Qianjin (前进)will hold its summer GRE preparation
course during the summer vocation of 2004.
Qianjin (前进) GRE course offers not only everything you need to make sure you get your top score on the GRE, but also New York Daily News with Chinese annotations to help you increase your word power and improve your writing ability. The following is one more example of “NY Daily News with Chinese annotations”.
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New York Daily News
'Mommy, I'll nevergive up. I'll fight'
By SONI SANGHA and BILL HUTCHINSONDAILY NEWS WRITERS Tuesday, April 20th, 2004
Little Gabrielle Acevedo is a fighter - and a winner.
The 8-year-old Bronx girl, whose love for learning has not been sapped (diminished; undermined 减少；削弱) by a grueling (exhausting 吃力的) battle against leukemia (白血病), was honored yesterday for a touching (感人的) children's story she wrote from her Manhattan hospital bed.
"Mommy, I'll never give up. I'll fight," Gabby recently told her mother, Sonia Moura, 32, who stays by her bedside around the clock (日夜), watching her only child struggle to breathe with 17 tubes attached to her frail (weak 虚弱的) body.
Even though Gabby's hands are often too weak to hold a pencil, the third-grader won an M. Samuel Stern Memorial Award yesterday for a story she wrote about a boy, a dog and a frog.
The honor is a citywide award presented each year to a dozen special education students who demonstrate initiative (积极性), enthusiasm (热情), outstanding character and a willingness to help others.
Gabby's all that - and a profile (剪影；形象) in courage . Her story, inspired by Mercer Mayer's illustrations, is a charming tale of a lonely frog who eludes (规避；逃脱) being captured by a boy and his dog, only to become friends with the duo and "live happily ever after."
[the duo (俩；搭档) 在文中指前面提到的a boy and his dog]
It's a story of ups and downs, sadness, anger and happiness. In other words, a metaphor (隐喻；象征) for Gabby's life.
Gabby was born with congenital (existing at birth 先天的；天生的) heart disease, but proved from the start she had the spirit of a survivor. She battled to stay alive and became one of the most popular kids at Public School 81 in Riverdale.
But by last August, the plucky (having pluck; brave 有勇气的) brown-eyed girl was dealt another enormous challenge when she was diagnosed (诊断) with a rare form of leukemia.
"When I told her, she cried," said Moura. "She got upset. She was very upset with God. She thought, 'Why did he do this to me?'"
Yet as days went by, Gabby accepted her situation and looked into herself - and to God - for help.
"I believe in God. He did a miracle (奇迹) for me when I was a baby and he'll do it for me again," Gabby told her mother.
In February, Gabby underwent (经历) a stem cell (干细胞) transplant (移植) and radiation treatments (放射治疗) that robbed her of her silky long brown hair.
"She thought she was going to get better immediately," her mother said. "She even said, 'This is the start of a new life.'" But viral (病毒的) and bacterial infections have continued to ravage (蹂躏；摧残) her body, stealing its ability to produce potentially (潜在地；可能地) lifesaving white blood cells.
Still, she refuses to let her schoolwork slide (滑落).
Her teacher, Rochelle Moche, who nominated (提名) her for the award, recalled that the day of Gabby's transplant surgery, the girl was more focused on her education.
"There were tubes everywhere and machines beeping and I said, 'I guess we'll give you a homework holiday,'" Moche recalled.
"She lifted her head and said, 'Homework holiday? You never give me homework! You just read to me all day.'"
So Moche decided to challenge her with some math problems. "On that day, she was bleeding from her nose," said Moche, still amazed at the memory (回忆；往事).
"She just wiped off the blood and she finished. With a shaking hand, she finished a page of math problems." Moche said
Gabby's act of courage taught her to "never underestimate (低估) people."
That's a lesson Gabby also taught her pediatric (儿科的) oncologist (肿瘤学专家) at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Kara Kelly, who recalled how the girl made her doctors valentines before her surgery.
[valentines 情人节送给情人的礼物(或贺词、卡片、图画)]
"It's been a tough struggle," said Kelly, noting that less than 5% of leukemia patients have the type of the disease that has stricken Gabby. "She really is a fighter," Kelly said.
"The patients I've taken care of in the past, none of them would have been able to survive what Gabby's been through."
Yesterday, on the big day of the honor she had truly earned, nurses hung a pink banner reading "Congratulations (祝贺你), Gabby!" on the glass door leading to her intensive care unit room (特别护理组病房).
But Gabby didn't see it; she was too weak to open her eyes.
Gathered near her bed were her mother, her teacher and Mary Oleksiak, assistant principal at PS 401, a school that tends to (照料) hospitalized (住院的) children.
Moura accepted a plaque (勋章；奖章) from Oleksiak on her daughter's behalf. "Thank you. Thank you all," Moura said, her pride shining through her tears. "It's something that I will keep as a treasure (珍宝) forever."
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