【正文】 y the seemed to be able to see for one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through we began going down the was great fun especially as it gradually became much the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green this point we had to change our caps,coats,gloves and trousers for Tshirts and shorts.In the early evening we always stop to make put up our tent and then we supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It was so was almost no windonly the flames of our fire for I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon,where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join can hardly wait to see them! Unit 4 EarthquakesReadingA NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。s hospitals,75%of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were covered the ground like red autumn wind,however,could blow them dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for railway tracks were now useless pieces of of thousands of cows would never give milk a million oigs and millions of chickens were now filled the wells instead of were ,later that afternoon,another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the buildings fell ,food,and electricity were hard to begab to wonder how long the disaster would last.All hope was not after the quakes,the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue of thousands of people were army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the the north of the city,most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines built shelters for survivors whose homes had been water was taken to the city bu train,truck and ,the city began to breathe again. Office of the City GovernmentTangshan,HebeiChinaJuly5,2007Dear____,Congratulations!We are pleased to tell you that you have won the high school speaking petition about new Tangshan. Your speech was heard by a group of five judges, all of whom agreed that it was the best one this year. Your parents and your school should be very proud of you!Next month the city will open a new park to honour those who died in the terrible disaster. The park will also honour those who helped the survivors. Our office would like to have you speak to the park vistors on July 28 at 11:00 am. As you know,this is the day the quake happened thirty____years ago.We invite you to bring your family and friends on that special day.Sincerely,Zhang Sha Unit 5ELIAS’ STORYMy name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time, for which I was grateful.I needed his help because I had very little education. I began school at six. The school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of work. The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told my how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said:“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.”It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said:“…we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful。當(dāng)流出中國(guó)，流出高地后，湄公河就變寬，變暖了?！　≡谖覀兟眯星暗膸讉€(gè)月，王薇和我去了圖書(shū)館。我老是問(wèn)她：“我們什么時(shí)候動(dòng)身？什么時(shí)候回來(lái)？”我問(wèn)她是否已經(jīng)看過(guò)地圖。他們是傣族人，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長(zhǎng)大，湄公河在中國(guó)境內(nèi)的這一段叫瀾滄江，流經(jīng)其