现代大学英语精读5lesson4ProfessionsforWomen.ppt

Key sentence 13.Have you going to furnish it, how are you going to decorate it…upon what terms? Conditions of a contract, agreement; mutual relationship between or among people; footing Price I bought this car on reasonable terms. We are on good terms with all our neighbors. If I agree to do this, it will be on my terms. Under the terms of agreement, Hongkong returned to China in 1997. Introduction to the most influential women Mother Teresa [t?ri:s?] （1910-1997） Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Macedonia( 南斯拉夫）. Her father was a builder. When she was young, Mother Teresa studied religion and loved everyone. She became a nun in Ireland and left for India in 1929. She taught Geography for many years in India. She spent her life caring for the poor. Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name “ Saint of the Gutters.” （贫民窟的圣人） The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity （仁爱传教修女会）have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.  Mother Teresa’s Funeral ?  Madame Curie Madame Curie was one of the greatest scientists in the world She was born in 1867 She first lived in Poland, then to France When she was very young she was interested in science She worked very hard and discovered the element radium She received the Nobel Prizes for Physics and Chemistry respectively in 1903 and in 1911 For the last ten years of her life she was almost blind The radium with which she had worked for many years had caused blindness and illness and finally a disease of the blood She died in Paris at the age of 66 Today she is remembered as a great scientist But she is a