【正文】 ue workers and doctors were trapped under the rui ns. More bui l di ngs fel l down. Water,food, and el etrici ty were hard to get. Peopl e began to wongder how l ong the di sater woul d l ast. Al hope was not l ost. Soon after the quakes, the arm y sent 150, 000 soli ders to Tangshan to hel p the rescue workers. H undreds of thousands of peopl e were hel ped. The army ani zed team s to dig out those were trapped and to bury the dead. To the north of the ci ty, m ost of the 10, 000 m iners were rescued from the coal mi nes there. Workers bui lt shel ters for survi vors whose homes had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the ci ty by trai n, truck and pl ane. Sl owl y, the ci ty began to breathe agai n. A SAFE HOME It i s sad but that peopl e di e i n earthquakes from fal ing furniture and bri cks. Earthquake safety i s very i m portant and there i s m ore to i t than just keepi ng bui l di ngs from fal ing down. So i f your hom e i s i n 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 pi pes shoul d be fi xed to the wal l and al wal s shoul d be especi al y thi ck and strong. You also have to m ake sure that there are bol ts underneath your house. They are one of the m ost im portant ways of protecti ng a house. Make sure the buil ding has no breaken windows and i s wel l repai red. Second ,l ook at the objects in your house. Those i n the li vi ng room , which are the m ost 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 m ove around. The kitchen, which is al so very dangerous, m ust have strong doors on al the cupboards. Thi s i s the pl ace where m any sm al l thi ngs are stored that m i ght fal l down. The water heater shoul d have a case round i t too. Wi ndows are speci al probl em . When they break, gl as can cause m any acci dents,. It is beter to use safety gl ass i f you can, especi al l y for pi ctures. Al ways rem em ber:” It is better to be safe than sorry. ” TH E STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS By Jack London N ever before in hi story has a ci ty been so pl etel y destroyed. San Franci sco i s gone. N othi ng is l eft of i t but m em ori es and some houses far from the centre of the ci ty. 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 kilom etres away. The sun is 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 strets had burst. Al 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 i t was calm . N o wi nd cam e up. Yet from every di rectioneast, weast, north,andsouth, strong winds bl ew upon the unlucky city. Man him sel f had to m ake ruins of the city’s best buil dings so that they woul d not be a danger to those i n the streets. A li st of buil di ngs undesteryed was now only 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 made. Am azing as i t m ay seem , Wednesday ni ght was a qui et ni ght. There were no crowds. The pol i cem en sai dnothi ng。 when thi s was not al owed… onl y then di d we deci de to answer vi ol ence wi th vi ol ence.” As a m ater of fact, I do not l i ke vi ol ence… but in 1963 I hel ped him bl ow up som e governm ent buil di ngs. It was very dangerous because i f I was caught I coul d be put i n pri son. But I was very happy to hel p because I knew it woul d hel p us achi eve our dream of m aki ng bl ack and white peopl e equal . The rest of El ias’ story You cannot im agi ne how the nam e of Robben Isl and m ade us afrai d. It was a pri son from whi ch no one escaped. There I spent the hardest tim e of m y l ife. But when I got there N el son Mandel a was al so there and he hel ped m e. Mr Mandel a began a school for those of us who had l i tl e l earni ng. We read books under our bl ankets and used anything we coul d fi nd to m ake candl es to see the words. I became 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 joi n us. H e sai d they shoul d not be stopped from studying for thei r degrees. They were not cl everer than m e, but they di d pas thei r exam s. So I knew I coul d get a degree too. That made m e feel good about m ysel f. When I fi ni shed the four years i n pri son, I went to fi nd a job. Si nce I was beter educated, I got a job working i n an ofi 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 buil dings. 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 wi fe and chil dren had to beg for fod and hel p from rel ati ves or fri ends. Lucki ly Mr Mandel a rem em bered m e and gave m e a job taki ng touri sts around m y ol d pri son on Robben Isl and. I fel t bad the fi rst tim e I tal ked to a group. Al the teror and fear of that tim e cam e back to me. 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 said that the job and the pay from the new South Afri ca governm ent were m y reward after worki ng al m y l i 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 helped to make our people free in thei r own l and. A fol ower of Bi l Gates I have been a friend of Bil l Gates for a long ti me. I knew him when he was a student at H arvard Uni versi ty. We were surpri sed when he l eft