假设你是小明, 请根据你校美化校园的规划, 用英语给你在美国的笔友Peter写一封短信, 介绍该规划。短信的主要内容如下：

1.规划目的  美化校园, 净化空气,创造良好学习和生活环境.  

2.规划内容  1) 种植花草树木.     

 2) 建一个植物园, 供参观、实践.

3) 建一个小花园, 供休息、读书.

         4) 建几座名人雕塑, 激励师生.

注意：1. 短信的开头已为你写好, 不计入总词数.

      2. 词数: 100---120左右.

3. 可适当增加细节以使行文连贯.

4. 参考词汇: 雕塑—statue (n.)   植物园 —botanical garden (n.)

Dear Peter,     

 I would like to tell you that our school has worked out a new program.

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假设你是小明, 请根据你校美化校园的规划, 用英语给你在美国的笔友Peter写一封短信, 介绍该规划。短信的主要内容如下：

1.规划目的  美化校园, 净化空气,创造良好学习和生活环境.  

2.规划内容  1) 种植花草树木.     

 2) 建一个植物园, 供参观、实践.

3) 建一个小花园, 供休息、读书.

         4) 建几座名人雕塑, 激励师生.

注意：1. 短信的开头已为你写好, 不计入总词数.

      2. 词数: 100---120左右.

3. 可适当增加细节以使行文连贯.

4. 参考词汇: 雕塑—statue (n.)   植物园 —botanical garden (n.)

Dear Peter,     

 I would like to tell you that our school has worked out a new program.

Even Intelligent People Can Fail

1._________

The unusual things about the innovators (创新者) who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell-phone. The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze (错综复杂) of wrong turns.

2._________

We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white, hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight (点亮着的) in an airless space for 45 hours. Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4, 1882.

3.________

“Many of life’s failures,” Edison said, “are because that people did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light. But in only two cases did his experiments work.

4.________

No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of a camera maker, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure. His popular phrase is：“You only fail when you quit.”

5._________

Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence (坚忍不拔). That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep on with what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so penniless after a series of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the $1.50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T Car.

Even Intelligent People Can Fail

_________

The unusual things about the innovators (创新者) who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell-phone. The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze (错综复杂) of wrong turns.

_________

We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white, hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight (点亮着的) in an airless space for 45 hours. Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4, 1882.

________

“Many of life’s failures,” Edison said, “are because that people did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light. But in only two cases did his experiments work.

________

No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of a camera maker, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure. His popular phrase is：“You only fail when you quit.”

_________

Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence (坚忍不拔). That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep on with what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so penniless after a series of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the $1.50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T Car.