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         Born in 1949，Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young athletes，she had Olympic dreams，but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didnˈt stop her from going forward. Instead，she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete，she was well­conditioned for spending long periods of time in the water. As a long­distance swimmer，she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance，danger，cold，and exhaustion.
         For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the worldˈs best long­distance swimmers. In 1970，she swam a ten­mile marathon in Lake Ontario，setting the womenˈs record for the course.In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.
         Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978.Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide，it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days，she had to give up for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so，she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reaching Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short；she believed she had touched the other shore.
         When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer，she continued to try new things — travelling the world as a reporter，writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others，just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.

Before he sailed round the world single-handed, Francis Chichester had already surprised his friends several times. He had tried to fly round the world but failed. That was in 1931.

   The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo trans-Atlantic sailing race. His old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do it, as he had lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan. In August, 1966, at the age of nearly 65, an age at which many men retire, he began his greatest voyage of his life.

　　Chichester covered 14,100 miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia. This was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone. On shore, he could not walk without help. Everybody said the same thing: he had done enough; he must not go any further. But he did not listen.

　　After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, Chichester set off once more in spite of his friends’ attempt to dissuade him. The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part, during which he sailed round the risky Cape Horn. After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn, Chichester sent the following radio message to London:“I feel as if I had waken up from a horrible dream. Even a wild horse could not drag me down to Cape Horn and that rough Southern Ocean again.”

Just before 9 o’clock on Sunday evening 28 May, 1967, he arrived back in England, where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him. The whole voyage from England and back had covered 28,500 miles. It had taken him nine months, of which the sailing time was 226 days. He had done what he wanted to accomplish.

        A farming game becomes popular on the Internet as users get up in the morning to steal crops and fruit from their friends’ farms and become the kings of virtual (虚拟的) farming.

      Just like the farm game “kaixin 001” in Chinese. Users can plant crops, and raise chickens and sheep, and the harvest can be sold and exchanged for experience points to increase the attraction. Players can sneak into (潜入) their friends’ farms and steal crops. The more practiced a user gets in planting crops, the more virtual money he or she can make. That makes it much more fun than just killing time on the Internet.

     Now more city white collars, young office ladies in particular, are going online to live a country life. ________ that they set the alarm for an early rise every day, when they start up the computer and go farming. If they overslept, their fields would turn into a tourist farm where anyone takes whatever he or she wants. They can use a virtual network to plant, water crops, get rid of pests, harvest and sell their crops, and they can raise chickens and cows, and buy dogs to guard the farm. The whole process is much more interesting than electronic chickens, and seeing the results of their own hard work pile in the storage offers some kind of satisfaction in an otherwise boring daily life.

     Compared with wasting some time on line, the game is more interesting. 

When Dr. Adnan Khera starts dancing on the streets of Bostion, he’s not only doing it for charity, but also to hopefully make himself a better doctor. Since the beginning of May, the anesthesisology resident (麻醉科住院医师) at Tufts Medical Center has been dancing around the city while dressed as a doctor.

  All donations he gets during his performances are donated to a variety of charities, from animal rescue to child poverty, through his Doctor Be Dancing organization. Khera, 28, has raised about $5,000 so far and hopes to bring in $10,000 by October.

  “One of the missions of this project is to show the value of individuality inside of medicine to medicine as a whole,” Khera said. “What I do on th streets allows me to communicate with the population at large. While I feel like normally in medicine, we have trouble communicating with patients. We fail in a lot of senses to communicate with them and show what it’s like to be a doctor and that what is best for the patients. By expressing our individuality, we can better communicate with our patients.”

  Khera is no stranger to public performances, having previously done stand-up comedy(单人滑稽喜剧表演) and public speaking. He is also a runner, so dancing is another way for him to stay fit in busy work. He tries to go out about twice a week in Boston, and also has done performances while visiting his parents in Arizona. “I’ve always been walking around dancing in public, so it never felt that crazy to me,” he said.

   He also realizes his public dancing goes against the usual traitlaced(刻板的) behaviors of doctors. “ The fact that it is for charity makes it hard to speak against it,” he said. I imagine some doctors could think it’s unsuitable for a doctor, but I’ve never met anyone strongly opposed(反对) to it. Overall the goal is to have an impat, and also show the value of individuality.”

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Bargain（廉价购买）shopping is popular among most people throughout the world. The main reason is that people know they get the opportunity（机会）to save money. But in order to buy things at the lowest prices, you need to follow certain tips.      

　Use the Internet. You have more shopping areas by shopping online. You can go to many online stores. You are able to see various products with different prices in them. Through going online, you can compare the products’ prices and qualities（质量）.

　Use online coupons(优惠券). By using these coupons, you can even expect a discount (折扣) of 50% on what you want to buy. There are many websites that offer these coupons and they have different kinds of goods for you.

　Shop at the right time. It is a known fact that there are certain items that go on sale in certain months of the year. Keep an eye on such sales and visit the store only during those particular times of the year in order to receive the best offers.

　Use a shopping list. By acquiring the habit of writing a shopping list, you will always remember to buy the things you want. If you just enter a store and start buying things that you are interested in, you will probably end buying many cheap things that you may not need.

　Take part in online auctions（拍卖）. If you are familiar with online shopping, you should take part in online auctions. Some websites such as e-bay offer auctions and give you the opportunity to buy products at low prices.

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