[00:-2.00]Respect our differences and diversity Be true to youself,
[00:-3.00]trust who you are reach for the sky,each of a star!
[00:-4.00]A chain is stronger than its weakest link.-Chinese Proverb
[00:-5.00]Section 1 New words and ideas
[00:-6.00]Men and Women:Different roles?
[00:-7.00]One day in school,the English teacher gave the class a writing assignment.
[00:-8.00]Each student had to write an essay about an exciting place they had visited.
[00:-9.00]Jenny had a great story to tell.
[00:10.00]Not very long ago she went to China to visit her very good friend,Li Ming.
[00:11.00]Where to begin?She had seen so many wonderful things,
[00:12.00]met so many great people,and learned so much.
[00:13.00]How could she tell the whole story?
[00:14.00]She remembered one afternoon at Li Ming's house.
[00:15.00]It was an ordeinary afternoon,but for some reason,
[00:16.00]she remembered every detail of the day.
[00:17.00]She smiled to herself as she began to write.
[00:18.00]Li Ming invited some friends over to his house on a Sunday afternoon.
[00:19.00]It was raining that day,so everyone was happy just to hang out for the afternoon.
[00:20.00]The kids were talking and making jokes with one another.
[00:21.00]One of Li Ming's buddies asked Jenny what she wanted to do after high school.
[00:22.00]"I'm not sure yet,but I think I might want to be a welder,'replied Jenny.
[00:23.00]"A welder?What's a welder?"asked the friend.
[00:24.00]"A welder is someone who joins two pieces of metal together
[00:25.00]by heating the edges and fixing them,"
[00:26.00]explained Jenny with the help of gestures.
[00:27.00]"What!"exclaimed the friend."Girls can't be welders!"
[00:28.00]"Why not?"asked Jenny."My uncle was a welder and I think it is a good job.
[00:29.00]Besides,I know I can make a lot of money joing this job."
[00:30.00]"Yeah,but it's man's job.it's only for guys,"said another friend.
[00:31.00]"I can't believe you guys still think that way.
[00:32.00]Things have changed,you know.Nowadays,girls can do any job they want.
[00:33.00]Isn't it the same in China?"Jenny was curious.
[00:34.00]"Well,"said one of Li Ming's female friends."Girls can do those jobs,
[00:35.00]but why would they want to?
[00:36.00]There are much easier and more suitable jobs for women,
[00:37.00]like being a nurse or a teacher.They should choose one of those...
[00:38.00]Hey,Li Ming,would you like me to get you another drink?"
[00:39.00]"Wait a minute,Qianqian."Jenny said.
[00:40.00]"Why are you getting a drink for Li Ming?
[00:41.00]He lives hera and he can get his own drink.He's not a baby."
[00:42.00]"Relax,Jenny.I know what!I was just going to the kitchen to get one for myself
[00:43.00]and I noticed his glass was empty.
[00:44.00]Can't a friend do a favour for a friend?"asked Qianqian.
[00:45.00]Jenny felt a little embarrassed.
[00:46.00]Li Ming noticed what was going on between Jenny and Qianqian.
[00:47.00]He is a sensitive and caring person.He wanted to make it better.
[00:48.00]He put his arm around Jenny's shoulder and said,
[00:49.00]"I knew what you meant,Jen.But really,
[00:50.00]don't you think that there is such a things as man's work and woman's work?
[00:51.00]Like in your house,for example,who does the cooking and the laundry,
[00:52.00]and who cuts the grass and changes the oil in the car?"
[00:53.00]"Yes,that's true.My mom takes care of the house and the kitchen
[00:54.00]and my dad takes care of the car and the yard.
[00:55.00]But just because that works for them doesn't mean it would be good for me.
[00:56.00]If we are always concerned about who we are supposed to be,
[00:57.00]how will we know who we really are?
[00:58.00]I think we should all be free to be exactly who we are."
[00:59.00]Li Ming stood very straight and said loudly,
[-1:00.00]"Well,I know who I am.I'm Li Ming and I go fishing,
[-1:-1.00]and have fun with my friends.I love to sit for hours playing computer games
[-1:-2.00]and I don't do any work in the kitchen." [-1:-3.00]Just then there was a loud noise.
[-1:-4.00]"Ahhhh!Yikes!Get off,get off!"Li Ming was screaming and waving his arms about.
[-1:-5.00]"What's the matter,Li Ming?"Jenny was truly concerned.
[-1:-6.00]"There's a spider on my foot!"Li Ming screamed.
[-1:-7.00]"Oh you crazy guy,"said Jenny
[-1:-8.00]as she reached over and picked the spider off Li Ming's shoes.
[-1:-9.00]"I thought only girls were supposed to be afraid of spiders."
[-1:10.00]"I can't help it,"said Li Ming,deeply embarrassed.
[-1:11.00]"But don't you see,Li Ming?It's a good thing.You are exactly how your are[-1:12.00]You don't have to be one way or another just
[-1:13.00]just because people expect men or women to be that way.
[-1:14.00]You are afraid of spiders and that's okay.
[-1:15.00]I like you for exactly who you are!"
[-1:16.00]Section 2 Meaning through practice
[-1:17.00]C.Build your listening skills
[-1:18.00]1.Listen to the conversation on the audiotape between Jenny and Danny.
[-1:19.00]Write"T"in brackets for sentences that are true,and "F"for those that are false.
[-1:20.00]2.Listen to the audiotape about gender roles.
[-1:21.00]Fill in the blanks using words that you hear on tape.
[-1:22.00]In our society gender roles are _______.
[-1:23.00]In the____,girls could not go to school.
[-1:24.00]After marriage,women usually ____home to take care off their children
[-1:25.00]and to do housework while men usually worked____the home.
