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Writing a good story is not an easy task. What's the secret? Mo Yan believes his success comes from reading. Mo grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. Those stories later the inspiration (灵感) for Mo's writing.
Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields. Although he was tired after his daily hard work, Mo was always for books. However, there were very few in the village. He bought his older brother's textbooks and even dictionaries. He helped others with farm work in for books.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976, he began to read widely, works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers. He studied from these writers but did not copy them. He developed his own style. As the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown after he won the award. "I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture. It enters my novels whenever I a pen.This has affected, even decided, my style."
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In the 1920s and 1930s the airlines were just beginning. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men，or "stewards(乘务员)" helped the passengers onto the airplane and carry the passengers' luggage but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930, a woman called Ellen Church invented the "stewardess".
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in lowa. She was a different child. She didn't want to work on a farm or marry a farmer-she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few year he stayed at the hospital but she also took flying lessons and got her pilot's license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man's world. It was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot. But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because flying was still an unreliable way to travel. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and BAT agreed.
The young woman from lowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1,000 of them working for different airlines. The early "stewardesses" had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was a hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, "stewardesses" have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
I had a chance to serve my mum. I want to 1 my story because I hope that others can learn something from it.
Last month, my mum fell ill. I went to the hospital with her. The doctor said she had to undergo surgery(进行手术). I stayed with her 2 the surgery. Then I looked after her 3 she was in hospital. She seemed to be in high spirits, although she got aches from the surgery
A week later, the doctor said it was okay for mum to go home. I learnt to4 her at home. I cooked food and washed clothes for her. She said that she could do all these things 5 .I was sure that she could, but I wouldn't let her do that. I hardly ever did any housework before. After doing it, I knew it was toilsome(辛苦的)for mum to care about the whole family. I thought it was time for me to6 independence(独立)and help her.
I learn much from the experience of serving my mother and I hope everyone can have the chance to help someone close to you.
Where do you see yourself at seventeen? Owning a business? Owning a car? Saving for college? You will probably do these things, but maybe not when you are seventeen.. unless you are someone l Jimmy Woodard!
Jimmy Woodard is a high school student from Manchester, Vermont, USA. In many ways, Jimmy is a usual high school kid, who spends a lot of time online daily. But in other ways, Jimmy has always been d from the kids around him. When Jimmy was very young, his parents realized he had a special gift. While other children were playing with toys, Jimmy would take his toys apart to find out how they w . But Jimmy's gift really became obvious(明显的)when he started to use computers. In Jimmy's case, if he had a problem with the computer, he worked out how to f it by himself!
When he was fourteen, Jimmy decided to open his o technology consulting company. Since that time, he has brought in about 200 regular customers. One of them is former astronaut Gerald Carr.
Jimmy has s a lot of money over the past three years. "I just bought my own car, " he said happly. "I've used some of money to buy more computers or equipment for my company. But I'm trying to save the rest of it for college. "As for his future, Jimmy explained, "I don't know what I want to doy . But I know I want to do something with computers. I'm interested in a lot of different things. I'd like to live in a big city someday. I' m excited to see what happens next."
My father died when I was a few months old. After his death, my mother moved back to Louisville, Kentucky, where she had grown up. We lived in a small house with her elder sister, Marion, and their mother. This was a time when being a single parent was still considered unusual. When I was small, there was a children's book called The Happy Family, and it was a real piece of work. Dad worked all day long at the office, Mum cooked in the kitchen, and brother and sister always had friends sleeping over. The image of the family in this book was typical (典型的)of the time. It looked nothing like my family, but luckily that wasn't the way I heard. The way Aunt Marion read it to me made the story really funny.
Kind-hearted and open-minded, my aunt was the one who played baseball with me, who took me horseback riding, who took me to the father-son dinners, and who gave me lessons on how to drive. Believing that anything unusual was probably good for me, she offered to get a loan(贷款) so that I could go to Africa to work as a volunteer, which was my most important experience.
As a young girl, Aunt Marion always planned to have a large number of children of her own. But she never got married. This meant that she was free to spend all her time taking care of me. Many people say we have a lot in common. She always expected me to do my best. She never failed to make me believe that I could do anything I wanted as long as I tried hard enough.
For more than sixty years, Aunt Marion didn't and still doesn't think of herself. Unless she is forced to come up to the front, my aunt will stand in the back in family photos, and she doesn't think that her efforts have made much difference. I honour my aunt, who taught me the things my father couldn't. So every June for the past 40 years, in growing thankfulness to Aunt Marion, I've sent her a Father's Day card.
Suggested questions:1. What's your happiest time?2. What do you usually do during the time?3. How do you like them?4. Why is it your happiest time in your life?
