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【第一期阅读小分队(已结束)】【每日阅读练习贴——速度+越障】【一楼汇总】(另附CD首发花儿阅读教材PDF)

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 楼主| 发表于 2011-6-11 09:06:39 | 只看该作者


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速读1-2<br />1 差3行<br />2 差3行<br />3 差2行<br />4 差2行<br />5 差1行<br />恩,有些两个词连在一起,多少会对阅读产生点影响。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 <u>aeiou0315</u> (2011/6/10 22:56:32)</div><br />
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这个真不好意思..从VOA网站上贴过来不知道为什么总是会变成这样..&gt;&lt;
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 楼主| 发表于 2011-6-11 09:10:00 | 只看该作者

【越障1-4】

<span style="color:#4b0082;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Today's Topic:INCREASING PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY TO INFLUENCE CULTURAL EVOLUTION</font></span><span style="color:#4b0082;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">* a% \1 M/ d$ ?6 Z</font></font></span><span style="color:#4b0082;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><strong><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">CARING: A CRITICAL BEHAVIOR FORTHE BENEFICIAL EVOLUTION OF CULTURAL PRACTICES</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">, J5 ]) ^' q! ^% ?: @</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">The unwillingness or inabilityof people to care for each other aggravates many societal problems. Theseproblems include war, terrorism, prejudice, interpersonal conflict, crime,depression, and drug abuse.</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">. M: e* K5 u1 {% a</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">rejudice causes one to evaluateothers based on the groups to which they belong rather than on their personalbehavior. In interpersonal conflict, people are hostile to each other andtypically supply “good reason” to justify the hostility. A stressfulenvironment increases the likelihood of depression (Stroud, Davila, &amp;Moyer,2008); aversive behavior of a depressed person’s family also adds to thedepression(Biglan, 1991). A major risk factor for developing drug abuse is acoercive family environment that leads to children’s aggressive social behavior(Dishion&amp; Patterson, 2006). Peers socially reject these aggressivechildren, who then form deviant peer groups within which drug abuse develops(Snyder, Dishion,&amp; Patterson, 1986).</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">' ]. ]7 @1 x! j3 |&amp; d/ e3 o</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">In each of these examples, problemswould diminish if those involved began to care for those around them. Thisclaim is hardly controversial, but behavioral science has lacked a clearframework for increasing caring across such diverse problems.Recent work onpsychological flexibility provides just such a framework.</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot"> &nbsp;</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><strong><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">SYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY ANDEXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">sychological flexibility is“the ability to contact the present moment more fully as a conscious humanbeing and to change, or persist in, behavior when doing so serves valued ends”(Biglan, Hayes, &amp; Pistorello, 2008, p. 142). To sense what this orientationinvolves, it helps to understand the opposite orientation—experientialavoidance (EA). EA is the tendency to avoid or control unpleasant thoughts andfeelings, even when doing so creates problems for a person (e.g., in order toavoid feeling anxious, someone may avoid public places or avoid people whoevoke anxiety). However, such behavior considerably limits one’s options inlife.</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">Growing evidence associates EAwith diverse psychological and behavioral problems,including anxiety,depression, substance abuse, poor work performance,high-risk sexual behavior,pain, and long-term disability. Hayes, Luoma, Bond,Masuda, and Lillis (2006)provide a meta-analysis of relationships between a measure of EA andpsychological problems: the weighted effect size was .42.</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">Acceptance and CommitmentTherapy or Training (ACT) has increased psychological flexibility in more than20 randomized trials. Hayes et al. (2006) summarized the evidence: ACT hasameliorated substance abuse, depression, psychosis,self-harm, chronic pain,anxiety, smoking, prejudice, work site stress, employee burnout, diabeticself-management, adjustment to cancer, obsessive-compulsivedisorder,trichotillomania, and epilepsy.</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">ACT employs metaphors andexperiential exercises to help people accept unpleasant thoughts and feelingsand</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot"> </font></font></span><em><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">defuse</font></font></span></em><em><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot"> </font></font></span></em><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">from them. People fuse with their thoughtswhen they behave as if those thoughts are literally true.