84 美国学生的夏令营生活
DATE=8/13/2000
TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1077 - Summer Camps
BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson
VOICE ONE:
More than nine-million American children are spending part of their summer at a camp. They are swimming, playing sports, making music or learning to use a computer. I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember. We tell about summer camps today on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
Traditional American summer (1)camps offer children a chance to play many sports outdoors. These camps may be in the (2)mountains, in the woods or at a lake. Other camps teach activities like (3)painting, music or computer (4)programming. Children at all kinds of camps meet new friends, learn new skills and develop (5)independence.
Some children go to camp during the day and return home at night. Others stay at camp all day and all night. Most children who (6)attend camp are between the ages of about six and sixteen.
Some children stay at an (7)overnight camp for one or two weeks. Others stay for as many as eight weeks. Parents pay from one hundred to more than seven-hundred dollars a week for overnight camps.
VOICE TWO:
Children from poor families who live in a big city might not get the chance to go to a summer camp. The Fresh Air Fund is a well-known organization that gives children in New York City that chance. People around the country give money to (8)support the Fresh Air Fund. Each summer, it sends more than ten-thousand poor children from the city to stay with families in the country or to five camps in New York State.
Since Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, the Fresh Air Fund has helped almost two-million of New York City's most needy children. These children do what they cannot do in the city: (9)breathe fresh air, play on green grass and swim in a lake. Some children begin staying with the same family when they are very young and continue for a number of summers.
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VOICE ONE: The American tradition of sending children to summer camp began more than one hundred years ago. The first organized American camp (10)probably was the Gunnery Camp. Frederick W. Gunn and his wife Abigail Gunn started it. They operated a school for boys in the state of Connecticut.
In Eighteen Sixty-One, Mister and Missus Gunn took their students on a two-week trip. They walked to the chosen area and (11)set up camp. The students fished, hunted, and traveled by boat.
VOICE TWO:
Today, summer camps for children have become very important to millions of families. Many American women now work outside the home. Working parents need a place where their children can be (12)cared for during the summer when they are not in school.
Camps help children, too. For most children, overnight camp is the only time during the year when they are away from their parents. Camp gives them a chance to feel that they are independent. Campers live together in cloth (13)tents or in wood (14)cabins. They eat their meals together in a large (15)dining room.
Sometimes, (16)however, the first time at summer camp can be difficult. Children might not like living with other campers. They might not like the food. Or, they might not like to do things like swim in a cold lake. Some new campers miss their parents very much.
VOICE ONE:
(17)Mental health expert Chris Thurber studied almost three-hundred-thirty boy campers. The boys were between the ages of eight and sixteen. They were staying at an overnight camp. Eighty-three percent reported that they wished they were home at least one day during their time at camp.
The American Camping Association suggests that parents prepare children before sending them to camp. They say parents should let children help choose the camp. And they advise parents to (18)discuss what the camp will be like and what campers will need to know. For example, parents can show their children how to use a (19)flashlight to find a (20)bathroom at night.
Experts say young children may feel better at camp if they bring a (21)toy from home. And parents can write letters to their children often.
VOICE TWO:
Most young people have a good time at camp. Many return to the same camp every summer until they are old enough to have a job. Then they might return to the camp to work as a group leader for the younger children.
For example, a woman from the state of Illinois attended camp in nearby Wisconsin every summer for more than ten years. Then she became a group leader at the camp. Many years later her own children attended the same camp. Now she says that someday her (22)grandchildren will go there, too.
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VOICE ONE:
There are about nine-thousand camps in the United States. Most of them are overnight camps. There are camps for children with many kinds of interests. For example, a camp called Roughing It is in the San Francisco Bay area of California. It offers traditional activities for children and (23)teenagers. Campers climb mountains, take long walks and ride horses. They play sports, swim and fish. Other camps offer just one main activity. Children can go to a camp where they play just one sport, like (24)tennis, (25)soccer, (26)baseball or basketball. Young people who like the arts can spend the summer learning about art, music, dance, acting or writing.
