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With the help of the government and the world and their own efforts, women of the Peruvian
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听力原文：W: Exercise, exercise, exercise. We hear so much about it these days, yet even the experts can't agree on which exercises are best. Now some doctors are strongly encouraging arm exercises.
M: Arm exercises？ Is that because our arms are too fat or flabby？
W: Actually, that's not the main reason. They say that arm exercises are an ideal way to become physically fit.
M: But don't arm exercises raise your blood pressure？
W: That they do. But the article I read mentioned ways to compensate for that.
M: How？
W: By adding leg exercises, so the arms don't do all the work. Ann exercises alone aren't enough to increase metabolism before fatigue sets in. The more of the body that's involved in the exercise, the better.
M: And in turn, I'm sure that there's a greater chance of losing weight.
W: Sounds right to me.
M: So what exercises do the experts recommend？
W: They mentioned quite a few but some of the more popular ones are cycling with special bicycles that make you use both your arms and legs, and walking vigorously while you wear arm weights.
M: I must try that, I like to walk a lot.
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In both Peru and Columbia, violence has resulted in the internal displacement of hundreds
Women have done all of the accommodating in terms of time, energy, and personal sacrifice that is humanly possible, and still they have not reached true integration in the workplace. For a complicated set of reasons—many beyond their control—they feel conflict between their careers and their children. All but a rare few quickly dispel the myth that superwoman ever existed.
For many women, profession and family are pitted against one another on a high takes collision course. Women's values are stacked against the traditions of their professions. In the home, men and women struggle to figure out how dual-career marriages should work. Role conflict for women reaches far beyond the fundamental work/family dilemma to encompass a whole constellation of fiercely competing priorities. Women today find themselves in an intense battle with a society that cannot let go of a narrowly defined work ethic that is supported by a family structure that has not existed for decades. The unspoken assumption persists that there is still a woman at home to raise the children and manage the, household. But the economic reality is that most people, whether in two-parent or single-parent families, need to work throughout their adult lives. As a consequence, the majority of today's mothers are in the labor market.
The first full-fledged(成熟的，羽翼丰满的) generation of women in the professions did not talk about their overbooked agenda or the toll it took on them and their families. They knew that their position in the office was shaky at best. With virtually no choice in the matter, they bought into the traditional notion of success in the workplace—usually attained at the high cost of giving up an involved family life. If they suffered self-doubt or frustration about how hollow professional success felt without complementary rewards from the home, they blamed themselves—either for expecting too much or for doing too little. And they asked themselves questions that held no easy answers: Am I expecting too much？ Is it me？ Am I alone in this dilemma？ Do other women truly have it all？
Until now, this has been a private dilemma, unshared, as each woman was left to forge her own unique solution to merging her dual loyalties to work and family. Too often she felt that she alone had failed to achieve a comfortable balance between the two.
According to the passage, today's women ______.
Home Is Where the Hurt Is
Being forced into flight totally disrupts the lives of the internally displaced, exactly as it does to refugees. But unlike many refugees, the world's millions of internally displaced persons often have nowhere to turn. They remain trapped in the same unsafe environment from which they tried to flee. In situations of internal strife(冲突), by definition, the civilian government functions partially or not at all; and the civilian population is ignored or treated with hostility by both sides.
A definition submitted to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights defines the internally displaced as "persons or groups of persons who have been forced to flee their homes or places of habitual residence suddenly or unexpectedly as a result of armed conflict, internal strife, systematic violations of human rights or natural or man-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border.”
Today, there are an estimated 30 million internally displaced people in the world—double the number of refugees. In many places, they are all but forgotten by the international community.
Although there are few refugees in Latin America, there are up to 3 million internally displaced persons in the region, including as many as 480,000 in Peru and 6,000,000 in Colombia. In both countries, a combination of political and socio-economic factors, such as excessively unequal income distribution, drug-trafficking and heavy involvement of the army in the political scene, have resulted in high levels of violence and a climate that fosters human rights abuses. Whether manifested as an ongoing conflict between the armed forces and the armed opposition (the case of Peru), or a constant armed struggle between rebel and paramilitary groups(the case of Colombia), violence has caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of rural peasants and native people. The internally displaced often lead a very stable existence, and they are highly grateful for anyone who pays attention to their plight (a very bad situation that someone is in).
Delia, of Peru's Ashaninka people, has been displaced for the past eight years. Now, homeless and helpless, Delia and her people have to depend on the good will and charity of their remote relatives and of the occasional non-governmental organization (NGO). It has been a struggle for Delia, who has tried to obtain better education facilities for the children and to promote small handicrafts projects. And she tries to shield her community from the surrounding conflict by opposing any involvement with the armed opposition, or with the rondas(a civil defense unit that fights against the Sendero). This neutral position, in the context of the conflict, is not a popular one with either side. To their way of thinking, one is either a Rondero or a Sendero; there is no middle road.
Women have been the driving force in efforts to maintain some semblance(伪装)of normal life in the Peruvian Andes. There, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Quechua speakers, were displaced over the last 10 years. Husbands were "disappeared" or killed, and sons had to join the army. The women had to gather their children and flee to urban centers. where they could melt into the poverty-stricken anonymity of a shantytown(以临时搭盖的陋屋为主的地区). Now they live in shacks with no water, no electricity and no sewage system. The children get little schooling and spend long days playing in the dirt. Poverty disease and unemployment make life nearly intolerable. But displaced women have not been idle. They have organized soup kitchens, "mothers' clubs" and handicraft associations to support each other and improve living conditions. Irma, one of the women we talked with thinks that soon she and her sisters will be able to go back home. "But we'd like our government and the world to give us a hand," she said.
Despite the many hardships,
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