2015年12月英语六级听力VOA常速练习6
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听力材料：
On a quiet Lower Manhattan street, a stream ofwater symbolizing the Atlantic Ocean flows alongsidea narrow boat-like structure,an echo of the ships asthey made their way to the New World heavy ladenwith human cargo.
Nearby, Juanita Jones, an elderly African Americanfixes her gaze on grassy mounds.
They are the main visible reminder of the vast 17th and 18th century Negro Burial Ground-now the African Burial Ground National Monument.
“Most of these were young people but they didn't live to be so old.
They died very young.
You looking down here you see babies, newborns, and young people dying. It's very bad.”
Like Ms.Jones, Mary Palmer is an African American, born in Harlem further north in Manhattan.
She has just emerged from within the slave ship structure.
“When I walked through I felt my heart starts jumping because I'm feeling the souls coming upto me.
Like your cousin or somebody you never saw before comes up to you.
And then they say Oh hi.
They touch you… you feel it.
So that's what it felt like.
Somebody who was part of my family might have been they touched me inside and shook me alittle bit.
I had to lean back and hold on.
It's very heart-wrenching, kind of scary.”
Michael Jiwa and his family are visiting New York from Nigeria.
He has a sense that some of the people buried may be his ancestors, and feels his visit hasoffered him a bit of closure.
“It's a good thing to come and see where your ancestors are buried.
Even if you don't see them alive, at least you know where they are buried.
And that gives you a kind of joy at least.
You always want to know where you came from, where you originated from.
If you don't know your origin, people see you as an outcast, like nobody.”
Meanwhile, Billy Williams, of the Bronx, Manhattan's neighboring borough to the north, standsby the mounds, shaking his head.
“I have never been much into genealogy but I do know that I have some African ancestry, andI wonder if I was just standing on a few.
It's horrific. It's sad.
To look at a piece of cement that says kids are buried underneath that is heart wrenching toanyone.
It's beyond my verbal description what I feel.
I am going to make it a point to bring my grandchildren down here so they can see thisimportant part of our history.”
For Shirley Moultrie, the clean elegant feel of the monument misrepresents the actual history ofAfrican slavery in New York, when cruelty and misery were part of everyday life.
“They make it seem like Everything is okay.
They're just buried here.
They chained us, they beat us until we said Massuh.
Until we didn't even know our name! We was almost like animals.
Whatever they say do, we did. Because we was scared of the whip.
We was taught sometime to hate ourselves. I think it's very sad.”
Moultrie said for African Americans, the past continues in the present, both in the racist waysthey are often treated, and in their own attitudes towards others.
“I think sometimes the blacks do have the hatred for others because of this.
It's the way the white man tells us something and we might say yes sir,no sir because we don'tknow any better.
Now I don't feel it as much, but I am standoffish from them to a certain degree-whites,Caucasians, whatever you want to call them.
But we have to get beyond that.”
As visitors to this place have learned, and as recent headlines have made clear, “gettingbeyond” the past can be a long, difficult and painful ordeal.
The creators of the African Burial Mound Monument hope this site can a place to begin todiscover, remember, and ultimately to heal that legacy.
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