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5. The "Lady with the Lamp"

"Be a lady, dear." How many times young Florence Nightingale had heard these words from her parents! But for her, to be a lady was not enough. She wanted to do something for others.
Florence's father was a very rich man. Florence took lessons in music and drawing, and read a great deal. She could speak several foreign languages. And she travelled a lot with her parents.
As a child, she liked visiting sick people and enjoyed helping them. She often visited hospitals in other countries. She saw so much suffering that she knew she must help. She decided that she was going to be a nurse. But her father told her that nursing wasn't the right work for a lady.
"Then I will make it so," she smiled. And she went to learn nursing in Germany and France. When she returned to England, Florence started a nursing home for women. Here she did everything --- from washing floors to giving the sick new hope.
During the war in 1854, many soldiers were wounded or became ill. The front was in great need of medical care. Florence Nightingale went with thirty-eight nurses to the hospitals near the front.
When she arrived there, she found things were much worse than she had thought. Florence used her own money and some from friends to buy beds, clothes, medicine and food for the men. Her only pay was the smiles from the sick and wounded soldiers. But they were more than enough for this kind woman.
Florence was weak and ill herself, but she did not stop working. Her thin hands were busy day and night. Often, she worked for twenty-four hours without rest. Every night, she carried a lamp and walked past each bed. To the sodiers she was the "Lady with the Lamp". One of them wrote: "What a joy it was just to see her pass! She would speak to one, smile to many more. She could not speak to all, you know, there were hundreds of us. But we could kiss her shadow as it fell on the wall."
After the war, Florence returned to England. There, the Queen honoured her for her work.
But Florence said that her work had just begun. She got people to give money to build the Nightingale Home for Nurses in London, and she got young girls to learn nursing there. She also wrote a book on nursing.
On August 13, 1910, Florence Nightingale, at the age of ninety, died quietly in her sleep. To this day, we still remember her when we honour nurses.

At page 175, 176, 177, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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3 & 4. The Broken Lantern

One stormy night, Kate looked out of a window. She had never seen a storm like this. It had been raining for a whole week. The rain-water was rushing down on its way to the river and the creek nearby. Kate wondered whether the water would wash away any of the bridges. The storm kept sweeping down the valley. Both the river and the creek rose higher and higher.
Just then Kate heard a sound. An engine was moving towards the wooden bridge over the creek. It was coming from the next town. Kate knew why the engine was coming at this time of night. The men were testing the bridge to find out if it was still safe. The midnight passenger train would come through soon.
Suddenly there was a loud noise! Kate jumped up. She knew what that meant.
"Mother," Kate cried. "The bridge has broken. The engine has gone down!"
The family rushed to the window and looked out. Kate was the first to speak.
I'm going out! Somebody down there may still be alive." She turned to get a lantern.
"All right," said her mother. "Do what you can --- but be careful."
Kate got a lantern, put on her coat, and hurried out into the storm. She made her way through the beating rain, and climbed over the tracks. Finally she reached the broken bridge. She looked down.
"Anyone down there?" she shouted. She listened but heard only the wind.
Then a voice called out from below.
"Two of us. We're quite safe here. But the midnight train will soon be coming! You must try to stop it."
"Right! I'll try to stop it before it gets here," she called back. And with these words she left at once.
The railway station was only a mile away. But it was on the other side of the river. To get there, you had to cross a long wooden railway bridge. Even in the daytime, that bridge wasn't safe. There was no place for people to walk on and the sides were open. You almost had to walk right on the railway tracks.
Kate stopped when she came to the bridge. The rain was beating against her face and the wind was blowing hard. She had never seen the river so high. She started across the bridge. But it shook suddenly. She fell and broke her lantern.
"I must get across," she kept thinking to herself. "I must stop that train. I must!"
She started to crawl on her hands and knees across the bridge. He broken lantern knocked against her with each move. It seemed like hours before she reached the other side. When she finally opened the door of the one-room station, she was all wet. She was so tired that she could hardly talk.
"Kate? Is that you? What's wrong?" the stationmaster asked in surprise.
"The bridge has broken … the engine went down … two men …"
The stationmaster rushed out with his red lantern. The midnight train was coming --- and coming fast!
The train came to a stop. The engineer got off the train and walked over to the stationmaster, "What's the matter?" he asked angrily.
"The bridge over the creek is broken. A girl brought the news."
Suddenly they saw Kate standing before them. The engineer told his men to tell the passengers what had happened.
"But the two men," Kate called. "We must get back to those two men at the bridge."
The engineer ran back to his train and started it moving slowly along the tracks. He stopped at the river. With a rope, the engineer and his men got the two men up to safety.
So the two men and all the passengers on the train were saved. Soon after that, papers all over the country carried the story. From then on, all trains passing Kate's home would stop right at her front door. They did this to show their thanks. What a brave thing she had done on the night of that terrible storm!

