2. 目錄
一、 個人基本資料………………………………………1
二、 網路聽、說、閱讀分享 (NPR、TED、YouTube)
I、 在文明世界的憤怒管理……………………………3
II、 中國工人要求加薪 ………………………………8 The Kite Runner
Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one
III、 傑夫．史密斯：從監獄學到的經商之道………15 of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so
through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual
kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition
三、課外閱讀心得 but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father
that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite
I、 燦爛千陽………………………………………21 runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan
always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi’a Muslim and this is
II、 姊姊的守護者…………………………………24 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir’s school friends;
he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir’s house. So why
III、 追風箏的孩子…………………………………27 does Amir feel such envy towards his friend?
Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to
shatter all their lives, and define their futures.
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3. INDEX
一、 Self – Introduction………………………………………..….………..1
二、 Listening , Speaking and Reading Online (NPR、TED、YouTube)
I、 Anger Management in the Civilized World……………….…..…..3
II、Chinese Workers Demand Higher Pay….………………….……...…8
追風箏的孩子
小說故事的歷史、民族背景是阿富汗一個以信奉 遜尼派伊斯蘭教 的 普什
III、Jeff. Smith：The method of making business learned from
圖族 為主體民族的多民族國家 而信奉 什葉派 的具有 蒙古人 血統的 哈扎拉族
，
則歷史上幾個世紀來一直生活在底層 當阿富汗共產黨在 蘇聯 的幫助下取得政
。 prison………………………………………………………………….………….....15
權之後，大量依靠地位比較低下的 塔吉克族 、哈扎拉族，引起從前得勢的普什
圖人不滿。在蘇軍撤退之後，普什圖人為主的宗教軍隊塔利班戰勝了其他民族
的武裝，基本統一了阿富汗，並對其他族群實施宗教、種族迫害。塔吉克族、
三、Extracurricular reading experience
哈扎拉族、烏茲別克族 等組成的 北方聯盟 ，在即將徹底失敗之時，機緣巧合
得到被九一一襲擊的美國的幫助，取得了阿富汗的支配權。
I、 The Kite Runner…………………………………………………………..21
12 歲的阿富汗富家少爺阿米爾與僕人哈桑情同手足。然而，在一場風箏比
賽後，發生了一件悲慘不堪的事，阿米爾為自己的懦弱感到自責和痛苦，逼走
II、 My Sister's Keeper……………………………………………………...24
了哈桑，不久，自己也跟隨父親逃往美國。
成年後的阿米爾始終無法原諒自己當年對哈桑的背叛。為了贖罪，阿米爾
III、A Thousand Splendid Suns…………………………………..………27
再度踏上暌違二十多年的故鄉，希望能為不幸的好友盡最後一點心力，卻發現
一個驚天謊言，兒時的噩夢再度重演，阿米爾該如何抉擇？
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4. Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) agrees to work for Anna as her
基本資料 guardian ad litem, suing for partial termination of parental rights. It is later learned
he agreed to take the case not for the notoriety, but because he has epilepsy and
understands her predicament of not having control over her own body.
The film is interlaced with flashbacks that detail Kate and Anna's closeness, as well
as how Kate's illness has affected her siblings' lives and their relationships. In a
flashback, Kate also meets a fellow cancer patient, Taylor Ambrose (Thomas
Dekker), whom she begins dating. After a date, they share their first kiss outside
個人資料：馮冠銘 / Miller / 男 Kate's house, with Anna and Kate's father Brian (Jason Patric) watching from their
bedroom window. After this, he becomes her boyfriend in and out of hospital and
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supports her as she undergoes treatment. He then asks her to the hospital's "prom"
for teen patients; there, they slow-dance, then proceed to a vacant hospital room to
家鄉：台灣 , 高雄市 make love. A few days later, Kate is crying because Taylor hasn't called her for
several days. Her mother Sara is furious when Kate mentions they did "stuff" after
學歷：長榮大學_經營管理研究所_行銷組_碩士 the prom and storms out to ask the nurse where Taylor is, evidently believing that he
had dated her daughter merely to sleep with her, and learns that he has died……….
