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Passage Two
段落二
Katherine Gram graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938 and got a job as a news reporter in San Francisco.
凱瑟琳·格拉姆在1938年畢業于芝加哥大學，并在舊金山得到了一份新聞記者的工作。
Katherine's father used to be a successful investment banker. In 1933, he bought a failing newspaper, the Washington Post. Then Katherine returned to Washington and got a job, editing letters in her father's newspaper.
凱瑟琳的父親曾是一個成功的投資銀行家。在1933年，他買了一家失敗的報社，華盛頓郵報。于是凱瑟琳回到華盛頓，在她父親的報紙做編輯工作。
She married Phillip Gram, who took over his father-in-law's position shortly after and became a publisher of the Washington Post. But for many years, her husband suffered from mental illness and he killed himself in 1963. After her husband's death, Katherine operated the newspaper.
她嫁給了菲利浦·格拉姆，不久后菲利浦克接手了岳父位置，成為《華盛頓郵報》的出版商。但是多年來，她的丈夫苦受精神疾病的折磨并于1963年自殺。丈夫死后，凱瑟琳開始經營報紙。
In the 1970s, the newspaper became famous around the world and Katherine was also recognized as an important leader in newspaper publishing. She was the first woman to head a major American publishing company, the Washington Post Company.
在20世紀70年代，《華盛頓郵報》開始風靡全球，凱瑟琳成為報社的重要領導人。她是第一個在美國出版公司，華盛頓郵報，坐第一把交椅的女人。
In a few years, she successfully expanded the company to include newspaper, magazine, broadcast and cable companies.
幾年后，她將公司涉獵的領域成功的擴大到報紙、雜志、廣播和有線電視公司。
She died of head injuries after a fall when she was 84. More than three thousand people attended her funeral, including many government and business leaders.
她在摔倒后死于顱腦損傷，當時她84歲。超過三千人出席了她的葬禮，包括許多政府和商界領袖。
Her friends said she would be remembered as a woman who had an important influence on events in the United States and the world.
她的朋友們說，她將作為一個在美國和世界有重要影響的女人被人銘記。
Katherine once wrote, “The world without newspapers would not be the same kind of world.” After her death, the employees of the Washington Post wrote, “The world without Katherine would not be the same at all.”
凱瑟琳曾經寫道，“沒有報紙，這個世界就不會是今天的面貌。”她死后，華盛頓郵報的員工寫道，“沒有凱瑟琳的世界會完全不同。”
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
問題30至32是基于你剛才聽到的文章。
Question 30. What do we learn from the passage about Katherine's father?
問題30. 從這篇文章我們對于凱瑟琳的父親了解到了什么？
Question 31. What does the speaker tell us about Katherine Gram?
問題31. 作者告訴我們關于凱瑟琳·格拉姆的什么事情？
Question 32. What does the comment by employees of the Washington Post suggest?
問題32. 華盛頓郵報員工的評價表明了什么？
