全新版大学英语综合教程五 6-2.docVIP

[al:全新版大学英语第二版综合教程5] [ti:Unit 6 Reading Task] [ar:上海外语教育出版社] [by:上海外语教育出版社] [00:00.00]Part II Reading Task [00:03.87]Text A [00:06.02]Grant and Lee were perhaps the two greatest generals of the American Civil War. [00:11.85]Their contrasting characters vividly capture the differences [00:15.77]that divided the two sides to the conflict, North and South. [00:20.23]Grant and Lee [00:24.06]Bruce Catton [00:26.62]When Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the parlor of a modest house [00:33.67]at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, [00:36.45]on April 9, 1865, [00:39.45]to work out the terms for the surrender of Lees Army of Northern Virginia, [00:44.71]a great chapter in American life came to a close, and a great new chapter began. [00:51.58]These men were bringing the Civil War to its virtual finish. [00:56.92]To be sure, other armies had yet to surrender, [01:00.47]and for a few days the fugitive Confederate government [01:04.51]would struggle desperately and vainly, [01:07.54]trying to find some way to go on living [01:10.54]now that its chief support was gone. [01:13.17]But in effect it was all over when Grant and Lee signed the papers. [01:19.00]And the little room where they wrote out the terms [01:21.98]was the scene of one of the poignant, [01:24.61]dramatic contrasts in American history. [01:27.61]They were two strong men, [01:30.45]these oddly different generals, [01:32.95]and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, [01:37.95]through them, had come into final collision. [01:40.86]Back of Robert E. Lee [01:43.61]was the notion that the old aristocratic concept [01:47.32]might somehow survive and be dominant in American life. [01:51.26]Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, [01:58.85]and tradition ... [02:00.32]the age of chivalry transplanted to a New World [02:04.41]which was making its own legends and its own myths. [02:08.56]He embodied a way of life that had come down through the age of knighthood