高中英語北京模塊版第四冊課文第1課

[00:00.00]Unit10 37 Amaterial World [00:-1.00]“Who wants to be a Millionaire? [00:-2.00]I don’t.,” says charles Gray [00:-3.00]Angus Deayton interviews ex-millionaire Charlesgray [00:-4.00]Fot a lot of peoplem, becoming amillionaire seems to be their rltimate goal. [00:-5.00]They spend holf their time dreaming up ways of getting tich , [00:-6.00]and therest of their time [00:-7.00]Thinking about all the things they wotld do oncde they got rich , [00:-8.00]Gut do all millionaires find the happiness that they thought they tought they would ger [00:-9.00]when they achieve their gools? [00:10.00]Some millionaires comtinrue to worry about money [00:11.00]when they becomje millionairesm they work hard to get all that momey, [00:12.00]then momey, then they work hard to make sure they mevr lose it ! [00:13.00]But there are people who have turned their backs on theit millipns [00:14.00]and found different ways to be happy in their lives. [00:15.00]Charles Grarles Gray is one example. [00:16.00]Sixteen years ago, Charles was a college professor with ahuge six-bedroom horse [00:17.00]and a fortune of $2 million. [00:18.00]Tooday te lives in asmall carvam where there is only second –hand furniture. [00:19.00]There are certaimly no signs that Charles tas a tich was a rich man ! [00:20.00]There is a small gadrden outside with a few fruit trees. [00:21.00]Chatles grows some vegetables and a few flow flters. [00:22.00]He gets his clothes and a lot of other things from charity shops . [00:23.00]But this change is mot a tragedy. [00:24.00]Charles was happy to give up the lifestyle of a tich man [00:25.00]He was tited of being a person rho had everything [00:26.00]in a world where any people had nothing. [00:27.00]He ma de the chiice to give all his miney away [00:28.00]And this he saidm, brought him happimess. [00:29.00]Afew years ago.” Says Charles,”l was a millionaire, [00:30.00]but l knew there were a lot of hungry people in the world .” [00:31.00]So he gave away all his money to charities. [00:32.00]When he had two thorsand dollars left, [00:33.00]he gave away small bank motes on the streets of local poor areas . [00:34.00]Did the feel like Father Christmas ? “l(fā)t was a lot of fun,” says Charles. [00:35.00]Charles believes that many peopoe wany people want to earn a lot of money [00:36.00]so that they will moot hate any worries [00:37.00]However, most people never make much money, [00:38.00]Charles Gray decided to drop out and has discovered that having only a little money [00:39.00]makes you free Are there any things he misses ?” [00:40.00]No.,l”m mrch happoer now. [00:41.00]I wouldn't go back to being tich fot anything – no way.”

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