(高等英语上)Lesson Fourteen I Would Like to Tell You SomethingBy John F. KerryA. Answer the following questions on the text :1. Who took part in the Detroit investigation ?2. What did the participants tell at the investigation ?3. What was the purpose of their telling about the war crime in Vietnam ?4. Who should be held responsible for war crimes ,according to the author ? Do you agree withhim ?5. What did the author want the writer for a national magazine to write about ?6. Why did the chairman of the large firm refuse to give financial aid to the veterans ?7. How were the American soldiers made insensitive to war crimes the US army committed inVietman ?8. What made the author say that Agnew’s statement made at West Point was a distortion ?9. How were the veterans treated back in the US ?10. What are the main things that the author wishes to convey to the reader ?Key A1. Over 150 honorably discharged veterans took part in the Detroit investigation .2. The participants told war crimes committed in Indochina .3. They wanted to prove that the policy of the United States in Indochina was tantamount to genocide . They wanted to show that you didn’t start making things right by prosecuting William Calley and there was not just one Mylai but countless Mylais and they were continuing everysingle day .4. According to the author , not only the soldiers are responsible for the war crimes , but also everyone here in America who has allowed the brutalization and depersonalization to go on is responsible . Yes , I do .5. The author wanted the writer for a national magazine to write the story of war the Americanpeople should have heard .6. Because the chairman of the large firm did not think the author could market war crimes and itwas nothing new of what they had done .7. At boot camp the American soldiers were presented with a poster in the barracks of a crucifiedVietnamese and underneath it says , “ k ill the gooks. “They w ere trained to jump up and yell“ k ill !”at the end of the four-count of calisthenics . Before they departed for Vietnam , thesergeant took a live rabbit , skinned it ,tore it open and pulled out the entrails . He ordered them todo the same to the Vietnamese .8. It was a distortion because the veterans in no way considered themselves the best men in this country , because those he called misfits were standing up for them in a way nobody else in this country dared to , because so many who died would have come back to join the misfits , and because so many had actually returned to this country to demand an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam.9. They were unemployed and received little care when they were back in the U.S.10. The author wants to convey to the reader the true story of the war and the American policies were the cause of the war . The author also wants to tell the reader the reasons that the veterans are against the war .B. Translate the following into Chinese :1. over 150 honorably discharged veterans , many of them highly decorated ,testified to war crimes committed in Indochina.2. The investigation was not staged so that veterans could spill out their hearts or purge their souls .3. Everyone here in America who has allowed the brutalization and depersonalization to go on is responsible .4. If you don’t cover the war you don’t sell magazines , and if you don’t sell magazines then nothing happens because that’s the American way .5. But what this country doesn’t know is that America has created a monster in the form of millions of fighting men who have been taught to deal in violence , and who have been given a chance to die for the biggest nothing in history .6. Now we are told that we have to watch quietly while the American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese .7. The problem of the veteran doesn’t just end with his anger.8. Then suddenly one day he woke up in Vietnam and he found himself doing to the Vietnamese exactly what had been done to his people and what he had been conditioned by America to applaud .Key B1. 150多名光荣退役的老兵,其中许多人曾被授予过各种高级别的勋章,证明了他们在印度支那犯下的战争罪行.2. 这项调查并不是为了让老兵们倾吐心声,净化灵魂.3. 允许这种残忍/失去人性的行为继续进行的每一个美国人都应该负责任。
4. 如果不报导战争，杂志就卖不出去，如果杂志卖不出去，那就什么事情也没有发生，因为这是美国的一贯做法。
5. 但是这个国家的人民还不知道美国制造一个怪兽，它以几百万受过暴力的训练的战斗者的形式出现，他们得到了为历史上最大的无谓之举去牺牲的机会。
6. 现在要求我们静静地注视着美国人丧生，我们就能实施令人难以置信的“越南战争越南化”的计划了。
7. 老兵的问题不只是愤怒。
8. 突然有一天，他在越南觉醒了，他发现他对越南人所做的一切就如同自己民族所遭受的一样，这正是美国故意让他鼓掌的。