最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit6-Part1（在线收听）

[00:06.33]UNIT6

[00:12.57]An Ideal Position

[00:14.31]Life is good. 

[00:17.82]My career in elementary education 

[00:20.66]in Canada is now 

[00:22.96]just a fond memory. 

[00:24.82]I think back on 

[00:27.01]the many years of service and 

[00:28.76]I recall the many classes 

[00:30.29]I taught, the different schools 

[00:32.80]I worked at, the countless staff 

[00:34.99]meetings I attended and 

[00:36.74]the many committees I served on. 

[00:39.04]I estimate that the number 

[00:41.77]of faculty members I worked with

[00:43.74] over the years is 

[00:45.06]in the hundreds and 

[00:46.70]well over a thousand students 

[00:47.90]have called me teacher. 

[00:49.22]Is it any wonder that

[00:51.84] I can say that 

[00:53.70]I always felt comfortable

[00:54.79] walking in school corridors?

[00:57.86]Sometimes I worked with students 

[01:00.92]at the intermediate level.

[01:03.33] In Canada, students at that level

[01:06.18] are youth in their 

[01:07.37]preteen years as well as teenagers.

[01:09.45]When I decided to retire, 

[01:12.85]I knew that the first step 

[01:15.25]in the procedure was 

[01:16.57]to write a letter to my employer, 

[01:18.98]a school board, 

[01:20.69]to resign my position. 

[01:22.66]I postponed mailing the letter. 

[01:26.59]I was reluctant to 

[01:28.46]add the postage to the letter, 

[01:30.43]knowing that once I mailed it, 

[01:32.73]the decision could not be reversed.

[01:35.68]Because I was a veteran teacher 

[01:38.96]of many years, I would be

[01:41.36]eligible to receive a pension.

[01:43.55] I calculated that the revenue

[01:46.73] I would receive each month 

[01:48.48]would be sufficient to 

[01:50.01]sustain my current lifestyle. 

[01:51.98]If I was smart about 

[01:54.71]my spending habits, I might 

[01:57.23]even have a surplus of money. 

[01:58.87]I certainly would not need 

[02:02.04]to pinch every penny. 

[02:03.91]I knew the money 

[02:05.99]would not come to me

[02:07.41] in the form of a cheque. 

[02:08.94]Instead, it would be deposited 

[02:11.78]directly into my bank account. 

[02:14.63]I could withdraw cash

[02:16.60] from my investments if 

[02:18.02]I needed to supplement my income,

[02:20.32] my credit rating would 

[02:22.72]allow me to be eligible 

[02:24.37]for a loan when some 

[02:25.89]unforeseen financial crisis arose. 

[02:28.52]I knew, therefore, that 

[02:32.57]there was no reason to panic, 

[02:34.32]as my future was secure 

[02:36.18]even if inflation increased 

[02:38.37]or a recession occurred. 

[02:40.34]In either case my income 

[02:43.18]would only be minus 

[02:46.57]a few dollars, a fraction 

[02:48.11]of the total amount.

[02:49.31]I decided to take the plunge, 

[02:52.59]but waited another fortnight 

[02:54.67]before I mailed the letter. 

[02:57.29]I even paused briefly 

[02:59.37]with the letter part way 

[03:01.45]into the mail slot

[03:03.09] before I thrust the letter

[03:04.95] into the mailbox. 

[03:06.70]I knew that the simple act

[03:09.22] of mailing that letter

[03:10.86] would alter my life.