At page 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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2.The Pot of Gold

Once a farmer was put in prison. But he hadn't done anything wrong. He just hadn't paid taxes to the king. At that time the king's men were collecting money to fight more wars. The people had to pay one tax after another. Now this farmer was poor and didn't have any money. When the king's men came to his house, he said, "I can't give you any money. I'm such a poor man that I've hardly got enough to live on."
The king's men laughed. "You're trying to fool us, aren't you? We've heard you're so rich that you've got a whole pot of gold." Then they searched every room in the house but found nothing. Even so, they caught hold of the poor farmer and put him in prison. "You will stay in prison until we get the pot of gold from you," they said.
The poor farmer did not know what to do. Also, he was worried about his farm. He knew his wife couldn't do all the farm work by herself.
One day he got a letter from his wife. "I'm so worried about our farm," she wrote. "It's nearly spring. It's time to plant potatoes. But I can't dig up the fields just by myself." This made the farmer even more worried. "What can I do?" he thought. Suddenly he had an idea. He wrote a letter to his wife. "Don't dig the field," he wrote. "That's where it is --- you know, the pot. Don't plant the potatoes until I tell you to."
The farmer gave the letter to the prison guard, and asked him to send it to his wife. The prison guards, of course, had already read the letter from the farmer's wife. Now they read the farmer's reply. "Aha!" they said. "This sounds very interesting. He talks about a pot. He must mean the pot of gold. It seems this farmer really is a rich man."
"He says the pot is in the fields, but he doesn't say which field," another guard said. "This farmer has got several fields."
"It doesn't matter," the first guard answered. "We know there's gold in his fields. We'll find it."
Two weeks later, the farmer received another letter from his wife. "Something funny happened," his wife wrote. "Two weeks ago, about ten men came to our farm. All of them began to dig. They dug all our fields and now they've gone away. I can't understand it. It seems they were looking for something. What shall I do now?"
The farmer smiled when he read this. He wrote another letter to his wife at once. It was very short. "Since these men have dug up our fields, you can go ahead and plant the potatoes."

At page 166, 167, 168, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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1.Ben's Paddles

Even when Benjamin Franklin was a boy, he tried to find ways to help people enjoy life more. Later, because of his many inventions, he became one of the greatest of all Americans.
One of his earliest inventions was paddles for swimming.
Ben had wondered for some time if there was some way to swim faster, maybe with something on his hands and feet.
Slowly a picture of swimming shoes, or paddles, grew in his mind. Ben thought a long time. The paddles must be neither too big nor too small. The right kind of wood was important, too. It must be neither too heavy nor too light.
He started to work on the paddles and soon they were finished.
Now Ben was ready to try them out. "Next Saturday afternoon," he said, "at Green's pond."
Saturday came. Near the pond a hundred boys were waiting. They had heard about Ben's idea and wanted to see whether the paddles would work.
Now Ben was ready.
All around Green's pond the boys were talking to each other.
"What if the paddles don't work?"
"What if he goes down?"
Ben got into the water and began to paddle. He swam slowly at first, then faster and faster until he was going through the water like a fish. The boys had never seen such fast swimming. The paddles did work! The boys near the pond jumped up and down, crying with joy.
Many years after this, when these boys had grown up, they began to read about Benjamin in the newspaper.
"Mr Benjamin Franklin has invented double spectacles. They are for people who need glasses to see both near nad far."
Later they would read that Benjamin Franklin had invented a fan, a rocking chair, and a hundred or so other things. As they had known him, they were not surprised. They said, "Ben was that kind of boy. Let's see what he'll invent next."

