聽力中英對照文本如下：

愛真的需要勇氣

Francis Fremont Smith is Executive Director at the United Foundation for China’ Health.

今天我們精短聽力的主人公Francis Fremont Smith 女士是北京和睦家中國醫療基金會的現任執行董事。

Her China story goes back many years, to the time US President Nixon made his historic visit in 1972. Inspired by the future relationship she could see between both countries Fran decided to study Chinese. Starting first at the Connecticut College on Chinese and Asian Studies she moved to Hong Kong in 1978 on a Yale China Program to study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

今天我們要聽到的她的中國故事要追溯到1970年代。1972年美國尼克松總統訪華實現了中美關系正常化，改變了當時中國和美國的外交格局，甚至國際關系格局，堪稱世界外交史上的重大事件。也激勵了許多美國年輕人對中國和中國文化的濃厚興趣。Francis就是其中的一員，她被中美關系的長遠合作的未來所激勵，于是開始學習中文及亞洲學，從語言及文化全面學習，親近中國。1978年她隨著耶魯大學的訪問項目來到了香港生活學習。

She came to China, walking across the border at Lo Wu – there were no through trains and also no Shenzhen like we know today! Her travels took her up to Hangzhou, Beijing and on to Changchun where she taught English. After two years Fran moved down to Beijing, where she worked at the Academy for Agricultural Mechanization Sciences. She also worked part time at a branch college of then Foreign Languages Institute. It was then that life for Fran really changed – she met her husband there! A Chinese national, he was teaching English at the school.

越過邊界，她從香港來到了中國內地，那時尚無京九線，甚至連深圳的概念都還沒有呢。她乘坐火車一路北上，從杭州、北京一路輾轉到達長春，留在那里從事教學。不久以后，她定居北京，在中國農業機械化科學研究院工作，同時也在北外兼職教書，不曾想到，在這里，她遇見了她同為高校教師的先生，Fran的人生自此改變。

Their relationship – one of the earliest Chinese-foreign marriages of that period. As this was a time when there were very few westerners living and working in China, there were problems and challenges on both sides, which they successfully overcame.

70年代末80年代初的中國，在京的外國人可謂寥寥可數，跨文化婚姻更屬罕見，人們以異樣的眼光打量著每一對中西結合的伉儷，面對各種意想不到的困難挑戰，Fran仍堅定地選擇了締結一段中國真情。

Their marriage was documented by the National Geographic in one of their TV series called ‘Four Americans in China’. Fran’s programme was a love story, ‘The Teacher who falls in Love’! She had found two loves – her husband and China!

Fran的中國婚事更被國家地理頻道制作成了紀錄片《四個在中國的美國人》。Fran這一集講述了一個美好的愛情故事。如今回想當年，Fran毫不后悔當初不遠萬里，執意遠嫁中國的選擇。一個女人終于找到她人生中的兩個最愛：她的先生和中國，還有什么比這更幸福的事。