1、Text About the authorGo to the text第1页About the author The author of the passage Mo Mowlam(1949)was a British Labour politician,who was the Member of Parliament for Redcar from 1987 to,and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland,Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor
2、 of the Duchy of Lancaster.Her personal charisma,reputation for plain speaking and fight against a brain tumour led her to be perceived by many as one of the most popular“New Labour”politicians in the UK.She died in because of a brain tumour.Text 第2页Winston Churchill 1 In the summer of 1940,Britain
3、stood alone on the brink of invasion.At that crucial time,one man,Winston Churchill,defined what it meant to be British.We like to think of ourselves as tolerant and long-suffering people.But Churchill,through his leadership and his example,reminded us that if all we hold dear our democracy,our free
4、dom is threatened,we will show courage and determination like no other nation.Text 第3页 2 I have nothing to offer but blood,toil,tears and sweat.You ask what is our policy?I can say it is to wage war by sea,land and air,with all our might and with all our strength that God can give us;to wage war aga
5、inst a monstrous tyranny,never surpassed in the dark,lamentable catalogue of human crime.You ask what is our aim?I can answer in one word:It is victory,victory at all costs,victory in spite of all terror,victory however long and hard the road may be.Text 第4页 3 This was the moment when Britain had to
6、 be at its greatest.And in Churchill we found the greatest of Britons.4 Winston Churchill was born in 1874 into one of Britains grandest families.The Churchills had been fighting for king and country for generations.Young Winston always believed hed do the same.But self-belief was something he maint
7、ained despite rather than because of his family.Text 第5页 His father Lord Randolph Churchill(18491895),and his mother,Jennie(18541921),were both cold and distant people.Winston was packed off to Harrow.He wasnt good-looking or clever;he was sickly,with a lisp and a stammer.He was bound to be bullied
8、and he was.Far from giving support,Winstons father predicted his child would degenerate into a shabby,unhappy and futile existence.Text 第6页 5 He left school and,after three attempts,got into the military academy at Sandhurst.After Sandhurst he went looking for military action wherever it was.He paid
9、 for himself by doubling up as a war correspondent.He used his dispatches to promote himself as a hero of the Boer War,and returned to England in 1900 renowned and all set to become an MP.Text 第7页 6 He was elected as Tory MP for Oldham in the same year.Then he swapped to the Liberals,then back.He wa
10、s never really a Party animal.He cared about Britain.His vision was of a place with better living standards for ordinary people,but with a fierce regard for law and order.Though he wasnt a vicious man,Churchills attitude to suffragettes,trade unionists or anyone who challenged the system was brutal.
