《第6期Passage2》歌词

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所属专辑：专四真题听写训练营05年至12年

歌手： 英语听力

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第6期Passage2-英语听力[00:00:00]

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum was [00:00:00]

opened in Geneva in 1988. [00:00:03]

It tells the story of men and women who, [00:00:07]

in the course of the major events of the last 150 years, [00:00:09]

have given assistance to victims of war and natural disasters. [00:00:14]

The organization was established in 1863 and was based on an [00:00:19]

idea by a Swiss businessman called Henri Durant. [00:00:24]

He had witnessed the heavy casualties at the battle of [00:00:29]

Sulferino in Italy 4 years earlier, [00:00:32]

in which 40, 000 people were killed, wounded or missing. [00:00:35]

He had seen the lack of medical services and the great [00:00:40]

suffering of many of the wounded who simply died from lack of [00:00:42]

care. [00:00:46]

The International Red Cross or Red Crescent exists to help the [00:00:48]

victims of conflicts and disasters regardless of their [00:00:52]

nationalities. [00:00:55]

The symbol of the organization was originally just the [00:00:58]

red cross. [00:01:01]

It has no religious significance. [00:01:02]

The founders of the movement adopted it as a tribute to [00:01:05]

Switzerland. [00:01:08]

However, during the Russo-Turkish War, [00:01:09]

the Turks felt that the cross could be seen as offensive [00:01:13]

to Muslim soldiers, and a second symbol, the red crescent, [00:01:16]

was adopted for use by national organizations in the [00:01:20]

Islamic world. [00:01:23]

Both are now official symbols. [00:01:25]