At page 163, 164, 165, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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A STORY

The Clever Cock

Four friends were drinking in a village pub. Their jackets were hanging on the backs of their chairs. Suddenly one of them, Jack, shouted that he had lost five pounds. Fred said he was sure nobody there had stolen the money. Tom suggested they should all empty their pockets on the table. But the owner of the pub would not let them do that because money all looks the same. Nobody knew what to do. Just then, Jim, a traveller, stood up. He said he could help them find the money.
"You know how clever some animals are," he said. "I've found out that cocks are good at catching thieves. Let's borrow the pub owner's cock."
Jim took a big black pot and put it upside down on the table. Then he put the cock under it. "After I turn off the lights," he said, "you must come up one by one and touch the bottom of the pot with your right hand. When the thief does so, the cock will crow."
The others did not know whether they should believe him. One by one they went past the table in the dark, but the cock never made a noise.
"I'm afraid it was a waste of time," Fred said when the light went on.
"I'm not sure it was," Jim said. Then he asked everybody to show his right hand. He looked at each hand in turn, then took Fred's hand. "Fred, give me five pounds back to Jack."
"But the cock never crowed!" said Fred.
Jim told Fred to look at all the hands. "They're all black with soot except yours. Can you explain why you didn't dare touch the pot, Fred?"
Fred's face went white. He hung his hand.

At page 148, 149, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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LESSON ELEVEN

The Eleventh Lesson

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THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE

Once upon a time there was an old fisherman. He went fishing very early every morning, but he never cast his net more than four times a day.
One morning, he went out early to the sea. He cast his net for the first time, and drew in the body of an animal. He cast it a second time, and drew in an old basket full of sand. He cast it a third time, and drew in a lot of stones. It seemed he would have nothing to take home that morning.
Day had now broken, and he cast his net for the last time. After some time, he began to draw the net in. He found it was very heavy. But there were not any fish in it. Instead he found a jar with a lid. He shook the jar, but could hear nothing. So he took off the lid and looked inside. He could see nothing. After a while a light smoke came slowly out of the jar. Then little by little, the smoke grew heavier and thicker until finally it turned into a terrible Genie!
"Get down on your knees," said the Genie, "for I'm going to kill you."
"Why? Didn't I set you free from the jar?"
"That's why I'm going to kill you, but I'll let you choose how you're going to die."
"But why?"
"Listen, and I will tell you my story."
"I was one of the spirits in heaven. But I did not want to obey Solomon's orders. So one day, he put me in this jar and threw it into the sea.
"During the first hundred years of my stay in the sea, I made a promise that if anyone set me free I would make him very rich. But no one came. During the second hundred years, I promised that if anyone set me free I would show him all the treasures in the earth. But still no one came. During the third hundred years, I promised that if anyone came to set me free, I would make him king over the earth.
"Still no one came. Then I became very angry, and decided that if anyone should set me free I would kill him at once. Now you have come and set me free. So you must die, but I will let you say how you want to die."
The fisherman was not frightened. He said: "Since I must die, I must. But before I die, answer me one question."
"All right, but be quick."
"Were you really in the jar? You are so big and the jar is so small that it could hardly hold one of your feet."
"Of course I was in the jar. Don't you believe me?"
"No, and I won't until I've seen you in the jar with my own eyes."
When he heard this, the Genie changed again into smoke. Slowly the smoke went back into the jar. When all of it was in the jar, the fisherman quickly put the lid on and threw it back into the sea.

At page 128, 129, 130, 131, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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LESSON TEN

The Tenth Lesson

DRILLS

1

Teacher: Stop writing and listen to me.
Student A: What did the teacher tell us to do?
Student B: She told us to stop writing and listen to her.


Teacher: Make sentences with these words.
Student A: What did the teacher tell us to do?
Student B: She told us to make sentences with those words.


Teacher: Speak a little louder.
Student A: What did the teacher tell us to do?
Student B: She told us to speak a little louder.


Teacher: Pay attention to your pronunciation.
Student A: What did the teacher tell us to do?
Student B: She told us to pay attention to our pronunciation.

2

Granny: Don't play with the cat any more.
Xiao Hai: What did Granny say just now?
Yu Lin: Granny told you not to play with the cat any more.


Granny: Don't be late for school, Xiao Hai.
Xiao Hai: What did Granny say just now?
Yu Lin: Granny told you not to be late for school.


Granny: Don't drink this water.
Xiao Hai: What did Granny say just now?
Yu Lin: Granny told you not to drink that water.


Granny: Don't get your hands dirty.
Xiao Hai: What did Granny say just now?
Yu Lin: Granny told you not to get your hands dirty.