11、His weapon of first resort was the army.Text 第8页 7 But then hed always wanted to be a general.This ambition dated back to the days when he spent his school holidays playing with toy soldiers in the corridors of Blenheim Palace,below the tapestries of his heroic ancestors.He must have been delighted
12、when,in 1911,he was made First Lord of the Admiralty and even more so when the First World War offered him the opportunity to plan a major military offensive at Gallipoli,in 1915.Text 第9页 8 Gallipoli was a disaster,costing Winston his job and nearly his sanity.This was the onset of his first major b
13、out of depression,a curse he called his black dog.Thankfully he now had a wife,Clementine,to help him through it.She was 11 years younger than him,beautiful,clever and unswervingly loyal.Text 第10页She kept him together,but he got himself out of it,in true Churchillian fashion.To make amends for his m
14、istake,he took himself off to the trenches of France to fight.He must be one of the few soldiers to have written home from the First World War that he had found happiness and content such as I have not known for months.He was a man made for war.Text 第11页 9 By the time Churchill returned to England,h
15、ed already achieved many great things.Hed been a successful journalist,hed fought for his country and hed held high office,as he was to do again in the 1920s as Chancellor of the Exchequer.But by 1930,Labour was in power and he was on the backbenches,a nobody and a has-been.He largely sat out the 19
16、30s at his country retreat Chartwell.Text 第12页 10 In September 1938,Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain(18691940)famously brandished an agreement hed signed with Adolf Hitler(18891945)and declared hed secured peace in our time.You could almost hear the sighs of relief.But not from Winston.Hed predict
17、ed long before anyone else what German nationalism was leading to.Text 第13页 By the time he was proved right,and war had been declared,King George VI(18951952)knew that there was only one person I could send for to form a Government who had the confidence of the country.And that was Winston.When the
18、call came,Churchill was 65-year-old.It had been a long wait,but destiny had arrived.Text 第14页 11 People talk of 1066,of the Armada,of Trafalgar.But 1940 was the most important year in British history.It was the year of Dunkirk,the Battle of Britain,the Blitz.It was the year when every single Briton,
19、civilian as well as soldier,found themselves at war.The cause appeared hopeless,yet Winston,reviving the V sign for victory from the fields of Agincourt 500 years before,told us we could win.Text 第15页12 Churchill was an instinctive,daring,often infuriating war leader.He was rude and unpleasant to hi
20、s staff,who struggled to keep up with his limitless capacity for hard work and hard liquor.But he was also an inspiration.When victory was finally declared in Europe on 8 May 1945,it was quickly followed by a general election.Text 第16页 The billboards said Cheer Churchill,Vote Labour,and thats what p