VOICE TWO:
The best known camp for young artists is the Interlochen Arts Camp. It is part of the Interlochen Center for the Arts in the state of Michigan. Its music program is especially well known. More than two thousand young people from the United States and forty other countries are attending the arts camp this summer.
Camps that offer programs in science and environmental studies are (27)popular, too. For example, the United States Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama welcomes (28)adults as well as children. Whole families can live together in a place like a real space (29)station. They take part in activities similar to those carried out during real space (30)shuttle flights.
VOICE ONE:
Another special camp is Seacamp in Big Pine Key, Florida. Teenage campers learn to dive under water using breathing equipment. They study the ocean environment.
Some older children like (31)wilderness (32)adventure camps. Campers take long trips by (33)bicycle or (34)canoe. They climb big rocks and explore (35)caves.
Each year, an increasing number of children develop their knowledge of technology at computer camps. This summer, more than thirty thousand young people are attending the top computer camps in the United States.
(MUSIC BRIDGE)
VOICE TWO:
The United States also has many camps for sick or (36)disabled children. At these camps, children take part in traditional activities and receive (37)special medical care. While the children are away, their parents get a rest.
Handi Kids in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, has a day camp for children and young adults with health problems. The campers have poor hearing or sight. But this does not stop them from enjoying water sports, arts, dance, music and other activities.
Perhaps the most famous camp for sick children is called the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in the state of Connecticut. It is for children with AIDS, (38)cancer, and serious blood diseases. The famous (39)actor Paul Newman started the first Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Nineteen-Eighty-Eight. Similar camps have been established in other parts of the United States, (40)Ireland and France.
VOICE ONE:
For many children in overnight camps across the United States, the day ends in a traditional way. They gather around the campfire to cook and eat a sweet (41)dessert food called "s'mores." The campers cook (42)marshmallows over the fire. They put the marshmallows and a piece of chocolate between two graham (43)crackers. This food got its name because after campers eat one, they ask for "some more," or s’more for short. As the fire dies, the campers join in singing traditional songs like this one.
((CUT ONE: THE WHEELS ON THE BUS - CDP-2820))
Chances are, the children will always remember the fun they had and the songs they sang in the firelight of summer camp.
((THEME))
VOICE TWO:
This program was written by Jerilyn Watson. It was produced by Caty Weaver. Our studio engineer was Keith Holmes. I'm Steve Ember.
VOICE ONE:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. Join us again next week for another report about life in the United States on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
(1) camp [????] n. 露营地, 阵营; vi. 露营, 扎营
(2) mountain [??????] n. 山, 山脉
(3) paint [?????] n. 油漆, 颜料, 涂料; v. 油漆, (用颜料等)画, 绘,
(4) program [????????] vt. 规划, 拟...计划, 安排...入节目; vi.
(5) independence [????’???????] n. 独立, 自主
(6) attend [?’????] vt. 出席, 参加, 照顾, 护理, 注意; vi. 专心, 留意
(7) overnight [????????] adj. 通宵的, 晚上的, 前夜的
(8) support [??’?????] vt. 支撑, 扶持, 支持, 支援, 拥护, 维持, 赡养,
(9) breathe [?????] v. 呼吸, 发出
(10) probably [????????] adv. 大概, 或许
(11) set up v. 设立, 竖立, 架起, 升起, 装配, 创(纪录), 提出, 开业
(12) care [???]vi. 关心, 顾虑, 照顾, 喜爱; n. 注意, 照料, 烦恼, 忧虑,
(13) tent [????] n. 帐篷
(14) cabin [?????] n. 小屋, 船舱
(15) dining room n. 饭厅
(16) however [??????] adv. 无论如何, 可是, 仍然, 究竟; conj. 不
(17) mental [???tl]adj. 精神的, 智力的
(18) discuss [???’???] vt. 讨论, 论述
(19) flashlight [????????] n. 手电筒, 闪光灯
(20) bathroom [????????] n. 浴室, 盥洗室
(21) toy [???] n. 玩具
(22) grandchildren [?????????????] n. 孙子
(23) teenager [?????????] n. 十几岁的青少年
(24) tennis [?????] n. 网球运动; adj. 网球的, 用于网球运动的
(25) soccer [????] n. 英式足球
(26) baseball [‘????????] n. 棒球, 棒球运动
(27) popular [???????] adj. 通俗的, 流行的, 受欢迎的
(28) adult [?????]n. 成人, 成年人; adj. 成人的, 成熟的
(29) station [??????] n. 位置, 岗位, 地位, 身份, ...局, ...站; vt.
