【正文】 the friendship draws upon.(3)The last quality is equality. Friendship is a relation in which two sides are involved. Help and mitment are from the both sides toward each other, therefore, equality should be reached.With the above three qualities,friendship will last. interview between the man from the Curtis Publishing Company and Russell Baker.That afternoon after school, Russell Baker came home when his mother was talking with an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company. She introduced him. The man bent low to shake Russell’s hand, and asked him if it was true that he longed for the opportunity to conquer the world of business. Mrs. Baker and Russell both answered “yes”.The man then asked if he had got the grit ,the character, the neversayquit spirit it took to succeed in business. Both the mother and the son again said ” yes”.After that the man looked at Russell silently for a long pause, as though evaluating whether he could be trusted to keep his confidence. Then he told the boy with austerity working for the Curtis Publishing Company placed enormous responsibility on a young man, because the pany was the greatest publishing house in the world. He also said he himself was very proud to be part of it. He said he was impressed by Russell and would let him be a representative of the pany by selling the Saturday Evening Post. Then he gave Russell the canvas bag and showed him how to use it. a position about Russell’s mother.I think Russell was very fortunate in having a good mother. She was a brave and courageous woman. she was strict but kind to her children.Her husband died, leaving her with two small children and a few sticks of furniture. She had to take the children to live with her youngest brother. As she was dissatisfied with her husband’s simple workman’s life. she made up her mind to make something of her son. She wanted her son to have a better life in future. To her point that “early birds gets the worm,” she made her son Russell Baker start selling the Post when he was only eight years old, for she thought he lacked gumptionhe was a quiet boy and liked to stay in his room reading stories. While she was strict with her children, she was also encouraging. When they had sold out all the magazines and bought some apples to treat themselves, she didn’t scold them for wasting money, but she said they were wise to buy some apples instead of candies. Three years later she gave up that her son could be successful in business, but encouraged him to bee a writer when she had read his position scored with A.So, Mrs. Baker was a qualified mother, she thought a lot for her children and was always encouraging. to grow old?Old age is the last period of a man’s life. In this sphere, man faces a lot of problems.Physiologically, the old gradually lose their eyesight, hearing, memory and strength. They can also lose their work, hobby, friendship ,the persons they love.Psychologically, because of feeling lonely and powerless, they more and more cling to their children. Moreover, some old people are troubled by the fear of death.But the suffering of loneliness and the fear of death are not the inevitable course of growing old. The problem is that they lose the meaning of living. The proper recipe to spend the old period meaningfully is to take part in suitable activities, to find the goals in life and try to reach the goals. In fact, whatever the old and young, they need to have goals in life. Only in this way do they have the ability to face difficulties and disasters. Without this goal, they would lose hope and give up their effort. a character sketch of the lighthouse keeper?The lighthouse keeper,83 years old, lived alone on a rock island, took care of the lighthouse and the great lamp, which spoke majestic, silent messages of light to the ships at sea. He was a huge old man with a grizzled beard that came down over his chest.(1)He was hospitable. He weled the stranger, Rudolf, warmly, offered him black bread and boiled potatoes, etc. and talked with him earnestly.(2)The lighthouse keeper loved his work and was devoted to his duty .When the storm was ing, he was busy preparing for the storm, attending to the great lamp in the tower, that dominated the whole region.(3)He was equable, deliberate. Even when the storm hammered like a battering ram on the walls of the lighthouse, he sat there, gentle and reflective, as if there was nothing happened.Generally, the lighthouse keeper was a deliberate, equable toiler. He loved life without excessive demands. do you think is Edison’s greatest contribution to human progress?Edison is great inventor. However his contribution to human progress is far beyond his inventions. First of all, he did not merely make the lamp and the photograph and innumerable other devices practicable for general use, he actually demonstrated the power of applied science, so understandably, so convincingly that he altered the mentality of mankind. Largely because of his successes, people began to accept the conception that man could invent a new mode of living on this planet and that anything could be changed and everything could be controlled.Second, his invention convinced ordinary people that science could actually benefit him. He insured the popular acceptance of science, and put an end to the popular argument about the place of science in man’s outlook upon life. Thus because of the demonstrations Edison made, money became available for studies of the nature.Finally, his inventions made people realize that the world is inevitably changing and only those who can adjust to the changed can be at home in it. 11