After the first well, “the ripple effect took ove
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After the first well, “the ripple (涟漪) effect took over, ” Ryan says, “and one goal led to another. ” With adult help, he founded Ryan's Well Foundation to educate people about the importance of water. Now the foundation has raised more than ＄S 1. 5 million and built 255 wells that serve more than 427, 000 people in 12 countries. Ryan has received many awards but he isn't bragging (吹牛). “The most impressive people I've met are the other kids who want to help too, ” he says. “I'm just a typical kid. I had a small dream, and I stayed with it. Everybody can do something.”
To develop one’s taste in English，the most effective way is to read English books extensively.Yet one may be at a loss to choose the appropriate books, especially as a beginner. As a native Spanish, I would like to share some of my experience.
My first English novel was Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, recommended by many English teachers and professors as an ideal book for English learners. But my experience was somewhat disastrous. I had great difficulty in understanding the novel, let alone enjoying it. It’s not the vocabulary that troubled me, but rather the way Austen constructs sentences, and her way of thinking, which seemed too remote to me at that time. My fading enthusiasm was much recovered after reading Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms. No long and complicated sentences. And I particularly liked his brief and straightforward(简洁的) style. So my first suggestion is, as a beginner, you’d better choose contemporary novels instead of classical ones.
