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1、Unit 4 The Joy of WorkA Famous Quote:Labour is often the father of pleasure.- Francios Marie Arouet (Voltaire)Francios Marie Arouet (Voltaire)(1694-1778), French poet, dramatist, historian, and philosopher. He was and outspoken and aggressive enemy of every injustice, especially of religious intoler
2、ance. His works are an outstanding embodiment of the principles of the French Enlightenment.Text A Works Is a BlessingPre-reading Questions1. Do you often help your parents with the household chores? What do you usually do to help them?2. Have you had any experience of doing part-time jobs to help s
3、upport yourself and your family? What did you think about it?I grew up in Lakeland, LA, one of 12 children. We all lived on my parents subsistence farm. We grew cotton, sugar cane, corn, hogs, and chickens and had a large garden, but it didnt bring in much cash. So when I was 12, I got a part-time j
4、ob on a dairy farm down the road, helping to milk cows. We milked 65 cows at 5 in the morning and again at 2 in the afternoon, seven days a week.In the kitchen on Saturday before daylight, I remember complaining to my father and grandfather about having to go milk those cows. My father said, “Ya kno
5、w, boy, to work is a blessing.”I looked at those two men who had worked harder than I ever had my father eking out a living on that farm and my grandfather farming and working as a carpenter during the Depression. I had a feeling I had been told something really important, but it took many years bef
6、ore it sank in.Going to college was a rare privilege for a kid from Lakeland. My father told me if I picked something to study that I liked doing, Id always look forward to my work. But he also added, “Even having a job you hate is better than not having a job at all.” I wanted to be a farmer, but I
7、 joined the ROTC program to help pay for college. And what started out as an obligation to the Army became a way of life that I stayed committed to for 37 years, three months and three days.In the late 1980s, during a visit to Bangladesh, I saw a woman with a baby on her back, breaking bricks with a
8、 hammer. I asked a Bangladesh military escort why they werent using a machine, which would have been a lot easier. He told me a machine would put that lady out of work. Breaking those bricks meant she could earn enough money to feed herself and her baby that day. And as bad as that womans job was, i
9、t was enough to keep a small family alive. It remained me of my fathers words: To work is a blessing.Serving in the U.S. Army overseas, I saw a lot of people like that woman in Bangladesh. And I have come to believe that people without jobs are not free. They are victims of crime, the ideology of te
10、rrorism, poor health, depression and social unrest. These victims become the illegal immigrants, the slaves of human trafficking, the drug dealers, and street gang members. I have seen it over and over again on the U.S. border, in Somalia, the Congo, Afghanistan and in New Orleans. People who have j
11、obs can have a home, send their kids to school, develop a sense of pride, contribute to the good of the community, and even help other. When we can work, we are free. We are blessed.I dont think I will ever quit working. Im retired from the Army, but Im still working to help people be prepared for d
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