英语听力教程第三版(张民伦主编)Unit_10_A_Glimpse_of_the_Age听力原文

1、 Unit 10 A Glimpse of the Age Part I Getting ready In 1969, one of the greatest technological achievements of the human race was accomplished. A human first set foot on another celestial body.Audioscript： Thirty-five years ago, on July 20. 1969. humans first set foot on another world. U.S. Apollo 11

2、 astronaut Neil Armstrong descended from a landing craft named "Eagle" to become the first person to step on the moon, a momentous event he eloquently consecrated. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." During their two-and-a-half hour moonwalk, the Ap

3、ollo crewmen planted the U.S. flag in the soil and received a phone call from President Richard Nixon, who paid tribute to what he called their immense feat. "Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. For one priceless moment in the whole history of man,

4、all the people on this Earth are truly one, one in their pride in what you have done." 21.5 hours after descent, astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin fired their ascent rockets and rejoined Michael Collins aboard the orbiting "Columbia" command module for the flight home, establishing fore

5、ver what Mr. Armstrong has called Apollo 11's lasting legacy. "The important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited." Part II Standing on the moon Ala

6、n Shepard is a U.S. astronaut, who walked on the moon in 1971. In an interview, Alan Shepard reminisced about his experience on the moon.Audioscript： On February 4, 1971, Alan Shepard, commander of the Apollo 14 space mission, became the fifth person to walk on the moon. He and fellow astronaut Edga

7、r Mitchell spent nine hours and 2 3 minutes in space suits on the lunar surface. Their major job was to gather and photograph samples of the materials on the moon's surface, including rocks and stones, to take back to geologists on earth. When he was asked about his lunar experience, Mitchell sa

8、id, "What it did for me is really force me to get a picture of the universe from a totally different perspective and then start to question our conventional ways of looking at ourselves, our place in the universe, our place in life, what it's all about." A year and a half earlier, on J

9、uly 20, 1969, the astronauts of Apollo 11 had made the first landing on the moon. At that time, Commander Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step out of the lunar module, he radioed these words to the earth: "That's one small step for a man; one gi

10、ant leap for mankind." In a July 1994 interview with a writer for the New York Times, Alan Shepard talked about looking at earth: "I remember being struck by the fact that it looks so peaceful from that distance, but remembering on the other hand all the confrontation going on all over tha

11、t planet and feeling a little sad that people on planet Earth couldn't see that same sight because obviously all the military and political differences become so insignificant seeing it from the distance." Audioscript： T - Terry Gross A - Alan Shepard T： What surprised you most about how th

12、e surface of the moon looked? A： I don't think we had any surprises about the actual surface of the moon - about the barrenness. We had looked at pictures of our landing site taken by previous missions. We had worked with models that were made from those pictures. We knew the general configurati

13、on of where the craters were supposed to be. We knew the objective of Cone Crater, which was the one we climbed up the side of to get rock samples. There weren't any surprises there. The surprise I had was standing on the surface after we'd been there for a few minutes, having a chance to re

14、st a little bit, and looking up at the earth for the first time - you have to look up because that's where it is. And the sky is totally black, and here you have a planet which is four times the size of the moon as we look at it from the earth, and you also have color. You have a blue ocean(s) a

15、nd the brown landmasses - the brown continents - and you can see ice on the ice caps on the North Pole, and so on. It's just an absolute, incredible view, and then you say - ah - hey - um - that looks a little small to me. It looks like it - it does have limits. It's a little fragile. You kn

16、ow, down here we think it's infinite. We don't worry about resources um. Up there you're saying, "Gosh, you know, it's a shame those folks down there can't get along together - ah - and think about trying to conserve, to save what limited resources they have." And it

17、9;s just very emotional. I actually shed a couple of tears looking up at the earth and having those feelings. Part III Nelson Mandela - The Father of South Africa "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behin

18、d, I'd still be in prison," Mandela said after he was freed in 1990. The prisoner-turned-president reconciled South Africa after the end of the apartheid. He held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world. On the evening of 5 December, 2013, Nelson Mandela joined the

19、ancestors. Audioscript： Just before midnight local time in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma appeared on national television to announce that the father of modern South Africa had died. Nelson Mandela was 95. Jacob Zuma: Fellows of Africans, our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding presi

20、dent of our democratic nation, has departed. Nelson Mandela had been suffering from a lung infection for some time. He spent three months in hospital earlier this year before being allowed home for treatment in September. The news of his death may have been expected, but that didn't soften the b

21、low for many South Africans. The South African president Jacob Zuma made a televised speech announcing details of Mr Mandela's funeral. Jacob Zuma: He'll be laid to rest on the 15th of December in Qunu in the Eastern Cape Province. We should all work together to organize the most befitting f

22、uneral for this outstanding son of our country and the father of our young nation. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail, imprisoned by the white minority government to serve his efforts to fight injustice of apartheid. By the time he gained his freedom in 1990, he'd captured the imagination of

23、people around the world. His greatest achievement was to then take South Africa into a new era without the widespread bloodshed that had been feared. The memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela is set to be one of the largest gatherings of its kind in generations. Tens of

24、thousands of mourners and almost 100 foreign leaders are expected to attend the event at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg. Audioscript： The person I admire most in the world is Nelson Mandela. He was the President of South Africa during the 1990s, but before that he spent more than 25 years, I think,

25、 in prison. He was put in prison because of his political beliefs. He wanted to get equal rights for black people in South Africa, and the government put him in prison because of his political views . um . he was a lawyer before he went to prison and he represented himself at his trial. Some of the

