Unit 2 Morals and Virtues
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Luke: Hi Jane! What are you reading?Jane: Oh, hey, Luke! I’m reading a very interesting magazine article about moral dilemmas.Luke: Moral dilemma? What doyou mean?Jane: You know, it's when you have two choices, and you have to choose one, but for moral reasons some timesit could be really difficult to decide.Luke: Oh, situations like that don’t happen very often, do they?Jane: Actually, I think people face moral dilemmas all the time, even us students.Jane: Well, for example, itmentions a girl who was taking the entrance exam for a medical university in Beijing. During the exam, the student next to her fainted. The girl had achoice. Should she finish the exam or should she stop and help the student?Luke: Surely the teachers would look after the student who fainted!Jane: Well, that’s what Ithought—but not this girl. She stopped to help the student, thinking that it was better to put the needs of the other person first.Luke: So what happened to her exam?Jane: She never finished it.Instead, she carried the student to a safe place and looked after her. Then she went to the hospital with the student and called her sister.Luke: I can’t believe she would give up her chance to get into medical university! Who would do such a thing?Jane: Well, that girl was LinQiaozhi. She later DID get into medical university and then she became a great doctor. She became famous for caring for tens of thousands of women and theirbabies.Luke: Oh, wow! So she became adoctor even though she left her exam that day!Jane: Yes. Her life was full ofhard choices, but she didn’t let them stop her from taking care of people who were in need. She always cared for others more than for herself.Host: Hello and welcome to the Rush Hour Show, the radio show for your way home. Our guest today is KevinMiller, with the Pay It Forward Foundation. Welcome, Kevin, so what is "payingit forward"?Kevin: Hi, there. So "paying it forward” means that if you receive kindness from someone, you don’t try topay them back. Instead, you go out and show kindness to someone else.Host: Oh, so it's like helpinga stranger. Can you give us an example of how it works?Kevin: Well, I’m sure you’ve heard the famous country song, "The Chain of Love". The song starts with aman who helps a lady whose car has broken down. The lady wants to pay him, buthe won't accept payment, instead telling the woman to just show kindness to another person. Later, when the lady stops at a cafe, she notices her waitress is pregnant and tired. When the lady finishes eating, she pays for her mealwith a hundred-dollar bill. Then the lady walks out, leaving the change and anote for the waitress. Her note tells the waitress to continue the chain ofkindness. The song has a surprise ending. The waitress goes home to her husband, happy because of the kindness the lady showed her. Then we find outthat he’s the man who firststarted the chain of kindness!Host: What a great story! Sodoes this happen in real life?Kevin: Yes, actually. One woman, after paying for her coffee, then quietly paid for the coffee of the customerbehind her. When that customer discovered his coffee had been paid for, he paidfor the customer behind him. The chain of kindness continued for hours. Nearly400 people paid for the coffee of the person behind them!Host: Wow, that’s amazing. Sowhat can our listeners do to help?Kevin: Well, join the chain ofkindness today and join the millions of people who are "paying it forward"!We never know what light we might spark in others by our kindness.
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