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1、Popular Pastime of the English PeopleOne of the best means of understanding the people of any nation is watching what the do with theirnon-working time.Most English men, women and children love growing things, especially flowers.Visitors to England in spring, summer or autumn are likely to see garde

2、ns all they way along the railwaylines. There are flowers at the airports and flowers in factory grounds, as well as in gardens along theroads. Each English town has at least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings ofevery kind have brilliant window boxes and sometimes baskets o

3、f flowers are hanging on them.But what the English enjoy most is growing things themselves. If it is impossible to have a garden, thena window box or something growing in a pot will do. Looking at each others gardens is a popularpastime with the English.4. British and American Police OfficersReal po

4、licemen, both in Britain and the ., hardly recognize any commonpoints between their lives andwhat they se on TVif they ever get home in time.Some things are almost the same, of course, but the policemen do not think much of them much ofthem.The first difference is that a policemans real life deals w

5、ith the law. Most ofwhat he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law and what facts canbe used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a lawyer, and whats more, hehas to put it into practice on his feet, in the dark and, running down a narrow s

6、treet after someone hewants to talk to.Little of his time is spent in talking with beautiful girls or in bravely facing cruel criminals. He will spendmost of his working life arranging millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad,ordinary people who are guilty- or not of stupid, uni

7、mportant crimes.Useful Words and Expressions:1. think much of重視，尊重2. in court在法庭上3. criminal罪犯，犯罪者4. guilty犯罪的，有罪的5. Living SpaceHow much living space does a person need What happens when his space needs are not metScientists are doing experiments on rats to try to determine the effects of overcrowd

8、ed conditions onman. Recent studies have shown that the behavior of rats is greatly affected by space. If rats haveenough living space, they eat well, sleep well and produce their young well. But if their living conditionsbecome too crowded, their behavior and even their health change obviously. The

9、y can not sleep andeat well, and signs of fear and worry become clear. The more crowded they are, and more they tend tobite each other and even kill each other. Thus, for rats, populations and violence are directly related. Isthis a natural law for human society as well Is enough space not only sati

10、sfactory, but necessary forhuman survival These are interesting questions.6. The United NationsIn 1945, representatives of 50 nations met to plan this organization. It was called the United Nations.After the war, many more nations joined.There are two major parts of the United Nations. One is called

11、 the General Assembly. In the GeneralAssembly, every member nation is represented and has an equal vote. The second part is called theSecurity Council. It has representatives of just 15 nations. Five nations are permanent members: theUnited States, Russia, France,Britain, and China. The 10 other mem

12、bers are elected every two years by the General Assembly.The major job of the Security Council is to keep peace in the world. If necessary, it can send troops frommember nations to try to stop little wars before they turn into big ones.It is hard to get the nations of the Security Council to agree o

13、n when this is necessary. But they did voteto try to stop wars.Useful Words and Expressions:1. representative代表2. General Assembly聯(lián)合國大會3. permanent永久的，持久的4. Security Council聯(lián)合國安全理事會7. PlasticWeuse plastic wrap to protect our foods. Weput our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit onplastic

14、chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo fromplastic bottles!Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We call it a produced ormanufactured material. Plastic was first made in the 1860s from plants, such as wood and

15、cotton. Thatplastic was soft and burned easily. The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plasticstarts out as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have been developed. Some are hard and strong.Som

16、eare soft and bendable. Someare clear. Someare many-colored. There is a plastic for almost everyneed. Scientists continue to experiment with plastics. They hope to find even ways to use them!10. Private CarsWith the increase in the general standard of living, some ordinary Chinese families begin to

17、afford a car.Yet opinions of the development of a private car vary from person to person.It gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility. The owner of a car is no longer forced to reply onpublic transport, and hence no irritation caused by waiting for buses or taxis. However, others stronglyo

18、bject to developing private cars. They maintain that as more and more cars are produced and run inthe street, a large volume of poisonous gas will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causingactual harm to the health of people.Whether private cars should be developed in Chicago is a difficultq

19、uestion to answer,yet the desire for the comfort and independence a private car can bring will not be eliminated.12. A You ng Mans PromiseOne day, a young man was writing a letter to his girlfriend who lived just a fewmiles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wond

20、erful he thoughtshe was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally he said that in order to be with her, hewould suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone couldnt imagine.In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest riv

21、er, he would enter thedeepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands.He finished the letter, signed his name and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mentionsomething quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added:“By the wThat Isnt Ou

22、r Fault. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she was twenty.Twenty-five years later, they had a big party, and a photographer came and took some photographs ofthem.Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and said,“Theyll be ready next Wednesday. Youcan get them from s