(30) shuttle [????]n. 往返汽车(列车、飞机), 航天飞机, 梭子, 穿梭; v.
(31) wilderness [????????] n. 荒野, 茫茫一片, 大量, 荒地
(32) adventure [??’??????] n. 冒险, 冒险的经历; v. 冒险
(33) bicycle [????????]n. 脚踏车, 自行车
(34) canoe [??’???]n. 独木舟, 轻舟
(35) cave [????] n. 洞穴, 窑洞
(36) disabled [??s’?????] adj. 伤残的; v. 丧失能力
(37) special [?????]n. 特派员, 专车, 专刊; adj. 特别的, 特殊的,
(38) cancer [????] n. 癌, 毒瘤
(39) actor [????] n. 男演员, 行动者, 参与者
(40) Ireland [???????] n. 爱尔兰
(41) dessert [??’???] n. 餐后甜点
(42) marshmallow [????’?????] n. 药属葵, 药属葵蜜饯
(43) cracker [?????] n. 饼干, 爆竹, 胡桃夹;
85 百岁老人上大学
DATE=8-17-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #831 - George Dawson
BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk
HOST:
(Start at 59")George Dawson spent the first ninety-eight years of his life doing many different things. Yet he could not read or write. His life changed five years ago, when he decided to go back to school and learn to read and write. Since then, his story has been changing other lives, too. Shep O'Neal has more.
ANNCR:
George Dawson was born in the state of Texas. He was the (1)grandson of (2)slaves. He began working on the family farm when he was four. When he was twelve, he worked on a nearby farm to help feed his (3)parents and four younger brothers and sisters. For the next eighty-five years, he held a number of different jobs, most of them involving hard (4)labor.
As a young man, George Dawson traveled often, usually by (5)stealing rides on trains. He visited Mexico. He went to Canada to see snow.
George Dawson lived a happy life even though conditions were difficult. When he was ten years old, he saw a young African-American man (6)murdered. He said his two biggest problems were racial (7)unfairness in America and his inability to read and write.
George Dawson kept it a secret that he could not read. But he said he always (8)dreamed that he would learn. Although he had no education, he taught his children to work hard in school.
George Dawson's life changed in Nineteen-Ninety-Six. A man came to his house in Dallas, Texas, and told him that adult education classes were being taught at a nearby school. So the man who had signed his name with an "X" for almost one-hundred years went to school.
People wondered why Mister Dawson did not go to school earlier. He said he never had the time because of his farm work. And he never knew about adult education programs.
George Dawson's (9)efforts to learn to read influenced students of all ages. He spoke to young people about the importance of learning to read and write.
Mister Dawson received many honors for his efforts. He (10)appeared on television shows and received (11)honorary awards from (12)universities. Last year, a schoolteacher from Washington state helped him write a book about his life. The book is called "Life Is So Good."
George Dawson died last month at the age of one-hundred-three. He attended school every day until his death.
美国的社会保障制度
DATE=8-17-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #831 - Pensions
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 4'46")Our VOA listener question this week comes in an e-mail from Japan. Teruko Hagiya asks about the (1)pension system in the United States.
A pension is the money that a worker or his or her family receives after a worker (2)retires, is unable to work or dies. People have pension plans from working in (3)private industry, in the armed forces or in government. People can also (4)establish their own pension plans. Many of those who create their own plans work for themselves or for a company that does not provide a pension plan.
Reports say most American workers have some kind of pension plan. Most pensions of people who worked for the government are paid for with money that came (5)jointly from workers and their agencies. Most private pension plans are paid for by the (6)employer.
A federal government program called Social Security provides money to most American workers after they retire. Social Security is the largest retirement program in the United States. Workers pay into the program a percent of what they earn each month. Their employers do the same. Most self-employed people also pay into Social Security. These people then will receive money each month after they retire for as long as they live.
