2002考研英语.ppt

2002年考研听力原文 Part A Margaret Welch was born in Philadelphia in 1901. She began her studies in DePauw University in 1919. But after a year, she transferred to study at Barnard University, majoring in sociology. She received her undergraduate degree from Barnard in 1923. She ultimately acquired a PhD from Columbia University in 1929. She married Doctor Reo Fortune in 1928. Together they wrote Growing Up in New Guinea, published in 1930. Welch worked with her husband on another book called Balanese Character that was published in 1942. At the age of 23, Doctor Welch undertook a field study in the South Pacific. The experience resulted in her writing of her highly popular book Coming of Age in Samoa, published in 1928. Doctor Welch’s interests and writings centered on religions. She worked in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1926 through to the end of her life. She was a professor of anthropology at Columbia starting in the year of 1954, working with her old associate, Ruth Benedict. She wrote a book entitled An Anthropologist at Work about Bananet. It was published in 1959. Margaret Welch died in 1978. Part B When I was getting divorced in 1975, reporters and cameramen were camped out for days in the lobby and on the sidewalk outside. They came from all over the country. Foreign reporters too. It was terrible. My neighbors could barely get in and out of the building. One reporter, who had been a friend of mine, got up to my apartment after persuading the doorman into believing that he was there on a personal visit. I wouldn’t let him in. He just wanted to talk, he said. I was certain that he had a camera and wanted a picture of me looking depressed. I just couldn’t believe this attempt to invade my privacy. TV is the worst. TV reporters present themselves as having the perfect right to be anywhere, to ask any question. It doesn’t matter how personal the matter may be. People don’t trust the press the way