【導(dǎo)讀】wayssimilartoLaos,althoughithastwicethepopulation.Atanotherinn,wetalkedwithateacherwhotoldusthathalfofthepeopleinhercountrycouldn’treadorwrite.Hervilagecouldn’tevenafordtobuildaschool,soshehadtoteachoutsideunderalargetent.Whenwesaidgoodbye,weallfeltveryluckytohavestudiedincollege.Backontheroad,wepassedbetweenmanyhilsandforests.ThenwecametotheplainsandenteredPhnomPenh,thecapitalofCambodia.Inmanyway

　　

【正文】 d, and el etri ci ty were hard to get. People began to wongder how l ong the di sater woul d last. Al 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 teams 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 iners were rescued from the coal mi nes there. Workers buil t shel ters for survi vors 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 ci ty began to breathe again. A SAFE HOME It i s sad but that peopl e die i n earthquakes from fal li ng furni ture and bricks. Earthquake safety i s very im portant and there i s m ore to it than just keepi ng bui ldi ngs from fal li ng down. So i f your hom e is i n an earthquake area, you shoul d prepare careful y before the earthquake es. Fi rst, m ake sure you buy a house which i s earthquake safe. Al pi pes shoul d be fi xed to the wal and al wal l s shoul d be especi al ly thi ck and strong. You al so have to m ake sure that there are bol ts underneath your house. They are one of the m ost i mportant ways of protecti ng a house. Make sure the buil ding has no breaken wi ndows and i s wel l repai red. Second ,l ook at the objects in your house. Those i n the li ving rom, whi ch are the most likel y to hurt us, are puters, tel evisions and l amps. They can be tied to tabl es or them so they won’t easily m ove around. The ki tchen, whi ch i s 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 thi ngs are stored that mi ght fal down. The water heater shoul d have a case round i t too. Wi ndows are speci al probl em. When they break, glass can cause m any acci dents,. It i s better to use safety gl ass i f you can, especial y for pi ctures. Al ways rem ember:” It is better to be safe than sorry. ” TH E STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS By Jack London N ever before i n hi story has a city ben so pl etel y destroyed. San Franci sco i s gone. Nothing i s l eft of i t but mem ori es and som e houses far from the centre of the ci ty. Its buni nes are gone. The factori es, hotelsand pal ace are al l gone too. Wi thi n an hour after the earthquake, the smoke of SanFrancio’s fires coul d been seen 160 kil ometres away. The sun is red in the dark sky. There was no stopping the fi res. There was no way to anize or m unicate. The steel rail way tracks were now usel es. And the great pi pes for carryi ng water under the streets 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 directi oneast,weast,north,andsouth,strong winds blew upon the unl ucky city. Man himsel f had to make ruins of the city’s best buil dings so that they woul d not be a danger to those i n the streets. A l ist of bui l di ngs undesteryed was now onl y a few addreses. 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 ki l ed wil l never be m ade. Am azi ng as i t m ay seem, Wednesday ni ght was a qui et ni ght. There were no crowds. The pol icem en sai dnothi ng。 even thei r horses were qui t. There were no shouts or peopl e doi ng crazy things. In al those terri bl e hours I saw not one wom an who cri ed, not one m an who was exci ted. Before the fi res, through the ni ght, thousands and thousands of peopl e who had l ost thei r hom es left for safety. Som e were covered i n bl ankets. Som etim es whol e fam il ies put everythi ng they owned and coul d save i nto wagons. They hel ped one another cl im b the high hil l s around the city. Never in al l SanFrsncio’s histroy were her peopl e so ki nd as on that terri ble ni ght. Unit 5 Elias’ story My nam e i s El ias. I am a poor worker i n SouthAfri ca. The tim e when I fi rst m et N el son Mandel a was a very di ffi cult peri od of m y li fe. I was twel ve years ol d. It was i n 1952 and Mandel a was the bl ack l awyer to whom I went for advi ce. H e offered gui dance to poor bl ack people on thei r l egal probl em s. H e was generous with hi s tim e, for which I was grateful. I needed hi s hel p because I had very l i tl e educati on. I began schol at si x. The school where I studi ed for onl y two years was three kil om eters away. I had to l eave because m y fam il y coul d not conti nue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I coul d not read or wri te wel . After tryi ng hard, I got a job i n a gol d mi ne. H owever, thi s was a tim e when one had to got to have a passbook to li ve in Johannesburg. Sadl y I did not have ways si mi l ar to Laos, although i t has twi ce the popul ati on. At another i nn, we tal ked with a teacher who tol d us that hal f of the peopl e in her country coul dn’t read or write. H er vil age coul dn’t even aford to buil d a school , so she had to teach outside under a l arge tent. When we sai d goodbye, we al l fel t very l ucky to have studi ed i n col l ege. Back on the road, we passed between m any hi l s and forests. Then we cam e to the pl ai ns and entered Phnom Penh, the capi tal of Cam bodi a. In m any ways i t looked l ike Vi enti ane and H o Chi Mi nh Ci ty。 i t al so had wi de strets wi th trees in rows and ol d French houses. Unl i ke Vientiane, shi ps coul d travel the Mekong Ri ver here. In the center of the ci ty we vi si ted the pal ace and a beauti ful white el ephant. It can onl y be seen outsi de the pal ace on speci al days. We ate an earl y supper and went to see a great tem pl e wi th fl oors m ade of sli ver. The next m orni ng our group sl ept l ate. We were very ti red from the long bi ke ri de the day before. Cycli ng i n the hil ls had been di ffcuil t. N ow our coui ns had the chance to m ake jokes about Wangwei and