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大学英语综合教程第一册 Unit 4b

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[00:10.07]使有信心\猛增\苦难\实现

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[00:21.11]opportunity\ take advantage of\ afterward

[00:27.30]When he grew up the knife was to become one of the tools of his trade.

[00:33.23]But when he was young it almost put an end to all his dreams.

[00:39.16]BEN CARSON:MAN OF MIRACLES

[00:43.31]Ben Carson looked out at Detroit's Southwestern High School class of 1988.

[00:50.76]It was graduationday.

[00:54.20]At 36,Carson was a leading brain surgeon,

[00:59.27]performing delicate and lifesaving operations.But 19years before,

[01:06.04]he had graduated form this same inner-city school.He remembered it all-

[01:13.40]the depressing surroundings of one of Detroit's toulghest,poorest neighborhoods.

[01:20.17]And he knew the sense of hopelessness and despair that many of these260students were feeling about the future

[01:29.23]For weeks he had worried over how to convince the graduates that they,too,

[01:35.16]could succeed against seemingly impossible odds,that they could move mountains

[01:43.11]Now,standing to deliver the mani address,he held up his hands.

[01:48.75]"See these?"he asked the students.

[01:52.51]"I didn't always use them for surgery.

[01:55.96]When I was a little younger than you are,

[01:59.20]I often waved a knife with them to threaten people.

[02:03.92]And I even tried to kill somebody."

[02:08.08]The students stared in disbelief.

[02:11.74]Ben and his older brother,Curtis,

[02:15.37]grew up in a crowded apartment building near the school.Their mother,Sonya

[02:21.43]who had married at age 13and divorced when Ben was eight,worked at two

[02:27.88]and sometimes three low-paying jobs at a time.

[02:32.22]She wanted a better life for her two sons

[02:36.06]and showered them with encouragement.

[02:39.37]However,both boys started badly in school,especially Ben.

[02:45.20]Sonya recognized that Ben was bright.

[02:49.35]He just didn't seem motivated. "From now on,"

[02:54.99]she announced one afternoon, "you can watch only two TV shows a week.

[03:01.03]You have to read at least two books every week and give me reports so I know you really read them

[03:09.28]At first Ben hated reading.

[03:12.65]Then,gradually,he discovered a nie world of possibility.

[03:19.00]Before long he was reading more books than his determined mother required,

[03:25.06]and he couldn't wait to share them with her.

[03:28.43]His mother studied the book reports closely.

[03:32.09]"That's a fine job,Bennie,"she would tell her beaming son.

[03:37.31]What she didn't tell Ben or Curtis was that,

[03:41.86]with only a third-grade education,she couldn't read.

[03:46.30]"Mom,"Ben announced one day, "when I grow up,I want to be a doctor."

[03:52.75]Sonya Carson smiled,knowing Ben must have just read a book on doctors.

[03:59.12]"You can be anything you want to be,"she assured him.

[04:04.14]With a goal now,young Ben soared from the bottom of his class toward the top.

[04:10.57]His teachers were astonished.

[04:13.31]There was one thing,however,that Ben couldn't seem to conquer:

[04:18.56]his violent temper.He boiled with anger-

[04:23.31]anger at his departed father,anger at the hardships his mother faced,

[04:29.04]anger at all the wasted lives he saw around him.

[04:34.00]Then one afternoon,walking home from school,

[04:37.89]14-year-old Ben started arguing with a friend.

[04:42.25]Pulling a camping knife,Ben thrust at the boy.

[04:46.48]The steel blade struck the youngster's metal belt buckle,

[04:52.15]and the blade snapped.Ben's friend fled.

[04:57.48]Ben stood stone-still. "I almost killed someone!"he said quietly.

[05:05.03]There and then he made a decision.

[05:08.19]If he was ever going to fulfill his dream of becoming a doctor and save others

[05:21.85]he was first going to gave to cure himself.

[05:25.93]Never again would he let his anger run away with him.

[05:30.19]In 1969Ben graduated third in his class from Southwestern High

[05:37.32]and received a full scholarship to Yale.

[05:41.26]After Yale he obtained grants to study at the University of Michigan Medical School

[05:48.11]This was the start of a career that was to lead him,at age33,

[05:53.67]to be appointed senior brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins hospital.

[05:59.71]From around the world.

[06:02.34]other surgeons came to seek his counsel.

[06:06.92]In April 1987a German doctor

[06:11.04]arrived with the records of Siamese twins,newborns Patrick and Benjamin Binder

[06:17.99]The boys had separate brains,

[06:21.47]but at the back of the heads,when they were joined,they shared blood vessels.

[06:27.53]Their mother refused to sacrifice either child to save the other.

[06:33.38]Surgeons knew of no other way to proceed.

[06:38.03]In many cases,when Siamese twins separated at the back of the head,

[06:43.91]one child survives and the other either dies or suffers severe mental injury.

[06:51.66]Carson came up with a plan to give both twins the best chance of survival:

[06:58.12]stop their hearts,

[07:00.68]drain their blood supply completely

[07:04.02]and restore circulation only after the two were safely separated.

[07:10.26]The entire operation took 22hours and required a 70-person team.

[07:17.08]After the twins'hearts were stopped and their blood drained,

[07:22.12]Carson had only one hour to separate the damaged dlood vessels.

[07:28.39]He worked smoothly and quickly,

[07:31.55]easing his instruments deep into the brains of the two infants.

[07:37.61]Twenty minutes after stopping the twins'circulation,he made the final cut.

[07:43.78]Now,working with his team,

[07:46.73]he had 40minutes to reconstruct the blood vessels that had been cut open

[07:53.39]and close Patrick's head.

[07:56.26]Another team would do the same for Benjamin.

[07:59.92]Just within the hour limit,

[08:02.98]the babies were fully separated,and the operating tables were wheeled apart.

[08:09.22]The students of Detroit's southwestern High sat silently

[08:14.26]as Ben Carson described his life's journey

[08:19.54]from an angry street fighter to an inernationally distinguished brain surgeon

[08:26.02]"It's important that you know there are many ways to go,"Dr.Carson told them

[08:33.36]"Becoming a brain sugeon is perfectly possible.

[08:37.80]But you don't have to be a surgeon.

[08:41.67]There are opportunities everywhere.

[08:45.01]You just have to be willing to take advantage of them.Think big

[08:51.57]Nobody was born to be a failure.

[08:55.04]If you feel you're going to succeed and work your tail off-you will succeed!"

[09:03.09]Pausing,Ben Carson turned to his mother who was sitting in the front row.

[09:09.85]"I'd like to thank my mother,"Carson said in closing,

[09:14.32]"for all the success I've had."

[09:17.37]Southwestern High's entire graduating class stood and clapped for a solid five minutes.

[09:25.73]Tears welled in Ben Carson's eyes.

[09:30.59]Afterward,Sonya Carson embraced her son fondly."It's really true,Bennie,

[09:38.85]"she said. "You can be anything you want to be.And you've done it!"

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