【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice last, the river delta enters ...Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles , the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked Wei rode in front of me as is very reliable and I knew I didn39。t need to encourage climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by 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 warmer.....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 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 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 A night the earth didn39。t sleep Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in smelly gas came out of the the farmyards, the chickens and even the pig were too nervous to ran out of the fields looking for places to jumped out of their bowls and about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sounds of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that 3:42 am everything began to seemed as if the world was at an end!Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers of the nation felt huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and burst from holes in the hills of rock became rivers of fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in suffering of the people was of them died or were injured during the of families were killed and many children were left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more than how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was of the city39。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 pigs 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 began to wonder how long the disaster would 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 by train, truck and , the city began to breathe 5 Elias39。 story My name is am a poor black worker in South time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my was twelve years was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went to for offered guidance to poor black people on their legal was generous with his time, for which I was needed his help because I had very little began school at school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus could not read or write trying hard, I got a job in a gold , this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in became more hopeful about my never forgot how kind Mandela he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I 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 people could not vote or choose their could not get the jobs they parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South one could grow food 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 chose to attack the first broke the law in a way which was peaceful。when this was not allowed...only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.” As a matter of fact, I do not like violence...but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people rest of Elias39。 story You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us was a prison from which no one can I spent the hardest time of my when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and he helped Mandela began a school for those of us who had little taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been read books under our blankets and use anything we could find to make candles to do , Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join said they should not be stopped from studying for their were not cleverer than me, but they did pa