高中英语教学：B3U2 MOTHER OF TEN THOUSAND BABIES.docx

MOTHER?OF?TEN?THOUSAND?BABIES “Life?is .?...?To?a?person? ?is?more?precious?than?their?life,?and?if?they? ?me? ?that?life,?how?could?I?refuse?that? ,? ?I’m?cold,?hungry,?or?tired?”?These?words?of?Dr?Lin?Qiaozhi?give?us?a?look? ? the?heart?of?this?amazing?woman,?and?what? ?her? a?life?of?hard? . As?a?five-year-old?girl,?Lin?Qiaozhi?was?deeply? ?by?her?mother’s?death.?At?age?18,? of?following?the?traditional?path?of ?like?the ?of?girls,?she?chose?to?study?medicine.?“Why?should?girls?learn?so?much??Finding?a?good?husband?should?be?their?final?goal!”?her?brother? ,?thinking?of?the?high? ?fees.?She? ,?“I’d?rather?stay?single?to?study?all?my?life!” Eight?years?later,?Lin? from?Peking?Union?Medical?College?(PUMC)?with?the?Wehai? ,?the?highest?prize?given?to?graduates.?She?immediately?became?the?first?woman?ever?to?be? ?as?a?resident? ?in?the?OB-GYN?department?of?the?PUMC?Hospital.?Within?six?months,?she?was?named?a? ?resident?physician,?a?position?that?usually?took?four?years?to?achieve.?After?working?for?a?few?years,?she?was?sent?to?study?in?Europe?and?then,?in?1939,?in?the?US.?She?greatly? ?her?American? ,?who?invited?her?to?stay.?Dr?Lin,?however,? ?the?offer.?She?wanted?to? ?the?women?and?children?at?home. In?1941,?Dr?Lin?became?the?first?Chinese?woman?ever?to?be? ?director?of?the?OB-GYN?department?of?the?PUMC?Hospital,?but?just?a?few?months?later,?the?department?was? ?because?of?the?war.?Thinking?of?all?the?people?still?in?need?of?help,?Dr?Lin?opened?a?private? .?She?charged?very?low? ?to?treat?patients?and?often?reduced?costs?for?poor?patients.?At?times?she?was?even? ?riding?a?donkey?to? ?villages?to?provide?medical?care. The?new?People’s?Republic?of?China? ?Dr?Lin?Qiaozhi? ?a?key?role.?In?1954,?she?was? ?to?the?first?National?People’s?Congress?and,? ?the?next?several?decades,?she?held?many?i