The Social Security program wa. For example, a man who retires after twenty years of military service receives pension money each month from the federal government. He may also (11)collect money from the Social Security system, and from other private investments he has made.s established in Nineteen-Thirty-Five. It was never meant to fully (7)support someone who has no other money. (8)Especially today, money received from Social Security is not enough to provide for most people's needs.
Many companies have their own retirement plans for their workers. Federal law requires companies to give pension rights to all people who have worked for the company for a set number of years.
People can also establish (9)individual pension plans through banks or (10)insurance companies. They put in so much money each month, then receive payments after they reach about sixty-five years of age.
Most Americans say they cannot live as they would like on money provided by only one pension plan. So they have more than one
"音乐电视"广播公司举办20周年台庆
DATE=8-17-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #831 - MTV Turns Twenty
BYLINE=Caty Weaver
HOST:
(Start at 8'30")The television company M-T-V (1)celebrated its twentieth (2)anniversary earlier this month. It has become the biggest television network in the world. MTV is known for its short movies of the music of popular artists. _________ tells us about the history of M-T-V and plays some of the music its (3)videos have made famous.
ANNCR:
M-T-V (4)broadcast its first music video on August first, Nineteen-Eighty-One. It was made by a group called the Buggles. The name of the song is "Video Killed the Radio Star."
(CUT ONE: VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR; CDP-9636)
Radio is still very much alive. But, M-T-V did grow to be as important as radio to the (5)creators of popular music.
M-T-V reaches almost three-hundred-fifty-million houses in one-hundred-forty countries around the world. It is broadcast in seventeen languages. (This year, M-T-V will probably earn seven-hundred-million dollars just from selling broadcast time to companies that want to advertise their products.) OPT
M-T-V played music videos twenty-four hours a day when it first began broadcasting. Later, it created shows like "Real World." That show records the lives of young people as they live together in houses in different cities of the world. Television (6)critics consider "Real World" the first reality television program.
Some videos on M-T-V seem like Hollywood (7)movies. In Nineteen-Eighty-Three, Michael Jackson created a fourteen-minute video that became extremely famous. Here is : "Thriller."
(CUT TWO: THRILLER; CDP-23)
We leave you now with a song that will be (8)recognized by M-T-V fans all over the world. It has become the (9)unofficial song of M-T-V. It is Dire (10)Straits singing "Money for Nothing."
(1) grandson [???????] n.孙子；外孙
(2) slave [?????] n. 奴隶; v. 辛勤努力
(3) parent [???????] n. [pl. ] 双亲, 父亲(或母亲)
(4) labor [?????] n. 劳动, 努力, 工作, 劳工; vi. 劳动, 努力争取(for), 苦干
(5) steal [?????] v. 偷, 窃取, 偷窃, 偷盗
(6) murder ‘????] n. 谋杀, 凶杀; vt. 谋杀, 凶杀; v. 谋杀
(7) unfairness [??'??????] n.不公平
(8) dream [?????] v. 做梦, 梦见, 梦想, 想到; n. 梦, 梦想
(9) effort [????] n. 努力, 成就
(10)appear [?'???] vi. 出现, 看来, 似乎, 公开露面, 出版, 发表
(11)honorary [???????] adj. 荣誉的, 名誉的, （债务的）道义上的
(12)university [?????'??????] n. (综合)大学
(1) pension [????????] n. 养老金, 退休金
(2) retire [??'????] vi. 退休, 引退, 退却, 撤退, 就寝
(3) private [???????] adj. 私人的, 私有的, 私营的, 秘密的
(4) establish [?'???????] vt. 建立, 设立, 安置, 使定居, 使人民接受,
(5) jointly [???????] adv. 共同地, 连带地
(6) employer [??'?????] n. 雇主, 老板
(7) support [??'????] vt. 支撑, 扶持, 支持, 支援, 拥护, 维持, 赡养,
(8) especially [?'???????] adv. 特别, 尤其
(9) individual [????'???????] n. 个人, 个体; adj. 个别的, 单独的,
(10) insurance [??'???????] n. 保险, 保险单, 保险业, 保险费
(11) collect [??'????] v. 收集, 聚集, 集中, 搜集; adj. 由收件人付款的;
(1) celebrate [?????????] v. 庆祝, 祝贺, 表扬, 赞美, 举行
(2) anniversary [‘?????????] n. 周年纪念
(3) video [??????] n. 电视, 录象, 视频
(4) broadcast [??????????]n. 广播, 播音; v. 播撒(种子), 广播
(5) creator [????'????] n. [计] 创建者, 创作者
(6) critics [???????] n. 批评家
(7) movie [?????] n. 电影
(8) recognize [?????????] vt. 认可, 承认, 公认, 赏识; vi. 具结
(9) unofficial [???'???????] adj. 非官方的, 非法定的, 非正式的
(10) strait [??????] adj. 艰难的, 苦恼的, 窘迫的; n. 地峡, [straits]
86 著名马戏团训兽师格贝尔·威廉姆斯
DATE=8-19-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA # 1835 - Gunther Gebel-Williams
BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson
VOICE ONE:
I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember. Today, we tell about the famous circus performer, Gunther Gebel-Williams. He was known for his gentle ways of training wild animals.
