第五期 2007年6月真题 文章(4/6) - 英语听力
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[00:00.30]Passage One
[00:02.42]My mother was born in a small town in northern Italy.
[00:06.94]She was three when her parents immigrated to America in 1926.
[00:12.52]They lived in Chicago when my grandfather worked making ice cream.
[00:17.77]Mama thrived in the urban environment.
[00:21.41]At 16,she graduated first in her high school class,went on to secretarial school,
[00:28.44]and finally worked as an executive secretary for a railroad company.
[00:33.68]She was beautiful too.
[00:35.42]When a local photographer used her pictures in his monthly window display,she felt pleased.
[00:42.11]Her favorite portrait showed her sitting by Lake Michigan,
[00:45.78]her hair wind blown, her gaze reaching toward the horizon.
[00:50.20]My parents were married in 1944.
[00:54.60]Dad was a quiet and intelligent man.
[00:57.90]He was 17 when he left Italy.
[01:00.80]Soon after, a hit-and-run accident left him with a permanent limp.
[01:06.11]Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers on their break.
[01:11.27]He had little formal schooling.
[01:14.10]His English was self-taught.
[01:16.18]Yet he eventually built a small successful wholesale candy business.
[01:21.27]Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him.
[01:26.70]After she married, my mother quit her job and gave herself to her family.
[01:32.88]In 1950, with three small children, Dad moved the family to a farm 40 miles from Chicago.
[01:41.21]He workded the land and commuted to the city to run his business.
[01:46.79]Mama said goodbye to her parents and friends,
[01:49.55]and traded her busy city neighborhood for a more isolated life.
[01:53.82]But she never complained.
[01:56.73]Passage Two
[01:59.75]During a 1995 roof collapse,a firefighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged.
[02:08.91]For ten years, he was unable to speak.
[02:11.86]Then, one Saturday morning, he did something that shocked his family and doctors.
[02:18.37]He started speaking. "I want to talk to my wife."
[02:24.01]Donald Herbert said out of the blue.
[02:26.46]Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than seven years,
[02:32.21]raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone.
[02:35.08]"It was the first of many conversations the 44-year-old patient had with his family and friends during the 14-hour stretch,"
[02:44.44]Herbert's uncle Simon Menka said.
[02:47.54]"How long have I been away?"Herbert asked.
[02:51.19]"We told him almost ten years,"the uncle said,"he thought it was only three months."
[02:57.91]Herbert was fighting a house fire December 29, 1995 when the roof collapsed,burying him underneath.
[03:07.81]After going without air for several minutes,
[03:11.74]Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since.
[03:18.24]News accounts in the days and years after his injury,
[03:23.04]described Herbert as blind and with little, if any, memory.
[03:28.57]A video shows him receiving physical therapy but apparently unable to communicate
[03:35.05]and with little awareness of his surroundings.
[03:39.77]Menka declined to discuss his nephew's current condition or whether the apparent progress was continuing.
[03:45.37]"The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert," he said.
[03:51.26]As word of Herbert's progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. “He's resting comfortably,” the uncle told them.
[00:02.42]My mother was born in a small town in northern Italy.
[00:06.94]She was three when her parents immigrated to America in 1926.
[00:12.52]They lived in Chicago when my grandfather worked making ice cream.
[00:17.77]Mama thrived in the urban environment.
[00:21.41]At 16,she graduated first in her high school class,went on to secretarial school,
[00:28.44]and finally worked as an executive secretary for a railroad company.
[00:33.68]She was beautiful too.
[00:35.42]When a local photographer used her pictures in his monthly window display,she felt pleased.
[00:42.11]Her favorite portrait showed her sitting by Lake Michigan,
[00:45.78]her hair wind blown, her gaze reaching toward the horizon.
[00:50.20]My parents were married in 1944.
[00:54.60]Dad was a quiet and intelligent man.
[00:57.90]He was 17 when he left Italy.
[01:00.80]Soon after, a hit-and-run accident left him with a permanent limp.
[01:06.11]Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers on their break.
[01:11.27]He had little formal schooling.
[01:14.10]His English was self-taught.
[01:16.18]Yet he eventually built a small successful wholesale candy business.
[01:21.27]Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him.
[01:26.70]After she married, my mother quit her job and gave herself to her family.
[01:32.88]In 1950, with three small children, Dad moved the family to a farm 40 miles from Chicago.
[01:41.21]He workded the land and commuted to the city to run his business.
[01:46.79]Mama said goodbye to her parents and friends,
[01:49.55]and traded her busy city neighborhood for a more isolated life.
[01:53.82]But she never complained.
[01:56.73]Passage Two
[01:59.75]During a 1995 roof collapse,a firefighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged.
[02:08.91]For ten years, he was unable to speak.
[02:11.86]Then, one Saturday morning, he did something that shocked his family and doctors.
[02:18.37]He started speaking. "I want to talk to my wife."
[02:24.01]Donald Herbert said out of the blue.
[02:26.46]Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than seven years,
[02:32.21]raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone.
[02:35.08]"It was the first of many conversations the 44-year-old patient had with his family and friends during the 14-hour stretch,"
[02:44.44]Herbert's uncle Simon Menka said.
[02:47.54]"How long have I been away?"Herbert asked.
[02:51.19]"We told him almost ten years,"the uncle said,"he thought it was only three months."
[02:57.91]Herbert was fighting a house fire December 29, 1995 when the roof collapsed,burying him underneath.
[03:07.81]After going without air for several minutes,
[03:11.74]Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since.
[03:18.24]News accounts in the days and years after his injury,
[03:23.04]described Herbert as blind and with little, if any, memory.
[03:28.57]A video shows him receiving physical therapy but apparently unable to communicate
[03:35.05]and with little awareness of his surroundings.
[03:39.77]Menka declined to discuss his nephew's current condition or whether the apparent progress was continuing.
[03:45.37]"The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert," he said.
[03:51.26]As word of Herbert's progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. “He's resting comfortably,” the uncle told them.
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