【#四六级考试# 导语】英语听力是英语四六级考试中的重要组成部分,对于中国的考生,日常英文听说机会少,缺少听力训练,所以在备考大学英语四六级时,需要加强听力的训练。针对这一情况,©文档大全网英语四六级频道特别整理听力相关文章《2018年12月大学英语四级听力美文:Funeral Sermon for Mammy...》,供学员参考使用。预祝大家高分通过考试。
英语四级听力美文第69篇:Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr
Caroline has known to me all my life. It was my privilege to see her out of hers. After myfather's death, to Mammy I came to represent the head of that family to which she had given ahalf century of fidelity and devotion. But the relationship between us never became that ofmaster and servant. She still remained one of my earliest recollections, not only as a person, but as a fount of authority over my conduct and of security for my physical welfare, and ofactive and constant affection and love. She was an active and constant precept for decentbehavior. From her I learned to tell the truth, to refrain from waste, to be considerate of theweak and respectful to age. I saw fidelity to a family which was not hers, devotion and lovefor people she had not born.
She was born in bondage and with a dark skin and most of her early maturity was passed in adark and tragic time for the land of her birth. She went through vicissitudes which she ad notcaused; she assumed cares and griefs which were not even her cares and griefs. She was paidwages for this, but pay is still just money. And she never received very much of that, so thatshe never laid up anything of this world's goods. Yet she accepted that too without cavil orcalculation or complaint, so that by that very failure she earned the gratitude and affectionof the family she had conferred the fidelity and devotion upon, and gained the grief andregret of the aliens who loved and lost her.
She was born and lived and served, and died and now is mounted; if there is a heaven, she hasgone there.