It is such a common occurrence that no one ever wonders how it came. But the telephone has a fascinating story behind it, one that could be titled. "The Conquer of Solitude."  It is the story of Alexander Graham Bell.
  So, you now what I am going to talk about! Yes, it’s the inventor of the microphone what make the distance between people largely shortened.

                    Life of Alexander Graham Bell
  In 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.   
   His father was passionately consumed with the workings of the human voice, how it is produced and used, and especially, in teaching the deaf how to use it. For in those days, you see, the deaf lived in permanent solitude. Not only could they not hear, but also could they not speak. After all, how could they pronounce words, as they couldn't hear? Perhaps you will wonder why elder Bell was so attracted by the career that to help those who can’t hear. That’s because for whom he got married with and would give birth to the inventor of the telephone was   almost absolutely deaf! Young Alexander Graham Bell grew up with his father's passions.
   In 1862, Bell entered the famous Edinburgh University in only 16. Following his father’s interest on how it product voice, he chose the phonetics to be his specialty. And through summing up experiences from his elders studies, he made progress very rapidly.
  In 1867, graduating from the Edinburgh University, Bell went to the London university to study linguistics. Just then large-scale pulmonary disease broke out in Britain. In this disaster, Bell lose two brothers.   
  In 1870, because of Bell’s poor health, his father took the whole family, migrated to Canada so that they can escape from the spread of disease. Their new place was so simple a small town near the border which was different from the national big city London. Bell felt very unfamiliar and suffering. Afterwards, he got a job in a Boston school to teach the deaf-and-dumb people what was actually he like. Taking use of the mind that his father who was a professor on the linguistics gave him, Bell quickly got some great achievements on voice pronouncing. The school president want him stay and continue his research but as a result of the money’s problem Bell leave for Canada again.
   In 1871, Bell returned to Boston because there were so many famous scholars there with whom he wanted to communicate. It was not long before his success in teaching the deal to speak that brought him to the attention of a wealthy merchant in Boston who had a deaf daughter, Mabel. The wealthy businessman asked:” Would Mr. Bell please teach Mabel how to speak?” And the answer was yes. When Bell taught Mabel to speak they fell in love with each other.
  In 1877, years later, he and Mabel got married. He later became an American citizen. It was she who inspired him through a series of the exhausting experiments. Who pulled him through the difficulties that often told those whose drive to succeed is so intense. While he developed the remarkable instrument that transformed speech into electrical impulses that could later be converted back into human speech at the end of a wire. He had broken another solitude, other from his own solitude, the one that up until then had departed human speech between people distant from one another. In the same year, Bell invented telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was showered with the praise of the world. Honors came to him from all the points of the compass. Yes, he would go on to other discoveries, many of them. But in his own view, he was most proud of his efforts to help the deaf.
  From 1878 to 1883, Bell and Mabel had two girls and two boys. But both of his boys died in disease. It was a disaster to them.
  In 1922, Alexander Graham Bell died: Mabel five months later. She loved him that much. His name is likely to live as long as man recalls history. After all, there is this constant reminder of how he brought the human family into closer touch.

     Achievements of Alexander Graham Bell

  Bell was an inventor all his life. He made his first invention at eleven and his last at the advanced age of seventy-five years old. Although he will always be known for his invention of telephone, he was in truth a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the living level of everybody’s life.
  In 1876, he invented the telephone, and tuned it out to be a success in March 7th.
  In 1881, he spent 60,000 dollars to start the magazine Science which later proved to be the most successful and effective scientific magazine.
  In 1881, he invented slug explorer which help find the shot in President Garfield. Although it didn’t save the president, it were widely used in the war to find out shot in the wounded.
  In 1882, he made a great contribution to medical science. He invented a thing called empty jacket which used to help people breath.
  In 1883, He experimented with helicopter designs and flying machines. While searching for a kite strong enough to carry a man into the air, Bell try out putting triangle together and discovered the quadrangle shape. Being very strong it has proved invaluable in the design of bridges.
  From 1876 to 1900, Bell had earned 1,000,000 dollars by selling his inventions and the stocks of his telephone company. Although his inventions and stocks increased wonderfully in value, it earned him not a bit. He put most of the money into helping the deaf. He built several deaf-mute schools in the USA.