長榮大學_科技工程與管理學系_學士
語言：中文、英文、台語
經歷：安親班/補習班 行政助理、教學助教
E-mail：ly055217xyz@yahoo.com.tw
聯絡電話：0988-133234
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5. My Sister's Keeper
Basic information
Now a major film. Sara Fitzgerald's daughter Kate is just two years old when she is
diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara
knows she will do anything -- whatever it takes - to save her child. Then the tests
results come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for
Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs,
Personal Information ：Kuan-Ming Feng /
there is only one option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her
Miller / Male
sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a
beautiful new daughter, Anna, too. Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers
that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she
Date of Birth：12 / 25 / 1988
doesn't want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her
own body. Place of Birth：Kaohsiung , Taiwan
Conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was Degree：Graduate school of Business and Operations Management ，
brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Chang Jung Christian University
Vassilieva), who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, in order to keep her Department of Engineering and Management Advanced
alive. Her family members are introduced one by one and each tells about how Technology，Chang Jung Christian University
Kate's illness has affected them personally. When Kate turns 15, she goes intorenal
failure. Eleven-year-old Anna knows that she will be forced by her parents to donate
Language proficiency：Chinese、English、Taiwanese
one of her kidneys. She also realizes that she may not be able to live the life she will
want to lead - she may be unable to cheer-lead, play soccer, or be a mother. Anna
Work experience：Daycare/CLASS Teaching assistant
tells her parents that she does not want any of this, and proceeds to sue them for
medical emancipation and the rights to her own body. Her extremely overprotective
mother, Sara (Cameron Diaz), who leads an obsessive campaign to keep Kate alive,
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is indignant at Anna's decision and even strikes her across the face when she
receives the notice of court proceedings. Contact telephone：0988-133234
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6. Anger Management in the Civilized World
Our next piece is another story about college students and gridlock. Commentator
John Miller used to report for NPR from the Philippines and Peru. Now he lives a
slightly more domestic life in Ithaca, New York, which is home to Cornell
University.
姐姐的守護者
JOHN MILLER: If you've ever lived in a college town, you know they can be some
of the most civilized places on earth. At least until the students come and gum 故事的主角叫安娜 Anna。她的姐姐凱特 Kate 在 2 歲的時候被診斷出患有
everything up. You don't need a calendar to know when they're back. You just wait acute promyelocytic leukemia 急性早幼粒細胞白血病）為了拯救這個孩子，
（ ，
for the SUVs with out of state plates to start rolling through the stop signs and 安娜的父母通過體外受精方式生下了和姐姐有著完美基因配型的安娜。從安娜
charging onto the one lane bridges out of order. 出生時為她的姐姐提供的臍帶血細胞開始，每當姐姐的白血病一次又一次的復
So I was driving my ancient Civic going to pick up my son from his piano lesson 發，安娜就要不斷的提供血液和骨髓來維持姐姐的生命。凱特 16 歲的時候面臨
when a college kid in a big red SUV with New Jersey plates rumbled through a 腎衰竭的威脅，而唯一能挽救她的生命的就是腎臟移植手術，由於接受無血緣
four-way stop out of turn. And I did what any peace-loving, well adjusted, middle 關係的人的腎臟的成功率不高，他們的家族裡又沒有適合的腎臟，安娜就需要
aged guy in a tiny beat-up car running late to pick up his kid from his piano lesson 為姐姐獻出自己的一個腎臟，而那時候，她才 13 歲。然而安娜決定聘請一名律
would do. I shot into the intersection and cut him off. I guess I thought he'd say yo 師，要從父母那兒解放自己的身體，贏得自己的“身體支配權”。她的律師亞