21、eople did.That was the irony.The very democracy that Churchill was prepared to lay down his life to defend was the same democracy that knew the difference between the needs of peace and the needs of war.Text 第17页 13 When Churchill died in 1965,the new rock-and-roll Britain stood still.If Britain its
22、 eccentricity,its strength of character,its big-heartedness had to be summed up in one person,it was him.He had gone,but,thanks to him,Britain lived on.And what could be greater than that?Text 第18页温斯顿温斯顿丘吉尔丘吉尔 1 1940年夏天,英国面临外敌入侵,孤立无援。在这一危急时刻,有一个人温斯顿丘吉尔挺身而出,显示了英国人英雄本色。我们英国人喜欢把自己看成是一个宽容而坚忍民族。不过丘吉尔以他卓越
23、领导才能和光芒榜样让我们看到,当我们所珍视一切我们民主、我们自由受到威胁时候,我们会展示出无与伦比勇气和决心。Text 第19页 2“我所能贡献唯有热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水。你问我们政策是什么?我会说我们政策就是在海、陆、空全方面开战,竭尽全力,尽上帝赋予我们全部力量去战斗;与黑暗、可悲人类罪恶史上最穷凶极恶暴政作战。你问我们目标是什么?我能够用一个词往返答,那就是胜利。不惜一切代价,去夺取胜利。战胜一切恐怖,去夺取胜利。不论前方道路多么漫长、多么艰辛,一定要夺取胜利。”Text 第20页 3 在这么一个时刻,英国必须显示出她最伟大一面。而在丘吉尔身上,我们看到了一个最伟大英国人。4 1874年
24、,温斯顿丘吉尔出生于英国一个极为显赫家庭。丘吉尔家族世代为国王和国家出生入死,征战沙场。温斯顿年轻时候一直相信他会继承父业。不过他一直能够保持自信却与他家庭无关,他家人并没有给他多少支持。Text 第21页 他父亲伦道夫丘吉尔勋爵(18491895)和母亲珍妮(18541921)都是冷漠、拒人于千里之外人。他们把温斯顿送到了哈罗公学。他既不英俊又不聪明;他体弱多病,说话口齿不清,还结巴。他是那种在学校里注定要被人欺负学生实际情况也是如此。温斯顿父亲不但没有给他支持和帮助,还预测他儿子未来会“沦落到穷困潦倒、一事无成、抑郁而终地步”。Text 第22页 5 离开学校之后,经过三次努力,温斯顿进入
25、了位于桑赫斯特英国皇家陆军军官学校。从桑赫斯特毕业之后,他就找地方去打仗不论是什么地方。他自费兼任战地记者,并因报道出众而成为布尔战争英雄。所以当19回 到 英国时候,他已经名满天下,为当选国会议员铺平了道路。Text 第23页 6 同年,他代表奥德姆市当选为保守党国会议员。今后,他一度转投自由党,以后又重回保守党。他从来不是一个热衷于党派斗争人。他只关心英国前途和命运。他理想中英国是普通百姓安居乐业地方,但同时他又非常看重法律和社会秩序。尽管丘吉尔不是一个邪恶人,但他对妇女参政论者、工会主义者以及任何想要挑战现行体制人都残酷无情,他首先想到伎俩就是动用军队进行镇压。Text 第24页 7 不
26、过他一直想当一名将军。这个理想能够追溯到他学生时代。学校放假时候,他就在布伦海姆宫走廊里、在他那些战功卓著祖先织锦画像下玩玩具士兵,那时候他就萌生了这种理想。19,被任命为海军大臣时候,他一定非常高兴;19,当第一次世界大战让他有机会制订加利波利重大攻势计划时候,他更是欣喜万分。Text 第25页 8 不过加利波利战役以惨败收场,让温斯顿丢掉了饭碗,也使他几乎精神瓦解。丘吉尔第一次犯严重抑郁症就是从那个时候开始,他把这个让他痛苦不堪疾病称为“黑狗”(沮丧)。值得庆幸是,此时他已经娶妻成家。他妻子克莱门泰因帮他度过了难关。她比他小11岁,漂亮、聪明、忠贞不渝。Text 第26页 她让他振作起来,
27、但最终丘吉尔以自己特有方式走出了抑郁。为填补他过失,他奔赴法国战场,在战壕中浴血奋战。在第一次世界大战中,大约没有几个士兵会像他那样从战场上写信回家,说他“感觉到了几个月来从没有过幸福和满足”。他就是为战争而生。Text 第27页 9 当丘吉尔回到英国时候,他已经成就了丰功伟业。他曾是一名成功记者,他曾为国家浴血奋战,他曾经身居高位。在20世纪代他再次官居要职,担任财务大臣。不过到了1930年,工党开始执政,而他只是一名后座议员,一个无足轻重小人物,一名过气政客。30年代大部分时间,他都在他乡间别墅查特威尔庄园里闲坐度日。Text 第28页 10 1938年9月,时任首相内维尔张伯伦(1869
28、1940)公开挥舞着他和阿道夫希特勒(18891945)签署和平协议,宣告他已经确保了我们这个时代和平。你甚至都能够听到人们如释重负地松了一口气。不过丘吉尔并不这么认为。他预测到比任何人都要早德国民族主义会走向何方。Text 第29页 事态发展证实他是正确,战争暴发了,英国国王乔治六世(18951952)知道“要组建一个能赢得全国信任政府,我只能去请一个人,那就是温斯顿。”任命下来时候,丘吉尔已经65岁了。为这一天他等了很久,但上天最终还是把大任交给了他。Text 第30页 11人们经常会说起1066年诺曼征服,说起击败西班牙无敌舰队壮举,提到特拉法尔加战役这些主要历史事件。但其实1940年才
29、是英国历史上最主要一年。敦刻尔克大撤退、不列颠之战、德国空袭英国都发生在这一年。在这一年,每一个英国人,不论是平民还是士兵,都发觉自己处于战争之中。英国似乎不可能赢得这场战争,不过温斯顿用5前阿金库尔战役中那个表示胜利V字手势告诉我们,我们能够取得胜利。Text 第31页 12丘吉尔是一个直觉敏锐、大胆、经常令人恼火战争领袖。他对部下粗鲁,令人不快。他工作起来不要命,喝起酒来也不要命,这让他部下疲于应付。但同时他也鼓舞了无数人。1945年5月8日,欧洲最终宣告战争胜利,英国随即举行了大选。Text 第32页 英国许多通告牌上都写着“为丘吉尔喝彩,给工党投票”,而人们也确实是这么做。这真是充满了
30、讽刺意味。丘吉尔随时准备誓死保卫民主国家知道和平时代需求和战时需求是不一样。Text 第33页 131965年,丘吉尔逝世,刚才进入摇滚乐时代英国举国皆哀。假如要用一个人来代表英国怪僻、坚强个性和宽广胸怀,那就是丘吉尔。丘吉尔已经离我们而去,但正是因为有了他,英国才得以存活下来。还有什么比这更伟大业绩呢?Text 第34页Words&Phrasestolerantdemocracymightmonstroustyrannysurpasslamentablesuffragetteswaprenowneddispatchshabbydegeneratebullyloyalunswervinglyb
