高中英语 第一部分 VOA慢速英语《美国万花筒》第7课（文本）素材

1 高中英语高中英语 第一部分第一部分 VOAVOA 慢速英语慢速英语 美国万花筒美国万花筒 第第 7 7 课课 英语翻议讲解 1 thoughtful a 深思的 体贴的 例句 A sober and steady type he is meticulous and thoughtful in handling matters 这个人很沉稳 处理问题细密周到 2 exhibit v 展现 陈列 展览 例句 These painters have a silimar painting style We need some paintings of different styles to exhibit 这几位画家的画风有些类同 我们需要找些画风迥异的 作品做展览 3 donate v 捐赠 例句 Provided we meet our profit targets we will donate one million dollars to charity 如果我们的盈利达到了预定目标 我们将为慈善事业捐献 100 万美元 4 endanger vt 危及 例句 Home delivery of baby may endanger the mother s life 不在医院分娩可能危 及母亲的生命安全 1 If you move closer to the sculptures you realize they are made up of thousands of carefully stacked small plastic bottles for storing medicines made up of 由 组成 例句 The team is made up almost entirely of Zimbabwean 队里几乎全部都是津巴 布韦人 2 People buy the tickets in hopes of winning large amounts of money in hopes of 怀着 的希望 希望能 例句 We are sending out samples in hopes of gaining comments 我们正在寄送样 品 征求批评意见 3 Visitors can add to the work by typing their own message add to 加入 加到 增加 例句 His select requirements on sanitation will add to our costs 他在卫生方 面的严格要求会增加我们的成本 英语听力原文 HOST Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English MUSIC I m Doug Johnson On today s program we tell about an artist who uses everyday objects to make sculptures Answer a question about the store Wal Mart And hear banjo music by Steve Martin Jean Shin makes sculptures that change everyday objects into thoughtful and beautiful works of art Shin makes art from broken umbrellas old clothing or computer parts Her show Common Threads is currently at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D C Barbara 2 Klein tells us more BARBARA KLEIN One of the first works in the Common Threads exhibit looks like glowing orange cave formations coming out of the floor and ceiling If you move closer to the sculptures you realize they are made up of thousands of carefully stacked small plastic bottles for storing medicines Chemical Balance by Jean ShinJean Shin made this work Chemical Balance by gathering the bottles from friends family and retirement communities She has said the work is like a group portrait that maps a society s chemical use Like much of Shin s art this work is both about individuals and large groups of people Each personal object once belonged to an individual But it takes a large community of such individuals to make Shin s art possible Chance City is made up of more than thirty two thousand dollars worth of old lottery tickets People buy the tickets in hopes of winning large amounts of money Shin collected the tickets in New York City and Washington D C over a period of three years The small pieces of paper are carefully stacked to create buildings The sculptures were made using no supports so they could fall over at any time The work makes a statement about the unsure nature of money and chance Jean Shin was born in nineteen seventy one in South Korea Her parents moved to the United States when she was six years old Shin studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York She has chosen to make art that takes a long time to create She says this is because her parents taught her about the value of hard work Everyday Monuments by Jean ShinOther works in Common Threads include TEXTile It is a piece of flowing fabric covered with thousands of old computer keys Visitors can add to the work by typing their own message Shin s latest work is called Everyday Monuments It is made of almost two thousand sports awards called trophies The trophies showed people doing sports like baseball tennis or bowling The people who received the trophies donated them to the artist Shin changed the human forms on every trophy so that each is doing an everyday act like cleaning driving or carrying shopping bags The sculpture was influenced by the many large monuments in Washington which honor important heroes Jean Shin s smaller monument celebrates the heroism of people in their everyday actions Our listener question this week comes from Burma Ko Maw Gyi is an English language teacher who wants to know about the store Wal Mart Wal Mart is a group of large stores known for selling goods at a very low cost The company sells many products including food clothing electronics and objects for the home Sam Walton opened the first Wal Mart in nineteen sixty two in Rogers Arkansas Today the company Wal Mart Stores Incorporated is the largest group of stores in the world The company operates about eight thousand stores in fifteen countries It employs over two million people Wal Mart made over three hundred billion dollars in sales last year It recently opened its first store in India a joint project with the Bharti group in Amritsar A Wal Mart in Loudi in ChinaThere are about four thousand Wal Mart stores in the United States This number includes about six hundred Sam s Club stores Wal Mart is the largest private employer in America Because of its size and 3 influence with suppliers and buyers Wal Mart s policies often receive wide public attention For example Wal Mart has received criticism over the years for its labor policies and lack of environmentally friendly efforts Many critics say Wal Mart fails to pay its workers fairly or provide them with enough health insurance In two thousand one a group of women took legal action against the company for sex discrimination They accused Wal Mart of paying women less money than men and giving women fewer chances to get better jobs The case later grew to include over one and a half million women who were current and former Wal Mart workers In a separate case Wal Mart agreed last year to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to workers who claimed they had been cheated of their hourly wages Wal Mart has worked to improve its public image by becoming a more green company It has decided to support selling more energy saving products such as low energy light bulbs It says it will work with manufacturers of high energy products to try to improve energy use The company has also started reusing materials and reducing the fuel use of its trucks These efforts are good for the environment and also save the company millions of dollars New Wal Mart stores have had a big effect on small communities in the United States Some communities protest the arrival of a Wal Mart store because they say it endangers smaller local businesses But others say that Wal Mart brings jobs and helps people save money Funny man Steve Martin has a new album but this time he is not joking The banjo that he used in his comedy performances has now become his main act June Simms has more JUNE SIMMS Steve Martin is well known for many things but music is not one of them Well it looks like that is about to change The award winning actor and comedian has released his first full length music CD It is called The Crow New Songs for the Five String Banjo It has already been to the top of Billboard Magazine s Bluegrass Albums chart Steve Martin wrote all of the fifteen songs on the album including this one with country superstars Dolly Parton and Vince Gill Here is Pretty Flowers Steve MartinSteve Martin is one of the most popular comedians in the United States He has won Grammy Awards for two of his comedy albums and for best country instrumental performance He has also won a Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy His movies hav