This is a story from One Thousand and One Nights.
A long time ago, there were two 1 , Cassim and Ali Baba. When Ali Baba grew up, he cut wood to make a living. One day, when he was 2 wood in a forest, he saw forty thieves go to a cave(山洞). When the thieves said “Open Sesame(芝麻)”, the 3 of the cave opened. When they said “Close Sesame”, it closed. After the thieves left, Ali Baba went into the cave and took some 4 away. But Cassim found it and made Ali Baba 5 him everything. Cassim wanted to steal some gold, too. When Cassim went into the cave, the thieves 6 and killed him angrily. Cassim's 7 was very worried about Cassim. She asked Ali Baba to 8 her husband. The next day, Ali Baba went to the cave and found that Cassim was 9 . Ali Baba took his brother's body away. So the thieves knew there was someone else. They followed Ali Baba and 10 to kill him, too. But Ali Baba was very clever and killed all the thieves instead. Finally, Ali Baba gave all the gold in the cave to the poor.
Huang Qingyun spends her life telling stories to children. Now though she is in her nineties, she has no plans to stop.
"I did this for children, from the first day I started to write stories. I am old now, but I still want to go on telling stories to children," Huang said.
Born in Guangzhou in 1920. Huang spent her childhood in Hong Kong and her favourite hobby was making up stories for her elder sister.
In 1935, Huang went to university and studied Chinese. During this period, she was greatly influenced by the well-known Chinese educator Tao Xingzhi and decided to become a primary school teacher. However, instead of being a teacher. Huang found another way to educate children. During World War Ⅱ, Huang often told stories to homeless children at the Little Children Society, a charity (慈善机构) set up by a professor from the University of Hong Kong.
Huang also started a column (专栏) called "Sister Yun's Mail Box" in Xin Er Tong, a children's magazine set up in Hong Kong in 1941. From then, Huang officially started writing and created a large number of stories for children. Huang spent about 30 years at the magazine working as chief editor (主编) in Guangzhou.
Huang retired in 1987. She moved to Hong Kong and went on creating stories for children, including I Love Hong Kong, Children from Hong Kong and Shoes Brothers.
"What l wrote were all for children, and for me, writing fairy tales is my favourite," Huang said.
Ali, who was working a long way from home wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter writer whose name was Nasreddin.
Nasreddin was already in bed. "It is late," he said. "What do you want?" "I want you to write a letter to my wife," said Ali, Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, "Has the letter got to go far?" "What does that matter?" answered Ali.
"Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money." Ali went away quickly.
原因 | 同学朱明家境贫寒，母亲不幸身患重病，生活艰难。 |
计划 | 时间：本周五放学后 活动：学校操场上及校门口举办卖旧物的活动，为朱明一家筹集善款。 |
希望 | 得到校长的批准与支持。 |
Dear Mr Li,
These days, our school's Student Union is going to have a voluntary activity. We are writing to you for your permission.
Yours sincerely,
Max
