高中英语人教版高三2 06

[05:56.21]2 Which event is described in the text?
[06:01.48]GANDHI:HIS BELIEFS
[06:05.43]Gandhi was much more than a clever lawyer,a fine speaker
[06:10.89]a determined fighter for human rights and a political leader.
[06:16.16]He was a model of a different kind of politlcal leader.
[06:21.02]The secret lies in the title of the book which he wrote about his early life,
[06:27.50]"The story of my experiments with truth".
[06:32.46]He felt free to talk about his failures or his difficulties.
[06:37.92]Where he made mistakes,he admitted these willingly.
[06:43.20]Above all,he refused to make any personal gain from his political work.
[06:50.25]Before he returned to India,
[06:53.73]he decided to live as a poor man and not to possess wealth.
[06:59.60]When he travelled across India,
[07:03.05]he travelled"hard-seat,unreserved",
[07:07.62]together with peasants and other ordinary people.
[07:11.88]In cities he refused to travel in a rickshaw,
[07:16.74]a two-wheeed cart pulled by a bare-footed man.
[07:21.18]He ate simply,and never ate meat.
[07:25.44]He rose early in the morning and worked at his wheel,making cotton thread.
[07:32.10]he believed that everyone should be prepared to do heavy work,
[07:37.74]from the leaders to the poorest peasants.
[07:41.79]He was interested in all spiritual matters,not only in the Indian gods.
[07:48.45]He read many books and paused in his work at six every evening for prayers,
[07:55.01]even when he was with other world leaders.
[07:59.27]One day a week he would spend the whole day in silence.
[08:04.91]All his life he reached out for the truths of spirits and gods.
[08:10.95]Gandhi believed that one should be able to
[08:15.18]"love the most ordinary being on earth as oneself."
[08:20.74]Gandhi hated the custom that had divided Hindu society into separate groups
[08:27.59]for thousands of years and his goal was to end this.
[08:32.86]He became a supporter of the poorest group in society,
[08:37.83]who did the lowest-paid jobs.
[08:41.48]Because of his actions
[08:44.83]all Hindus were finally free to draw water from the same village well,
[08:51.20]to go to the same temple to pray and even marry each other.
[08:56.84]Gandhi paid great attention to the equality of women.
[09:01.91]Perhaps his greatest belief was in an Indian phrase
[09:07.84]which he called"the force of truth".
[09:12.07]If an unfair law existed,
[09:15.70]and there were many that had been passed by the British rulers in India
[09:20.95]and South Africa it was the duty of everyone to disobey this law,
[09:27.43]but without using violence.
[09:31.38]People should be ready to go to prison for their beliefs,
[09:36.34]but they should never take up arms to fight.
[09:40.99]The death fo Gandhi gave India a chance to mourn
[09:46.27]and express how he had become"father"to all Indians.
[09:52.12]Millions watched the slow march that took his body through the capital.
[09:58.28]A further million watched as the fire,
[10:02.54]following Indian custom,turned his body to ashes.
[10:08.00]Twelve days later,millions more Indians lined the railway tracks
[10:14.45]as a slow train took the jar containing his ashes 584 kilometres
[10:22.18]to a place by the river.
[10:25.35]Three million people watched as the ashes of this great man
[10:30.60]were gently poured into the brown waters of the river
[10:36.06]that would carry them to the ocean.
[10:39.71]At the time of his death,one person praised him as follows:
[10:45.67]"Future generations,it may be,
[10:49.74]will hardly believe that such a person as this walked upon this earth."
[10:55.49]The speaker was Albert Einstein.