新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 12

[21:54.22]His column is called "Thanks a Million." It is in 200 newspapers. Every week about 7,000 people write letters to Mr Ross at the newspapers.
[22:08.90]Mr Ross reads the letters. Then he sends money to some of the people.
[22:15.13]Every week Mr Ross answers three of four letters in his newspaper column.
[22:20.96]Who gets money from Mr Ross? Mr Ross usually sends money to old people, sick people, and poor children.
[22:31.01]A mother wrote to Mr Ross, "I have two daughters, ages one and eight.
[22:36.30]I give the baby one bottle of milk every day. I want to give her two bottles of milk every day,
[22:42.89]but I don't have enough money. I also want to give my older daughter ice cream sometimes.
[22:49.51]Can you help me?" Mr Ross sent the woman a check. "This check will buy much more than milk and ice cream," he wrote.
[23:00.28]Sometimes Mr Ross doesn't send people money. He sends people the things they need-shoes,
[23:08.45]a smoke alarm, a hearing aid, new pots and pans, or a sewing machine.
[23:15.68]Who doesn't get money from Mr Ross? Mr Ross usually doesn't send money to young, healthy people.
[23:23.57]A 16-year-old boy wrote, "I need $900 to buy a good used car. I really need it because I like a girl.
[23:32.78]She doesn't like me because I don't have a car." Mr Ross wrote the boy,
[23:39.16]"You don't need a car. You need a different girlfriend."
[23:43.87]Why does Percy Ross give people money? When Mr Ross was a boy, he was very poor.
[23:51.07]He worked hard, and now he is a successful businessman. But Mr Ross remembers when he was poor.
[23:59.24]He wants to help poor people. And Mr Ross is getting older. He wants to give all of his money away before he dies.
[24:09.43]He says, "Who will get my money? I want to decide."  (348 words)
[24:15.66]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[24:28.12]1)Mr Ross is rich and generous.
[24:32.83]2)Every week about 7,000 people write letters to Mr Ross at the newspapers.
[24:40.25]3)Mr Ross answers every letter in his newspaper column.
[24:46.40]4)A mother who wanted to buy milk and ice cream for herself wrote to Mr Ross.
[24:53.53]5)Mr Ross sent a woman a check. "This check will buy much more than milk and ice cream," he wrote.
[25:02.60]6)Mr Ross gave money and the things people need to every person who wrote to him.
[25:09.62]7)A 16-year-old boy who needs $900 to buy a good used car got a check from Mr Ross.
[25:19.56]8)Working very hard, Mr Ryoss became a successful businessman.
[25:26.47]Practice Four A Kindness Beyond Price-a Hero for Today
[25:32.95]Words You Need to Know
[25:35.18]shiver       cab      pull up
[25:49.33]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and answer the following questions briefly.
[25:58.76]For reasons long forgotten, a 14-year-old girl in Cleveland got so angry with her parents that she ran away to New York City.
[26:07.04]Cold, hungry and friendless, she was shivering on a street corner when a cab pulled up.
[26:13.42]As some party-goers got out, a man in the group noticed the girl and, asking if she needed help,
[26:20.11]insisted that she join them for dinner in a nearby restaurant.
[26:24.18]After hearing her story, the man took the teenager to the train station and bought her a ticket back to Cleveland.
[26:31.67]"Whatever your desire," he told her, "if you want it enough, you can make it happen."
[26:37.14]Then he gave her $20 and his address and telephone number. If she ever needed anything, she was to call him.
[26:44.95]The teenager returned to her family, but she could not find the paper with his name and phone number.
[26:51.22]Twenty-five years after the two met, she found the lost paper in a diary.
[26:56.80]Ralph Burke received a letter and a check for $300. The woman asked that he accept it with the love and spirit in which it was sent.
[27:06.34]The idea, she said, wasn't to repay a "kindness that has no price"; rather, she hoped he would come to meet her family.