高中英语人教版05

[08:31.50]So I lost my job.
[08:35.16]I did not work for twenty years until Mr Mandela
[08:41.04]and the ANC came to power in 1993.
[08:46.37]All that time
[08:49.89]my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives or from friends.
[08:56.66]Luckily Mr Mandela remembered me
[09:01.10]and gave me a job taking tourists round my old prison on Robben Island.
[09:07.55]I felt bad the first time I talked to a group.
[09:12.59]All the terror and fear of that time came back to me.
[09:17.45]I remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards
[09:23.02]and my friends who had died and felt I would not be able to do it.
[09:29.39]But my family encouraged me.
[09:33.83]They said that the job and the pay from the new South African government
[09:39.58]was my reward after wording all my life for equal rights for the Blacks.
[09:46.11]So now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the priwon,
[09:52.98]for I helped to make our people free in our own land.
[09:58.13]Workbook
[10:05.49]LISTENING
[10:08.65]Look at the questions before you listen to the text.
[10:14.09]This will help you understand the information.
[12:21.12]LISTENING TASK
[12:28.59]1.When you look at people or things,
[12:34.94]you may have a different point of view from others.
[12:39.98]Now listen to the tape and answer the following questions.
[14:30.22]2.Listen to the tape again and then complete the following tables.
[14:38.99]READING TASK
[14:46.94]A FOLLOWER OF BILL GATES
[14:51.30]I have been a friend of Bill Gates for a long time.
[14:56.65]I knew him when he was a student at Harvard University.
[15:02.11]We were surprised when he left University to set up his own company "Microsoft"
[15:09.66]and make his own software.
[15:13.21]But he was he clever one!
[15:17.29]He is very good at writing computer languages
[15:22.75]and almost all computers now use Microsoft software.
[15:29.10]The program "Word" is used from Britain to China!
[15:35.65]Of course he has made a lot of money and that makes people very jealous.
[15:42.81]They want to stop his success.
[15:47.17]Even the government is against him and has tried to bread his company into two parts.
[15:54.25]They say that he is unfair to other people who want to sell similar software.
[16:01.41]Because he fits his new software free in every new computer,
[16:07.76]the government says he is stopping other companies from selling their programs.
[16:14.03]This is not fair.
[16:17.68]Everyong should be able to do what they can to make their company bigger.
[16:24.22]Bill Gates has only done what he can to stop other competitors.
[16:30.85]He is very rich,but he is generous.
[16:36.18]He has given millions of dollars to help the education and health
[16:42.06]of many children around the world.
[16:46.32]You could not meet a better man than Bill Gates.
[16:51.28]A COMPETITOR OF BILL GATES
[16:56.92]Bill Gates has been very successful and become very rich.
[17:03.76]He is very generous but how has he got his money?
[17:09.51]He has done this by making sure
[17:14.19]that no one else will be able to compete with his software.
[17:19.65]His software is not the best but it is used most widely in the world.
[17:26.41]When he sees what is needed,
[17:30.78]he makes a program and produces it quicker than anybody else.
[17:37.04]That way he gets a large part of the software market.
[17:42.97]Then he works on improving the software later.
[17:48.23]He tries hard to stop others making better software.
[17:54.10]In 1995 the government tried to make things fairer for people like me.
[18:01.97]The government wanted to make Microsoft into two companies
[18:08.21]so that neither of them was so strong mor so rich.
[18:14.27]This meant that they could not stop somebody else making new software.
[18:20.83]I always wonder how he could get so rich so quickly.
[18:26.78]Has he done it by fair means?Or has he done it by being a computer bully?