故事、报道等
写作指导
故事主要是叙述已经发生的事情。做这种题时通常要交代故事发生的时间、地点和人物。不能脱离提示内容，要尊重原文但又不能逐句翻译。
报道，主要是新闻消息报道，比故事简单，只需说清发生的事情、主要人物、地点等，一般用于报刊杂志上。
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One day Jack bought two expensive dictionaries in a bookstore, but he forgot to take them with him. Half an hour later, he went back to look for them. He told the manager all about it. The manager asked him who had served him. Jack pointed to the lady behind the counter. But when the manager asked the lady, Miss Rose, if she had served Jack, she said she couldn't remember. She remembered that the man she had served was wearing a hat. Then the manager asked Jack if he was wearing a hat when he was served. Then the manager asked Jack if he had a hat and asked him to put it on. Miss Rose looked at him carefully and recognized him. She gave the two dictionaries to Jack.
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There was a man in the State of Qi who was haunted by the fear that one day the sky might fall and the earth collapse(倒塌), and he would have no place to settle. So worried was he that he could not eat and sleep in peace. Someone, anxious that the man would be worried to death, went to reassure him about this. He said to the man:“The sky is only an air mass and there's air everywhere. You move about all day long in the air, inhaling and exhaling, bending and stretching your limbs----why do you have to worry about the sky's falling, when it's never likely to happen?”
“It's true that the sky is a congregation of air,”the man rejoined, “but how about the sun, the moon and the stars？They will surely fall, won't they?”
“The sun, the moon and the stars are merely such bodies in the congregated air as happen to shine,”the persuader replied. “Even if they did fall, they would hit nothing.”
“Then suppose the earth collapses. What should I do?”
“The earth is merely amassed dust and rocks filling up the space everywhere. There is no spot that has not such masses. And you move about on the earth everyday, stepping on it and walking on it. Why worry that it might collapse?”
The man was gladly relieved, and so was the successful persuader.
③
White Dolphins (海豚)
Fuzhou-Fishermen in East China's Fujian Province recently observed shoals of white dolphins in the East China Sea. Early last month, Lin Guoqing, a local aquatics expert, observed white dolphins feeding on large yellow croakers, weighing an estimated 500 kilograms. One or
two of the dolphins, white or grey, have been spotted at various times in the area over the past 10 years, according to a local fisherman. But this is the first time shoals of the animals were observed. Local fishermen believe the lack of food in the deep make the hungry dolphins attack the yellow croakers raised by the fishermen.
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Jiang Zhiheng, a blind and poor college student who was helped by the Shanghai programme “aiding poor students through the Internet,” now uses his income to help poor school children, including Xiao Lijuan. The first of its kind in China. The programme has aided 150 poor primary and middle school students over the past month since it began operation.
练习
①一位名叫苗利华的妇女，去年从福州丝绸厂下岗了，现在在省妇女再就业中心的帮
助下，找到了新工作。她对新工作非常满意，这家再就业中心自成立两年来，培训了600
多位下岗工人，帮助1700多人
找到了新工作。(字数：50左右)
参考词语
在……帮助下with the help of…
省妇女再就业中心…
the provincial female worker's re-employment centre
