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忐忐忑忑的查了CET6的成绩，其实也不是怕知道分数，而是不知道还可以有百分之一的希冀，知道了也就是那样了，铁板铮铮，没有幻想的空间了吧

最终在众人的催促下在成绩公布的当天花了一块钱查到了分数（BS教育部市场经济调节下时刻不忘赚钱的劣根性= =），确实蛮意外，居然过了……虽然不太好看，只能算超低空飞行，但就好像从前大家念叨着的60分生死线，过了又是一片天，囧

之前就想过，要是过了的话要有什么特别的举动，思来想去，以这个分数庆祝实在是有点胜之不武的感觉，还是继续鞭策自己加油努力吧，下面的这篇文章是我在去考CET6的小黑车上摸索着在手机上搜索出来临时起意又复习了遍，要说目的的话，顶多就算要进入英语那个感觉吧。其实更多的是随着内心的第六感行动，仅此而已

记得考试的那天，奥运还没有开始，全球的圣火传递搞的我们焦头烂额，现在回想起来，依旧百感交集。世上的很多事，果真是要经历过后才知真相如何罢

Let the Games Go On

By Joan Chen
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

I was born in Shanghai in 1961 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. During my childhood, I saw my family lose our house. My grandfather, who studied medicine in England, committed suicide after he was wrongly accused of being a counterrevolutionary and a foreign spy.

Those were the worst of times.

Since the Cultural Revolution ended in the late 1970s, however, I have witnessed unimaginable progress in China. Changes that few ever thought possible have occurred in a single generation. A communist government that had no ties to the West has evolved into a more open government eager to join the international community.

A state-controlled economy has morphed into a market economy, greatly raising people's standard of living. It's clear that the majority of the Chinese people enjoy much fuller, more abundant lives today than 30 years ago. Though much remains to be done, the Chinese government has made rapid progress in opening up and trying to be part of the international community.

Last month I went to China and spent four weeks visiting Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Chengdu. The people I met and spoke with are proud and excited about the Beijing Games. They believe that the Olympics are a wonderful opportunity to showcase modern China to the rest of the world. Like many Americans, most Chinese people are disturbed by the recent events in Tibet. But after watching the scenes of violence and arson by the rioters, the Chinese believe that the government is doing the right thing in cracking down to restore order.

The Olympic torch is in California and is to be carried through San Francisco today. In a resolution criticizing China, Chris Daly, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said that demonstrating against the torch relay would "provide the people of San Francisco with a lifetime opportunity to help 1.3 billion Chinese people gain more freedom and rights." To his credit, Mayor Gavin Newsom did not sign Daly's resolution.

This statement could not be further from reality. For one thing, the Chinese are a proud people. They want freedom and greater rights, but they know they must fight for them from within. They know that no one can grant them freedom and rights from afar. The stigma of Western imperialism and the Opium Wars also remains a strong reminder of the past, and Chinese people do not want their domestic policies to be dictated by outside powers. They also do not want the United States to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Games. The U.S. boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles accomplished nothing. A U.S. boycott of the opening ceremonies in Beijing would be counterproductive for relations between the two countries.

For decades, anti-China human rights groups in Washington have spent millions of dollars denouncing China. To many Chinese, it seems that this lobby is the only voice that's acceptable or newsworthy in the U.S. media and to the U.S. government. But times are changing. We need to be open-minded and farsighted. We need to make more friends than enemies. Remember what a little ping-pong game did for Sino-U.S. relations in the 1970s? Let's celebrate the Olympics for what the Games are meant to be -- a bridge for friendship, not a playground for politics.

The writer is an actress and director. She became a U.S. citizen in 1989.