<em>Thatis, they do</em></font></font></span><em><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot"> </font></font></span></em><em><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">not distinguish between the thought andwhat the thought describes</font></font></span></em><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">.For example, a person might think, “That person doesn’t like me,” and mightreact without noticing if the thought is true or not.</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">- L9 v&amp; K# R4 I% Z8 O: W</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">ACT also helps people clarifytheir values. The critical question is, “What do you want your life torepresent?” As people learn to accept and defuse from their thoughts,theybecome better able to connect fully with situations they face and to make thechoice to act consistently with their values.</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">! Z&quot; L0 e$ B$ S6 }. ]( [6 i</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">Behavior analysts who areunfamiliar with both Relational Frame Theory (Hayes,Barnes-Holmes, &amp; Roche,2001) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Hayes,Strosahl, &amp; Wilson,1999) may be surprised to learn that ACT research grows out of a behavioranalytic approach to language and human behavior. In behavior analytic terms,the ACT processes involve reducing rule governed behavior so that people stayin better contact with the contingencies in their current situation. For example,people may react angrily toward coworkers because they believe the coworkershave harmed them. However, behaving under the control of this verbalformulation may obscure behaviors of a coworker that might usefully bereinforced.</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">/ [*{&amp; Y) B &nbsp;{1 a4 B&quot; h</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">In general, ACT treats anindividual’s relational responding as a set of stimuli that affects otheraspects of behavior based on a prior history of reinforcement for responding tothose aspects. A large and growing literature on relational responding(e.g.,Barnes-Holmes et al., 2004; Hayes et al., 2001; Stewart, Barnes- Holmes,&amp;Roche, 2004; Whelan &amp; Barnes-Holmes, 2004) shows that, for verbally ablehumans, the functions of most stimuli are affected by the way the personrelates them to other stimuli. For example, those who have learned a network ofrelationships about themselves that includes, “I am not smart” may avoidsituations (e.g., a classroom) that might embarrass them. Such rule-governedbehavior can be highly constricting and can interfere with effective behavior.ACT’s metaphors and experiential exercises enable people to reduce the controlof their own relational responding over the rest of their behavior. People whothought they were not smart would learn to see such thoughts—as thoughts only—andto act in ways consistent with their values, as if they had no suchthoughts.Thus, a father who valued getting ahead financially for his family’ssake might accept but “hold lightly” thoughts about his intelligence and take aclass in order to get a better job.</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"># F &nbsp;A% e2 e# F! N</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">At least two studies indicatethe value of ACT in reducing prejudice and stigmatization.Lillis and Hayes(2007) used an ACT intervention to help undergraduates accept their prejudicialthoughts, recognize them as such, and clarify their values about members ofother races. In contrast to a traditional lecture approach to prejudice, ACThelped people accept the fact that they had prejudicial thoughts and to try tostop controlling them. Traditional theory suggests that this would make peoplemore prejudiced. Instead, they found that those who received ACT were moreinterested and willing to be involved with people of other ethnicities andraces than those who did not receive the training.</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">5 W- c$ r, `- _# a1 `0 P</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">Ina second study, Hayes et al.(2004) found that ACT had greater benefit in reducing drug counselors’stigmatizing attitudes toward their clients than did traditional multiculturaltraining. It also had a greater impact on counselors’ feelings of burnout.</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">Hayes(2006) has argued thatincreasing acceptance and defusion encourages loving acts toward oneself. If Idislike or am ashamed of aspects of me, such as memories of past behaviors,then acceptance and defusion can help me to view those memories only as thoughtsI have about myself, not as reality. One metaphor ACT uses is to encouragepeople to accept thoughts and feelings: “Hold them as you would hold a cryingchild” (Hayes &amp; Smith, 2005, p. 130). In other words,people are encouragedto take a loving stance toward the parts of themselves they usually dislike andavoid. This is not to say they are encouraged to like or believe these ideasabout themselves but rather to learn simply to let those thoughts exist. Inthis context, it is possible for people to choose to act in keeping with theirvalues (e.g., even if people often feel inadequate, they can still work ontasks at which they fear they will fail).</font></font></span><span style="color:white;"><font size="undefined"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">7 e &nbsp;R/ P: U&quot; f% O/ E5 ^</font></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><br /></font></span><span style="color:#444444;"><font size="4"><font face="&amp;quot">If we take this stance towardthe full content of our minds (i.e., our thoughts andfeelings), we will includefeelings we have about others. Learning to “hold lightly”our thoughts andfeelings toward another can put us in better contact with theactual person—hisor her needs as a human being. To understand this process better,it helps toconsider the role of evaluation in human action</font></font></span>
