现代大学英语听力4 全册答案及原文(4)

One hundred sixty-seven men were killed when the structure exploded after a gas leak. Red

Adair had to stop the fires and cap the wells. He faced winds blowing more than one hundred

twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.

In March of nineteen ninety-one, Red Adair went to Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army.

The Red Adair Company capped more than one hundred wells. His crews were among

twenty-seven teams from sixteen countries called in to fight the fires. The crews' efforts put out about seven hundred Kuwaiti fires. Their efforts saved millions of barrels of oil. Some experts say the operation also helped prevent an environmental tragedy. The job had been expected to take three to five years. However, it was completed in just eight months.

Red Adair had spent his seventy-sixth birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew.

When asked when he might retire, he told reporters: "Retire? I do not know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work, and he is productive out there and he feels good—keep at it."

Still, Red Adair finally did retire in nineteen ninety-four. At that time, he joked about where

he would end up when he died. He said he hoped to be in Heaven. But he said this about Hell: "I have made a deal with the devil. He said he is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there—if I go there—so I won't put all the fires out."

Red Adair died in two thousand four. He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many

family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes. Many Americans remember Red Adair for his bravery. He lived his life on the edge of danger. He was known for his willingness to risk his own life to save others.

Task 8:

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【答案】

A.

1) She was born in New York City in 1884.

2) After she finished school, Eleanor began teaching children to read in one of the poorest areas of New York City. She investigated factories where workers were said to be badly treated. She became involved with other women who shared the same ideas about improving social conditions.

3) She decided she would no longer play the part of a politician's wife. Instead, she began to build a life with interests of her own.

4) Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. His new economic program was called the New Deal.

5) She was different from the wives of earlier presidents in that she was the first to become active in political and social issues.

6) She publicly resigned her membership to protest the action of the group.

7) She spent the last years of her life visiting foreign countries. She became America's unofficial ambassador. She called on Americans to help the people in developing countries.

B.

1) F

2) T

3) T

【原文】

Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of America's thirty-second president, Franklin Delano

Roosevelt. She helped her husband in many ways during his long political life. She also became one of the most influential people in America. She fought for equal rights for all people -- workers, women, poor people, black people. And she sought peace among nations.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in eighteen eighty-four. Eleanor's

family had great wealth and influence. When she was eight years old, her mother died. Two years later, her father died. It was Eleanor's grandmother who raised the Roosevelt children.

After she finished school, Eleanor began teaching children to read in one of the poorest areas

of New York City, called "Hell's Kitchen." She investigated factories where workers were said to be badly treated. She saw little children of four and five years old working until they dropped to the floor. She became involved with other women who shared the same ideas about improving

social conditions.

Franklin Roosevelt began visiting Eleanor. Franklin belonged to another part of the

Roosevelt family. Franklin and Eleanor were married in nineteen-oh-five. In the next eleven years, they had six children.

Franklin Roosevelt began his life in politics in New York. He was elected to be a state

legislator. Later, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to be assistant secretary of the Navy. The Roosevelts moved to Washington in nineteen thirteen. It was there, after thirteen years of

marriage, that Eleanor Roosevelt went through one of the hardest periods of her life. She

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discovered that her husband had fallen in love with another woman. She wanted to end the

marriage. But her husband urged her to remain his wife.

She did. Yet her relationship with her husband changed. She decided she would no longer

play the part of a politician's wife. Instead, she began to build a life with interests of her own.

Eleanor Roosevelt learned about politics and became involved in issues and groups that

interested her. In nineteen twenty-two, she became part of the Women's Trade Union League. She also joined the debate about ways to stop war. In those years after World War One, she argued that America must be involved in the world to prevent another war. "Peace is the question of the hour," she once told a group of women. "Women must work for peace to keep from losing their loved ones."

The question of war and peace was forgotten as the United States entered a severe economic

depression in nineteen twenty-nine. Prices suddenly dropped on the New York stock market.

Banks lost their money. People lost their jobs.

Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in nineteen thirty-two. He promised to end the

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