((INSTEAD OF THEME, CIRCUS MUSIC: "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH"))
VOICE ONE:
The lights of the (1)circus shone brightly on Gunther Gebel-Williams as he stood in the center ring. Big (2)tigers surrounded him. He spoke quietly to the animals. Then he said a few more words to horses that waited in a line nearby.
Thousands of people watched as the wild tigers climbed onto the horses' backs to take a ride. It did not seem like anything that either a tiger or a horse would want to do. But they (3)paraded under the shining lights. Some of the animals even looked pleased with themselves. The crowd under the circus tent in Boston, Massachusetts, shouted its (4)approval.
Mister Gebel-Williams gave the tigers little pieces of meat and offered other food to the horses. "Thank you," he told them.
VOICE TWO:
Many people said the world had lost its greatest animal trainer when Mister Gebel-Williams died. He was sixty-six years old when he died of brain (5)cancer in July of Two-Thousand-One.
Gunther Gebel-Williams and his animals traveled across the United States with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus for more than twenty years. He was the most famous circus performer in the nation.
Gunther Gebel-Williams started working with animals as a child in Germany. He became famous as a circus performer and animal trainer in Europe. Mister Williams came to the United States in Nineteen-Sixty-Eight. He became an American (6)citizen in Nineteen-Seventy-Six.
VOICE ONE:
Gunther Gebel-Williams was wounded sometimes by his animals. But he gave about twelve-thousand performances without missing a show for (7)injury or sickness. He retired from performing in Nineteen-Ninety. At the time he was working with about thirty-eight horses, twenty-two tigers and twenty-one (8)elephants. Four (9)zebras, three camels and a (10)llama or two also took part in his performances. After leaving the show he remained with the circus as a trainer, officer and part owner.
Gunther Gebel-Williams never made a (11)secret of how he got animals to do what he wanted. He said he built a special world around them. In this world he was the father. The lions, tigers and other animals were his children. His methods changed the way Americans train and treat performing animals.
((TAPE CUT ONE: CIRCUS NOISE: LIONS ROARING, ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING ))
VOICE TWO:
The future circus star had a difficult childhood. Gunther Gebel was born in the eastern German village of Schweidnitz on September Twelfth, Nineteen-Thirty-Four. Gunther's father was a (12)carpenter who built things out of wood. Later he became a (13)technical director for a (14)theater company.
The father's Socialist beliefs got him into trouble with Germany's Nazi government during the war. The Army sent him to Russia. He and thousands of other German (15)soldiers who were (16)captured there were never heard from again.
VOICE ONE:
During the final months of the war, Gunther, his mother and sister fled from their home in eastern Germany west to Cologne. Germany had lost the war, and the (17)victorious Russians were moving in to take control.
After the fighting ended Missus Gebel found work with Circus Williams. A well known horse trainer, Harry Williams, owned it. Missus Gebel made and repaired clothes for this circus. She also got Gunther a job at the circus. He was about twelve or thirteen years old at the time. The boy had been in school for only a few years.
