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| Mark Twain was a pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November30, 1835, in a small town in Florida, the USA. He 1 a few naughty boys who later 2 in his stories. At the age of 12, his father died, and he began to work, first as a printer, then on a river boat. Those years on the boat went into his book "Life 3 the Mississipi. (密西西比河)" 4 the Civil War (国内战争) he worked as a reporter and used Mark Twain as his pen name. The stories he wrote in this period 5 him famous and popular. He made a lot of money by writing, lecturing and running 6 publishing house. But he spent all of it on high living and 7 business. Mark Twain 8 as a "funny man". But in fact he took a serious view of life. Many sad things happened in his own life. All his 9 helped to shape (形成) his stories 10 showed the dark side of society. He died as an old man of 75 in 1910. |
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| K.L. Rothey, 71, from the United States, a retired lawyer ? Rothey has given himself the Chinese name of Luqi or "roadside beggar (乞丐)". In his eyes, beggars are doing important work collecting rubbish. What they do is not dirty. Littering the street is, he adds.? Rothey first visited China in 1984 and soon he became interested in Chinese culture. Married to a Chinese calligrapher (书法家), he lived in Huangshi, Hubei Province.? Many people know him because he often shows up in the street collecting rubbish."Huangshi is my home so I hope it becomes cleaner and more beautiful," says Rothey. He has also organized volunteers to collect rubbish in other cities, including Wuhan.? Rothey says he'll continue collecting rubbish, as long as he is able to.? Jill Robinson, 50, from Britain, founder (创立者) and CEO of Animals Asia Foundation. She has been working for nearly 20 years to stop people from getting the bile (胆汁) from moon bears for use in traditional medicine.? She began working for the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s. A business trip to a bear farm in the mainland in 1993 changed her life. She saw so many moon bears killed by people. That made her cry. She said she would be back to set them free.? In 1998, she set up the Animal Foundation. In July 2000, the foundation agreed to free 500 farmed moon bears. In 2002, the Moon Bear Rescue(救援) Center was set up in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan.? Now, bear farms have been sto pped in the area of two-thirds of China. "As much as we rescue them, they rescue us. These bears rescue us every single day and they teach us to be better people," Robinson says.? | |||||||||||||
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 Dannii Minogue, the Australian singer and actress, is a vegan(纯素者). She doesn't eat any 1 , fish or dairy products. "When I was thirteen I began to find meat too fatty. I felt very 2 when I ate it. So I stopped eating meat and became a vegetarian. "Four years later, Dannii stopped 3 eggs, milk and cheese, because they were bad for her 4 . Also she 5 fish and became a vegan. then she started reading about factory farming-how we keep and kill animals 6 bad conditions. She was disgusted(恶心) by what she read, " Factory farming is terrible because the animals suffer(遭受) so 7 , She knew that her 8 to become a vegan was right for the animals as well as herself. Brian Harvey, a singer with the group East 17, 9 eating meat and junk food. "I love my hamburgers and fried chicken. I always ask them 10 is vegetarian food anyway. Tomatoes, green peppers, onions, No, thanks! " | ||||
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