dude, my bad, and back off. 歷山大 Campbell Alexander 於是為她奔波上訴。
But he didn't. So we stopped grill to grill and stood there like a terrier facing off with 作者在接近尾聲的時候才揭開了安娜控告她父母的原因其實是她的姐姐不
a horse. After a minute I got out of the car and shouted, "At a four-way stop you've 願意接受她捐獻的腎臟。凱特說她不想再在醫院裡過她的日子了，她已經準備
got to wait your turn." Then I got back into my car and waited and the traffic backed 好了要接受死亡。案件以安娜獲得了自己身體支配權為收尾。而就在安娜要宣
up in every direction. We were officially gumming things up. 佈自己是否願意為姐姐捐獻出自己的腎臟的時候，她遭遇車禍，頭部受傷，腦
So I rolled down my window and yelled, "I'm old enough to be your father." I don't 死亡。不過她的律師持有安娜授權的醫學意向書，最終安娜的腎臟還是捐獻給
know why I thought that would move him and of course it didn't. After both of us 了她的姐姐。
結尾處凱特提及她對安娜的死的悲痛。她說她的母親不斷尋找安娜蘇醒的
跡象。她還說，每當她看到自己身上移植手術留下的深深的疤痕，她就永遠不
會忘記她的小妹妹。
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7. soon becomes abusive toward Laila. Mariam and Laila eventually become ostentatiously took down each other's license plate numbers he finally did back up
confidantes and best friends. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul, but just a little and I squeezed through in front of him and went on my way.
but they are caught at the bus station. Rasheed beats them and deprives them of So, I won but every time I remember it, my ears go red. I mean, what was I thinking?
water for several days, almost killing Aziza. That by confronting this stranger in a busy intersection I could teach him about the
A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son. The Taliban has risen golden rule or the rule of law or, I don't know, fairness and justice and the very
to power, and there is a drought, and living conditions in Kabul become poor. foundation of civilization as we know it? Or that in a small town no one I knew
Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take jobs for which he is would see me there shouting, holding up traffic and think I was being a little bit
ill-suited. Rasheed sends Aziza to an orphanage. Then one day, Tariq appears outside ridiculous?
the house. He and Laila are reunited, and their passions flare anew. When Rasheed I guess that's a problem with picking fights. It's hard to back down. You say to
returns home from work, Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to yourself, I could stay the course or I could cut and run. I stayed the course. Now
savagely beat Laila. He nearly strangles her, but Mariam intervenes and kills every time I go out I'm wondering what the kid in the SUV is going to do if he sees
Rasheed with a shovel. Afterwards, Mariam confesses to killing Rasheed, in order to me. I'm not used to living with this kind of fear.
draw attention away from Laila and Tariq, and is executed, while Laila and Tariq I can't tell you how important it is to respect four way stops but there's got to be a
leave for Pakistan with Aziza and Zalmai. better way to make the point. Yo dude, my bad.
After the fall of the Taliban, Laila and Tariq return to Afghanistan. They stop in the
village where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father left
behind for her: a videotape of Pinocchio, a small pile of money and a letter. Laila
reads the letter and discovers that Jalil regretted sending Mariam away. Laila and
Tariq return to Kabul and fix up the orphanage, where Laila starts working as a
teacher. Laila is pregnant with her third child, and if it is a girl, she will be named
Mariam.
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8. A Thousand Splendid Suns
The novel centers around the friendship between Mariam and Laila. It is split into
four parts, with a focus on Mariam in the first part, continuing Laila in the second
and fourth, and the relationship between the two women in the third part.
Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother. Jalil,
her father, is a wealthy man who lives in town with three wives and nine children.