After a short time Missus Gebel left the circus. She left Gunther there. Gunther said later that he felt his mother gave him away. Harry Williams, however, was very glad to have the boy working for him. He immediately recognized that Gunther had unusual natural ability with animals.
VOICE TWO:
Mister Williams began helping Gunther develop an act in which the boy did (18)tricks while riding horses. Before long Gunther was getting all kinds of animals to do what he wanted. He especially loved the tigers. He (19)praised their beauty, wildness and (20)intelligence.
In Nineteen-Fifty-One, Harry Williams died after an (21)accident in the circus. Harry's wife asked Gunther to help her operate the circus. She also (22)urged him to become a star performer. Gunther was seventeen years old at the time.
He began his new responsibilities by adding the Williams family name to his own name. Gunther Gebel became Gunther Gebel-Williams. He wanted to (23)demonstrate that Harry Williams and his circus had been a family to him. In Nineteen-Sixty, Mister Gebel-Williams married one of the Williams (24)daughters.
((MUSIC BRIDGE: CIRCUS MUSIC))
VOICE ONE:
Gunther Gebel-Williams and his big tigers, elephants and other animals became famous all over Europe. He won three major (25)awards for his performances. In Nineteen-Sixty-Eight, an owner of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in the United States bought Circus Williams. The owner, Irvin Feld, did this mainly to get Gunther Gebel-Williams as a performer.
Mister Gebel-Williams was an (26)immediate success in the United States as he travelled with the circus. His (27)leopards jumped through circles held by tigers in their teeth. His elephants walked calmly and carefully down busy streets. People in cities across the country praised his (28)bravery in his acts with the animals. His performances were different from anything that had been seen in circuses before.
VOICE TWO:
For many years Clyde Beatty had been the most famous animal trainer in the United States. Mister Beatty was an American circus performer known for his "fighting act." In this act he controlled forty (29)lions and tigers. Mister Beatty also performed with dangerous mixes of tigers, lions, leopards, (30)pumas, (31)hyenas and bears. His act demonstrated how (32)fierce the animals really were. He used chairs and (33)whips to get the animals to obey his commands. Sometimes he even used guns.
Mister Gebel-Williams had high praise for Clyde Beatty's bravery and skill. But Mister Gebel-Williams made his own animals perform by being friendly to them. He said he wanted to work with happy animals. He did not believe in making them fear him.
VOICE ONE:
Training by Gunther Gebel-Williams began and ended with kindness. He never had an animal operated on to make it safer for him. All his big cats kept their hard, sharp (34)claws on their feet. He spoke to animals in the same soft voice each time he worked with them. When they performed well he gave them special foods. When they failed to obey he expressed mild displeasure. He never used chairs or whips or guns.
One of the most unusual things about Mister Gebel-Williams was the way he got animals to perform well together. For example, elephants and horses naturally fear tigers. He would take as long as two years to get the elephants and horses to let tigers ride on them. (35)Traditional enemies like leopards and (36)zebras also performed together in his acts.
VOICE TWO:
Mister Gebel-Williams especially liked working with a (37)panther named Kenny. This big cat weighed more than thirty-four (38)kilograms. Kenny enjoyed sitting on the neck and shoulders of his trainer. People liked to say the animal was probably thinking great thoughts as he rested on Mister Gebel-Williams.
But Gunther Gebel-Williams never forgot the danger involved in his work. He could not have forgotten it if he wanted to. (39)From time to time an animal would become wild for no (40)apparent reason. Mister Gebel-Williams' face was covered with old healed wounds that sometimes made it difficult for him to talk.
VOICE ONE:
Even when animals attacked, Gunther Gebel Williams did not become angry. After Kenny died, Mister Gebel-Williams was performing one day with a panther named Zorro. Zorro weighed two times as much as Kenny. Suddenly Zorro started making a threatening noise. Then he bit his trainer deeply in the neck. But Mister Gebel-Williams would not go to the hospital until he calmed the animal and got it back in its cage.
