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听力原文： Our environment is being polluted faster than nature and man's present efforts can prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more motor vehicles, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials.
What can explain and solve this problem？ The fact is that pollution is caused by man by his desire for a modern way of life. We make increasing industrialization our chief aim. For its sake, we are willing to sacrifice everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the benefits of modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, so pollution has become a serious problem.
Isn't it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going and why？ It reminds one of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker: "I'ye some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we are lost and don't know where we're going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when applied to our modern society.
Why can't man prevent the world from being polluted？
We all know that a magician does nor really depend on "magic" to perform. his tricks,【C1】______ on his ability to act at great speed.【C2】______ , this does not prevent us from enjoying watching a magician【C3】______ rabbits from a hat.【C4】______ the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in 1926, Houdini mastered the art of【C5】______ . He could free him- self from the tightest knots or the most complicated locks in seconds.【C6】______ no one really knows【C7】______ he did this, there is no doubt【C8】______ he had made a close study of every type of lock ever【C9】______ . He liked to carry a small steel needle-like tool strapped to his leg and he used this in【C10】______ of a key. Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. They【C11】______ him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himself【C12】______ an instant. The police【C13】______ him of having used a tool and locked him up again. This time he wore no clothes and there were chains round his neck, waist, wrists, and legs; but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his "needle" in a waxlike【C14】______ and dropped it on the floor in the passage.【C15】______ he went past, he stepped on it so that it stuck to the bottom of his foot. His most famous escape, however, was【C16】______ astonishing. He was heavily chained【C17】______ and enclosed in an empty wooden chest, the lid of【C18】______ was nailed down. The【C19】______ was dropped into the sea in New York, harbor. In one minute Houdini had swum to the surface. When the chest was【C20】______ , it was opened and the chains were found inside
【C1】
Rodney Mace, 35, is married with two young children, and is a part-time teacher of architectural history. "I am constantly surprised by other people's surprise, when they come to the house and see me cleaning a floor or hanging out the washing. Their eyes open wide at the sight of it! Much of the comment comes from men, but I am even more surprised at the number of women who comment too."
His wife Jane, an Oxford graduate in modern languages, has a demanding full-time job. She is director of the Cambridge House literacy scheme for adults in South London. Her working week involves several evenings and Saturdays, and at these times her husband is in sole charge of home and family. Apart from this, they share household jobs and employ a child-minder for the afternoons. This enables him to teach two days a week and to do what he considers is his principal work: writing. He has written several books and spends much of his time in the British Museum Reading Room, cycling there from his home in Brixton.
People ask the Maces if they think that their children miss them. One can argue that satisfied parents generally have satisfied children, but in any case the Maces are careful to reserve time and energy to play with their children. "And they have now developed relationships with other adults and children."
Previously, Rodney Mace worked full - time and Jane only part-time. Then 18 months ago, the director of the literacy scheme left. "It seemed to me that Jane was very' well suited to do this job. She was very doubtful about it. But I urged her to apply. She did, and she got it." Jane Mace confirms that she needed this encouragement, as so many women initially do.
Did his male ego suffer from the changeover？ Nothing like that occurred. But he still seems amazed at the way it changed his thinking. "I felt that we were finally going to be partners. I felt enormous relief. I wasn't avoiding responsibility, but changing it. Our relationship is so much better now. It has been a change for the good for both of us——I think for all of us, in every aspect of our lives. I cannot overemphasize that in every aspect. I think it is fundamental that the woman works. The idea of equal partnership is an illusion if one partner doesn’t work."
The article is about a couple whose married life is happier because _______.
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