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1、全新大学英语综合教程第二册单元6内容讲解 导语：女人可以撑起半边天，但是女性如何设法将全职工作与家庭责任相结合，仍然有时间做其他事情呢，下文会为大家讲解，欢迎大家来阅读。 Women Half the Sky Part I Pre-Reading Task Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. Why cant women be ignored? 2. What price have women had to pay for their wisdom?
2、 3. What happens to them if you try to break their will? 4. Have women realized their dreams? The following words in the recording may be new to you: gonna = (infml) going to invincible a. 战无不胜的 conviction n. 信念 embryo n. 胚胎;萌芽期 Part II Text How do some women manage to combine a full-time job with f
3、amily responsibilities and still find time for doing other things? Adrienne Popper longs to be like them, but wonders whether it is an impossible dream. IM GOING TO BUY THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE Not long ago I received an alumni bulletin from my college. It included a brief item about a former classmate:
4、Kate L. teaches part-time at the University of Oklahoma and is assistant principal at County High School. In her spare time she is finishing her doctoral dissertation and the final drafts of two books, and she still has time for tennis and horse riding with her daughters. Four words in that descript
5、ion undid me: in her spare time. A friend said that if I believed everything in the report, she had a bridge in Brooklyn shed like to sell me. My friends joke hit home. What an idiot Id been! I resolved to stop thinking about Kates incredible accomplishments and to be suitably skeptical of such stor
6、ies in the future. But like a dieter who devours a whole box of cookies in a moment of weakness, I found my resolve slipping occasionally. In weak moments Id comb the pages of newspapers and magazines and consume success stories by the pound. My favorite superwomen included a politicians daughter wh
7、o cared for her two-year-old and a newborn while finishing law school and managing a company; a practicing pediatrician with ten children other own; and a television anchorwoman, mother of two preschoolers, who was studying for a masters degree. One day, however, I actually met a superwoman face to
8、face. Just before Christmas last year, my work took me to the office of a woman executive of a national corporation. Like her supersisters, she has a husband, two small children and, according to reports, a spotless apartment. Her life runs as precisely as a Swiss watch. Since my own schedule rarely
9、 succeeds, her accomplishments fill me with equal amounts of wonder and guilt. On a shelf behind her desk that day were at least a hundred jars of strawberry jam, gaily tied with red-checked ribbons. The executive and her children had made the jam and decorated the jars, which she planned to distrib
10、ute to her staff and visiting clients. When, I wondered aloud, had she found the time to complete such an impressive holiday project? I should have known better than to ask. The answer had a familiar ring: in her spare time. On the train ride home I sat with a jar of strawberry jam in my lap. It rep
11、roached me the entire trip. Other women, it seemed to say, are movers and shakers not only during office hours, but in their spare time as well. What, it asked, do you accomplish in your spare time? I would like to report that I am using my extra moments to complete postdoctoral studies in physics,
12、to develop new theories of tonal harmony for piano and horn, and to bake cakes and play baseball with my sons. The truth of the matter is, however, that I am by nature completely unable to get my act together. No matter how carefully I plan my time, the plan always goes wrong. If I create schedules
13、of military precision in which several afternoon hours are given over to the writing of the Great American Novel, the school nurse is sure to phone at exactly the moment I put pencil to paper. One of my children will have developed a strange illness that requires him to spend the remainder of the da
14、y in bed, calling me at frequent intervals to bring soup, juice, and tea. Other days, every item on my schedule will take three times the number of minutes set aside. The cleaner will misplace my clothes. My order wont be ready at the butcher shop as promised. The woman ahead of me in the supermarke
15、t line will pay for her groceries with a check drawn on a Martian bank, and only the manager (who has just left for lunch) can OK the matter. They also serve who only stand and wait, wrote the poet John Milton, but he forgot to add that they dont get to be superwomen that way. Racing the clock every
16、 day is such an exhausting effort that when I actually have a few free moments, I tend to collapse. Mostly I sink into a chair and stare into space while I imagine how lovely life would be if only I possessed the organizational skills and the energy of my superheroines. In fact, I waste a good deal of my spare time just worrying about wh
