大学英语综合教程 第二册 unit 2A

[05:26.48]But the real story in his mind is the I success achieved by the 100,000 people who make up the Wal-Martteam."
[05:36.09]He's usually back home for Friday sales meetings，or the executive pep rally Saturday morning at7a-m.,
[05:44.11]when Walton,as he does at new store I openings,is liable to jump up on a chair and lead everyone in the Wal-Mart cheer:
[05:54.87]"Give me a W!Give me an A!Give me an L!Louder!"
[06:00.75]And louder they yell.No one admits to feeling the least bit silly.It's all part of the Wal-Mart way of life as laid down by sam：
[06:11.64]loyalty,hardwork,long hours；get ideas into the system from the bottom up，
[06:18.20]Japanese-style;treat your people right；cut prices and margins to the bone and sleep well at night．
[06:26.85]Employees with one year on board qualify for stock options,and are urged to buy all they can．
[06:34.16]After the pep rally，there's bird hunting，or tennis on his backyard court．But his stores are always on his mind．
[06:44.58]One tennis guest managed to put him off his game by asking why a can of balls cost more in one Wal-Mart than another．
[06:54.35]It turned out to be untrue．but the move worked．Walton lost four straight games．
[07:02.14]Walton set up a college scholarship fund for employees'children．
[07:07.26]a disaster relief fund to rebuild employee homes damaged by fires，floods tornadoes．and the like．
[07:14.60]He believed in cultivating idens and rewarding suecess．
[07:19.98]"He'd say,'That fellow worked hard，let's give him a 1ittle extra，"recalls retired president Fer01d F
[07:30.12]Arend，who was stunned at such generosity after the stingy employer
[07:37.48]he left to join Wal-Mart."I had to change my way of thinking when I came aboard．"
[07:44.82]"The reason for our success,"says Walton,in a company handout，
[07:50.36]"is our people and the way they're treated and the way they feel about their company．
[07:56.94]They believe things are different here，but they deserve the credit."
[08:03.06]Adds company lawyer Jim Hendren：
[08:07.13]"I've never seen anyone yet who worked for him or was around him for any length of time who wash't better off．
[08:16.25]And Idon't mean just financially,although a lot of people are．
[08:21.29]It's just something about him-coming into contact with Sam Walton just makes you a better person．"
[08:29.15]Language Sense Enhancement
[08:32.81]Read aloud the following poem
[08:36.55]I'm nobody!Who are you?  by Emily Dickinson
[08:42.58]I'm nobody!Who are you?Are you nobody,too?
[08:48.64]Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd advertise-you know!
[08:54.13]How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell one's name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
[09:05.62]Read the following quotations.Learn them by heart if you can.You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.
[09:15.70]One should eat to live, not live to eat.          Benjamin Franklin
[09:22.55]That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.   Henry David Thoreau
[09:31.74]If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
[09:38.40]The only real security that a man will have in.this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience,and ability Henry Ford
[09:51.99]To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
[10:03.90]4Read the following humorous story for fun.You might need to look up to new words in a dictionary
[10:12.15]The elderly gamekeeper of a Scottish estate suffered from fading eyesight,
[10:19.21]and the lord of the manor offered to send him to London to see an eye specialist. Before he left,
[10:27.75]however, he was given strict instructions to spend his money thriftily and to live as he would at home.
[10:36.58]When the keeper returned a week latel,
[10:40.29]he presented the lord with a bill for more than$1000. Shocked,
[10:47.94]the lord asked what he had been living on in London.