英语视听说Unit1-4.doc

新编大学英语视听说教程第二册 Unit One Listening, Understanding and Speaking Listening One A Mothers Love You can see it in her eyes— in her gaze and in her sighs. It is a mothers love. You can feel it in her touch— in her tender hugs and such. It is a mothers love. You can hear it in her words— in her praises and bywords. It is a mothers love. She cares. She understands. She lends an ear and holds our hands. She gives us a mothers love Listening two For more than four decades, John Adams has fought to defend the environment and empowered individuals in the U.S. and around the world to join the cause. Adams is cofounder 0f the Natural Resources Defense Council the NRDC the nations first law firm for the environment. Defending the environment,”John Adams says,is personal” When you care about something, like the environment, it does become a passion”he says.It becomes your life. I grew up on a small-town farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It was a wonderful place to grow up. I loved it But by the l960s, he didnt love what he saw happening to the environment. We were a major industrial force with no pollution controls. So if you were in Pittsburgh or New York or the factory areas of New Jersey or California, you would be hit with air pollution that had virtually no pollution controls,says AdamsIn New York we burned a lot of our garbage right in the buildings. Fly ash would come up and it was over the city, The Hudson River was filled with raw sewage and it smelled because there were no requirement for sewage control. He also worried about the disappearing farmland around the big cities which became suburban sprawl with very little planning. Adams turned his love for nature into action, leaving his job with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York in l970 to help establish the Nature Resources Defense Council. The 33-year-old lawyer became its first director. In their book ,A Force For Nature John Adams and his life Patricia also an environmental activist chronic