The Chinese high-speed railways have a quality (质量) all on its own. Tier 1 (一线) cities like Beijing have several hundred high-speed trains stopping at the ________ every day. China’s technology on building the railway is ________ the rest of the world. There is no ________ that any other country could be better than China in the near future. I had my first chance to ride the high-speed trains last week ________ I had a business meeting in Zhengzhou.

As someone ________ with a disdain (偏见) for public transportation (not sure why the US hates it so much), I was afraid of the experience. I hoped to fly, but was told that it would be much better if I ________ the train.

The train was ________. I had traveled on a train before in the US and hated how slow it was and how many stops there were. Chinese high-speed trains are on a different ________. The trains are clean and the seats are huge.

You can’t even feel how fast the train is moving. If there were no windows, I wouldn’t be able to tell when we were ________ or when we were traveling at 300 km/h—it is that smooth.

I’m traveling again this week by train and I’m ________.

“Stay hungry, stay foolish!” It’s a famous saying by Steve Jobs who died at the age of 56. He is not only a good example of “The American Dream”, but also a great role model for young people.

Steve Jobs was one of the fathers of the personal computing time and the founder (创始人) of Apple. He perfectly made apple products easy to use and cool in style. He was the “Michael Jackson” of businessmen.

Here are some of his greatest contributions (贡献).

Apple Ⅱ Jobs and Wozniak set up Apple Computers Inc. in 1976. A year later, Apple II was invented (发明). It was the world’s first personal computer.	The iMac Under Job’s leadership, Apple introduced the all-in-one iMac computer in 1998. The iMac became the first machine which offered only a CD-ROM slot (插槽).
The iPad By 2010, Jobs was confident that the world was ready for a tablet computer (平板电脑) that would be great for watching movies and playing games. The iPad is a great success.	The iPhone 6 The iPhone 6 came out in September, 2014. It is larger than iPhone 5s. And it has a better camera and faster date transfer (数据传递) speeds.