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【正文】 d 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。d like to sell me. My friend39。d been! I resolved to stop thinking about Kate39。d b the pages of newspapers and magazines and consume success stories by the pound. My favorite superwomen included a politician39。 a practicing pediatrician with ten children other own。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 a shelf behind her desk that day were at least a hundred jars of strawberry jam, gaily tied with redchecked ribbons. The executive and her children had made the jam and decorated the jars, which she planned to distribute to her staff and visiting clients. When, I wondered aloud, had she found the time to plete such an impressive holiday project? I should have known better than to ask. The answer had a familiar ring: in her spare time. On the train ride home I sat with a jar of strawberry jam in my lap. It reproached me the entire trip. Other women, it seemed to say, are movers and shakers — not only during office hours, but in their spare time as well. What, it asked, do you acplish in your spare time? I would like to report that I am using my extra moments to plete postdoctoral studies in physics, to develop new theories of tonal harmony for piano and horn, and to bake cakes and play baseball with my sons. The truth of the matter is, however, that I am by nature pletely unable to get my act together. No matter how carefully I plan my time, the plan always goes wrong. If I create schedules of military precision in which several afternoon hours are given over to the writing of the Great American Novel, the school nurse is sure to phone at exactly the moment I put pencil to paper. One of my children will have developed a str
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