Nelson Mandela, the first black President of South Africa, passed away at his home. He is one of the greatest people in the 20th century. The whole world mourned the father of new South Africa. His life is full of stories.

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    Alice's class planned to make a class newspaper. All the students wrote stories, articles or poems for it. One day Alice said to the teacher, “Most newspapers have advertisements. Can we put some in our newspaper?”

    The teacher agreed at once. She made Alice the advertising manager, and then Alice asked her classmates to advertise in the newspaper. Here are some of the ads Alice received.

    Have you ever heard that "Success is a journey, not a destination"? As a man aged 30, I believe it's true. It is, in fact, my law of life. In my eyes, what matters is not necessarily where you are in the end, but what you achieve while you are trying along the way. It means that no matter what, as long as you try, you can never fail. It means you can learn from your mistakes and continue on the next journey a little wiser.

    I think St Louis Rams, a professional American football team in Missouri, as a whole shared my law of life. They played every game with their full potential (潜能) instead of letting a few winning games go to their heads. They had the goal of playing in every Super Bowl, a football game played in the US each year on the first Sunday, in February. Even though they lost some games, they didn't give up.

    It doesn't matter if you don't have the ability to be on top in the end or to win the game; what matters is that you work hard the whole time. You should understand that success is a non-ending journey. Everyone should realize that someone will win and someone will lose, but what's important is that both sides need to try their best. After all, it's not who wins or loses, but how well you play the game and you should remember this in your own life.

    When Mr. David retired（退休）, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it. But to his surprise, many visitors came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night, there were visitors outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into the house. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, "If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look around. Price twenty dollars. "Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. "I came here to retire, not to work as a guide（导游）, "he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

提示：(1)母亲出生在一个小城市；(2)外祖父母是工人，他们的家在工厂附近；(3)家里只有一个客厅和两间小卧室；(4)家的附近有许多孩子，他们中的一些是母亲童年时代的朋友。

My Mother's Past Life 

Three years ago, I started working at the University(大学) of Leeds. Having moved to a new city, I had no friends, so I decided to look for things to do. After several days, I found that a community school was offering(提供) Chinese evening classes. Without much thought, I had a beginner class. 

I didn't think about moving to China. I just wanted to learn a new language. I could speak good English and Spanish. But I thought there might be a large difference between learning a language as a child and learning one as an adult(成年人). There was one lesson a week, each lasting 90 minutes. Mr Kong, the teacher, was energetic. For each class, he would teach us about hundreds of new words. I found it difficult at first. Luckily, after a few months, I got used to(习惯) this. The University of Leeds had many students from other countries. My new Chinese friends helped me go over everything I learned in class. And we often studied together and talked about how to learn better. 

I think Chinese grammar is easier than English grammar. But there are so many idioms(习语)! So I will work hard to solve any difficulty and I believe it'll be easy for me soon.