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　　I come from a close, loving family．I have three elder brothers．

　　My parents owned a wood supply business．But they were active volunteers in our community．When I was a kid, people used to laugh at my dad and say his volunteer work was his business and his business was his hobby．That rubbed off on me．For example, I was a Big Brother in high school, and I continued doing volunteer work in college．

　　In 1979, just before graduation, my brother Mark asked if I'd like to help him start a software company．So I joined his company and I was happy that later it became very unusual in the software industry．Once I started working．I continued to volunteer．

　　I'm a big believer that you learn from those around you by volunteering．So I volunteer to company the elderly persons who live alone．I met Malcolm, who's physically healthy．We talk about what friends talk about．He is also interested in my work．He often says“You can get caught up being the CEO of a half-billion-dollar software company very quickly．”

　　I learn kindness, humility(谦恭), a positive outlook on life from Malcolm．Most people volunteer for a year．But we have been together for five years and there is no end in sight．

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阅读理解

　　I entered St Thomas's Hospital as a medical student at the age of 18 and spent five years there．I was an unsatisfactory student, for my heart, as you might have guessed, was not in it．I wanted, I had always wanted, to be a writer, and in the evenings, after my high tea, I wrote and read．Before long, I wrote a novel, called“Liza of Lambeth”, which I sent to a publisher, was accepted．It appeared during my last year at the hospital and had something of a success．It was of course an accident, but naturally I did not know that．I felt I could afford to give up medical and make writing my profession(职业)⑨, so, three days after I graduated from the school of medicine, I set out for Spain to write another book．Looking back now, and knowing as I do the terrible difficulties of making a living by writing, I realize I was taking a fearful risk(冒险)．It never even happened to me．

　　The next ten years were very hard, and I earned only 100 pounds a year．Then I had a bit of luck．The manager of the Court Theatre put on a play that failed; the next play he had planned to put on was not ready, and…he was at his wits' end．He read a play of mine and, though he did not much like it, he thought it might just run for six weeks till the play he had in mind to follow it could be produced．It ran for fifteen months．Within a short while I had four plays running in London at the same time．Nothing of the kind had ever happened before．I was the talk of the town．One of the students at St Thomas's Hospital asked the famous doctor with whom I had worked whether he remembered me．“Yes, I remember him quite well,”he said,“One of our failures, I'm afraid．”

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阅读理解

　　I entered St Thoma’s Hospital as a medical student at the age of 18 and spent five years there． I was an unsatisfactory student, for my heart, as you might have guessed, was not in it．I wanted, I had always wanted to be a writer, and in the evening, after my high tea, I wrote and read．Before long, I wrote a novel, called Liza of“Lambeth”, which I sent to a publisher and was accepted．It appeared during my last year at the hospital and had something of a success．It was of course an accident, but naturally I did not know that．I felt I could afford to give up medicine and make writing my profession ; so, three days after I graduated from the school of medicine, I set out for Spain to write another book．Looking back now, and knowing as I do the terrible difficulties of making a living by writing, I realize I was taking a fearful risk．It never even occurred to me．

　　The next ten years were very hard, and I earned an average of ￡ 100 a year．Then I had a bit of luck．The manager of the Court Theatre put on a play that failed ; the next play he arranged to put on was not ready, and he was at his wits’ end．He read a play of mine and, though he did not much like it, he thought it might just run for the six weeks till the play he had in mind to follow it with could be produced．It ran for fifteen months．Within a short while I had four plays running in London at the same time．Nothing of the kind had ever happened before．I was the talk of the town．One of the students at St Thomas’s Hospital asked the eminent surgeon with whom I had worked whether he remembered me．“Yes, I remember him quite well,”he said．“One of our failures, I’m afraid．”

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阅读理解

　　I entered St．Thomas’s Hospital as a medical student at the age of 18 and spent five years there．I was an unsatisfactory student, for my heart, as you might have guessed, was not in it．I wanted, I had always wanted to be a writer, and in the evening, after my high tea, I wrote and read．Before long I wrote a novel called “Liza of Lambeth ”, which I sent to the publisher and was accepted．It appeared during my last year at the hospital and had something of a success．It was of course an accident, but naturally I didn’t know that．I felt I could afford to give up medicine and make writing my profession．So three days after I graduated from the school of medicine, I set out for Spain to write another book．Looking back now and knowing as I do the terrible difficulties of making a living by writing, I realize I was taking a fearful risk．It never even occurred to me．

　　The next ten years were very hard and I earned an average of ￡100 a year．Then I had a bit of luck．The manager of the Court Theatre put on a play that failed．The next play he had arranged to put on was not ready and he was at his wits’ end．He read a play of mine and, though he didn’t like it very much, he thought it might just run for the six weeks till the play he had in mind to follow it with could be produced．It ran for fifteen months．Within a short while I had four plays running in London at the same time．Nothing of the kind had happened before．I was the talk of the town．One of the students at St．Thomas’s Hospital asked the famous surgeon with whom I had worked whether he remembered me．“Yes, I remember him quite well”, he said．“One of our failures, I am afraid”．

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