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DR BETHUNE

It was late on the night of October 20, 1939, when Dr Bethune was busy working in a field hospital. An Eighth Route Army man riding a horse came from the front. He told Dr Bethune that the front was in great need of medical workers. Immediately, Dr Bethune set off with a medical team.
On their way, they met a group of wounded Eighth Route Army men. They took the wounded soldiers into a small temple at once and Bethune began to operate on them.
Dr Bethune went on working throughout the night. When someone asked him to have a rest, he just went on working. To him, the most important thing was to save lives. He had no time to think about rest.
The next day while an operation was going on, a young man ran in and said to the doctors, "Several hundred enemy soldiers are coming." Soon they heard the sound of guns. But Dr Bethune still went on with his work.
Twenty minutes later, when Bethune was operating on the leg of the last wounded soldier, the guns sounded much closer. Again the young man rushed in and told Dr Bethune not to go on operating any more. "Comrade Bethune, you must leave now!" he cried.
"Let me go on with the operation," said one of the doctors. "You must leave right now, Dr Bethune. Hurry!"
"Please go, Doctor," begged the wounded soldier himself. "It's not a bad wound. Take me with you, or leave me here, but please go before the enemy comes."
"Never mind, my boy, it won't take long," said Dr Bethune. "If I spend a few more minutes on it now, I can save your leg. but if I don't, you'll lose it."
The guns sounded still closer now, but Dr Bethune worked on. He and the other doctors did not leave until the operation was over.
By that time the Japanese were already very near. As Bethune and the other doctors were climbing the hills, they could see the enemy entering the village in the valley below.

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A STORY

A Story About Thomas Edison

Late one night, Mr and Mrs Edison could still hear the sound of the telegraph coming from downstairs. Al was sending messages to his friend Jim.
"That boy should be in bed by now," Mrs Edison said. Mr Edison called out to his son, "It's past your bedtime, Al."
"Yes, Pa. I'll be right up." Al tapped out "Good night" to Jim, then went to bed.
Al wanted to stay up late, but his parents would not let him do so. Then he had an idea.
The next night Al came home without the newspaper for his father. When Mr Edison asked for his paper, Al apologized and said he had left it at Jim's house. Mr Edison was disappointed.
After supper, Mr Edison sat down to read. Al watched his father and could see that he was not enjoying his book.
"Pa," he said, "I think I can get the news for you."
"How?"
"We can ask Jim to send the news by telegraph," Al said.
"That would take all night," said Mr Edison.
"No, it won't." Al said, "Jim's not as fast as I am, but he's quite good."
"Well," said Mr Edison slowly, "let's try it."
So Al sent a message to Jim. Soon the telegraph was working away. Al wrote down the news for his father to read.
For the next two night Al "forgot" to bring the newspapers. He and his father sat listening to the telegraph.
Finally Mr Edison understood. "I see what you mean." he said laughing. "You bring me the newspaper, and I'll let you stay up until half past twelve to practise on your telegraph."

At page 113, 114, 115, 116, 125, 126, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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LESSON NINE

The Ninth Lesson

DRILLS

1

Mr Howe: Is your party going to start at 7 o'clock.
Mrs Brown to Mary: Did you catch what he said?
Mary: Yes. He asked if our party was going to start at 7 o'clock.


Mr Howe: Will all of you take part in it?
Mrs Brown to Mary: Did you catch what he said?
Mary: Yes. He asked if all of us would take part in it.


Mr Howe: Are you preparing for it?
Mrs Brown to Mary: Did you catch what he said?
Mary: Yes. He asked if we were preparing for it.

2

Shop Assistant: What size dress do you wear, Madam?
Mrs Hill: What did he say, Jack?
Jack: He said what size dress you wore.


Shop Assistant: Which one do you like best?
Mrs Hill: What did he say, Jack?
Jack: He asked which one you liked best.


Shop Assistant: What else would you like?
Mrs Hill: What did he say, Jack?
Jack: He asked what else you would like.

