新通用大學(xué)英語綜合教程第三冊聽力原文unit-4-資料下載頁
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【正文】 ry field, as if she issome kind of a wonder woman. She is expected to know everything from daily kitchen chores to office workand more. This enabled the modern woman to promote herself to taking on tasks that were done by menalone during the past few decades.Where there is a will, there is a way, holds exactly true in the case of women who prefer marriage tocareer or vice versa. When a student at Howard University in Washington . was questioned about herfuture married life, she said that she would prefer working part time and devote more time and effort to herfamily. She felt that a woman’s first responsibility is towards her home rather than work. She asserted thatwomen should work only if financially demanding situations arise. A graduate now settled in the US feelsthat it is the responsibility of both the husband and the wife to help each other out in terms of householdchores and shopping needs. She pleted her Master’s degree in Economics after her marriage and assertedthat it is difficult to bine marriage, education and work.Passage 2 Political CareerMartin Luther King Junior was born on January 15th, 1929 in the southern city of Atlanta, Georgia. Hisfather was a minister of a Christian Baptist Church.At that time, laws in the American south kept black people separate from white people. The laws forcedAfricanAmericans to attend separate schools and live in separate areas of cities. They did not have thesame civil rights as white people.Martin Luther King Junior attended Morehouse College in Atlanta. There he studied the ideas of India’sspiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. He also studied American philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Both Gandhiand Thoreau wrote about ways to fight injustice. They urged people to disobey unjust laws, but not to useviolence.Martin Luther King Junior wanted to spread these ideas about peaceful protest. He became a Baptistminister like his father. In 1963, He gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech to 200 000 people in Washington,. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was shot and killed four years later while visitingMemphis, Tennessee.Each year, Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Junior’s life and work on the Monday closest to hisbirthday. Schools and government offices are closed. Cities and towns hold special ceremonies to honorhim.Passage 3 Life ChangesWhen his wife died, Fauja Singh left India to live with his son in Great Britain. He often felt bored andlonely with his new life, so he started running, a hobby he had given up 53 years earlier. In 2000 Singhparticipated in his first marathon at age 89, pleting it in 6 hours and 54 minutes. He holds the worldrecord for his age group. In 2004, Singh signed an advertising deal with the sports pany Adidas. Singhgives the money he earns to charity. “After all,” he says, “you can’t take it with you.”
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