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The (41)marriage of Mister Gebel-Williams and his first wife ended. His second wife, Sigrid Neubauer, became a circus performer. They had been married thirty-three years when Mister Gebel-Williams died. They raised a daughter and a son. The son, Mark Oliver, now serves as a star trainer of tigers with a Ringling circus company.
Friends say Mister Gebel-Williams was a loving husband and father. Yet they add that his deepest relationships probably were with his animals. He called animals (42)dependable and honest although he sometimes (42)suffered from their attacks. Gunther Gebel-Williams once said he liked animals more than most human beings.
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VOICE ONE:
This Special English program was written by Jerilyn Watson and produced by Caty Weaver. Our studio engineer was Keith Holmes. I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember. Join us again next week for another PEOPLE IN AMERICA program on the Voice of America.
(1) circus [‘?????]n. 马戏团, 杂技团, 马戏场, 杂技场
(2) tiger [‘?????] n. [动]老虎, 虎, 凶暴的人
(3) parade [??'????] n. 游行, 炫耀, 阅兵, 检阅, 阅兵场; v. 游行,
(4) approval [?'??????] n. 赞成, 承认, 正式批准
(5) cancer [‘?????] n. 癌, 毒瘤
(6) citizen [‘??????] n. 市民, 公民
(7) injury [‘???????] n. 伤害, 侮辱
(8) elephant [‘???????] n. 象, 一种纸张的尺寸
(9) zebra [‘??????] n. 斑马
(10) llama [‘?????] n. 骆驼
(11) secret [‘???????] n. 秘密, 秘诀, 奥秘; adj. 秘密的, 隐秘的,
(12) carpenter [‘????????] n. 木匠
(13) technical [‘???????] adj. 技术的, 技术上的, 技巧方面的
(14) theater [‘?????] n. 剧场, 戏院, 电影院, 阶梯教室, 手术教室,
(15) soldier [‘???????] n. 士兵, 军人
(16) capture [‘??????] n. 捕获, 战利品; vt. 俘获, 捕获, 夺取
(17) victorious [???'??????] adj. 获胜的, 胜利的
(18) trick [????] n. 诡计, 骗局, 恶作剧, 窍门, 诀窍; vt. 欺骗, 哄骗
(19) praise [?????] vt. 赞扬, 歌颂, 称赞; n. 赞扬, 赞美的话, 赞美,
(20) intelligence [??'?????????] n. 智力, 聪明, 智能
(21) accident [‘????????] n. 意外事件, 事故
(22) urge [???] vt. 催促, 力劝; n. 强烈欲望, 迫切要求; v. 促进
(23) demonstrate [‘??????????] vt. 示范, 证明, 论证
(24) daughter [‘?????] n. 女儿
(25) award [?'????] n. 奖, 奖品; vt. 授予, 判给
(26) immediate [?'???????] adj. 直接的, 紧接的, 紧靠的, 立即的, 知觉的
(27) leopard [‘?????] n. 豹, 美洲豹.美洲虎
(28) bravery [????????] n. 勇敢
(29) lion [‘?????] n. 狮子, (剽悍的人)社交场合的名流
(30) puma [???'??] n. 美洲狮, 美洲狮的毛皮
(31) hyena [???'????] n. [动]土狼, 鬣狗
(32) fierce [‘????] adj. 凶猛的, 猛烈的, 热烈的, 暴躁的<美>极讨厌的,
(33) whip [???] n. 鞭子, 车夫; v. 鞭打, 抽打, 突然移动
(34) claw [????] n. 爪, 脚爪; v. 抓
(35) traditional [???'????????] adj. 传统的, 惯例的, 口传的, 传说的
(36) zebra [‘??????] n. 斑马
(37) panther [‘?????] n. 豹, 黑豹
(38) kilogram [‘????????] n. [物]千克, 公斤
(39) from time to time adv. 有时
(40) apparent [?'??????] adj. 显然的, 外观上的
(41) marriage [‘??????] n. 结婚, 婚姻, 婚姻生活, 密切结合, 合并
(42) dependable [??'???????] adj. 可靠的
(43) suffer [‘????] vt. 遭受, 经历, 忍受; vi. 受痛苦, 受损害
