现代大学英语 精读4 第4课 A Drink in the Passage.ppt

Lesson Four South Africa A country of southern Africa on the Atlantic and Indian oceans. First settled by the Dutch in the mid-17th century, the region passed to Great Britain in 1814 but was hotly contested by descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Boer War (1899-1902). The British and Boer colonies formed a union in 1910 and became a republic in 1961. Pretoria（普利脱利亚） is the administrative capital; Cape Town（开普敦）, the legislative capital; and Bloemfontein（布隆方登）, the judicial capital. Johannesburg（约翰内斯堡）is the largest city. The Author Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He started his career by teaching? at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg, had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) made him one of South Africa’s best known writers, and by the time he died, it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals, he helped to found the South African Liberal Party and became its president. Quotes by Alan Paton 1. Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. 2. I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. 3. The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that’s why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. Quotes by Alan Paton 4. There is only one way in which one can endure mans inhumanity to man and that is to try, in ones own life, to exemplify mans humanity to man. 5. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. 6. Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggl