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　　John H．Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas city in 1918．His father died in an accident when John was six．He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks．

　　Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother．John remembers that his mother told him many times,“Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe．” She told him not to be dependent on others, including her．“You have to work hard to suceed,” she said, “not all the people who work hard succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard．” These words came from a woman with less than a third-grade education．She had worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son to Chicago．

　　Chicago in 1933 was not the Promised Land that black southerners were looking for．John's mother could not find work．But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words－as an editor of a newspaper．His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks．

　　While others discouraged him, John's mother offered him more words to live by：“Nothing beats a failure but a try．” She also let him sell her furniture to get 500 dollars he needed to start the Negro magazine．

　　It's natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely before he became very successful．However, he always keeps his mother's words in mind．“ Son, failure is not in your dictionary．” Now John H．Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America－worth 150 million dollars．

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　　John H．Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas City in 1918．His father died in an accident when John was six．He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks．

　　Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother．John remembers that his mother told him many times,“Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe．”She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother．“You have to earn success”, said she,“all the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard．”

　　These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education．She also knew that believing and working hard don’t mean everything．So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son to Chicago．

　　Chicago in 1933 was not the Promised Land that black southerners were looking for．John’s mother could not find work．But here John could go to school, and here learned the power of words－as an editor of a newspaper．His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks．

　　While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by：“Nothing beats a failure but a try．”She also let him sell her furniture to get the 500 dollars he needed to start the Negro magazine．

　　It’s natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful．He always keeps his mother’s words in mind．“Son, failure is not in your dictionary．”Now John H．Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America－worth 150 million dollars．

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　　WHAT is the top hit single of 20067 It’s “Don’t Wanna Grow Up”!

　　Taiwan girl band S.H.E took home the gold hit award at the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards(金曲榜)last week, with “Don’t Wanna Grow Up” from their eighth album “Once Upon A Time”．

　　It’s the first time S.H.E has won the award．The three members, Selina．Hebe and Ella were all very excited about it．They not only performed the song at the award ceremony．but also offered exaggerated(夸张的)hugs when giving awards to other artists．

　　“Don’t Wanna Grow Up” is a song with light tunes(旋律)and easy lyrics．Its music writer Zuo Anan used the tunes from Mozart’s Symphony N0 40 as the refrain(副歌)．That gives the song a very classical feeling．The song has a similar theme to that of Peter Pan, the boy who doesn’t grow up．“I don’t wanna grow up．When I grow up there won’t be fairy tales in the world．I don’t wanna grow up．I’d rather be ignorant and foolish．”In the song, S.H.E expresses young people’s common fear of the adult world and the desire to stay young forever．

　　The song has been quite popular among high school students since it came out．Xiao Xue, a Senior l student from Shanghai, said that she often hums(哼歌)the refrain part herself．

　　“I like the lyrics too, ”she said．“I often wish that I could go back to my childhood, when I had enough time to play and didn’t have to worry about all the exams．”

　　S.H.E said that the song also expresses their true feelings．Their rocking Success in the past six years has led to the three young girls heavy workloads(工作量) and forced them to grow up very quickly．“When we first started singing．we were quite carefree and we had our own musical dreams, ”said S.H.E．“‘Don’t Wanna Grow Up’ reminds us of those happy times and of our original dreams．”

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