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 楼主| 发表于 2011-6-11 09:22:38 | 只看该作者

【速度1-6】

<span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>1</span><br /></span><br /><font size="5"><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="6"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Gates Says NATO CouldFace 'Irrelevance' in the Future</font></font></span></strong></font><div style="text-align:right;"><div style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#666666;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> &nbsp;10 June 2011</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span>This is IN THENEWS in VOA Special English.<br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">American DefenseSecretary Robert Gates has told NATO members that they need to do more -- andspend more -- to support the alliance.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ROBERT GATES: &quot;Theblunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the USCongress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expendincreasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwillingto devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be seriousand capable partners in their own defense.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">On Friday, Mr. Gatesgave his last policy speech before he retires as defense secretary on Junethirtieth. He spoke in Brussels, Belgium, at the headquarters of the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization. NATO was created in nineteen forty-nine to defendwestern Europe against the Soviet Union.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates spoke aboutone current NATO operation -- the bombing campaign in Libya. He noted that alltwenty-eight members voted for the mission. But less than half have taken partat all, he said, and fewer than a third have been willing to participate in thecampaign. He said many allies want to take part but lack the resources.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Last week NATO decidedto extend its activities in Libya until the end of September.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates said that byone estimate, European defense spending has fallen by nearly fifteen percent inthe past ten years. He said this has affected what he called the first &quot;hot&quot;ground war in NATO history -- the war in Afghanistan.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>2</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ROBERT GATES:&quot;Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the USmilitary - NATO has struggled, at times desperately, to sustain a deployment oftwenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on theground, but in crucial support assets.&quot;</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates said theAmerican share of NATO defense spending has now risen to more than seventy-fivepercent. This is happening at a time when budget cuts are being considered inthe United States. President Obama has called for an additional four hundredbillion dollars in defense reductions.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><img src="file:///C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="" /></font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates said nationsmust be responsible for their fair share of the common defense. He warned aboutthe future of NATO unless Europe stops cutting back on defense spending. Hesaid there is &quot;the very real possibility of collective militaryirrelevance&quot; for the alliance. He said future American leaders may notconsider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">resident Obama's choiceto become the next defense secretary is Leon Panetta. Mr. Panetta is currentlythe director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA job would go to DavidPetraeus, currently the top American general in Afghanistan, if the Senateapproves the nominations.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">resident Obama wants tobegin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan next month. The goal is toend United States military operations in that country by the end oftwenty-fourteen.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">On Thursday, the SenateArmed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for Mr. Panetta. Severalsenators gave him credit for being the person President Obama named to head theeffort that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Panetta said he believedthe killing gave the United States the best chance to defeat al-Qaida since theattacks of September eleventh, two thousand one.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">And that's IN THE NEWSin VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.