[精品]新发展大学英语听力教程1(全新修订版)教参(修复的).docVIP

. PAGE Unit Ten Western Holidays Ⅰ. Pre-listening Activities Part 1 略 Part 2 1. six; remarrying; unusual 2. tradition; death 3. card; message; great ■ Script The origins of Fathers’ Day are American and it was inspired by the actions of a man named William Smart. He was a veteran of the US Civil War and his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. He raised six children alone without remarrying, which was undoubtedly unusual back in those days. His daughter, Sonora Dodd, realized when she was an adult what her father had sacrificed for his children. It was in the early 1900s