Several friends were curious about my vocabulary, a matter which I have seldom gave serious consideration before.  When a good friend asked me whether I looked up the word in the dictionary during my writing, the question hit home. Each of us has a unique way in learning English, but I am a slow learner, so I can only study step by step in my own silly way. I seldom referred the unfamiliar words to the dictionary either during reading or writing, because it might distract me from my theme and  damp my ardor in the completion of my work.

    Writing in English is new to me, and I have no teacher to consult, so I think the best way is to imitate the writings of my favorite authors.  There another question arises, as the works are so many and so daunting, how can I find the parts best suiting my purpose?   As my time and energy spent on English is limited, so I thought up a way of solving this problem.  After reading every book,  I always marked out  the good passages with a highlighter for later review. This method proved to be effective. During the past two years, I have built up my own reservoir  which consists of a variety of passages and sentences.  When I was not busy, I would  read them time and again with the intention that some of the expressions would become my own. I hoped to share some with my friends, who might be interested in them.  From today on, I shall page by page publish a small part of my reservoir on my blog .  I hope it might be helpful to my friends.