31、outonsetsanityoffensiveAdmiraltysicklylispstammertapestrycorridorunionistchancellortrenchamends第35页Words&Phrasesbackbenchhas-beenretreatbrandishnationalismdestinyinfuriatingbig-heartednesseccentricitylimitlessliquorbillboard第36页Words&Phraseson the brink of(doing)sth.pack offdouble(up)aslaw and order
32、date back toget sb.out oftake offsit outsum up第37页Words&PhrasesWinston Churchill 温斯顿丘吉尔Randolph Churchill 伦道夫丘吉尔Harrow 哈罗公学Sandhurst 桑赫斯特(英国陆军军官学校所在地)the Boer War 布尔战争MP(Member of Parliament)议员;下院议员Tory(英国)保守党党员;保守党支持者Oldham 奥德姆市(英国西北部城市)Blenheim Palace 布伦海姆宫Gallipoli 加利波利(位于土耳其北部)第38页Words&PhrasesC
33、lementine 克莱门泰因丘吉尔Chancellor of the Exchequer(英国)财政大臣Chartwell 查特威尔(丘吉尔静养居所)Neville Chamberlain 内维尔张伯伦Adolf Hitler 阿道夫希特勒King George VI 乔治六世Armada(16世纪西班牙)无敌舰队Trafalgar 特拉法尔加(西班牙西南部港口城市)Dunkirk 敦刻尔克the Battle of Britain 不列颠之战 第39页Words&Phrasesthe Blitz 德国对英国空袭 Agincourt 阿金库尔战役 第40页tolerant a.willing
34、 to accept someone elses beliefs,way of life etc.without criticizing them,even if you disagree with them 容忍;宽容e.g.Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerantnot,indeed,of what is wrong,but of the weaknesses and immaturity of human nature which induce people,and again especially children
35、,to make mistakes.(CET4-06)与此亲密相关是容忍能力当然,不是容忍错误,而是容忍人性中弱点和不成熟,正是这些弱点和不成熟使得人们,尤其是孩子们,会犯错误。Word family:tolerance n.tolerantly ad.Words&Phrases第41页democracy n.U a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them 民主;民主政体e.g.1.Ancient Athens is said to be t
36、he cradle of democracy.听说古代雅典是民主摇篮。2.The principals democracy made him popular among teachers and students.校长民主作风使他受到师生欢迎。Antonym:autocracyWords&Phrases第42页might n.U great power or strength,especially a countrys military or economic power 力量;威力e.g.1.Their foreign policy is based on the principle tha
37、t“might is right”.他们外交政策建立在“强权即公理”标准之上。2.To be frank,this mission is beyond my might.坦白说,这一使命非我能力所及。3.He fought back with all his might.他倾全力还击。Word family:mighty a.Words&Phrases第43页monstrous a.cruel,unfair,or morally wrong 残忍;不公正e.g.1.Any suggestion that I accepted bribes would be a monstrous slur.谁
38、说我受贿就是对我恶意中伤。2.Its perfectly monstrous that men should be paid more than women for the same job.做相同工作,而男人所得酬劳比女人多,这完全是不公正。Word family:monster n.Words&Phrases第44页tyranny n.C,U 1)a government that treats people in a cruel and unfair way,using force to control them 施行暴政政府;专制政府e.g.The people will rise u
39、p to free themselves from tyranny.2)cruel and unfair treatment by someone in a position of power 暴虐;暴行;专横e.g.Love is a sweet tyranny,because the lover endures its torment willingly.爱情专横而又甜蜜,因为恋爱者心甘情愿忍受其折磨。Words&Phrases人们将揭竿而起,摆脱暴政。第45页surpass vt.be better or greater than sth.else 优于,超出(某事物)e.g.1.We
40、will surpass our predecessors,and future generations will certainly surpass us.我们会超出前人,后人也必然会超出我们。2.The task surpassed his skill.以他技术,这项工作他难以胜任。3.Do you alone surpass these in doctrine,in your manner of life,and in every other respect?莫非你真在做人标准、生活习惯和其他方面都比这些人卓越吗?Words&Phrases第46页lamentable a.(fml)so
