bx3-unit2 listening and speaking 3音频：00:00/02:14

bx3-unit2 listening and speaking 4音频：00:00/02:10

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Luke: Hi Jane! What are youreading?

Jane: Oh, hey, Luke! I’mreading a very interesting magazine article about moral dilemmas.

Luke: Moral dilemma? What doyou mean?

Jane: You know, it's whenyou have two choices, and you have to choose one, but for moral reasonssometimes it could be really difficult to decide.

Luke: Oh, situations likethat don’t happen very often, do they?

Jane: Actually, I thinkpeople face moral dilemmas all the time, even us students.

Luke: Really? Like what?

Jane: Well, for example, itmentions a girl who was taking the entrance exam for a medical university inBeijing. During the exam, the student next to her fainted. The girl had achoice. Should she finish the exam or should she stop and help the student?

Luke: Surely the teacherswould look after the student who fainted!

Jane: Well, that’s what Ithought—but not this girl. She stopped to help the student, thinking that it wasbetter to put the needs of the other person first.

Luke: So what happened toher exam?

Jane: She never finished it.Instead, she carried the student to a safe place and looked after her. Then shewent to the hospital with the student and called her sister.

Luke: I can’t believe shewould give up her chance to get into medical university! Who would do such athing?

Jane: Well, that girl wasLin Qiaozhi. She later DID get into medical university and then she became a greatdoctor. She became famous for caring for tens of thousands of women and theirbabies.

Luke: Oh, wow! So she becamea doctor even though she left her exam that day!

Jane: Yes. Her life was fullof hard choices, but she didn’t let them stop her from taking care of people whowere in need. She always cared for others more than for herself.

 

**Pronunciation***

bx3-unit2 pronunciation 1音频：00:00/01:03

bx3-unit2 pronunciation 2音频：00:00/00:53

**Reading and thinking***

bx3-Unit2 Reading and Thinking音频：00:00/04:34

---课文翻译---

MOTHER OF TEN THOUSAND BABIES

万婴之母

“Life is precious. ... To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I refuse that trust, saying I’m cold, hungry, or tired?” These words of Dr Lin Qiaozhi give us a look into the heart of this amazing woman, and what carried her through a life of hard choices.

 

“生命诚可贵。……对一个人来说，生命是最宝贵的，而现在这个人对你说，我把生命交给你，那么你还说什么呢？你冷？你饿？你困？” 从林巧稚医生的这番话，我们可以看到这位伟大女性的内心世界，以及到底是什么支撑着她走过充满艰难抉择的一生。

 

As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply affected by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the traditional path of marriage like the majority of girls, she chose to study medidne. “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their final goal!” her brother complained, thinking of the high tuition fees. She responded, “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”

 

林巧稚五岁时母亲病故，这对她影响极大。十八岁时，她没有像大多数的女孩那样走上婚姻这一传统道路，而是选择了学医。“女孩子读那么多书干嘛？找个好丈夫才是她们的归宿!”她的兄弟一想到高昂的学费就这么抱怨。她回答：“我宁愿一辈子不嫁人，也要学医！”

 

Eight years later, Lin graduated from Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) with the Wehai Scholarship, the highest prize given to graduates. She immediately became the first woman ever to be hired as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Within six months, she was named a chief resident physician, a position that usually took four years to achieve. After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in 1939, in the US. She greatly impressed her American colleagues, who invited her to stay. Dr Lin, however, rejected the offer. She wanted to serve the women and children at home.

 

八年后，林巧稚毕业于北京协和医学院，并获得了该校毕业生的最高荣誉奖——“文海”奖学金。她随即成为北京协和医学院妇产科有史以来第一位被聘为住院医师的女性。不到六个月，她就成了住院主任医师，而升任这一职位通常需要四年时间。工作了几年之后，她被派往欧洲学习，之后于1939年又赴美学习。美国同行对她印象极佳，邀请她留下。但是，林医生谢绝了邀请。她希望服务祖国的妇女和儿童。

 

In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever to be appointed director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital, but just a few months later, the department was closed because of the war. Thinking of all the people still in need of help, Dr Lin opened a private clinic. She charged very low fees to treat patients and often reduced costs for poor patients. At times she was even seen riding a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care.

