"Never give up!" It is my law(法则) of life. It has brought me1. I learned the law from my father's2story.
My father was3in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then4in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework5midnight. Life was hard, because they had no6！
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where7people can become rich.
"8don't I go to America?" he thought to himself, full of hope.
So，my father came to America. "I had thought it was easy to9money in America," he told me. "But when I arrived there，I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇佣) me because I spoke10English. Later，I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables,11dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was12for the first few years. I worked from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn't13the schooling(学费). "
My father14working hard, and reached his goal.
"Alan," he often says to me. "If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come15in life." That is what I learned from my father.