</font></font></span><br /> <br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>3</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcometo AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">I'm Faith Lapidus. Onour program this week, we play songs from some of Broadway’s top musicals …</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">We tell about a trainingprogram that is helping immigrants find employment …</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">But first we talk toChinese-American writer Lisa See about her new book.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LisaSee “Dreams of Joy”</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">FAITH LAPIDUS: Thewriter Lisa See takes readers on a trip across the Pacific Ocean in her latestbook, “Dreams of Joy.” It continues the story of two Chinese sisters whoreaders met in See’s novel, “Shanghai Girls.” In that book, Pearl and Mayescaped the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the nineteen thirties. Thesisters fled to California.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">In “Dreams of Joy,”Pearl is forced to return to Shanghai on a search for her daughter. Bob Doughtyhas more about the new novel and the writer.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">BOB DOUGHTY: “Dreams ofJoy” takes place in the nineteen fifties. Pearl’s nineteen year old daughter,Joy, is angry at her mother and her Aunt May. So she runs away to China to findthe father she has never met. She not only finds him but becomes involved withthe changes taking place in the country. Lisa See says this situation was notuncommon at the time. She says many young Chinese were sympathetic to thecountry’s new government.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA SEE: “Actually,there were a lot of Chinese going back to the People’s Republic of China atthat time, ninety thousand in one year from Fukien province alone. But also alot of other people who weren’t Chinese, who were going to China kind ofinspired by what was going on there, or even hoping to start a business.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>4</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Once in mainland China,however, it was not easy to leave. Some who returned, Chinese and foreigners,became victims of political unrest. In the late nineteen fifties, China’s governmentordered major changes that caused economic problems.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Here, from “Dreams ofJoy,” the character Pearl describes the moment she finds her daughter.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><img src="file:///C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg" width="230" height="300" alt="" /></font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">READER: “Her delicateeyebrows, pretty nose and full lips register absolute astonishment at seeingme. Her eyes widen and become even brighter. Then I see not happiness, sadnessor even anger that I’m here. It’s worse than any of those. The cool shadows ofindifference fall over her features. She stares at me but doesn’t say a word.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Lisa See has writtenseveral best-selling novels about Chinese-related subjects. She says thosethemes have special appeal for her.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA SEE: “I’m partChinese. But I have red hair and freckles so I don’t look very Chinese, but Idid grow up in a very traditional Chinese American family. I live in LosAngeles and today, in Los Angeles, I have about four hundred relatives, ofwhich the majority of them are still full Chinese and there there’s thisspectrum with me on one end – there are about a dozen that look like me – butthen, sort of, this spectrum all the way up to the majority being fullChinese.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">She says she is alsopart Irish. Like most Americans, she celebrates her ethnicities.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>5</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA SEE: “I think allof us here in the United States, we all had someone in our families who wasbrave enough, scared enough, dumb enough, crazy enough to leave their homecountry to come here. But there is still a part of us that is tied to ouroriginal homeland and we all share in that feeling no matter where you camefrom.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Lisa See is already atwork on her next book. It deals with Chinese American culture from the firsthalf of the twentieth century. And one of her books has already made it toHollywood. “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” will be released in movie theatersacross America on July fifteenth.</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Goodwill’sJob Training Program</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">FAITH LAPIDUS: ManyAmericans donate clothes, furniture and small goods to Goodwill Industries. Thenonprofit group then sells them at low prices at its stores across the UnitedStates and in other countries. Money from those sales is used to provide job trainingfor poor people and the disabled. In America, Goodwill also offers specialtraining for immigrants. Barbara Klein has more.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">BARBARA KLEIN: YafetDeferesu from Ethiopia and Perline Rasoanoromalala from Madagascar are workingon their resumes. Employers seeking workers usually ask for a copy of a resume.It gives details of the person’s educational and employment history, plus otherinformation.