新标准小学英语三年级起点6B 22

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[00:00.00] MODULE¹ 8 Biography² Unit 1 who was Uncle Sam?
[00:11.62]Activity 1.Listen and point.
[00:20.77]Did you know that the name Uncle Sam is a nickname³ for America?
[00:26.25]But who was the real Uncle Sam?
[00:28.84]Once,there was a man in the USA called Sam Wilson.
[00:35.13]He was born in 1766.
[00:38.64]He was popular and his friends called him Uncle Sam.
[00:42.61]When he was 14,he became a soldier.
[00:46.81]He was a good soldier.Later,he started a factory.
[00:53.50]He sold a lot of meat to the United States army.
[00:57.52]Every piece of meat had the letters"US" on it.
[01:01.62]One day in 1812,a man came in and saw the letters"US"
[01:08.39]on the meat and asked what they meant.
[01:11.03]The worker didn't tell him that the letters"US"meant"United States".
[01:18.13]He said they meant "Uncle Sam".
[01:20.61]In 1813 a newspaper told the story.
[01:24.48]People liked the nickname because the real"Uncle Sam"was a good man
[01:29.65]So "Uncle Sam"became a symbol of the USA.