 则 责任 怎么 zázhì 怎么办 怎么样 zěnme bàn 怎样 增加 占 站 张 z0ny3ng 长大 掌柜 掌握 zhǎngdà y yláiy n ýndịng moon increasingly; more and more increasingly; more and more cloud sports, movement, campaign Z zài zàijiàn zài zàijiā zánmen zāng z2o zǎochen zǎojiù zǎoshang záoyǐ zàochéng zé zérèn zěnme zěnmeng zēngjiā zh3n zhàn zhāng zhǎngg zhǎngwị magazine again, more, further goodbye to exist; at, in at home we, us dirty early early morning long ago; as early as early morning long ago; for a long time to cause; lead to; bring about rule, norm; piece, item duty, responsibility inquiring for property, condition, way, and cause, etc what if; what shall we how about it; what you think (inquiring for comments and suggestions as an independent sentence) how…; how about… increase to occupy; be in a certain situation to stand; station classifier used for paper, bed, table, face, etc.; open up grow up shopkeeper, manager to master, to control, to grasp 333 334 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 丈夫 着急 找 找到 照 照顾 照片 照相机 者 这 这次 这儿 这个 这里 这么 这时 这时候 这些 这样 这种 着 zhàngfu 真 真实 真正 整个 正 正好 正是 正在 zhēn 证明 政治 之 zhèngmíng zháojí zhǎo zhǎodào zhào zhàogù zhàopiàn zhàoxiàngjī zhě zhzhè cì zhèr zh-ge zh-li zh-me zhè shí zhè shíhou zh-xi8 zh-y3ng zhè zhǒng zhe zhēnshí zhēnzhèng zhěnggè zh-ng zhènghǎo zhèng shì zhèngzài zhèngzhì zhī husband to worry; feel anxious to seek; look for to find; find out to shine look after; take care photo, picture camera -er, -ist this this time here this here in this way; like this now; at the moment now; at the moment these in this way; like this like this; of this kind used after a verb or an adjective to indicate the continuation of an action or a state indeed, really true, real genuine, true, real whole, entire just, right just in time; by chance just, exactly in the process of; in the course of; in the middle of to prove; testimonial politics; political affairs auxiliary word, used to form a gramatical structure 总词汇表 之后 之间 之前 之一 之中 支 知 知道 知识 直 直到 直接 值得 职员 植物 只 只好 只见 只能 只是 只要 只有 纸 指 至 至于 治 中 中间 中文 中午 中心 中医 终于 种 zhīhòu zhījiān zhīqián zhī yī zhī zhōng zh~ zhī zhīdào zhīshi zhí zhídào zhíjiē zhídé zhíyuán zhíwù zhǐ zhǐhǎo zhǐ jiàn zhǐ néng zhǐshì zhǐyào zhǐyǒu zhǐ zhǐ zhì zhìyú zhì zhōng zhōngjiān Zhōngwén zhōngwǔ zhōngxīn zhōngyī zhōngyú zhǒng later, afterwards between, among before; prior to one of in, among (for pen, cigarette, etc.) to know; be aware of; knowledge to know; be aware of knowledge straight, upright; just, simply until; up to direct, straight forward to deserve; be worth office worker; staff member plant only, merely, just have to; be obliged to only to see have to; have no choice but to just, merely; no more than as long as only paper finger; point to to arrive, to reach; most, extremely as for; go so far as to to cure, to treat, to govern, to control middle, inside center, middle Chinese language noon, midday center, middle traditional Chinese medicine at last; finally seed, origin, kind, type 335 336 Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words 中 众 众人 种 重 重要 周末 周围 竹子 主人 主任 主要 主意 煮 住 