 

1941年，林医生成为北京协和医院妇产科的首位中国籍女主任，但是仅仅数月之后，妇产科就因为战争而关闭。想到还有那么多人需要帮助，林医生开办了一间私人诊所。她向病人收取的治疗费用极低，而且经常为穷苦病人减免费用。有时，人们甚至会看到她骑着毛驴去偏远的乡村给人看病。

 

The new People’s Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. In 1954, she was elected to the first National People’s Congress and, over the next several decades, she held many important positions. Her heart, however, was elsewhere. She was more interested in tending patients, publishing medical research on care for women and children, and training the next generation of doctors. “The OB-GYN department cares for two lives,” She told new staff in her department. “As doctors, we should be responsible for the patients and treat them as our sisters.”

 

中华人民共和国成立后，林巧稚医生发挥了更大的作用。1954年，她当选第一届全国人大代表；在随后的几十年间，她担任许多重要职位。然而，她的心却在别处。她更感兴趣的是治病救人、发表妇幼护理医学研究成果、培养下一代的医生。“妇产科救治的是母婴两条生命,”她对科室的新入职的医务人员说道，“作为医生，我们必须对患者负责，视她们如姐妹。”

 

Though Lin Qiaozhi never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, having delivered over 50,000 babies in her lifetime. Dr Lin did not retire until the day she died, 22 April 1983. Since she had no children of her own, she left her savings to a kindergarten and a fund for new doctors. And even as she lay dying, her final thoughts were for others: “I’m ready to go,” she said. “Don’t try to rescue me any more. Don’t waste the medicine any more.”

 

虽然林巧稚终身未婚，但是她被称为“万婴之母”，她一生中亲手接生的婴儿有五万多名。林医生坚守在岗位上，直到1983年4月22日她去世的那一天。由于自己没有孩子，她把积蓄捐给了一家幼儿园和一项新医生基金。临终时，她仍在为别人着想。“我要走了，”她说，“不要再抢救了，不要再浪费药品了。”

 

**Listening and talking***

bx3-unit2 listening and talking 1音频：00:00/02:44

bx3-unit2 listening and talking 2音频：00:00/02:42

---录音原文---

Host: Hello and welcome tothe Rush Hour Show, the radio show for your way home. Our guest today is KevinMiller, with the Pay It Forward Foundation. Welcome, Kevin, so what is "payingit forward"?

Kevin: Hi, there. So "payingit forward” means that if you receive kindness from someone, you don’t try topay them back. Instead, you go out and show kindness to someone else.

Host: Oh, so it's likehelping a stranger. Can you give us an example of how it works?

Kevin: Well, I’m sure you’ve heardthe famous country song, "The Chain of Love". The song starts with aman who helps a lady whose car has broken down. The lady wants to pay him, buthe won't accept payment, instead telling the woman to just show kindness toanother person. Later, when the lady stops at a cafe, she notices her waitressis pregnant and tired. When the lady finishes eating, she pays for her mealwith a hundred-dollar bill. Then the lady walks out, leaving the change and anote for the waitress. Her note tells the waitress to continue the chain ofkindness. The song has a surprise ending. The waitress goes home to herhusband, happy because of the kindness the lady showed her. Then we find outthat he’s the man who firststarted the chain of kindness!

Host: What a great story! Sodoes this happen in real life?

Kevin: Yes, actually. Onewoman, after paying for her coffee, then quietly paid for the coffee of the customerbehind her. When that customer discovered his coffee had been paid for, he paidfor the customer behind him. The chain of kindness continued for hours. Nearly400 people paid for the coffee of the person behind them!

Host: Wow, that’s amazing.So what can our listeners do to help?

Kevin: Well, join the chainof kindness today and join the millions of people who are "paying it forward"!We never know what light we might spark in others by our kindness.

**Reading for writing***

bx3-Unit2 Reading for Writing音频：00:00/02:51

---课文翻译---

THE STONE IN THE ROAD

挡道的石头

Once upon a time there was a king who often thought, “Nothing good can come to a nation whose people only complain and expect others to solve their problems.” One day, he had an idea.

 

从前有个国王，他经常思考：“如果一个国家的人民只会抱怨，而且总是期待别人来解决他们的问题，那么这个国家就不会有什么好事。” 有一天，他想到一个办法。

 

Early one morning, the king disguised himself and went to a local village. He placed a large stone in the middle of the main street and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he hid behind a huge maple tree and watched.

 

一天清晨，国王乔装打扮一番后，来到了当地的一座村庄。他在主路中间放了一块大石头，并且在石头下面藏了几枚金币。然后，他就躲在一棵大枫树后观察。

 

The first person down the street was a milkman with his cart. He crashed into the stone, pilling the milk everywhere, “What fool put this stone here?” he shouted. He picked himself up and angrily went away.

