Many people have read Louis Cha Leungyung’s novels. Unluckily, Louis Cha Leungyung, 94, an influential Chinese novelist, and better known under the pen name Jin Yong, died on October 30, 2018 in Hong Kong. Cha is well-known for his martial arts or wuxia novels.
Over 300 million copies of his works have been sold in the Chinese-speaking world. While few of his books have been translated into English, Cha is one of the world-famous Chinese writers, with fans across China. His stories have been in television shows, films, comic books, and video games. The first part of his most popular series, Legends of the Condor Heroes, was published in English earlier in 2018. Born in Haining, Zhejang Province, Cha graduates from the Law School of Soochow University in 1948.
In 1955 Cha published his first wuxia novel The Book and the Sword under his pen name Jin Yong. He wrote 15 popular wuxia novels, and finished his last novel The Deer and the Cauldron in 1972.
Cha also founded Hong Kong’s major Chinese-language newspaper Ming Bao in 1959, and served as its editor-in-chief (总编辑) until 1989.
Cha also served on the Basic Law Drafing Committee from 1985 to 1989. He made some of the greatest contributions to Chinese culture and Hong Kong’s media development.
Hong Kong science fiction novelist Ni Kuang called Cha’s novels “the best in the world and of all time” and said Cha’s works would live on forever.
Hong Kong Screenwriters’ Guild President John Chong Ching said Cha was “China’s Shakespeare”.
| Dates of | 1924-2018 | Born in Haining. Zhejiang, died in Hong Kong |
| Graduation | From the Law School of Soochow University | |
| Outstanding wuxia novels | In 1955 In 1972 In 2018 | The Book and the Sword under his pen name The Deer and the Cauldron Legends of the Candor Heroes translated into English ( |
| In 1959 During 1985-1989 | Founded Ming Bao and served as edit-in-chief until 1989 Served on the Basic Law Drafing Committee | |
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Steve Jobs was born on 24th February 1955 in San Francisco, California. As a child, he often worked with his father or electronics.
In high school, he met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak(or “Woz”). Woz and Bill showed Jobs a computer board that they were building at the time. Jobs was very interested in it.
After high school, Jobs went to one of the best colleges in Oregon. However, he dropped out only after a few months. In the meantime, Woz worked for Hewlett-Packard, but found time to build his own computer. When Jobs saw what Woz had done, he could imagine that people would need it very much.
Together, they set up a company called Apple. Apple Computer became a big success, and this made Jobs a rich man. Unfortuantely, Jobs’s personality(性格) made him very difficult to work with. He left Apple to set up another company. Soon, Apple started to do badly. Jobs returned to Apple and helped make the company successful again.
Back at Apple, Jobs was responsible (负责) for the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
In 2003, Jobs got very ill and died on 5th October 2011.
1. When Jobs was in high school, Woz and Bill showed him _______ that they were building.2. When Woz worked for Hewlett-Packard, he found time to _______.
3. Jobs and Woz set up _________ called Apple.
4. Jobs left Apple because he _________.
5. In 2003, Jobs _________ and died on 5th October 2011.
Aron Ralston is an American man. He is interested in mountain climbing. He is used to taking risks and there were many times when Aron almost lost his life because of accidents. On April 26, 2003, when he climbed in Utah, he found himself in a very dangerous situation. He struggled (抗争) and fought for five days. At last, he saved his own life but lost his right arm. Even after this experience, he kept on climbing mountains. He also wrote a famous book with a single arm.
Aron’s story tells us never to give up. Every person has a dream. It makes us do what we are doing, because it’s what we believe in. And everyone has moments when life seems too hard, but never stop going like Aron. Our biggest enemies are hiding in us—laziness and doubt. We should be warriors (勇士) of our dreams and we should keep on fighting for them.
1. What is Aron interested in?（不超过10个单词）2. What are the biggest enemies hiding in us?（不超过5个单词）
3. What does Aron’s story tell us?（不超过15个单词）
You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem, but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. In those days people spelt words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn't made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.
The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
Murray had not been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one metre underground. In winter he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening.
Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, and his two daughters were among them. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It had more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary was big!
Notes on James Murray's life | |
Murray's early life | Born in Scotland. He left school at 14 and became a |
Murray's work on OED | He became the editor of OED in the year His working —he worked in a part-underground place in the garden —in winter it was terribly cold there —he often worked by candle light into the evening The time he spent on OED was much Later others and his two daughters |
Other information . | OED was finished in the year 1928. It had over 15,000 For Murray, working on a dictionary wasn't only a |
【推荐1】Once upon a time there were three little pigs. One day their mother said to them, “You are too big to live here. You need to build your own houses. But make sure that the wolf (狼) can’t catch you.”
The first little pig built his house with grass. It was the easiest thing to do. The second little pig built his house with wood. It was a little bit stronger than the grass house. The third little pig built his house with stones (石头). It was the strongest but took him a lot of time.
One day the wolf came and saw the first little pig in his grass house. He pushed (推) down the house and ate the first little pig.
Then the wolf came to the wood house and he pushed down that house too and ate the second little pig.
The wolf then came to the house of stones, but he could not push down the stone house. The wolf climbed up to the roof and tried to get in through the chimney (烟囱). The smart little pig lit a fire and boiled water under it. When the wolf fell down, he fell into the hot water and died (死).
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【推荐2】Challenge yourself !
15-year-old Kyle Washington writes about what he does in his free time.
I joined the National Youth Challenge (NYC) last year because I knew they went camping and sailing and taught skills like public speaking, and these were things I’d never done before. In the NYC you can do different activities to challenge（挑战）yourself and you’re always learning something. There are different levels, from beginner to advanced, run by adult volunteers called “leaders”. When you complete each level, you get a certificate（证书）.
When I first joined, my leader suggested that my first challenge should be helping organize activities at a local children’s club for two hours a week. I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea, I’d joined that same club when I was eight and I’d found it really difficult to make friends. I was quite shy then and all the other children already had their own friendship groups, so I’d stopped going after a couple of weeks. I decided to take up the challenge though, but only because I wanted my first NYC certificate.
Soon, however, I wanted to spend all my free time at the children’s club. It meant a lot more to me than just getting the certificate. And when I finished the challenge, the NYC leader let me keep on volunteering at the club because I’d built up some great relationships with the children there. Now I go there for about four hours a week and I always really look forward to going.
Because of what I’ve learnt at the children’s club, I’ve decided that when I finish school in three years’ time, I want to go to college to study to become a qualified youth worker—someone who works with children. It wasn’t something I’d ever considered before starting at the club. In fact, I’d never thought about my future job, and the idea of youth work had never entered my mind. This has been my favourite part of the NYC so far and I’ve improved my communication skills while at the same time helping others. I’ve got several other NYC certificates now and—yes, one of them is for camping!
1. Kyle joined the NYC to improve some of his skills, didn’t he?2. Who runs the different activities in the NYC?
3. What was Kyle’s first challenge in the NYC?
4. Why didn’t Kyle want to take up his first challenge at first?
5. What does a qualified youth worker mainly do?
6. What has Kyle gained from the NYC?
【推荐3】
I AM THE PINE
“Look,” I said to my friend Mandy, holding up the bright—red paper. “There’s a five-day art camp this summer.”
Mandy took the paper and looked at it. “Tessa, you should go. You’re the artist. I am not.”
“You can learn with me.” I said in an encouraging voice. “I really didn’t want to go alone.”
Mandy smiled, “I tried, but my little brother thought the corns I painted were rockets.”
Later, I called my other friends, but none of them could go with me. Disappointed (失望的), I decided to go outside to draw the Westons’ pine tree. Drawing always made me feel better. On the way, I thought about the art camp and wished I felt a little braver. Mandy could make friends with others in 10 minutes, but I was embarrassed (尴尬的) when there were no familiar faces around me. By the time I arrived there, I had made myself believe that I was happy to give up going to the camp.
