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人教版高二英语必修五Unit 1单元测试(含听力音频)
Rob Kalin learned the secret to success while he was young. As a young child, he liked playing with a stuffed rabbit his mother had made. "At that time, we knew he would become a craftsman (工匠) in the future," Kalin's mother said.
Kalin's father was a carpenter (木匠) and taught him early on how to use his hands. In high school, Kalin was so interested in photography that he cut classes to take photos 18 hours a day. Eventually, Kalin ended up at New York University, studying classics and working as a carpenter. One night, his landlord asked him to build a website for his restaurant. "I didn't know anything about websites, but I built the basic site by looking through books in four weeks," Kalin recalls.
After working on a crafts site that provided "advice and a lot of hand-holding", Kalin recognized that there was no market for their goods. He wrote a fan letter to Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr, who had sold his highly popular photo-sharing website to Yahoo! Impressed by Kalin's letter, he took a look at
Kalin's idea and invited him to San Francisco for a month in 2006. He taught Kalin how to build a website, and helped him borrow $615,000 from a bank.
With the help of Stewart, Kalin was able to create etsy.com, an online crafts fair that may be the largest market for handmade goods in the world. Last year, 350,000 woodworkers, and other craftsmen sold their one-of-a-kind goods on the four-year-old site. It sells everything from hand-knitted T-shirts to wooden electric guitars. In an age of chain stores and malls, it seems there's still a big market for the unique: custom-made (订制的) skirts and hand-painted tea sets. Today, Etsy's staff has increased to 70 employees, and more than three million consumers in 150 countries are buying goods on Etsy every year.
H.Y.B.ARTS CENTRE | |
WILD AT HEART Running time: 127 mins. Wed 6 -- Fri 8 February 6 pm Tickets on sale 6: 30-7:30 pm Director: David Lynch Starring: Nicholas Cage, Laura Dern, willem Dafoe | CAGE and his girlfriend DERN are on the run through the dangerous Deep South. They are hiding from gunmen who have been hired to kill CAGE by DERN's mother. Victims, yes -- but they also have fun. Funny, frightening and brilliant. |
DICK TRACY Running time: 113 mins. Mon 11 -- Sat 16 February 6 pm Tickets on sale 5-6 pm Director: Warren Beatty Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna | The famous detective tries to stop Big Boy and the Blank from taking over the city. A colourful and exciting film. Some parts are frightening, so think twice about taking children. |
BATMAN Running time: 126 mins. Mon 11-Sat 16 February 8: 30 pm Tickets on sale 7: 30-8: 30 pm PIZZA PLUS offer 6-7 pm Director: Tim Burton Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson | A few essential questions must be asked. Is Batman a mad hero? Why does Bruce Wayne spend millions dressing up as a bat? Has Nicholson's joker stolen the whole movie? Great action and excellent acting, especially by Nicholson. |
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Running time: 93mins. Mon 18 -- Fri 22 February 6 pm Tickets on sale 5-6 pm Director: Steve Barron | If you've eaten Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and then cleaned your teeth with a Teenage Mutant: Hero. Turtle toothbrush we need say no more. If not, then get in on the craze and see for yourself. The man-sized turtles fight their enemy, Shredder in an action-packed story. |
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