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms. Rasoanoromalala cameto the United States six months ago on a work visa. Mr. Deferesu has been inthe country for thirty years. But he has trouble getting a job because he isblind in one eye and has other disabilities.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><img src="file:///C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="" /></font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时结束</font></span><br /></span>LZ计时:差2行<br />差5行<br />54s<br />59s<br />60s<br /><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">下面感兴趣的可以看完</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">~</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">今天这篇还和咱中国有关</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">,</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">貌似挺有意思</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">~</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">整理完了</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">,LZ</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">去看了</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">~</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Both immigrants recentlycompleted a three-week long, career enhancement program at Goodwill. Each hopesthe experience will help them find work in a very competitive job market.Perline Rasoanoromalala praises the organization.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ERLINE RASOANOROMALALA:“Goodwill is a good support for us job seekers and also for immigrants to helpus to understand how does it work here in the U.S.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Yafet Deferesu feels thesame.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">YAFET DEFERESU: “Everyday I come here, and every energy I see here is so positive that it promoteswhat I want to accomplish and finding a job.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms. Rasoanoromalala hasa college degree. She formerly worked for an American development organizationin Madagascar. She would like to work for another here.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mister Deferesu has notheld a job in several years. He wants to keep financial records for a company.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">They both receivedtraining at a Goodwill center in Arlington, Virginia. They learned how todiscuss a job opening with a possible employer. &nbsp;They also learned ways tomarket their skills. The head of the training program, Lisa Bauer, says herstudents learn how to write a resume.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA BAUER: “Resumes aredifferent throughout the world and here the employers really expect to see whatthat person has achieved, &nbsp;really almost asking somebody to boast aboutthemselves, and in other countries, that’s not favored as a practice.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Immigrants also learnthat cultural differences may be misunderstood during job interviews. Behaviorand body language can affect whether or not a job is offered.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ERLINE RASOANOROMALALA:“I did not know that crossing your arms is perceived a different way in theU.S. For us, it’s a sign of I’m listening carefully to you. Here maybe it’s a lackof openness.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Goodwill has twenty-fivehundred stores around the world. Most are in the United States and Canada. JimGibbons is the head of Goodwill Industries International. He says theorganization helps trainees correctly measure their skills and abilities.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">JIM GIBBONS: “What Ithink Goodwill does for the disabled and immigrants is to have highexpectations, give the facts and then surround the individual with the toolsand support for them to be successful.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">erline Rasoanoromalalasays that support is making her hopeful she will find a job soon.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ERLINE RASOANOROMALALA:“America is a land of opportunities, so I keep faith, and ‘cross my fingers’ asyou say.”</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Tony-NominatedMusicals</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">FAITH LAPIDUS: Actors,directors, playwrights and others will gather this Sunday at the Beacon Theaterin New York City. Many in the crowd will be hoping to hear their names calledfor a Tony Award, the top honor for Broadway theater productions.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Four plays werenominated for best musical. One is “Catch Me If You Can,” a funny play about alikeable criminal.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC: “Live, In LivingColor”)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">He tricks people intothinking he is a pilot during his run, or flight, from the law. The musical isbased on a movie from two thousand two.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The musical “Sister Act”is also based on a movie. Whoopi Goldberg was the star of the nineteen ninetytwo movie. She is a producer of the Broadway musical.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span>
24#
 楼主| 发表于 2011-6-11 09:26:23 | 只看该作者
这几份速度训练都有点偏短,以后慢慢加长。。从【速度1-10】开始加长到300-350字这样。。一起加油~^^
25#