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EDISON'S BOYHOOD

Thomas Edison was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. One day when he was five, his father saw him sitting on some eggs, and asked what he was doing that for. Tom did not reply. Instead, he asked his father why he was not able to hatch chickens while hens could.
Young Tom was in school for only three months. During those three months, he asked a lot of questions. Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. His teacher did not understand why the boy had so many strange questions. He told Tom's mother that Tom was not bright and was not worth teaching. His mother took him out of school and taught him herself. The boy read a lot. He became very interested in science.
By the time he was ten, he had already built a chemistry lab for himself. He planted vegetables in his garden and sold them to buy what he needed for his lab.
Once his mother was ill and she sent for a doctor. The doctor said she needed an operation at once. But it was night and the lamp in the room gave poor light. Edison thought hard. Finally he had an idea. He collected all the lamps in the house and put them on a long table. Then he placed a big mirror behind them. Now there was enough light, so the doctor could operate. Edison's mother was saved.
At the age of twelve, Edison began selling newspapers on a train. When he was free, he printed a newspaper and sold copies to the railway workers.
One day in August, 1862, Edison saw a little boy playing on the tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The boy's father was so thankful that he taught Edison how to send messages by railway telegraph. Edison soon became very good at it and later he left home to work in different cities. This gave him a start in life. At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.

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A STORY

The Cat and the Bell

Once there were a lot of mice in the old house. They ate up a lot of food. So the owner of the house got a cat. The cat killed many of the mice.
One day the oldest mouse said, "All the mice must come to my hole tonight, and we'll decide what we can do about the cat."
All the mice came. They thought hard and tried to find a way to save their lives. Many of them spoke, but no one knew what to do. At last a young mouse stood up and said, "Why not tie a bell around the cat's neck? Then, when the cat comes near, we'll hear the bell and run away and hide. Then the cat won't catch any more of us."
The oldest mouse said, "That's a good idea. If we can tie a bell around the cat, it will save many of our lives." After a moment he asked, "But who's going to do it?"
None of the mice answered.
He waited but still no one said anything.
At last he said, "It's easy to say a things, but not so easy to do them."

At page 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 111, 112, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)

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LESSON EIGHT

The Eighth Lesson

DRILLS

1

(1)Mr Smith said, "John is a good worker."
Mr Smith said that John was a good worker.
(2)John said, "I want to forget the past."
John said that he wanted to forget the past.
(3)John said, "I can get on well with the people here."
John said that he could get on well with the people there.

2

(1)Mr Smith said, "John told me all about his past three weeks ago."
Mr Smith said that John had told him all about his past three weeks before.
(2)Bob's wife said, "Bob, you forgot your wallet this moring."
Bob's wife told him that he had forgotten his wallet that morning.

3

(1)John said to Bob, "I haven't seen your wallet."
John told Bob that he hadn't seen his wallet.
(2)Mr Smith said to the workers, "John has worked very hard and I want him to stay."
Mr Smith told the workers that John had worked very hard and he wanted him to stay.

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ONCE A THIEF, ALWAYS A THIEF?

Mr Smith, the boss of a small factory, once hired a young worker called John Hill. On the first day, Mr Smith took John to one of his workshops and introduced him to the other workers. The men introduced themselves to John and showed him around the factory. Then John started to work.
John was good at his job. Soon he got a rise. And he got on well with his workmates. He hoped they would like him.
But one morning John noticed that his workmates were looking at him and talking in low voices. Then Bob, one of his workmates, came up to him and asked whether it was true that he had been a thief and had just come out of prison. John's heart sank. He had been afraid of this all along. He told them that he had been in prison, but he was no longer a thief and wanted to forget the past.
The workers went to Mr Smith and asked him to fire John. Mr Smith explained to them that John had told him all about his past when he asked for a job in his factory. That showed John was honest. Since a lot of people make mistakes in life, Mr Smith wanted to give John a chance. The workers went back and John stayed. But after that they were not as friendly to him as before.
One afternoon about a week later, Bob could not find his wallet. He went to John and asked whether he had seen his wallet. But John said he knew nothing about it. When Bob tried to catch hold of his arm, John hit him in the face. Bob fell to the ground and blood ran down his nose.
Mr Smith came out to see what was happening. The workers again asked him to let John go. They said they would all leave if John stayed. Mr Smith knew what that would mean. So he had to give in and say sorry to John.
Just at that moment, in came a woman. It was Bob's wife. She called out, "Bob, you forgot your wallet when you left home this morning. I thought you would need it, so I brought it over to you."
Everyone looked at Bob.
"John, I … I'm sorry," said Bob with a red face.
"John, I want to apologize --- for us all," said Mr Smith. "Please stay with us. This is a lesson for Bob, for me, and for all of us."

At page 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, Book 5, The English Textbooks Series for Junior Secondary School

(The 1st Edition, Published by the People's Educations Press, October 1983)