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【正文】 UNIT 6 Women Half the Sky Part I PreReading Task Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. Why can39。t women be ignored? 2. What price have women had to pay for their wisdom? 3. What happens to them if you try to break their will? 4. Have women realized their dreams? The following words in the recording may be new to you: gonna = (infml) going to invincible a. 戰(zhàn)無不勝的 conviction n. 信念 embryo n. 胚胎；萌芽期 Part II Text A How do some women manage to bine a fulltime job with family responsibilities and still find time for doing other things? Adrienne Popper longs to be like them, but wonders whether it is an impossible dream. I39。M GOING TO BUY THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE Not long ago I received an alumni bulletin from my college. It included a brief item about a former classmate: Kate L. teaches parttime at the University of Oklahoma and is assistant principal at County High School. In her spare time she is finishing her doctoral dissertation and the final drafts of two books, and she still has time for tennis and horse riding with her daughters. Four words in that description undid me: in her spare time. A friend said that if I believed everything in the report, she had a bridge in Brooklyn she39。d like to sell me. My friend39。s joke hit home. What an idiot I39。d been! I resolved to stop thinking about Kate39。s incredible acplishments and to be suitably skeptical of such stories in the future. But like a dieter who devours a whole box of cookies in a moment of weakness, I found my resolve slipping occasionally. In weak moments I39。d b the pages of newspapers and magazines and consume success stories by the pound. My favorite superwomen included a politician39。s daughter who cared for her twoyearold and a newborn while finishing law school and managing a pany。 a practicing pediatrician with ten children other own。 and a television anchorwoman, mother of two preschoolers, who was studying for a master39。s degree. One day, however, I actually met a superwoman face to face. Just before Christmas last year, my work took me to the office of a woman executive of a national corporation. Like her supersisters, she has a husband, two small children and, according to reports, a spotless apartment. Her life runs as precisely as a Swiss watch. Since my own schedule rarely succeeds, her acplishments fill me with equal amounts of wonder and guilt. On
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