【正文】 woul d never gi ve m il k agai n. H al f a m il i on pigs and m il li ons of chickens were dead. Sand now fi l ed the wel ls i nstead of water. Peopl e were shocked. Then l ater that afternoon, another bi g quake whi ch was alm ost as strong as the fi rst one shook Tangshan. Som e of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the rui ns. More buil di ngs fel down. Water, food, and el etri city were hard to get. Peopl e began to wongder how l ong the di sater woul d last. Al l hope was not l ost. Soon after the quakes, the arm y sent 150, 000 sol i ders to Tangshan to hel p the rescue workers. H undreds of thousands of peopl e were hel ped. The arm y ani zed team s to di g out those were trapped and to bury the dead. To the north of the ci ty, m ost of the 10, 000 m i ners were rescued from the coal mi nes there. Workers bui l t shel ters for survivors whose hom es had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the ci ty by trai n,truck and pl ane. Sl owl y, the city began to breathe agai n. A SAFE HOME It i s sad but that peopl e die i n earthquakes from fal li ng furni ture and bri cks. Earthquake safety i s very im portant and there i s more to i t than just keepi ng buil di ngs from fal i ng down. So i f your hom e i s in an earthquake area, you shoul d prepare careful y before the earthquake es. First, m ake sure you buy a house whi ch i s earthquake safe. Al l pipes shoul d be fi xed to the wal and al l wal l s shoul d be especi al ly thi ck and strong. You al so have to make sure that there are bol ts underneath your house. They are one of the m ost i m portant ways of protecti ng a house. Make sure the bui l di ng has no breaken wi ndows and i s wel repaired. Second , l ook at the objects i n your house. Those i n the li vi ng rom, whi ch are the most li kel y to hurt us, are puters, tel evi si ons and l am ps. They can be tied to tabl es or them so they won’t easil y move around. The kitchen, which is al so very dangerous, m ust have strong doors on al l the cupboards. Thi s is the pl ace where m any sm al l thi ngs are stored that m i ght fal down. The water heater shoul d have a case round it to. Windows are special probl em. When they break, gl ass can cause m any acci dents,. It is beter to use safety gl ass i f you can, especi al l y for pictures. Al ways rem em ber:” It is better to be safe than sorry. ” TH E STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS By Jack London Never before i n history has a ci ty been so pl etel y destroyed. San Franci sco i s gone. N othi ng i s left of i t but m em ori es and som e houses far from the centre of the city. Its buni ness are gone. The factori es, hotel sand pal ace are al gone too. Wi thin an hour after the earthquake, the sm oke of SanFrancio’s fires coul d been seen 160 kil om etres away. The sun is red in the dark sky. There was no stoppi ng the fires. There was no way to ani ze or m uni cate. The steel rai l way tracks were now usel ess. And the great pi pes for carryi ng water under the streets had burst. Al l of the ways m an had m ade to keep the ci ty safe were gone i n the thi rty second the earth m oved. O ut at sea it was cal m. N o wi nd cam e up. Yet from every di recti oneast, weast, north, andsouth, strong winds bl ew upon the unl ucky city. Man him self had to m ake ruins of the city’s best bui l di ngs so that they woul d not be a danger to those i n the streets. A l i st of bui l di ngs undesteryed was now onl y a few addresses. A l i st of the brave m en and the wom en woul d fil l a li brary. A li st of al those kil l ed wil l never be m ade. Amazi ng as it m ay seem , Wednesday ni ght was a qui et ni ght. There were no crowds. The poli cem en sai dnothing。 even thei r horses were qui t. There were no shouts or peopl e doi ng crazy thi ngs. In al those terri bl e hours I saw not one wom an who cri ed, not one m an who was exci ted. Before the fi res, through the ni ght, thousands and thousands of peopl e who had l ost thei r homes l eft for safety. Some were covered i n bl ankets. Som etim es whole fami li es put everythi ng they owned and coul d save into wagons. They helped one another cli m b the hi gh hi l s around the ci ty. N ever i n al SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so kind as on that terribl e night. Uni t 5 Elias’ story My nam e i s Eli as. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfrica. The tim e when I first m et N el son Mandel a was a very diffi cul t peri od of m y li fe. I was twel ve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandel a was the bl ack l awyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to poor black peopl e on thei r l egal probl em s. H e was generous with hi s tim e, for which I was grateful. I needed his hel p because I had very l i tl e educati on. I began school at si x. The schol where I studi ed for onl y two years was thre ki l om eters away. I had to leave because m y fami l y coul d not conti nue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I coul d not read or write wel l. After trying hard, I got a job in a gol d m i ne. However, thi s was a ti m e when one had to got to have a passbook to li ve i n Johannesburg. Sadl y I di d not have i t because I was not born there, and I wori ed about whether I woul d be e out of work. The day when N el son Mandel a hel ped m e was one of m y happi est. H e tol d m e how to get the correct papers so I coul d stay i n Johannesburg. I became m ore hopeful about m y future. I never fot how kind Mandel a was. When he anized the AN C Youth League, I joi ned i t as son as I coul d. He sai d: “ The l ast thi rty years have seen the greatest num ber of l aws stoppi ng our ri ghts and progress, unti l today we have reached a stage where we have al m ost no ri ghts at al. ” It was the truth. Bl ack peopl e coul d not vote or chose thei r leaders. They coul d not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town i n whi ch they had to l ive were deci ded by white peopl e. The pl ac