【導(dǎo)讀】wouldnevergivemilkagain.Halfamilionpigsandmillionsofchickensweredead.Sandnowfiledthewellsinsteadofwater.Peoplewereshocked.Thenlaterthatafternoon,anotherbigquakewhichwasalmostasstrongasthefirstoneshookTangshan.Someoftherescueworkersanddoctorsweretrappedundertheruins.Morebuildingsfeldown.Water,food,andeletricitywerehardtoget.Peoplebegantowongderhowlongthedisaterwouldlast.Allhopewasnotlost.Soonaftert

　　

【正文】 H e was generous with hi s tim e, for which I was grateful. I needed his hel p because I had very l i tl e educati on. I began school at si x. The schol where I studi ed for onl y two years was thre ki l om eters away. I had to leave because m y fami l y coul d not conti nue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I coul d not read or write wel l. After trying hard, I got a job in a gol d m i ne. However, thi s was a ti m e when one had to got to have a passbook to li ve i n Johannesburg. Sadl y I di d not have i t because I was not born there, and I wori ed about whether I woul d be e out of work. The day when N el son Mandel a hel ped m e was one of m y happi est. H e tol d m e how to get the correct papers so I coul d stay i n Johannesburg. I became m ore hopeful about m y future. I never fot how kind Mandel a was. When he anized the AN C Youth League, I joi ned i t as son as I coul d. He sai d: “ The l ast thi rty years have seen the greatest num ber of l aws stoppi ng our ri ghts and progress, unti l today we have reached a stage where we have al m ost no ri ghts at al. ” It was the truth. Bl ack peopl e coul d not vote or chose thei r leaders. They coul d not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town i n whi ch they had to l ive were deci ded by white peopl e. The pl aces outsi de the towns where they were sent to li ve were the poorest parts of South Afri ca. N o one coul d grow food there, . In fact as N el son Mandel a sai d: “… We were put into a posi ti on i n whi ch we had ei ther to accept we were l ess im portant, or fi ght the governm ent. We chose to attack the l aws. We fi rst broke the l aw i n a way whi ch was peaceful 。 when thi s was not al owed… onl y then di d we deci de to answer viol ence with vi ol ence. ” As a matter of fact, I do not li ke vi ol ence… but i n 1963 I hel ped him bl ow up som e governm ent bui l di ngs. It was very dangerous because if I was caught I coul d be put i n prison. But I was very hapy to hel p because I knew i t woul d hel p us achieve our dream of maki ng bl ack and whi te people equal. The rest of Eli as’ 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 ti m e of m y l i fe. But when I got there Nel 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 ittl e l earni ng. We read books under our bl ankets and used anythi ng we coul d fi nd to m ake candles to see the words. I becam e 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 join us. H e sai d they shoul d not be stopped from studyi ng for their degrees. They were not cl everer than m e, but they di d pass thei r exam s. So I knew I coul d get a degree too. That m ade m e feel good about m yself. When I fi ni shed the four years in pri son, I went to find a job. Si nce I was better educated, I got a job worki ng i n an offi 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 bui l di ngs. 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 wife and chi l dren had to beg for food and hel p from rel ati ves or fri ends. Luckil y Mr Mandel a rem em bered m e and gave m e a job taking tourists around my ol d pri son on Robben Island. I fel t bad the fi rst tim e I tal ked to a group. Al the terror and fear of that tim e came back to m e. 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 sai d that the job and the pay from the new South Afri ca government were m y reward after worki ng al m y li 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 hel ped to m ake our peopl e free in thei r own l and. A fol lower of Bil l Gates I have been a fri end of Bi l Gates for a l ong tim e. I knew hi m when he was a student at Harvard Universi ty. We were surpri sed when he l eft Uni versi ty to set up hi s own pany” Mi crosoft” and make hi s own software. But he was the cl ever one! H e i s very good at wri ti ng puter l anguages and al m ost al l puters now use Mi crosoft software. The program “Word” i s used from Bri tai n to Chi na! O f course he has m ade a l ot of m oney and that m akes peopl e very jeal ous. They want to stop hi s success. Even the governm ent i s agai nst hi m and has tri ed to break woul d never gi ve m il k agai n. H al f a m il i on pigs and m il li ons of chickens were dead. Sand now fi l ed the wel ls i nstead of water. Peopl e were shocked. Then l ater that afternoon, another bi g quake whi ch was alm ost as strong as the fi rst one shook Tangshan. Som e of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the rui ns. More buil di ngs fel down. Water, food, and el etri city were hard to get. Peopl e began to wongder how l ong the di sater woul d last. Al l 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 team s 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 i ners were rescued from the coal mi nes there. Workers bui l t shel ters for survivors 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 city began to breathe agai n. A SAFE HOME It i s sad but that peopl e die i n earthquakes from fal li ng furni ture and bri cks. Earthquake safety i s very im portant and there i s more to i t than just keepi ng buil di ngs from fal i ng down. So i f your hom e i s in an earthquake area, you shoul d prepare