Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World 埃莉诺•罗斯福——世界第一夫人 Dear readers, 亲爱的读者们： 1 It was during this week in 1948 thatEleanor Rooseveltpaused for a moment during a walk from her Washington Square apartment toward New York City's 8th Street. "Suddenly," she wrote in her1)____ column, "I saw on the sidewalk 2)____man." The man washomeless, "very thin and very poor-looking", a sight 3)____for city dwellers but 4)____ for5)____ in which she wondered "how many human rights that poor man had". syndicated a figure of a notuncommon rarely a causea letter to the nation 1 就在1948年这个星期的某一天，正当埃莉诺•罗斯福从位于纽约华盛顿广场的公寓步行前往第八大道时，她停下了脚步。“突然间 ,”她在自己的联合专栏中写道 ,“我在人行道上看到一个男人的身影。”他是个无家可归的人，“瘦骨嶙峋，看起来十分穷困”，这种景象对城里人来说并不少见，但很少有人会像她那样为了这样的一件事情向全国民众写了一封公开信，在信中她问道：“这个穷人到底享有多少人权呢 ?”
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- 6 By the time she 1)____ in 1952, Roosevelt had become the 2)____. On a trip to India that same year she was greeted by throngsofadmirersand introduced to the Indian ParliamentbyPandit Nehruas "3)____". As she traveled around the cities and4)____of that country she often spoke with young women about the challenges they faced. "If a man fails it would simply be said, 'It's so bad that so-and-so failed.' But if a woman fails they will say, '5)____.' Women have to 6)____. " Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 7)____, she 8)____ resigned from her UN post "First Lady of the World" a representative ofresurgenthumanity slums So you see, a woman is incapable of holding jobs run on aparwith men never ran on a par set the pace. 6 1952年，当她从联合国代表的位置上卸任时，罗斯福夫人已经是“世界第一夫人”了。同年，去印度访问时，她受到了大批崇拜者的欢迎，潘迪特•尼赫鲁向议会介绍她时，说她是“重获新生的人性的杰出代表”。她去了印度的各大城市，造访了贫民窟，期间她经常和年轻妇女们探讨女性所面临的挑战。她说：“如果一个男人失败了，人们只会说：‘某某失败了，真是令人遗憾。’ 但是如果一个女人失败了，他们会说：‘你看，女人就是干不成什么事。’ 女人不应该比男人逊色。”安娜•埃莉诺•罗斯福从来不满足于同男人并驾齐驱，她要当那个领跑的人。
- Questions 1-4 Which of the following can be concluded about the woman？（） A: She dislikes the man’s wife. B: She enjoys spending money on cosmetics. C: She is married to a poor man. D: She is economical with her money.
- The woman saw the poor old man standing in the rain outside her house. ______, she asked him to come in.
- The wife wrote a poem on how the blind man had touched her face because A: the blind man asked her to do so as a memory of their friendship. B: she fell in love with the blind man. C: she usually wrote a poem when something important happened in her life. D: they were good friends and this was her good-bye poem.
- 4Her role as First Lady,heroicthough it was, was only training. She had used her White House seat to lobbybut the power was 1)____. Besides, as Perkins once said, "She said things that made people angry." With her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt seemed ready to return to a private life. 2)____ she told the press. Later that year PresidentTrumanasked Eleanor to 3)____She accepted the charge, moved on, and would change forever(有凯撒“I came, I saw, I conquer“ 的节奏)4)____ "Most people who have played second violin all their lives never have an opportunity to 5)____ remarked Perkins. "Mrs Roosevelt had the chance to, and she 6)____ still reserved for the man of the House "The story is over," serve as a USdelegateto the United Nations. the role of women in American society and around the world. play first violin," plays withgenius." 请注意标点符号。 4 第一夫人的角色，无论多么英勇，对她来说只能算是小试身手。虽然她曾经凭借她在白宫的地位去四处游说，但是掌握大权的毕竟还是总统。此外，正如珀金斯说过的那样，“她也说了一些得罪人的话。”1945年，她丈夫去世之后，罗斯福夫人似乎已经准备要退隐，离开公众的视野。她对媒体说：“一切都结束了。”但那年的晚些时候，杜鲁门总统邀请埃莉诺出任美国驻联合国代表。她接受了使命，继续努力工作，并且永远改变了女性在美国和全世界所扮演的角色。“绝大多数一辈子当副手的人从来没有机会当一把手，”珀金斯说，“罗斯福夫人有机会当一把手，而且表现得极为出色。” 作为女性，我是欣赏她的;不知道男性什么态度。