Robert De Niro is an American actor. He has acted in a lot of famous films. He is one of the greatest actors in film history.

    Robert De Niro was born in 1943 in New York City. He left high school at the age of sixteen. He wanted to have a career in acting. He dreamt of appearing in Hollywood films.

    His first major film role came in 1973. It was in the film Bang the Drum Slowly. Later, he got a role in the film The Godfather Part Ⅱ. The film is one of the greatest films in history. He won his first Oscar (奥斯卡金像奖) for this role. It was the start of a great career. After this, he got many other important film roles.

    On his way to career success, he became good friends with Martin Scorsese. Scorsese is a famous director (导演). They began to work together often. Their first film together was Mean Streets in 1973. It was a big Success. In 1980, he acted in the film Raging Bull. Scorsese was the director again. And for this role. Robert De Niro won his second Oscar.

    His acting career continued. In 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, he kept acting in a lot of films. Robert De Niro is a really great actor. If you are interested, you can see his films on the Internet!

The value of time

To realize the value of one year,

Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of one month,

Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature (早产的) baby.

To realize the value of one week,

Ask an editor (编辑) of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour,

Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute,

Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second,

Ask a person who has survived (幸存) an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond,

Ask the person who has won a silver medal (银牌) in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure (珍惜) every moment you have.

    English class is always full of fun. It's a tradition to put on an English play at the end of the year. Yesterday our English teacher gave us copies of the play.

    "Choose a character in the play whom you'd like to be," she told us. "This afternoon you will learn a few lines (台词) of this part for homework. Then tomorrow you can say those lines in front of the class. I'll decide who plays each part."

    I wanted to have one of the biggest parts in the play, so I chose the part of the king. He has a lot of lines to say. I learnt them by heart.

    This morning in our English class we had to say our lines. I acted the part of the king. When l was saying my lines, I put a lot of expressions into my acting. I thought I acted really well.

    Many of the students in my class couldn't act at all. They couldn't even read without making lots of mistakes. I was sure that l would get a big part in the play.

    However, the teacher gave me the part of a soldier. He has only one line. It is, "Yes, sir!"

    I was very disappointed. At the end of the lesson I went up to her and asked her why I had such a small part.

    "You put too many expressions in your acting," she said. "Good acting is not big acting. It is acting the audience can believe in." I think I know what she means.

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