41、 bad that you feel disappointed or angry 令人痛惜;糟糕e.g.1.The decision they made is a lamentable lack of foresight.他们做决定实在缺乏远见。2.His death is a lamentable loss of our work.他死对我们工作来说是令人悲痛损失。3.Nothing is more lamentable than a dead heart.哀莫大于心死。Word family:lamentation n.lamentably ad.lament v.&n.Words&Phr
42、ases第47页sickly a.someone who is sickly is generally not healthy and is often ill 多病,不健康e.g.1.The trouble is that the boy is sickly.麻烦是,这个孩子体弱多病。2.Her cheeks have a sickly pallor.她面色苍白带有病容。Word family:sickliness n.Words&Phrases第48页lisp n.sing a speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronuncia
43、tion of the sounds(s)and(z)as(th)and(th)咬舌,口齿不清e.g.1.We had trouble not laughing at his lisp.我们极难不去笑他口齿不清。2.We should not blame those who cannot speak English well because of a physical defect such as a natural lisp,stutter or dyslexia.因身体缺点如天生口齿不清、结巴、诵读困难等而不能讲好英语者,我们不应该责备。Words&Phrases第49页stammer n
44、.sing a speech problem that makes you repeat a sound several times when you try to say certain words 口吃;结巴e.g.1.The children teased the boy because of his stammer.孩子们取笑这个男孩子,因为他口吃。2.As a youth,Willis had a stammer that only disappeared when he was performing.青年时威利斯有口吃毛病,但在他出时口吃竟然会消失。Words&Phrases第50
45、页bully vt.frighten or hurt someone who is smaller or weaker than you 威吓;欺侮e.g.1.He was bullied by the older boys at school.他在学校里受到大孩子欺负。2.Youve got no right at all to bully the weak.你根本没有权利欺侮弱者。Words&Phrases第51页degenerate vi.become worse 恶化e.g.1.Liberty is apt to degenerate into lawlessness.自由轻易沦为无法
46、无天。2.We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.我们不能允许我们富有创造性抗议沦为暴力行动。Words&Phrases第52页shabby a.old and in bad condition 破旧;寒酸e.g.1.Grant was of humble origin,shabby in dress,rough in speech and manners.格兰特出身低微,衣着寒酸,说话粗鲁,态度生硬。2.What if my clothes are shabby and worn;
47、they cover a warm heart.我衣服破破烂烂又怎么样,它们遮掩着是一颗热情心。Words&Phrases第53页dispatch n.&vt.1)n.C a report that a military officer sends from a battlefield(=a place where a battle is being fought)or a government official sends from a foreign country 战报e.g.1.Our unit received a dispatch from headquarters orderin
48、g us to tighten security.我们小分队收到了司令部战报,命令我们加强安全办法。2.In his battle dispatch he described the gunners bravery.2)vt.(fml)send someone or something somewhere 派遣;发送;派送e.g.Please dispatch the TV sets we ordered by sea.请海运我们订购电视机。Words&Phrases他战斗汇报记述了炮手勇敢。第54页renowned a.(as/for)famous and admired for a spe
49、cial skill or achievement 有名望;著名e.g.1.Perry was renowned as an aggressive competitor.佩利是出了名强有力竞争者。2.Suzhou is renowned to the world for its arts and crafts.苏州以其工艺品闻名全球。Words&Phrases第55页swap v.give sth.to someone in exchange for sth.else 交换e.g.1.If you like this one better,Ill swap with you.假如你更喜欢这个,
50、我和你交换。2.Members are encouraged to swap books with each other.勉励组员们相互交换书籍。3.I liked her coat and she liked mine,so we swapped.我喜欢她外套,她喜欢我外套,于是我们就交换了。Words&Phrases第56页suffragette n.C in the UK and US,a woman who took part in public protests about giving women the right to vote in the early 1900s(20世纪初