23、tudio.”“No,”Mrs. Williams said,“please send them to us.”The photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs. Williams was not happy when she sawthem. She got into her car and drove to the photographers studio. She went inside and said angrily,“You took some photographs of me and my husband last week, butI

24、m not going to pay for them.”“Oh, why not”the photographer asked.“Because my husband looks like a monkey,”Mrs. Williams said.“Well,”the photographer answered,“that isnt our fault. Whydidnt you think of that before youmarried him”ay, Ill be over to see you on Wednesday night, if it doesnt rain.”17. L

25、iving Things ReactYou and all organisms live an environment. Anenvironment is made up ofeverythingthat surrounds an organism. It can include the air, the water, the soil, and even other organisms.An organism responds to changes in its environment. When an organism responds toa change, it reacts in c

26、ertain ways. All living things respond in some way.Have you ever noticed how plants and insects respond to light Plants bend toward light. Insects flytoward light.Living things also respond in other ways. The leaves on sometrees respond to a change in season. Inautumn, they change colors and then fa

27、ll off the branches Animals also respond to a change in season.Squirrels save nuts for the winter. Bears sleep through the winter in a cave.You respond to your environment in many ways, too. You may shiver if you are cold.What other ways do you respond to changes in your environment18. Flowering Pla

28、ntsWhat are the parts of a flowerFlowers can have male parts and female parts. The female parts make eggs that become seeds. Themale parts make pollen. Pollen is a powdery material that is needed by the eggs to make seeds. Tomake seeds, pollen and eggs must come together. The wind, insects, and bird

29、s bring pollen to eggs.Many animals love flowersbright colors. They also like a sugary liquid in flowers. This is called nectar.While they drink nectar, pollen rubs off on their bodies. As they move, some of this pollen gets deliveredto the female flower parts.Over time, the female parts turn into f

30、ruits that contain seeds. Animals often eat the fruits and the seedspass through their bodies as waste. The animals do no know they are working for the plants by plantingseeds as they travel to different places! Useful words and Expressions:1. flowering開花的2. pollen花粉3. powdery粉狀的4. sugar含糖的，甜的5. nec

31、tar花蜜，甘露19. Finding the Direction and LocationHow can you tell which direction By day, look for the Sun. It is in the east in themorning and the west in the afternoon. At night, use the Big Dipper to help you find the North Star. Itwould be better to bring a compass because its needle always points

32、north.Howdo you know how far you have gone You could count every step. Each step is about two feet. Youd better wear a pedometer which is a tool that counts steps. If you know where you started, whichdirection you are heading, and how far you have gone, you can use a good map to figure out exactlywh

33、ere you are.Today there is a new way for travelers to figure out where they are. It is the GPS. It has 24 satellites thatorbit the earth and constantly broadcast their positions. Someday you may carry a small receiver as youhike and use GPS to find out if you are there yet!Useful Words and Expressio

34、ns:1. dipper北斗七星2. compass羅盤3. pedometer步數(shù)計4. GPS= Global Position System全球定位系統(tǒng)5. orbit軌道，繞.軌道而行6. receiver接收器20.AmericasWorst SurpriseDecember 7, 1941 was one of the worst days in American history. Nearly all Americans who are oldenough to remember that day can still remember what they were doing a

35、t the moment they heard“thenews”. The news was that America had been attacked!Shortly before 2:00 ., a radio dispatch came into Washington from Honolulu, Hawaii.“Air Raid, PearlHarborThis is no drill.”Japanese planes had begun an attack on the largest American militarybase in the Pacific. They first

36、 destroyed planes on the ground. Then they bombed the ships in theharbor.No one had expected the attack. So no one was prepared for it. And it did not take long for Japanese todo their damage. When the smoke cleared, the Navy counted its losses. Eighteen ships had been sunkor badly damaged. Nearly 1

37、50 planes had been destroyed. More than 2,400 Americans had been killedand more than 1,200 wounded. Useful Words and Expressions:1. dispatch派遣，急件2. air raid空襲3. drill軍事訓(xùn)練，操練4. Pearl Harbor珍珠港Place of Our OwnWe are all usually very careful when we buy something for the house. Why Because we have to l

38、ive withit for a long time. We paint a room to make it brighter, so we choose the colors carefully.Webuy new curtains in order to match the newly decorated room, so they must be the right color. Wemove the furniture round so as to make more spaceor we buy newfurnitureand so on. It is an endless busi

39、ness.Rich or poor, we take time to furnish a room. Perhaps some people buy furniture inorder to impress their friends. But most of us just want to enjoy our surroundings. We want to live ascomfortably as we can afford to. We spend a large part of our lives at home. We want to make a smallcorner in t

40、he world which we can recognize as our own.for WorkYou can see them in every airport in the world. They are businessmen and women who have to travelfor their work.Whenthey first applied for the job, they may have thought of good food and hotels, huge expenseaccounts and fashionable cities. Nowthey h