                                              Story of Inventing the Telephone
  Bell had thought of making a machine to transfer people’s voice from one place to another since 1874, but no one supplied him until his father-in-law gave him enough money to make a lab. He employed a very good assistance Thomas. They focus on the experiments on transform voice into electronic wave. Though 2 years of hard work, Bell they made the machine in 1875 June 2nd. But they hadn’t proved it work.
  In 1876, March 7th, when Bell was testing on his telephone, he dropped some vitriol on his legs by accident. Suddenly he felt the pain, and shouted to the telephone unconsciously:” Mr. Thomas! Come here! I want to see you!” Thomas rushed into the lab, found that they succeed!
       

                                      Famous Words of Bell
  Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Fellow it up，explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to take up your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.
(把生活中的平常事看成是意外，每当你这么做的时候，你会找到一些你从未注意到的事，在你了解它们之前，不要放弃探索它们！你会发现一些值得思考的事情涌现但你的脑海中。世界上所有伟大的发现都是这样得来的！！)

  I know the destiny is holding on my own hands. I know the biggest success will come soon. (我知道命运掌握在我自己的手中，我知道巨大的成功马上就要到来。)
 

最近在口语课上做的presentation挺简单的，不过做了一个令自己特别满意的ppt,可惜博客不能贴ppt，要不然贴上来给大家看看，都是拿自己在北京照的古建筑作背景的，很简单但是很给效果~~~哈哈哈开心

China has adopted a nine-year compulsory schooling system, which means all children are required to attend school for at least nine years. Students have to complete both the primary school program and the junior middle-school program. Higher education is only for those students who have passed examinations of all levels. Student must pass the entrance examination for senior middle schools or middle-level technical schools. After two, three or four years, they have to go through national college entrance examination for admission to universities.   

Pre-school Education

    Children aged from 3 to 6 will attend kindergartens near their neighborhoods, where they learn the basics of the native language and subjects. They play games, dance, sing and act. Children are taught from the early year the values of Truth, Kindness and Beauty. Chinese take children education very seriously since they know that a person's personality is mould in the early childhood.

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     High school education has two parts, 3-year junior high school program and senior high school.From junior high school, students begin to learn a variety of science subjects such as chemistry, physics and biology and other subjects such as history, geography, and foreign languages. Physical education is enthusiastically encouraged.

    Senior high school education is a continuation of junior high school. Students take up specific subjects in either science or humanity subjects. Many contests are organized annually in all levels to encourage their study. The "Olympic Series" are the most noticeable ones. The purpose is for them in preparation for the national college entrance examination. Examinations are designed separately for science and arts students.

Higher Education

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  University admission is operated on a centralized enrolment system, in which admissions committees at the provincial level are under the Ministry of Education. Admission is granted on the basis of academic, physical and moral qualifications. Special allowances are made for minority nationality and overseas Chinese candidates

The nationwide examinations are held in the first ten days of July. Candidate can take the examination in either one of the two categories, humanities or sciences/engineering. They apply for the institutions and departments they wish to enter in order of preference. Enrolment is determined by the examination results. Brief investigation into their social behavior and moral character is conducted before students are admitted. In some faculties, specific physical requirements must be met.

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 China currently provides free university education. Students do not have to pay tuition fee and are provided with free on-campus dormitories. Grants or subsidies will be given to students whose families have financial difficulties. The dormitory, which forms an important part of university life, is run by the students themselves through the students' union under the China Students' Federation, to which all enrolled students belong.

The education system is under reform. The number of paid students increases dramatically in recent years. The trend may continue and the government may eventually adopt a pay system instead.

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