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1、LISTEN TO THIS 3 第三部分section3 原文整理 116单元 SECTION THREE 原文整理路人Y。Lesson 1The leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died ten years ago today. During his lifetime, Mao became a cult figure, but the current government has tried to change that. Now his tomb and embalmed body in Beijing are just anoth

2、er tourist attraction. And no longer do millions of Chinese study or wave aloft the famous Little Red Book of Quotations from Chairman Mao. Along with the political writing, Mao wrote poetry as wellpoems about the revolution, the Red Army, poems about nature. Willis Barnstone has translated some of

3、Maos work and considers him an original master, one of Chinas most important poets. Had he not been a revolutionary, perhaps his poetry would not have been as interesting because his personal poetry was the history of China. At the same time because he was a famous revolutionary and leader, it has p

4、rejudiced most people, almost correctly, to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame elsewhere. But his work was not dismissed within China though? Well, now its almost consciously forgotten. But when I was there in 72, you could see his poems on every dining room wall, engra

5、ved on peach-pits . During lunch hours, workers would study his poems. They were every place. Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literary circles? Are people saying Mao wasnt any good as a poet either? No. Well, at least in my conversations in the year I recently spent in Peking teachin

6、g at the university there, I found very few people who didnt think he was a very good poet. But they did feel that his suggestions which were that people not write in the classical style, that they write in what he called the modern style, was very repressive. And as a result, of course, the restric

7、tion of publication during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, poetry was abysmal. When you say the modern style, would that be, for example, free verse? It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms. You write in the introduction to one of your translations of poems

8、 of Mao Tsetong that people . you explain that leaders in China, and indeed in the a East, are expected to be accomplished poets. Yes, I think thats true. The night that Tojo . before Tojo died, he, . in Japan, he wrote some poems. Ho Chi Minh was a poet. It was common. In fact, I think until early

9、in the twentieth century, even to pass a bureaucratic exam, one had to know a huge number of classical forms. And especially, a leader should at least be a poet. There is one poem which is political in nature which has to do with a parasitic disease in China. Yes. Mao wrote some poems, two poems act

10、ually, about getting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country. And its called Saying goodbye to the God of Disease. And the poem needs annotation. In that sense, its typical of classical Chinese poetry; he makes references to earlier emperors and places. Saying Goodbye to the God of Diseas

11、e Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing When the great ancient doctor Hua Tuo Could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, Men were lost arrows, ghosts sang In the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day, we leap around the earth, Or explore

12、a thousand milky ways. And if the cowherd who loves on a star Asks about the God of plagues, Tell him, happy or sad, The God is gone, Washed away in the waters. A poem by Mao Tsetong read by Willis Barnstone, Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington. He talked with us

13、 from WFIU.LESSON 2Over the last few years and around the country, the number of fundamentalist religious groups is said to be growing. Some are called ultra-fundamentalist groups. The estimates varied greatly. The number could be as high as two thousand. These organizations have different purposes

14、and beliefs, but usually have one thing in commonstrong leadership, quite often one person. Four years ago in October at a fundamentalist Christian commune in West Virginia, a young boy died after a paddling session that lasted for two hours. The child was spanked by his parents. He had hit another

15、child and refused to say he was sorry. We reported the story of that paddlingthe story of the Stonegate Community in November of 1982. Since that time, Stonegate leader has been tried and convicted, one of the first times a leader of a religious group has been held responsible for the actions of a m

16、ember. Also in that time the parents of the child have served jail terms, and now they have agreed to tell their story. The Stonegate Commune was near Charleston, West Virginia, in the northeast corner of the state. Its mostly farming country. The Stonegate members lived outside of town in an old wh

17、ite Victorian house, overlooking the Shenandoah River, eight young families living and working together. They did some farming, some construction work and for a time ran a restaurant in Charleston. It was their intention to become less of a commune and more of a community, with the families living i

18、n separate houses on the property. We went to Stonegate on a Sunday evening in November of 1982. We were reluctantly welcomed. Less than a month before, two Stonegate members had been indicted for involuntary manslaughter. They were the parents of Joseph Green, who was two years old when he died. On

19、 this night many of the Stonegate people were defensive, almost angry. That was four years ago. The parents, Stewart and Leslie Green, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and both spent a year in jail. First Stewart, then Leslie. Then in a separate legal action, the leader of the Stonegate co

20、mmune, Dorothy McLellan was also indicted. McLellan did not take part in the paddling but she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy in the death of Joey Green. Stewart Green, the father, testified against Dorothy McLellan. Green now believes that his son died because of McLella

21、ns teachings and influence. He explained in court that the Stonegate members were taught that a paddling session should continue until the child apologizes. Green also testified that a four-hour spanking of Dorothy McLellans grandson, Danny, had occurred two weeks before Joey Greens death. He also s

22、aid the Stonegate members, when Joey died, joined in a pledge of secrecy: the circumstances would be covered up; the death would be called an accident. They were afraid all the Stonegate children would be taken away. Joeys parents at first agreed to this. It was later that they spoke out against wha

23、t they called then a conspiracy of silence. Both Stewart and Leslie Green grew up and married within the Stonegate community. Leslie was only fifteen when she came to the Stonegate. They lived with several other teenagers in the home of Dorothy and John McLellan. The McLellans had been taking in you

24、ng people who were having trouble, usually with drugs. They wanted to use their marriage as an example of Christian family life. John McLellan worked for an accounting firm, traveling during the week, Dot McLellan staying at home, taking care of more and more teenagers. The Greens are now living in

25、their first real home together, an apartment in Baltimore. Stewart left the Stonegate, and Leslie joined him as soon as she got out of jail. The Greens have now agreed to talk about their lives at Stonegate and about the paddling of their son.Lesson 3A group of business leaders in Boston today annou

26、nced plans to expand a college scholarship program to include any eligible Boston high school graduate. The business leaders announced plans for a permanent five-million dollar endowment fund, and they also promise to hire any of the students who go on to complete their college educations. Andrew Ka

27、ffery of member station WBUR has the report. The Boston business communitys involvement in the Boston public school dates back almost twenty years, from work internships to an endowment program for Boston teachers. Business has pumped more than one million dollars into the public schools. Now busine

28、ss leaders say theyre ready to make their biggest commitment yet: a multi-million dollar scholarship program that will enable the citys poorest kids to go on to college and to jobs afterward. The program is called Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships, or ACESS. According to Daniel

29、 Cheever, the President of Bostons Wheelock College, ACESS in not a blank check for the eligible graduates. First Well help them get as much aid as they can from other sources, and secondly, well provide the last dollar scholarship. I should add, of course, they have to qualify for financial aid; th

30、at is, were not handing out money to students who dont need it. The average grant is around five hundred dollars and already the program has given one hundred Boston students more than fifty thousand dollars in scholarship money. Other assistance from the program has helped those students raise more

31、 than six hundred thousand dollars in additional financial aid. School officials say this program will help a system where 43% of the students live below the poverty level, and almost half who enter high school drop out. Robert Weaver was on Boston high school graduate who could not afford college.

32、Hes in the ACESS program now and will get a degree in airplane mechanics next year from the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. I got the Pale grant and the state scholarship, but there was still a gap. There was like a twenty-three hundred-dollar gap. Wentworths total bill was fifty-seven hundred, so I had to fill that amount with working over the summer, my family contribution. I paid for my own books, my own tools, things like that. But without ACESS I wouldnt be where I am today. This program comes at an important