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Unit 2 War and PeaceWarm-upPre-reading TasksWe are going to read a story of a Japanese girl who suffered great harm as the result of nuclear bombing in WWⅡ.Can you draw a timeline and place the crucial moments chronologically while reading the story?Reading Comprehension1. This story starts in 1945. A girl named Sadako Sasaki was living in a Japanese city called Hiroshima along with about half a million other people. When she was two years old, the first atomic bomb ever to be used against human beings was dropped on Hiroshima. Most of the city was completely smashed and burned down. Sadako was about a mile away from where the bomb exploded, but she wasn’t burned or injured at all, at least not in any way people could see.2. A few weeks after the bomb explosion, people in Hiroshima began dying from a sickness even the doctors couldn’t understand. People who seemed perfectly healthy would suddenly get weak and sick and then die. It was so strange that no one knew what to do.3. By the time Sadako was 12 years old, ten years had passed since the bomb explosion. She was then a seventh-grade girl, studying and playing like everyone else. And the thing she was most fond of was running.4. One day after an important relay race, she felt extremely tired and dizzy. After a while she felt better, so she thought it didn’t matter and soon forgot about it. But the dizziness kept coming back, especially when she was running. She didn’t tell anyone about it, not even Chizuko, her best friend. Finally, one morning, it got so bad that she fell down and just lay on the ground for a while. This time everyone noticed. They took her to the Red Cross hospital to see what was the matter. No one could believe what they found out. Sadako had leukaemia, a kind of cancer of the blood. Almost everyone who got the disease died and Sadako was very scared. She didn’t want to die.5. Soon after Sadako was sent to the hospital, her best friend Chizuko went to see her. And she brought Sadako some paper cranes. Chizuko told Sadako a legend. She said that the crane, a sacred bird in Japan, lives for a thousand years, and if a sick person folds a thousand paper cranes, he or she will get well. So, Sadako decided to fold a thousand cranes. Because of the leukaemia she often felt too weak and tired so she couldn’t work all the time. But from that day on, whenever she could, she folded cranes.6. Sadako actually folded her thousand cranes, but she wasn’t getting any better. However, instead of giving up, she decided to fold more cranes. She started on her second thousand. Everyone was amazed by her great bravery and patience. On October 25th, 1955, surrounded by her loving family, she went to sleep peacefully for the last time.7. But this story doesn’t end with Sadako’s death. She had a lot of friends who loved her and who missed her very much. They didn’t only feel sad about Sadako. Lots of other children in Hiroshima had died or were dying of the A-bomb disease. Her friends wanted very much to do something for Sadako. So thirty-nine of her classmates formed a club and began collecting donations to build a monument for her. The word spread quickly. Students from 3,100 schools inJapan and from nine other countries gave money, and finally on May 5th, 1958, almost three years after Sadako died, they got enough money to build the monument. It’s called the Children’s Peace Monument and it is in the Peace Park which is in the middle of Hiroshima where the atomic bomb was dropped.8. The movement to build this monument became so famous that a movie called A thousand paper cranes was produced to tell the story. About sixty children from Hiroshima and about twenty children from Tokyo helped to make the movie. When it was finished, these children decided to start a club calle d the Paper Crane Club. The club members take care of Sadako’s monument, and visit atomic bomb survivors.9. One other thing they always do is to fold paper cranes. Sometimes they hang the cranes on Sadako’s monument and other monuments in Hiroshima’s Pe ace Park. Sometimes they send them to world leaders to remind them that the children of the world want to get rid of nuclear bombs. 10. The meaning of folding paper cranes is perhaps best summed up in the words carved on the base of the Children’s Peace Mo nument:Translation1. 这个故事开始于1945年。
当时，一个名叫佐佐木祯子的小女孩和其他50万人一样，住在日本的广岛市。
祯子两岁的时候，历史上第一颗以人类为攻击目标的原子弹在广岛投放。