Because Mariam is his illegitimate daughter, she cannot live with them, but Jalil
visits her every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take
her to see Pinocchio at his movie theater. When he does not show up, she hikes into
town and goes to his house. He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the
porch. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has committed
在文明世界的憤怒管理
suicide out of fear that her daughter has deserted her. Mariam is then taken to live in
her father's house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker
我們下一個作品是關於大學生和僵局的故事。評論員 John Miller 在 NPR 從菲 from Kabul who is thirty years her senior. In Kabul, Mariam becomes pregnant
律賓和秘魯的報導。現在他很簡單地生活在紐約州伊薩卡市，一個在美國康奈 seven successive times, but is never able to carry a child to term, and Rasheed
爾大學的路上。 gradually becomes more abusive.
A girl named Laila and a boy named Tariq, who are close friends and aware of social
JOHN MILLER：如果你曾經住在大學城，你就會知道這些地方可能是地球上最文 boundaries, live in the same neighborhood. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is
明的地方。至少直到學生的到來和把這一切都搞砸為止。你不需要知道他們何 bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq's family decides to leave the city, and the
時回來。因為你只要等到運動休旅車的操作系統有開始停止滾動的跡象和一條 emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq ends with them making love. Laila's
行車道橋上的收費器失靈為止。 family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing a rocket destroys the
house, kills her parents, and severely injures Laila. Laila is taken in by Rasheed and
Mariam.
After recovering from her injuries, Laila discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's
child. After learning that Tariq is dead, she agrees to marry Rasheed, who is eager to
have a young and attractive second wife, and hopes to have a child with her. When
Laila gives birth to a daughter, Aziza, Rasheed is displeased and suspicious, and he
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11. And they seem to indicate that China's low-wage workers are being pushed to their
very limits. And in the case of the electronics factory you talked about - Foxconn -
maybe even beyond their limits. At that factory they've had 10 suicides in the past
few months. And a number of different factors are behind blamed - long working
hours, lots of overtime, and an almost military discipline on the production lines,
which some said were making workers depressed.
So some people are now wondering whether the era of cheap Chinese labor could be
coming to an end. And, indeed, if you look at the demographics, factory workers in
China are gaining leverage. Maybe because of the one child policy, in the past
decade the number of workers in that labor pool - 20 to 39-year-olds - has fallen by
22 percent. So that in many ways does increase their bargaining power.
Jeff. Smith：The method of making business learned from prison
B.J. was one of many fellow inmates who had big plans for the future. He had a
vision. When he got out, he was going to leave the dope game for good and fly
straight, and he was actually working on merging his two passions into one
vision. He'd spent 10,000 dollars to buy a website that exclusively featured
women having sex on top of or inside of luxury sports cars.
It was my first week in federal prison, and I was learning quickly that it wasn't what
you see on TV. In fact, it was teeming with smart, ambitious men whose business
instincts were in many cases as sharp as those of the CEOs who had wined and
dined me six months earlier when I was a rising star in the Missouri Senate.
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12. Now, 95 percent of the guys that I was locked up with had been drug dealers on the LIM: Well, it does appear to be part of a trend. Authorities do appear to be allowing
outside, but when they talked about what they did, they talked about it in a different sporadic peaceful protests. And in this case the strike was, even as you say, given
jargon, but the business concepts that they talked about weren't unlike those that coverage in the state-run media. But many wonder whether this could be linked to
you'd learn in a first year MBA class at Wharton:promotional incentives, you never the fact that the company involved was Japanese, not a Chinese company.
charge a first-time user, focus-grouping new product launches, territorial expansion.
Yesterday, local media, however, reported that there was some violence, there were
But they didn't spend a lot of time reliving the glory days. For the most part, some clashes between strikers and members of an official government-authorized
everyone was just trying to survive. It's a lot harder than you might think. Contrary union who in theory are supposed to represent workers but were actually trying to
to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when get them back to work. And today we've seen fewer reports in the official media. So
you're in prison. You've got to pay for your own life. You've got to pay for your soap, this may signal that authorities are beginning to lose patience with this strike after
your deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, all of it. And it's hard for a couple of two weeks.
reasons.