26、things he said during his trial were amazing. They're still famous speeches, I think. The reason that I admire him is that in spite of the fact that he spent such a long time in prison he never changed his views. It would've been quite easy for him to perhaps stop campaigning for the rights

27、of black people, but he never did that. Right until the end of his time in prison, he was still campaigning. When I went to South Africa, I met somebody who was in prison with him and it was amazing to hear about how they were . they found it so easy to forgive the government and the people who'

28、d put them in prison, they weren't bitter or angry about it. I think he's really influenced the way people think about how they can make changes, political changes, by standing by what they believe in and stating their beliefs very clearly. Part IV More about the topic: World War I and II Wh

29、at do wars bring to people? Death, suffering, destruction, atrocities. Two World Wars in the twentieth century were continuous in both time and space. They were fought day and night, winter and summer, over weeks and months at a time. In terms of lives lost and material destruction, World War II is

30、the most devastating war in human history.Audioscript： The shots that rang out on the streets of Sarajevo in June 1914 were to change the world. On that day a young Serbian assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. In retaliation, Austria-Hungary declared war on S

31、erbia. Decades of simmering nationalistic hostilities quickly were unleashed. The principal belligerents on one side were Austria-Hungary and Germany, on the other, Britain, France, Russia, and in 1917, the United States. It was called the war to end all wars: World War I. For four years the conflic

32、t raged, in trenches and in the air, with bullets, grenades and poison gas. By the summer of 1918, German forces were undefeated in the field, although the allied nations had had some significant successes. But then Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and German politicians were left to sue fo

33、r peace. More than 8 million soldiers were killed or died during the hostilities. An estimated 12 million civilians also perished. In the aftermath of the war, huge changes occurred. The center of wealth transferred from Europe to the United States; the political map of Europe was significantly redr

34、awn; and Germany was left in financial shambles, its people driven to the brink of starvation, a situation that helped lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler and, ultimately, World War II. After the end of World War One, smoldering hostilities continued in much of Europe. In 1939, they erupted into the mo

35、st destructive war in history. World War II raged across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands, eventually costing the lives of tens of millions of civilians and soldiers. Three events helped usher in World War II: Japan overran Manchuria; Italy, under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, invad

36、ed Ethiopia; and most important, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He rearmed the country, in violation of a treaty signed after World War I, and soon began to threaten other European nations. For six years, the war unleashed atrocities on a scale never before seen, including the annihilation o

37、f six million Jews in Nazi death camps. And the world entered the nuclear age when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. When the war finally ended, the world's political map was redrawn; Europe and Japan were in economic shambles; and the groundwork was laid for th

38、e decades long Cold War. Still, out of the conflict were born the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the United Nations, and the hope that never again would the world face such a crucible. Part V Do you know .? A kiss is usually very romantic, as both of the people love each other. Would you believe,

39、however, that both persons although kissing in the picture didn't know each other for nearly fifty years? It is one of the most famous kisses in American history.Audioscript： The photograph shows a man kissing a woman. And it's quite a kiss. He has a bent almost over backwards. The photograp

40、her was the renowned Alfred Eisenstein , who published the picture on the cover of a nation wide magazine. But since the subject was kissing, it's hard to see their faces clearly. So for 50 years no one could figure out who they were. It is one of the most famous kisses in American history: a sa

41、ilor and a nurse in a victory embrace right in the middle of Broadway. The image was captured on 14 August, 1945 by photographer Alfred Eisenstein and printed on the cover of Life magazine. But the kissers whose faces are obscured remained anonymous for years. In 1980, Edith Sheng came forward to ad

42、mit she was the nurse. Although she recognized herself from the minute she saw the magazine's cover, she said she was too embarrassed to tell anyone because she didn't know who the sailor in the picture was. "I was just standing there and I. grabbed and this is a stranger. But this is a

43、 man who fought for us, and who helped end the war." Miss Sheng says she's received several calls over the past 15 years from men who claimed to be the sailor who kissed her, but she says none of their stories rang true. But Carols Muscarrela says he didn't have any trouble persuading E

44、dith Sheng that he was the man in Eisenstein's photograph when he met her in July, nearly 50 years after their first encounter. Mr Muscarrela said he didn't even know the picture had been taken because he was shipped out a few days later and didn't return for 3 months. He said his mother

45、 saw the picture, however, and was shocked. "My mother went to visit the doctor's office in Berklin. This is several weeks after the photograph was taken and she picked up a magazine in the doctor's office and she said: 'This is my boy. This is my little boy.'" When he did

46、learn about the picture, Carols said he didn't come forward to identify himself because he was happily married and really had no interest in the publicity. But, he says, a friend persuaded him to come forward for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the most famous kiss in

47、 American history. Part VII Watch and enjoy Videoscript： November, 1960, senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts wins one of the narrowest election victories in American history over Vice President Richard Nixon by a little more than 100 000 votes. Alongside his beautiful and elegant wife J

48、acqueline Bouvier, Kennedy is the symbol of the new freedom of the 1960s signifying change and upheaval to the American public. Martin Luther King： All men are created equal. Kennedy： Every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the cause of freedom around the world. In October,

49、 1962, the world comes to the brink of nuclear war when Kennedy quarantines Cuba after announcing the presence of offensive Soviet nuclear missiles 90 miles off American shores. Soviet ships with more missiles sail towards the island but at the last moment they turn back. The world breathes with relief. Early that fatal summer Kennedy speaks of his new vision at the American university in Washington. Kennedy： What kind of peace do I mean? And what kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. We mus