I took out my pencils and started drawing the strong trunk of the pine. Once I started, I didn’t notice the fly buzzing around me. That’s why I jumped when Mr. Weston talked behind me, “You’ve done a great job showing the strength (力量) of that tree.” “Thanks.” I smiled. Mr. Weston continued, “I’ve planted pine trees before. You have to spread out (伸展) the roots near the surface (表面) so the tree can get enough water and grow tall. If you plant the root ball too deep, the tree dries up and dies. Roots grow out, not down.”
Now I noticed the roots all around the tree. I’d never realized how far a tree’s roots stretched (延伸) outward. It made me think about the art camp and my own roots. I was planting myself into one deep spot because it felt safer. If I wanted to grow, I had to start reaching out too.
That night, I made my final decision. I felt nervous but excited. “I am stretching my roots out into new earth so I can grow”, I thought. “I am the pine”.
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1. Who was good at art, the writer or her friend Mandy?Writing a good story is not an easy task. What’s the secret? Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in literature (文学), believes his success comes from a large number of reading.
Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong Province. He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. Those stories later became the inspiration (灵感) for Mo’s writing.
Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields.
Although he was tired after his daily hard work, Mo was always hungry for books. However, there were few in the village. He read his older brother’s textbooks and even dictionaries. He helped others with farm work in exchange (交换) for books.
“When I finished reading all the books around, I thought I was the most knowledgeable man in the world,” he told Xinhua.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976, he began to read widely, including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers. He studied from these writers but did not copy them. Instead, he developed his own style. As the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award. “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture. It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen. This has influenced, even decided, my style.”
1. Mo Yan comes from2. Mo Yan began to work when he was
3. Mo Yan helped others do some farm work because he was hungry for their
4. Mo Yan was the
5. Do you like Mo Yan and his works? Why or why not?
【推荐2】This year, the world celebrates the anniversary of the birth of a great US author, J.D. Salinger (1919- 2010). Salinger was one of the most influential authors of the last century. His writing is popular among all age groups, young people are especially big fans of his.
The reason he has such a following is due to his novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951《麦田里的守望者》). The hero and narrator（叙述人） of this story is named Holden Caulfield. Holden is a troublemaker at school and has difficulty getting on with others, whether they are adults or people his own age.
However, Holden has a heart of gold. Many readers have been moved by the protective attitude he has toward young children, especially to his little sister Phoebe. Millions of people all over the world have taken the troubled 17-year-old Holden into their hearts.
Salinger didn’t actually write all that much over the course of his life. Apart from The Catcher in the Rye, he published a few other shorter works, and after 1965, nothing at all. The reason for this seems to be that he hated publicity (公众的注意). He had become famous with the success of his novel and didn’t care for the fame. He refused to give interviews and did not allow anyone to write his biography. He came to hate publicity so much that he stopped publishing his writing altogether.
But Salinger still kept on writing. It’s said that he wrote eight other novels. Fans of his work hope that one day they will be able to read these “lost” Salinger books.
1. What was J.D. Salinger?2. Who is Holden Caulfield?
3. Why is Holden said to have a “heart of gold”?
4. What made Salinger stop publishing his works after 1965?
5. What does the phrase “‘lost’ Salinger books” in the last paragraph refer to?
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in one of the small towns of England.
When Dickens was nine years old, his father found a job in London and the family moved there. Later on his father was put in to prison (监狱) for owing (负债). His mother could not supply enough food to him and his younger brothers and sisters. He had to do something for his family. He did some housework and looked after his brothers and sisters. Their life was hard, so he could not go to school.
Only until his father was out of prison could Charles go to school. At that time he was already twelve. But he did not finish school. Two years later he began to work in a factory.
The future writer often went to the library to read books. He read a lot. Then, at the age of twenty-two, Dickens began to write and he wrote a lot of novels and stories all his life. Dickens died over a hundred years ago, but people are still reading his books with great interest.
1. What was Charles Dickens?2. How long did Dickens live in his hometown?
3. Why couldn’t Dickens go to school?
4. When did Dickens begin to work?
5. Where did Dickens read a lot?
