Hi!My name is Wang Ming．I’m fifteen years old, and I’m a Grade 3 student in Shanghai in the year 2053!

　　I expect you find that pretty hard to believe．Let me explain．This book is a journal I wrote last month for a very special competition．I won the first prize, which was that my book would become part of the first ever experiment in time travel．It would be put in a time capsule to be sent back almost fifty years into the past．So, if everything went according to the plan, you should be reading this in about the year 2005．

　　Do you know what time capsules are?They are usually containers made of some very strong material－so strong that it should last for hundreds or thousands of years without being destroyed．Inside these containers, you put things that are typical of the place in which you live．For example, in 2005 you might put a copy of a popular comic, a CD by a famous musician, videos of television programs－all sorts of things．The idea is that when people in another century open up the time capsule．They’ll be able to see what life was like in the past．

　　Until now, all time capsules have been left for people in the future to find．This one is the first that has been sent from the future to the past．I don’t understand how it’s going to be done, but I think it’s a really cool idea．If it works, my own grandparents will be able to read this when they were secondary school students!But if my grandparents did read this, why haven’t they ever mentioned it to me?

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　　Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, in 1820．She lived in a well-to-do 　　1　　 who lived half the year in their summer house and the other half in their 　　2　　 house．Florence and her sister never went to school．They were 　　3　　 at home by their father．Her parents believed it was the duty of girls to marry and have children．They considered it 　　4　　 for girls to go to school．

　　When Florence was 17 years old, she decided to become a 　　5　　．Her parents said nursing was a job for poor women．　　6　　, Florence had made up her mind, and during a visit to Germany, she went to a 　　7　　 school and learned about nursing．When she came back to England, she got a job as a nurse in London．

　　When she was about 35 years old, England was fighting a war in Russia．Florence was 　　8　　 to lead a team of female nurses in Russia, to 　　9　　 the sick and injured English soldiers．Florence accepted it and went there with 38 nurses．It was the 　　10　　 time that female nurses had worked on observations of their patients and to be sensitive(敏感的，灵敏的)to their needs．The nurses were a great success, and all the 　　11　　 were happy with the care the nurses gave them．

　　After the war, she went back to London and continued to work for the 　　12　　．A few years 　　13　　, she started a training school for nurses where she taught her methods．She also wrote a book 　　14　　 Notes for Nurses．This book was very popular and helped to change the way that nursing was done．

　　She never 　　15　　 and lived alone until she was 90 years old．She died in London in 1910．

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