As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered (被认为) to be a great English writer. He's very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other1in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London. He wrote lots of books, and he also liked2. He was an actor.
Maybe it's interesting to hear that and that's3his books were so good. He gave public readings of his stories that were very popular. His stories first came out in a magazine, in parts. People always wanted4part. He wrote a lot, and most of them are popular. There are films and plays of them5: Oliver Twist became a famous musical play, and Great Expectations was a wonderful6. Dickens' early life was very hard. His family was poor, and his mother sent him out to work in a factory when he was 12. He7it, but he used his experiences in his writing. He continued to write8he died. When he died in 1870, he was9a story. But what a pity! We'll never know10it ended.
A high school student Juliette Turner has been famous as a teen author since her three books came out.
Turner finished Fourth Grade in New York City, but then she and her mom moved to a large farm in Texas and started working with horses and cattle. "My mother and I were the only workers there," Turner said.
Life on the farm provided Turner with rich experience. By Sixth Grade, she began writing about her own stories.
Turner loved learning about the US Constitution (宪法), and she wrote 90 stories about it. The stories became Turner's first book, Our Constitution Rocks, when she started Ninth Grade. Her second book, Our Presidents Rock! came out the summer after her second high school year. Finally, she went to work on That's Not Hay in My Hair.
This story was different from the first two books and had a personal element (元素). "Everything that happened in the book actually happened in my life," said Turner. In the book, Juliette Turner became Jules O'Connor.
Was Turner afraid to be hurt by snakes, just like O'Connor? Students in the book played trick on O'Connor when they found hay in her hair. At school, did Turner get laughed at like O'Connor? "I'll leave that as an open question," she said.
A few years ago, Dave Stirling had the idea of selling CDs over the Internet. The business he started from his home in Ohio, the[US, now sells 500, 000 CDs a year and has made him a millionaire (百万富翁) at the age of 24.
"I could see that this was the future of shopping," says Stirling. "Why should you pay $15for a CD and spend the time and the money getting into the store and parking your car? You can have the same CD for half of the price by clicking (敲击) on your computer. And we can find any CD you want and bring it to your door in 24 hours!"
According to Stirling, this is only the beginning, "I believe that one day we'll do our shopping over the Internet. It's easier, quicker and cheaper. Shops and supermarkets will be the past."
