精品文档---下载后可任意编辑Preview This unit deals with women problems from different aspects: how colored women feel, what the effects of wrinkles on women are and what is meant to women when becoming old. Passage A describes what it was like as a black woman to grow up in the American South. The author views her family’s past in slavery as giving her the world to gain and nothing to lose. Passage B at one level looks into skin creams used for beauty purposes but at a deeper level examines why women feel obliged to look young and wrinkle-free. It concludes that signs of ageing signify a reduction in a woman’s ability to reproduce — her primary value as seen by society. The third passage describes one woman’s experience of growing old and how society treats old women. Slavery Gave Me Nothing to Lose I remember the very day that I became black. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a black town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando, 1精品文档---下载后可任意编辑Florida. The native whites rode dusty horses, and the northern tourists traveled down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped chewing sugar cane when they passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The bold would come outside to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village. The front deck might seem a frightening place for the rest of the town, but it was a front row seat for me. My favorite place was on top of the gatep...
