【正文】 t mi nd, m ay I ask you how m uch m oney you have? H enry: Wel , to be honest, I have none. O li ver: (happi l y) What l uck! Brother, what l uck! (cl aps hi s hands together) H enry: Wel l, i t m ay seem l ucky to you but not to m e! O n the contrary, i n fact. If thi s i s you i dea of som e knd of joke, I don’t thi nk i t’s very funny. ( H enry stands up to l eave) N ow i f you’l excuse m e, I thi nk I’l l be on m y way. Roderi ck: Please don’t go, Mr Adams. You m ustn’t thi nk we don’t care about you. Ol iver, gi ve him the l etter. Ol i ver: Yes, the l etter. (gets it from a desk and gi ves it to H enry l i ke a gi ft ) The l etter. H enry: (taki ng i t careful ly) For m e? Roderi ck: For you. (H enry starts to open i t) O h, no, you m ustn’t open i t. N ot yet. You can’t open it until two o’cl ock. H enry: O h, thi s i s sil ly. Roderi ck: N ot si l y. There’s m oney i n i t (cal s to the servant) Jam es ? H enry: O h, no. I don’t want your chari ty. I just want an honest job. Roderi ck: We know you’re hardworki ng. That39。t mi nd, m ay I ask you how m uch m oney you have? H enry: Wel , to be honest, I have none. O li ver: (happi l y) What l uck! Brother, what l uck! (cl aps hi s hands together) H enry: Wel l, i t m ay seem l ucky to you but not to m e! O n the contrary, i n fact. If thi s i s you i dea of som e knd of joke, I don’t thi nk i t’s very funny. ( H enry stands up to l eave) N ow i f you’l excuse m e, I thi nk I’l l be on m y way. Roderi ck: Please don’t go, Mr Adams. You m ustn’t thi nk we don’t care about you. Ol iver, gi ve him the l etter. Ol i ver: Yes, the l etter. (gets it from a desk and gi ves it to H enry l i ke a gi ft ) The l etter. H enry: (taki ng i t careful ly) For m e? Roderi ck: For you. (H enry starts to open i t) O h, no, you m ustn’t open i t. N ot yet. You can’t open it until two o’cl ock. H enry: O h, thi s i s sil ly. Roderi ck: N ot si l y. There’s m oney i n i t (cal s to the servant) Jam es ? H enry: O h, no. I don’t want your chari ty. I just want an honest job. Roderi ck: We know you’re hardworki ng. That39。t mi nd, m ay I ask you how m uch m oney you have? H enry: Wel , to be honest, I have none. O li ver: (happi l y) What l uck! Brother, what l uck! (cl aps hi s hands together) H enry: Wel l, i t m ay seem l ucky to you but not to m e! O n the contrary, i n fact. If thi s i s you i dea of som e knd of joke, I don’t thi nk i t’s very funny. ( H enry stands up to l eave) N ow i f you’l excuse m e, I thi nk I’l l be on m y way. Roderi ck: Please don’t go, Mr Adams. You m ustn’t thi nk we don’t care about you. Ol iver, gi ve him the l etter. Ol i ver: Yes, the l etter. (gets it from a desk and gi ves it to H enry l i ke a gi ft ) The l etter. H enry: (taki ng i t careful ly) For m e? Roderi ck: For you. (H enry starts to open i t) O h, no, you m ustn’t open i t. N ot yet. You can’t open it until two o’cl ock. H enry: O h, thi s i s sil ly. Roderi ck: N ot si l y. There’s m oney i n i t (cal s to the servant) Jam es ? H enry: O h, no. I don’t want your chari ty. I just want an honest job. Roderi ck: We know you’re hardworki ng. That39。was no l onger popul ar. He sm il ed as he wel ed som e customers warml y at the dor but the smi l e l eft hi s face when he saw Yong H ui wal ki ng i n. She di d not l ook hapy but gl ared at him . “May I ask what you were doi ng i n m y restaurant the other day? I thought you were a new custom er and now I know that you onl y cam e onl y to spy on m e and m y menu,” she shouted. “Pl ease excuse m e, ” he calm l y expl ai ned, “I wanted to know where al m y custom ers had gone l ast week. I fol owed one of them and found them i n your restaurant. I don’t want to upset you, but I found your m enu so l im ited that I stopped worrying and started adverti si ng the benefits of m y food. Why don’t you sit down and try a m eal ?” Yong H ui agreed to stay and son they were both enjoyi ng the dum pli ngs and breast of chi cken cooked wi th garl i c. When they were served the i ce cream, Yong H ui began to look i l . “I feel si ck wi th al l thi s fat and heavy food,”she sai d, “I m i ss m y vegetabl es and fruit.”Wang Peng was enjoyi ng a second pl ate of dum pl i ngs so he si ghed. “Yes, ”he added, “and I woul d m i ss m y dum pl i ngs and fatty pork. Don’t you get ti red qui ckl y?” “Wel l, I do have to rest a l ot, ”adm i tted Yong H ui. “But don’t you thi nk i t woul d be better i f you were a bi t thi nner? I’m sure you woul d feel m uch heal thier.” They began to tal k about m enus and bal anced di ets. “Accordi ng to my research, nei ther your restaurant nor m ine ofers a bal anced di et,”explai ned Wang Peng. “I don’t offer enough fi bre and you don’t offer enough body–bui l di ng and energy–gi vi ng foods. Perhaps we ought to bine our i deas and provi de a balanced m enu with foods ful of energy and fi bre. ”So that i s what they di d. They served raw vegetabl es with the ham burgers and boi l ed the potatoes rather than fryi ng them . They served fresh frui t wi th the i ce cream. In thi s way they cut down the fat and i ncreased the fi bre in the m eal. Thei r balanced di ets becam e such a success that before l ong Wang Peng becam e slim m er and Yong Hui put on m ore weight. After som e tim e the two found that thei r busi ness cooperati on had turned i nto a personal one . Final y they got m ari ed and li ved happil y ever after. FOR BUILDING A MCDONALD’S I was exci ted when I heard that our m uni ty was to have its own McDonal d’s restaurant. I thought about al those young peopl e who woul d not have to go to the next town to buy thei r favouri te burgers and chi ps. McDonal d’s cares about heal thy eati ng too and works wi th sci entists to provi de food that i s of hi gh quali ty, safe and heal thy. It i s al so cheap . They often provi de sal ads as wel as burgers and chi