 

路上走来的第一个人是推着车子的送奶工。他撞到石头上，把牛奶泼得到处都是，他大喊：“哪个傻瓜把石头放在这儿了？” 他从地上爬起来，气呼呼地走了。

 

After a while, a group of women came along, each balancing a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped over the stone and her water pot went crashing to the ground. She picked herself up and limped away in tears. Neither she nor her friends thought about moving the stone out of the road.

 

过了一会儿，一群妇女走了过来，她们每个人头上都顶着一罐水。其中一个女人被石头绊倒了，水罐也摔到地上。她从地上爬起来，噙着泪一瘸一拐地走了。无论是她自己，还是她的同伴，都没有想到把石头从路中间挪开。

 

The king watched all day as many people complained about the stone, but he found nobody making an attempt to move it. The king was in despair. “Is there no one in this village who feels any responsibility to keep their neighbours from harm?”

 

国王观察了一整天，看到许多人都在埋怨这块石头，却没人试着把它挪开。国王绝望了。“难道整个村子都没有一个人觉得有责任让邻居免遭不测吗？”

 

 

Just then, the king saw a young girl coming along. She was the daughter of a local farmer. She had been working all day and was very tired. But when she saw the stone, she said to herself, “This stone is a danger to anyone who comes down the street after dark. I’ll move it out of the way.”

 

就在这时，国王看见一个年轻的姑娘迎面走来。小姑娘是当地一位农民的女儿。忙活了一天，她疲惫不堪。然而，当她看到那块石头，她自言自语道：“对于天黑以后走在这条路上的人来说，这块石头很危险，我得把它从这条路上挪开。”

 

The girl pushed the stone with all her might. After a great deal of effort, she finally succeeded in moving it to the side of the street. Imagine her surprise when she saw the gold coins where the stone had been!

 

女孩使出了全身力气去推石头。费了好大一番工夫，她终于成功地把石头推到了路边。想象一下，当她看到原先石头所在之处的金币时有多么惊讶！

 

Just then, the king stepped out from behind the tree. “Oh sir,” the girl said, “does this gold belong to you? If not, we surely must find the owner, for he will certainly miss it.”

 

此时，国王从树后走了出来。“哦，先生，”女孩说道，“这些金币是您的吗？如果不是的话，我们得找到失主，他一定十分着急。”

 

The king said, “My dear, the gold is mine. I put it in the road and moved the stone over it. Now the gold is yours, because you are the only person who has learnt the lesson I wanted to teach my people.”

 

国王答道：“亲爱的，金币是我的，是我把它放在了路上，然后把石头压在上面。现在，金币归你了，因为我想教给我的子民的道理，只有你一人学会了。”

**Video Time***

 

 

---视频原文---

Confucius and Ren

Narrator:

For more than 2, 000 years, the teachings ofConfucius have been an important part of Chinese culture. Scholars in ancientChina were expected to be well-educated in the philosophy and moral values of Confucius.Even today, Confucian thought is still greatly valued in education and insociety both in China and in other East Asian countries.

Question: Why do you think today’sstudents should shady the teachings of Confucius?

Professor Guan:

The teachings of Confucius are all about the mostbasic values of life. Confucius talks about things like how to become a betterperson, how to get along with other people, how to live a happy, meaningfullife If our students really understand these ideas, it could change their life.

Narrator:

When you read the writings of Confucius, you willsee a constantly recurring word, a Chinese character that represents the heartof Confucian thought: the character ren. What is ren? If you look closelyat the written character, you can understand what it means. The left-handelement of the character represents a person, a human being, the element on theright stands for the number two. The two elements, when joined, indicaterelationships between individuals or with all of society

Confucius taught that ren was the highest moralprinciple, the standard by which all other morals were measured. In English,many different words have been used to translate ren: benevolence, love,kindheartedness,goodness, and humanity , to name a few.

Question:  Wheredoes ren come from?

Professor Lei:

Confucius said that this kind of love, ren,begins with the love to one’s own parents. Confucius believed that if someonecannot love his own parents, he also cannot love other people. If we can showthis love to our own family, we can also show this love to other people aroundus, to the country, and to the whole world.

Narrator:

One of the greatest scholars who studied Confucianthinking, a man named Mencius, explained ren like this: "loving onesparents, loving people, loving everything in the world.”

Zigong asked. "Is there one single concept thatwe can take as a guide for all actions in our lives? ”

Confucius said, Whatabout ‘fairness’? Whatever you don’t like done to yourself. don’t do it toothers.”

This kind of love should direct everything we do. Itleads the way to all other virtues in life. “ Do not do to others anything thatyou would not want done to you. " This truth from the time of Confuciusstill holds true today.

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