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江苏省常州市第五中学2011年九年级英语单选竞赛题
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pock et and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(听出) his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."
What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day; I can not see it."
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply sign the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective (有效的)?
Yang Jiang，the famous woman writer and translator is well-known to us all．
She was born in Beijing in 1911．originally named Yang Jikang．As a baby she liked laughing．Her parents let every daughter develop their character freely．which is rare at that time and even at present．Jikang，therefore，had a happy childhood in the 1920s．
She graduated from university and went to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate(研究生)in the 1930s．There she met Qian Zhongshu：they fell in love and married．
In the l940s，she started to use the name Yang Jiang as her pen name．Since then she was commonly known as Madam Yang Jiang．
In the l950s，she worked for Peking University，and started to learn Spanish．She was the first to translate Don Quixote《堂吉诃德》)into Chinese．
She began to write short novels in the 1980s．The novel The Old Wang(《老王》)written in 1984 was selected as the passage in our middle school text book．
Besides，her famous works After Baptism(《洗澡之后》)and We Three(《我们仨》)also became a household name in China．
Sorry to hear that Madam Yang died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing，on May25，2016．
Such was Madam Yang，the best wife and the most talented woman!Her legend is still continuing!
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Introduction | Born：in Beijing in 1911 Original name：Yang Jikang {#blank#}1{#/blank#}：Yang Jiang Her husband：{#blank#}2{#/blank#} |
Experiences | In the 1930s，graduated from university In the 1950s，worked for Peking University，started to learn {#blank#}3{#/blank#} In the 1980s，began to write {#blank#}4{#/blank#} |
Famous works | The Old Wang，After Baptism {#blank#}5{#/blank#} |
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