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　　Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum(论坛)asking what “PK” meant．

　　“My family has been watching the ‘Super Girl' singing competition TV program．My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father．

　　To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term．In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other．

　　In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition．“PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking．

　　Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand．A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand．

　　“My ‘GG' came back this summer from college．He told me I've grown up to be a ‘PLMM'．I loved to ‘FB' with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM',” went one composition．

　　“GG” means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother)．“PLMM” refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei(beautiful girl)．“FB” means Fu Bai(corruption)．“KPM” is short for KFC．Pizza Hut and McDonald's．

　　Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language．

　　If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female)ora Qing wa(frog, referring to an ugly looking male)is, you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao!

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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

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阅读理解

　　Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum(论坛)asking what “PK” meant．

　　“My family has been watching the ‘Super Girl'singing competition TV programme．My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea, ”explained the puzzled father．

　　To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term．In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other．

　　In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition．“PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking．

　　Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand．A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand．

　　“My ‘GG' came back this summer from college．He told me I've grown up to be a ‘PLMM'．I loved to ‘FB' with him together；he always took me to the ‘KPM', ”went one composition．

　　“GG” means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother)．“PLMM” refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei(beautiful girl)．“FB” means Fu Bai(corruption)．“KPM” is short for KF．Pizza Hut and McDonald's．

　　Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language．

　　If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female)ora Qing wa(frog, referring to an ugly looking male)is, you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao!

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