 楼主| 发表于 2011-6-13 00:48:00 | 只看该作者

【速度1-7】依旧VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH

<span style="background-color:#013add;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><font size="5">计时1</font></span></span><br />Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926: She Dared to Dream and Became the First African American Female Pilot<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: I'm Faith Lapidus.<br />STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman pilot.<br />(MUSIC)<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, in eighteen ninety-two. Her mother was African American. Her father was part African American and part American Indian. Her family was poor. Bessie had to walk more than six kilometers to go to school. When she was nine years old, her father left the family to search in Oklahoma for the territory of his Indian ancestors.<br />In Texas then, as in most areas of the American South, black people were treated unfairly. They lived separately from white people and established their own religious, business and social traditions. Bessie was proud of her race. She learned that from her hard-working and religious mother.<br />STEVE EMBER: Bessie had to pick cotton and wash clothes to help earn money for her family. She was able to save a little money and went to college in the state of Oklahoma. She was in college only one year. She had to leave because she did not have enough money to complete her studies. But during that year, she learned about flying. She read about the first flight of the Wright Brothers and the first American female pilot, Harriet Quimby. Bessie often thought about what it would feel like to fly like a bird.<br /> <br /><br /><span style="background-color:#013add;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><font size="5">计时2</font></span></span><br />FAITH LAPIDUS: When she was twenty-three, Bessie Coleman moved to Chicago, Illinois to live with two of her older brothers. There, she worked at several jobs. But she wanted to do something more important. She heard stories from pilots who were returning from World War One. &nbsp;She decided she was going to learn how to fly airplanes.<br />She soon found this to be almost impossible. What flight school would admit a black woman? She found that apparently there were none in the United States. Bessie learned that she would have a better chance in Europe. She began to study French at a language school in Chicago. She also took a higher-paying job supervising a public eating place so she could save money.<br />(MUSIC)<br />STEVE EMBER: Soon after the end of World War One, Bessie Coleman left for France. She attended the famous flight school, Ecole d'Aviation des Freres Caudron, in the town of Le Crotoy in northern France. She learned to fly in a plane that had two sets of wings, one over the other.<br />She completed seven months of flight training. Coleman earned her international permit to fly in nineteen twenty-one from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in France. She became the first black woman ever to earn an international pilot's license.<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: Coleman returned to Chicago. She was the only black female pilot in the United States. So her story became popular in African American newspapers. She was asked by the Dallas Express newspaper in Texas why she wanted to fly. She said that women and blacks must have pilots if they are to keep up with the times. She added: &quot;Do you know you have never lived until you have flown.&quot;<br /><span style="background-color:#013add;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><font size="5">计时3</font></span></span><br />Coleman soon learned that it was difficult for anyone to earn enough money as a pilot to live. She knew she would have to improve her flying skills and learn to do more tricks in the air if she wanted to succeed. There still was no one willing to teach her in Chicago. So, she returned to Europe in nineteen twenty-two. She completed about four more months of flight training with French and German pilots.<br />STEVE EMBER: Coleman returned to New York where she gave her first public flying performance in the United States. A large crowd of people gathered to watch her. She rolled the plane. And she stopped the engine and then started it again just before the plane landed. The crowd loved her performance. So did other crowds as she performed in towns and cities across the country.<br />Bessie Coleman had proved she could fly. Yet she wanted to do more. She hoped to establish a school for black pilots in the United States. She knew she needed a plane of her own. She traveled to Los Angeles, California, where she sought the support of a company that sold tires. The company helped her buy a Curtiss JN-Four airplane, commonly called a Jenny. In return, she was to represent the company at public events.<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: Bessie Coleman organized an air show in Los Angeles. But the Jenny's engine stopped soon after take-off, and the plane crashed to the ground. Coleman suffered a broken leg and other injuries. She regretted the accident and felt she had disappointed her supporters. She sent a message: &quot;Tell them all that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!