注意 zhòng 祝 著名 抓 专家 转 转 赚钱 装 撞 zhù 追 准 准备 zhuī 捉 桌子 资料 子 仔细 zhuō zhòng zhòngrén zhòng zhòng zhòngyào zhōumò zhōuwéi zhúzi zhǔrén zhǔrèn zhǔo zhǔyi zhǔ zhù zhù zhùmíng zhu` zhuānjiā zhuǎn zhuàn zhuànqián zhuāng zhuàng zhǔn zhǔnbèi zhuōzi zīliào zǐ zǐxì hit; fit exactly; fall into many, numerous; crowd everyone, everybody to grow, to plant, to cultivate heavy, weighty important, critical weekend surrounding bamboo host, owner director, head, chief major, main opinion, idea to boil to live, to stay, to dwell pay attention to; keep an eye on; take notice of to wish, to pray famous, celebrated to seize, to catch expert, specialist to turn, to convert, to transfer to spin, to rotate, to stroll make money to put, to pack to collide, to rush, to encounter; run into court (a girl) accurate, precise; to allow, to permit be going to; to prepare; preparation, arrangement to catch, to grasp desk, table material, data, means son, child careful, attentive 总词汇表 自 自己 自然 自行 自由 字 总 总是 走 租 足球 组 组合 组织 祖国 嘴 嘴里 最 最好 最后 最近 尊重 昨天 左右 作 作家 作品 作为 作业 作用 坐 坐下 座 做 zì zìjǐ zìrán zìxíng zìu zì zǒng zǒngshì zǒu zū zúqiú zǔ zǔhé zǔzhī zǔg zuǐ zuǐ li z zhǎo zu#h7u zjìn zūnzhịng ztiān zuǒu z zuòjiā zuòpǐn zuòwéi zuòyè zuòyòng zuò zuòxià zu7 zu7 self; since self, oneself; one’s own nature; natural world by oneself; of one’s own accord free; freedom character general, total; always always to walk, to go, to leave to rent soccer, football group, crew, set to compose; make up; combination to organize; organization motherland, homeland mouth in one’s mouth the most had better; would be best; may as well finally recently, lately to respect; respect yesterday around, about, approximately to make, to rise, to write writer, author works deed, accomplishment; serve as homework effect; to influence to sit; travel by (a vehicle) sit down seat, place to make, to produce, to 337 责任编辑 ：陆 瑜 顾 珺 英文编辑 ：薛彧威 吴爱俊 封面设计 ：古 手 封面摄影 ：陆贞松 图书在版编目（CIP）数据 汉语分级阅读 1500 词 / 史迹编著 —北京 : 华语教学出版社 , 2013 ISBN 978-7-5138-0555-1 Ⅰ ①汉… Ⅱ ①史… Ⅲ ①汉语－阅读教学－对外汉语教学－自学 参考资料 Ⅳ ① H195.4 中国版本图书馆 CIP 数据核字 (2013) 第 200014 号 汉语分级阅读·1500 词 史迹 编著 * © 华语教学出版社有限责任公司 华语教学出版社有限责任公司出版 （中国北京百万庄大街 24 号 邮政编码 100037） 电话 : (86)10-68320585 68997826 传真 : (86)10-68997826 68326333 网址 : www.sinolingua.com.cn 电子信箱 : hyjx@sinolingua.com.cn 新浪微博地址 ：http://weibo.com/sinolinguavip 北京京华虎彩印刷有限公司印刷 2013 年（32 开）第 版 2017 年第 版第 次印刷 （汉英） ISBN 978-7-5138-0555-1 定价 : 49.00 元 ... published Graded Chinese Reader 500 Words, Graded Chinese Reader 1000 Words (originally Graded Chinese Reader 3), Graded Chinese Reader 2000 Words (originally Graded Chinese Reader 1), and Graded Chinese. .. (originally Graded Chinese Reader 1), and Graded Chinese Reader 3000 Words (originally Graded Chinese Reader 2) Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words is the fifth book of the series The stories have... Language Education (2008) and the words of the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level used in this book In Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words, the most common words appear frequently in the text