[-1:26.00]Nowadays,all gils____ school education.
[-1:27.00]_____as many wommen as men work outside the _____.
[-1:28.00]The women get well____and_____for their work.
[-1:29.00]Section 4 Reading for meaning
[-1:30.00]The story of Qiu Jin
[-1:31.00]Qiu Jin was born in 1875 into a fairly wealthy family in Minhou, Fujian Province.
[-1:32.00]She enjoyed riding horses and playing with swords as well as reading.
[-1:33.00]Her family insisted that she receive a good education.
[-1:34.00]Unlike most young women of her time,
[-1:35.00]she ws able to meet other well-educated people on different ocasions.
[-1:36.00]At the of twenty-one,Qiu Jin was maried to an older man
[-1:37.00]who lived an old way off life with old ides.
[-1:38.00]She felt bad about this relationship.
[-1:39.00]In 1903,she left her husband to study in Japan,
[-1:40.00]where she became an active fighter for women's rights,
[-1:41.00]Including ther right to education.She first joined Guangfuhui led by Cai Yuanpei,
[-1:42.00]and later beacame a memeber of Tongmenghui headed by Sun Yat-sen.
[-1:43.00]She wrote articles about historical Chinese women in order to provide role models.
[-1:44.00]In 1906,Qiu Jin returned to China.She started publishing Chinese Women,
[-1:45.00]a revolutionary magazine that called for equal rights between men and women.
[-1:46.00]The next year,she became head of the Shaoxing Datong College.
[-1:47.00]She used the college as base for her anti-Qing Dynasty activities.
[-1:48.00]In those days,
[-1:49.00]many women in China were forced to have their feet bound at the age of five.
[-1:50.00]This practive severly restricted women's freedom of movement
[-1:51.00]and left them dependent on other people.
[-1:52.00]Qiu Jin called on women to fight against this practice
[-1:53.00]and gain financial independence through education
[-1:54.00]and training in various professions.
[-1:55.00]Qiu Jin believed it woould be possible for women to have to better future
[-1:56.00]only when the corrupt Qing Dynasty was repaced by a new form of government.
[-1:57.00]She joined forces with her male cousin Xu Xilin.
[-1:58.00]They worked to unite many secret revolutionary societies
[-1:59.00]to struggle together for the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.
[-2:00.00]The secret was let out and Qiu Jin was arested.
[-2:-1.00]On July 15,1907,she was beheaded at Xuandingkou in Shaoxing.
[-2:-2.00]Immediately after her death,Qiu Jin was recognized as a heroine.
[-2:-3.00]She became a symbol of women's independence in China.
[-2:-4.00]Zheng Xiaoying-The first Chinese Female Conductor
[-2:-5.00]Born in 1929 Yongding City,Fujian PRovince,
[-2:-6.00]Zheng Xiaoying has risen to become the first female conductor, [-2:-7.00]a professor and a director of the Conducting Department
[-2:-8.00]of the Central Conservatory of Music in China.
[-2:-9.00]Zheng Xiaoying has received many awards.
[-2:10.00]The First Prize for National Conductors by China's Ministry of Culture,
[-2:11.00]the title of"Outstanding Women"for times,
[-2:12.00]the title of "Advanced Women Worker"in China,
[-2:13.00]and the Honourable Medal of French Literature and Art are some of her honours.
[-2:14.00]In 1960,she travelled to the Moscow Conservatory of Music,
[-2:15.00]where she studied conducting theory and opera music.
[-2:16.00]In 1962,she became in first Chinese conductor to take the podium
[-2:17.00]in a foreign opera theatre in the Moscow National Theatre.
[-2:18.00]In the 1980s,she worked as the Chief Conductor of China's Central Opera Theatre.
[-2:19.00]Zheng Xiaoying has performed more than 1000 opera and symphonic concerts.
[-2:20.00]She has also been guest professor in Japan,Australia,U.S.A,
[-2:21.00]Italy,Finland,Singapore,France,Holland,Germany,U.K,
[-2:22.00]Sweden and many other countries.
[-2:23.00]She has been recognized by the Western news media as
[-2:24.00]"The Best Woman Conductor in the World[-2:25.00]Her conducting style is characterized with deep,overflowing emotion.
[-2:26.00]She is not only one of the most outstanding Chinese conducting professors,
[-2:27.00]but also a warm-hearted music society activist.
[-2:28.00]In her concerts,she palys the roles of both conductor and educator
[-2:29.00]by introducing classical and modern music knowledge
[-2:30.00]in different ways to the audiences.
[-2:31.00]She has given many lectures to more than 2000 000 people
[-2:32.00]-inspiring young and old to appreciate,and love music.
[-2:33.00]Women's Jobs
[-2:34.00]In the past,women could work only on such jobs as teaching and nursing.
[-2:35.00]People used to say:"A women's place is in the home."
[-2:36.00]That has changed.Today,women hold many knids of jobs and positions of leadership.
[-2:37.00]Many women are lawyers and doctors.They have also entered politics.
[-2:38.00]Women are running for public offices.
[-2:39.00]Some women have been elected mayors and governors
[-2:40.00]Others have been appointed as judges.
[-2:41.00]In business,women are CEOs of many large corporations.
[-2:42.00]Military services are now open to women.
[-2:43.00]Women are graduating from the Air Force Academy and West Point.
[-2:44.00]Joke A Matter of Punctuation..
[-2:45.00]An English professor wrote the words
[-2:46.00]"Woman without her man is nothing"on the blackboard,
[-2:47.00]and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
[-2:48.00]The man wrote,"Woman!Without her man, is nothing."
[-2:49.00]The women wrote,"Woman!Without her,man is nothing."
