【正文】 ndel a began a school for those of us who had l ittl e l earni ng. We read books under our bl ankets and used anythi ng we coul d fi nd to m ake candles to see the words. I becam e a good student. I wanted to study for degree but I was not al owed to do that. Later, Mr Mandel a al owed the pri son guards to join us. H e sai d they shoul d not be stopped from studyi ng for their degrees. They were not cl everer than m e, but they di d pass thei r exam s. So I knew I coul d get a degree too. That m ade m e feel good about m yself. When I fi ni shed the four years in pri son, I went to find a job. Si nce I was better educated, I got a job worki ng i n an offi ce. H owever, the poli ce found out and tol d m y boss that I had been i n pri son for bl owi ng up governm ent bui l di ngs. So I l ost m y job. I di d not work agai n for twenty years until Mr Mandel a and the AN C cam e to power i n 1994. Al that tim e m y wife and chi l dren had to beg for food and hel p from rel ati ves or fri ends. Luckil y Mr Mandel a rem em bered m e and gave m e a job taking tourists around my ol d pri son on Robben Island. I fel t bad the fi rst tim e I tal ked to a group. Al the terror and fear of that tim e came back to m e. I rem em bered the beati ngs and the cruel ty of the guards and m y fri ends who had di ed. I fel t I woul d not be abl e to do i t, but m y fam il y encouraged m e. They sai d that the job and the pay from the new South Afri ca government were m y reward after worki ng al m y li fe for equal ri ghts for the Bl acks. So now at 51 I am proud to show vi sitors over the prison, for I hel ped to m ake our peopl e free in thei r own l and. A fol lower of Bil l Gates I have been a fri end of Bi l Gates for a l ong tim e. I knew hi m when he was a student at Harvard Universi ty. We were surpri sed when he l eft Uni versi ty to set up hi s own pany” Mi crosoft” and make hi s own software. But he was the cl ever one! H e i s very good at wri ti ng puter l anguages and al m ost al l puters now use Mi crosoft software. The program “Word” i s used from Bri tai n to Chi na! O f course he has m ade a l ot of m oney and that m akes peopl e very jeal ous. They want to stop hi s success. Even the governm ent i s agai nst hi m and has tri ed to break 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. Within an hour after the earthquake, the sm oke of SanFrancio’s fires coul d been seen 160 kil om etres away. The sun i s red i n 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