塞拉利昂支教的美国和平队志愿者一托福阅读机经背景.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料塞拉利昂支教的美国和平队志愿者一托福阅读机经背景 Fifteen years after pulling out because of Sierra Leone’s civil war, Peace Corps volunteers are back in the West African nation. A look at the organizations work as the Peace Corps marks its 50th anniversary this year, March 1st. 3月1号是和平队成立50周年纪念日。15年前，由于塞拉利昂发生内战，美国和平队的志愿者们被迫撤出这个西非国家。现在，和平队又重返塞拉利昂。 Amanda Pease is one of the first Peace Corps volunteers to work in Sierra Leone in over a decade. She has been teaching science now for six months at St. Joseph’s, a high school in the east of the country. 阿曼达·皮斯是10年来在塞拉利昂工作的第一批和平队志愿者之一。过去6个月里，她一直在塞拉利昂东部圣约瑟夫高中教科学课程。 For Pease, living in the roadside village of Blama, a day’s drive from the capital, Freetown, is a far cry from her coastal hometown of San Diego, California. It is also her first time to Africa. 皮斯生活在布兰玛这个偏僻的小镇，距离塞拉利昂首都弗里敦有一天的车程。这里的生活和皮斯的家乡加州圣迭哥的生活完全是两回事。 Pease decided to sign up for a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer after finishing a degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Los Angeles. 这是皮斯第一次到非洲去。皮斯在加州洛杉矶分校毕业拿到化学工程师的学位后，跟和平队签了一个两年的合约。 I was trying to decide between going the academic route and doing a postdoctoral degree and go into industry and then I had been doing some volunteer work and the idea was always kind of floating around, Pease said. There was kind of an option number three on the side, and as time went on and I thought about it more and more, I was so much more excited about that option. Just the idea of trying to give an opportunity to someone who would not maybe have it. 皮斯说：“我对到底是走学术路线，去做博士后，还是进入业界找一份工作，一直举棋不定。因为我一直在做一些志愿工作，所以参加和平队这个想法就一直缠绕在我心头。这是我的第三个选择。随着时间流逝，我的这个愿望越来越强烈。每次一想到我可以给别人他们从来没有过的机会，我就激动不已。” There are 37 Peace Corps members serving in rural schools across the country. Joel Wallach, co-director for Peace Corps here, says they have a long history in Sierra Leone. 一共有37名和平队成员在塞拉利昂各地农村学校教书。据塞拉利昂和平队副主任乔·沃勒克介绍，和平队在塞拉利昂的历史很长。 Sierra Leone has traditionally been a very welcoming country to the Peace Corp