&quot;<br /><span style="background-color:#013add;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><font size="5">计时4</font></span></span><br />Coleman returned to Chicago where she continued her plan to open a flying school. She had very little money, no job and no plane, yet she opened an office in Chicago. She soon found it was impossible to keep the office open without more financial support. So she decided to return to flying.<br /> <br />STEVE EMBER: In nineteen twenty-five, Bessie Coleman traveled to her home state of Texas. The former cotton picker and beauty technician now was the only licensed black woman pilot in the world. She could speak French. And she was an international traveler.<br />(MUSIC)<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: To earn money, Bessie Coleman gave speeches and showed films of her flights. She did this in churches, theaters and at local all-black public schools. She organized more air shows. She soon had enough money to pay for some of the cost of a plane of her own, another old Curtiss Jenny. She continued her speeches and air shows in the state of Georgia, then in Florida. She hoped to earn enough money to open her school.<br />In Florida, Coleman met Edwin Beeman, whose father was the head of a huge chewing gum company. Mister Beeman gave her the money to make the final payment on her plane in Dallas. Coleman made plans to have it flown to her in Jacksonville, Florida. A young white pilot, William Wills, made the trip.<br />But the old Jenny had problems. Wills had to make two stops during the short flight to repair the plane. Local pilots who examined the plane were surprised he had been able to fly it so far.<br /><span style="background-color:#013add;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><font size="5">计时5</font></span></span><br />STEVE EMBER: On April thirtieth, nineteen twenty-six, Coleman was preparing for an air show in which she would star. She agreed to make the flight with William Wills. He flew the plane so she could clearly see the field she would fly over.<br />She did not use any safety devices, such as a seat belt or parachute. They would have prevented her from leaning over to see all of the field. During the flight, the plane's controls became stuck. The plane turned over in the air. Nothing was holding Coleman in. She fell more than a kilometer to her death. Wills had worn a seat belt. But he also died when the plane crashed.<br />Officials later found the cause of the accident. A tool had slid into the controls of the plane. Experts said that the accident would not have happened if Wills and Coleman had been flying a newer and safer plane.<br />(MUSIC)<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: Throughout her life, Bessie Coleman had resisted society's restrictions against blacks and women. She believed that the air is the only place where everyone is free. She wanted to teach other black people about that special environment.<br />It took some time until her wish was fulfilled. It was not until nineteen thirty-nine that black students were permitted to enter civilian flight schools in the United States.<br />It was not until the Second World War that black male pilots were sent into battle. And, it was not until nineteen eighty that the first black women completed military pilot training in the United States.<br />STEVE EMBER: Bessie Coleman did not live to establish her own flying school. But she had said that if she could create the minimum of her plans and desires, she would have no regrets. She had accepted the dangers of her job because she loved flying.<br /><span style="background-color:#013add;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;">计时结束</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color:#013add;"></span>42s<br /><br />51s<br />54s<br />54s<br /><font face="宋体">差半行</font><span style="color:#ffffff;"></span><br /><font face="宋体"><br /></font><br /><font face="宋体">今天字体设置小了点,这样看起来貌似更舒服..</font><br /><font face="宋体">这篇太简单了,下次要找科普类的~</font><br />以下感兴趣可以看完~<br />Her influence continues today. In nineteen ninety-two, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution praising her. It said: &quot;Bessie Coleman continues to inspire untold thousands, even millions of young persons with her sense of adventure, her positive attitude and her determination to succeed.&quot;<br />In nineteen thirty-four, Lieutenant William Powell wrote a book called “Black Wings.” He wrote: &quot;Because of Bessie Coleman, we have overcome that which was much worse than racial barriers. We have overcome the barriers within ourselves and dared to dream. &quot;<br />(MUSIC)<br />FAITH LAPIDUS: This program was written by Vivian Chakarian. It was produced by Lawan Davis. I’m Faith Lapidus.<br />STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. Join us again next week for People in America in VOA Special English.
26#
发表于 2011-6-15 08:15:11 | 只看该作者
1-3<br />计时1 差6行<br />计时2 差1行<br />计时3 60s<br />计时4 57s<br />计时5 59s
27#
发表于 2011-6-15 22:59:21 | 只看该作者
1-4<br />计时1 58s<br />计时2 60s<br />计时3 差一行<br />计时4 54s<br />计时5 60s<br />我觉得我确实是速度上有点问题。理解上完全没问题。词也基本都认识 <br />哎。要好好练练。可能是高考之后太久没有经历这种东西,紧迫感不足。<br />大学里啥都不用着急的。。
28#
 楼主| 发表于 2011-6-16 15:15:39 | 只看该作者
大家一起加油!我这几天在期末考。。可能没法每天更新。。惭愧惭愧了。。还是要继续坚持起来!
29#
发表于 2011-6-16 19:23:22 | 只看该作者
从六月梦之队就在关注抓抓了。我们一起加油。我也是因为期末考试所以21号的缓考到7月12了。但是看到你这个觉得真的很好,跟着你一起练习!谢谢抓抓
30#
发表于 2011-6-16 21:35:22 | 只看该作者
抓抓我来了~````` &nbsp; 跟着抓抓学阅读。哈哈
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