Lesson 3
Fortune from Abroad
海外飞来的财富
一、改变生活的信
1、hang Xingyun lived in a shabby apartment in a small city in the north of China.
2、He had a salary of less than a thousand yuan a month and his wife became jobless a year ago.
3、They have been married for ten years and have an eight-year old daughter.
4、Now, their lives have been totally changed by a letter from the USA.
二、大伯的故事
5、He had been asked to go to San Francisco to inherit a big fortune from his elder uncle, whom was thought to have been killed in the Korean War in the early fifties.
6、The story was that his uncle became a prisoner of war.
7、After the war, he was taken to Taiwan secretly instead of being returned to mainland China, like most of the others.
8、He stayed in Taiwan for years and then somehow went to New York and later to San Francisco, where he worked hard for years and had a business of his own.
9、He married once, but was divorced and had no children.
10.Before dieing of cancer, he had become quite wealthy.
三、即将开始新生活
11、Zhang Xingyun's parents passed away several years ago.
12、Xingyun's family is now going through formalities to go to the USA.
13、They will begin new lives on the other side of the Pacific.
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