新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第四册 课文 4t02c

[-1:-6.00]Painted on the sides of all his trucks were the words
[-1:-7.00]"The Most Destructive Force on Wall Street".
[-1:-8.00]He married Granny Ethel (格兰妮·爱丝尔),
[-1:-9.00]who was so beautiful she did not have to be first at anything.
[-1:10.00]She was,though — the first calendar girl in Princeton,N.J.
[-1:11.00]In the early 1900's her picture was used by a bank there for its first calendar.
[-1:12.00]That's where Grandpa met her,in the bank.
[-1:13.00]She was so beautiful,she once received a letter addressed:
[-1:14.00]Postman (邮递员), Postman  Do your duty
[-1:15.00]Deliver this letter   To the Princeton beauty.
[-1:16.00]It was dropped off right at her front door.
[-1:17.00]My grandmother on my mother's side invented the shoe pocket.
[-1:18.00]It was her belief that if you always kept a nickel in your shoe,
[-1:19.00]nothing bad would happen to you.
[-1:20.00]You could always make a phone call.You could always buy something.
[-1:21.00]You would never be broke.But the nickel could slide around.
[-1:22.00]And if it could slide around,it could slide out.
[-1:23.00]So she constructed a small pocket that fastened to the inner sole.
[-1:24.00]That way,any pair of shoes could have its own secret sum of money.
[-1:25.00]Me,I have yet to make my mark. I am still waiting to find a first.
[-1:26.00]Sometimes I think my life is too comfortable.
[-1:27.00]Why should I mother an invention if all my needs are met?
[-1:28.00]But then something gets my attention,
[-1:29.00]and I begin to think of new uses for items such as old light bulbs or eggshells.
[-1:30.00]When you come from a family of firsts,
[-1:31.00]whether you like it or not,you're thinking all the time.