【正确答案】Occasionally, the faint light of the lamps shone through the dreamy haze and shed on the children passing along. In such dim atmosphere, the children seemed like haunting ghosts, flocking forward in large numbers. Those children, with the hair cut like the watermelon peel, were almost half-blind because of the haze. Therefore, they had to grope their ways in dark by touching the unnamable things along. Usually, we had to overcome our sleepiness and get up at half past five before dawn. Even when it was rainy in the winter morning, there were groups of children in black coat and skirt carrying big bags with back slightly humpbacked on the street. With two lunchboxes and a canteen in another big bag, they also took a tiny black umbrella, trudging forward in rain. There was no time for our sneakers to get dry, for we had to wear them early the next morning when they were still a bit wet.