80 年代高中英语经典课文精选 DRIVER LAOL LI Lao Li, our senior hospital driver, died yesterday. Today at the back of the hospital, in the open air, we held a memorial meeting, at which the hospital director, a young driver and Lao Li’s second son made speeches. They told of his past, of his devotion to duty, of his revolutionary optimism in the face of fatal illness. They spoke of his fine qualities as a worker of New China. Lao Li came from a poor peasant family. He had hardly any schooling. Before liberation he was a cart-driver who could barely keep body and soul together, let alone support his family. So he came to Beijing to try to find work. He became an apprentice truck driver, living a life of grinding poverty. It was liberation that brought about a complete change in his life, and his gratitude and devotion to the Party was boundless. Lao Li had been a good friend of mine. He had driven me to and from work for many years and we always had much to say to each other. His attitude to me was that of a comrade. He had five children and never tired of telling me about them. All were at school and he was proud of them and loved them dearly. I once asked him if he had any difficulty in keeping five children in school. He said he had no difficulty at all, and he had never been so well off in his life. A few years ago, while Lao Li was out with the hospital truck collecting supplies from a town several hundred miles away, North China was hit by an unexpected heavy rain, which caused severe flooding. We were not surprised that he returned three days later than expected. He just said that the roads were flooded and some bridges had been washed away. We would...
