All parents love their children. Many parents want their kids to1 well-known people when they2 . Most of them want their kids to live better than others. Many of them 3their kids will be singers or actors. Actors and singers can 4 money easily in our country. When they appear in the advertisement, they will get 5 money which a farmer or a worker can't make all his life. Some of the parents want their kids to be businessmen6doctors. If they work hard, they will have cars and big houses in several 7. Some parents want their kids to work in cities and towns. They don't 8 them to work in the countryside. People who work in the cities and towns can get money after they 9. If you are a famous man, especially an actor, you'll get much but pay a little. A farmer is 10 , he gets little but pays much.
Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about one kilometer away. So Uncle Wang seldom(很少) goes to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike, sometimes on foot. It takes(花费) him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today his bike is broken. He wants to walk there. Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at ten minutes to eight and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a quarter to five in the afternoon.
Sandwich was an Englishman. He lived in the 18th century. Sandwich was rich(有钱的), but he liked to play cards for money. He often played for 24 hours, and didn't even stop to have his meals. He ordered his servants(仆人) to bring him some meat and bread. He put the meat between the two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he played cards with his right hand. People liked Sandwich's idea, and from then on they ate bread and meat as Sandwich did.
From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food "sandwich" today.