41、ave to sit in airport lounges, tired and uncomfortable in theirsmart clothes, listening to the loudspeaker announce“The fight of Tokyo, or Berlin, or New York isdelayed for another two hours.”Some people say to me,“How lucky you are to be able to travelabroad in your work! You can go sightseeing wit

42、hout paying any money by yourself!”They think thatmy job is like a continual holiday. It is not.There are advantages, of course, and I do thin I am lucky, but only because I can go to places I wouldnever visit if I was a tourist.27. IntelligenceAre some people born clever, and others born stupid Or

43、is intelligence developed by our environmentand our experienceStrangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us atbirth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. Onthe other hand, a child who liv

44、es in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one wholives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus, the limits of a persons intelligence arefixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, held bymost experts now, can be supported i

45、n a number of ways. As is easy to show that intelligence is to someextent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people is, thecloser they are likely tobe in intelligence.29. TimeTime is tangible. One can gain time, spend time, waste time, save time, or even kill t

46、ime. Commonquestions in American English reveal this concrete quality as though time were a possession.“Do youhave any time”,“Can you get some time for this” “How much free time do you have”Thetreatment of time as a possession influences the way that time is carefully divided.Generally, Americans ar

47、e taught to do one thing at a time and may be uncomfortablethe separation of activities are commonpractices. with15-,30-, and 60-minute time slots. The idea thatfor everything”extends to American social life.s personal time. Thus, calling friends on thetelephone before v isiting them is generally pr

48、eferred to visitorsUseful words and expressions:1. tangible切實的2. kill time消磨時間3. reveal顯示，揭示4. scheduling行程安排5. slot縫隙6. drop by隨便訪問7. preferred首選的31. Water PollutionWater is very importantto us. Factoriesand plants need water for industrial usesand large pieces of farmland need it for irrigation. W

49、ithout water to drink, people die in a short time.Today most water sources are so dirty that people must purify water before drinking. Water becomesdirty in many ways: industrial pollution is one of them. With the development of industry, plants andfactories pour tons of industrial wasters into rive

50、rs every day. The rivers have become seriously polluted,and the water isbecoming unfit for drinking or irrigation. The same thing has also happened to ourseas and oceans. So, the problem of water pollution is almost worldwide.when an activity is interrupted.In businesses,thecarefulof time andAppoint

51、ment calendars are printed“there is a time and placeVisitors who drop by without priornotice may interrupt their hostdropping by.Scientists of many countries have done a lot of work to stop pollution. The polluted water in some placeshas become clean and drinkable again. Perhaps one day the people i

52、n all towns and cities will bedrinking clean water. That day, we believe, is not very far off.32. Making a ComplaintComplaining about faulty goodsor bad services is never easy. But if something youhave brought is faulty or does not do what was claimed for it, you are not asking for a favor to get it

53、 putright.Complaints should be made to a responsible person. Go back to the shop where you bought the goods,taking with you any receipt you may have. In a small store the assistant may also be the owner so youcan complain direct. In a chain store, ask the manager. If you telephone, ask the name of t

54、he personwho handles your enquiry, otherwise you may never find out who dealt with the complaint later. If you donot want to do it in person, write a letter. Stick to the facts and keep a copy of what you write. At thisstage you should give any receipt numbers, but you should not need to give receip

55、ts or other papers toprove you bought the article33. Where Do the British Liveeveryone in Britain would like to own their own home and, whether they do or not, they are prepared toput time and money into decorating and furnishing it or even making structural alterations to it. Becauseof the climate

56、and because of the expense involved in going out for the evening, the British spend a lotof time at home and a large part of their social life takes place there.Young people tend to stay with their families longer these days as accommodationis expensive but, when they move away to a job or college,

57、there are various options open to them. Theycan get lodgings with a landlady. This means that they rent a room in someones house and havebreakfast with the family. They can also get a bed-sitting room, that is to say one self-contained room inwhich they can cook, live and sleep. Alternatively, they

58、can share a rented flat or house with a groupof young people, perhaps the most popular option of all.Useful Words and Expressions:1. lodging寄宿處2. bedsit臥室兼起居室3. bed-sitting臥室兼起居室的4. self-contained設(shè)備齊全的34. Will Computers Replace Human BeingsWe are in the computer age today. The computers are working

59、all kinds of wonders now. They are veryuseful in automatic control and data processing. At the same time, computers are finding their way intothe home. They seem to be so clever and can solve such complicated problems that some people thinksooner or later they willreplace us.But I do not think that

60、there is such a possibility. My reason is very simple: computers are machines, nothumans. And our tasks are far too various and complicated for any one single kind of machine toperform.Probably the greatest difference between man and computer is that the former can do things of his ownwhile the latt