最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit4-Part1（在线收听）

[00:09.40]UNIT4

[00:12.68]The Man and His Castle (Ⅱ)

[00:15.86]This influential media giant 

[00:19.47]was not without his faults. 

[00:22.64]His prejudices were common knowledge. 

[00:25.81]His career was blemished

[00:28.00] by his offensive remarks about Spaniards,

[00:30.63] Japanese, Filipinos, and Russians. 

[00:33.69]He printed lies, forged documents, 

[00:38.28]falsified stories of violence, 

[00:41.57]wrote provocative editorials, and 

[00:45.07]published sensational cartoons and 

[00:47.37]photographs to support his opinions.

[00:50.76]William hated minorities. 

[00:54.70]He took advantage of every opportunity 

[00:57.10]to heighten racial tensions. 

[00:59.84]His real motive for his hatred 

[01:02.14]of Mexicans may have been 

[01:04.22]the loss of 800 000 acres 

[01:06.62]of prime timberland to 

[01:08.48]the Mexican outlaw, Pancho Villa.

[01:11.54] His papers described them 

[01:14.50]as marijuanasmoking, jobstealing, 

[01:17.56]lazy, wicked, and violent degenerates.

[01:22.38] Some suggest he saw

[01:24.57] the Mexicans as a threat to his empire.

[01:27.95]During this period, William met 

[01:31.57]and fell in love with 

[01:33.53]a young actress, Marion Davies.

[01:35.28] Millicent, his wife and 

[01:38.90]the mother of his five sons, 

[01:40.86]including a set of twins,

[01:43.27] refused to dissolve the marriage,

[01:46.01] which obliged William to 

[01:47.65]“live in sin” with the woman 

[01:50.16]whom the tour guides refer to as

[01:52.24] his “friend” or “companion”.