MONTAGNE: And, Louisa, this strike at Honda comes after a spate of workers'
First, everything's marked up 30 to 50 percent from what you'd pay on the suicides at a Taiwanese-owned electronics factory, also in south China, which led to
street, and second, you don't make a lot of money. I unloaded trucks. That was my a 20 percent wage hike. Is there a connection between the two?
full-time job, unloading trucks at a food warehouse, for $5.25, not an hour, but per
month. LIM: Yes. Well, I mean, I suppose both cases are bringing the spotlight onto working
conditions in China's factories.
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13. But the workers were originally asking for more than a 50 percent increase. And So how do you survive? Well, you learn to hustle, all kinds of hustles. There's legal
about 100 workers are still holding out for more. Their argument is that they're being hustles.You pay everything in stamps. Those are the currency. You charge another
paid 50 times less than Japanese employees for the same job, so they deserve more. inmate to clean his cell. There's sort of illegal hustles, like you run a barbershop out
of your cell.
MONTAGNE: And how much leverage do these workers have? I mean, how much
impact has this strike had on Honda? There's pretty illegal hustles: You run a tattoo parlor out of your own cell. And
there's very illegal hustles, which you smuggle in, you get smuggled in, drugs,
LIM: Well, these workers have already been on strike for more than two weeks. pornography, cell phones, and just as in the outer world, there's a risk-reward
They work at an auto parts factory, but after a week on strike they've actually - they tradeoff, so the riskier the enterprise, the more profitable it can potentially be.
actually managed to shut down Honda's four car plants in China. That's a loss to
Honda of about 3,000 vehicles a day. So it is costing Honda very dearly. And the You want a cigarette in prison? Three to five dollars.You want an old-fashioned cell
company says all its factories will remain closed at least through Thursday. phone that you flip open and is about as big as your head? Three hundred bucks. You
want a dirty magazine? Well, it can be as much as 1,000 dollars.
And this strike highlights some of the vulnerabilities of the supply chain. Honda
didn't have a second supplier of auto parts in China. It obviously wasn't expecting So as you can probably tell, one of the defining aspects of prison life is
strikes in China, since unauthorized labor organizing is actually illegal in China. ingenuity. Whether it was concocting delicious meals from stolen scraps from the
warehouse, sculpting people's hair with toenail clippers, or constructing weights
MONTAGNE: You know, though, how much significance can be attached to the fact from boulders in laundry bags tied on to tree limbs, prisoners learn how to make do
that this strike was allowed to go ahead and even to be reported on by official with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the
media? outside and start restaurants, barber shops,personal training businesses.
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14. But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that, no rehabilitation at all in
prison, no one to help them write a business plan, figure out a way to translate the
business conceptsthey intuitively grasp into legal enterprises, no access to the
Internet, even. And then, when they come out, most states don't even have a law
prohibiting employers from discriminating against people with a background. So
none of us should be surprised that two out of three ex-offenders re-offend within
five years.
Look, I lied to the Feds. I lost a year of my life from it. But when I came out, I
vowed that I was going to do whatever I could to make sure that guys like the ones I
was locked up withdidn't have to waste any more of their life than they already had.
So I hope that you'll think about helping in some way. The best thing we can do is
figure out ways to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped
potential in our prisons, because if we don't, they're not going to learn any new Chinese Workers Demand Higher Pay
skills that's going to help them, and they'll be right back. All they'll learn on the
inside is new hustles. Thank you. Now to labor unrest in China. Chinese workers are on strike at the Japanese auto
company Honda. And they've shut down an auto plant and four factories. Honda
responded by offering a 24 percent raise. This is just the latest labor problem to hit
southern China. NPR's Louisa Lim joins us from Shanghai to tell us more.
Good morning.
LOUISA LIM: Morning, Renee.
MONTAGNE: Where does the strike stand as of this morning?
LIM: Well, Honda's now saying that most of the 2,000 striking workers will accept
this pay rise, which actually would bring their salary to $280 a month, which is more
than double the minimum wage in that part of China.
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