高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit19 A Few Reasons to Hate Ap

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Two Basic Ways to See Growth

There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process.

People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that

can be identified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose

grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language -- all these are examples

of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.

By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine,

since by definition, it is a journey and not the specific signposts and landmarks

along the way.

The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people

have, their caution and courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected

obstacles.

In their process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to

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Chinese Immigrants in the USA

Chinese Americans make up a tiny fraction of US population, and their numerous

contributions to their adopted land are much appreciated. However, it was once common

in America to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants and laundries. People

did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by the

prejudice and discrimination.

The first Chinese to reach the USA came during the California Gold Rush of 1849.

In that largely unoccupied land, the men staked a claim for themselves by placing

markers in the ground. Either because the Chinese were so different from the others

in speech and appearance, including a long "pigtail" at the back of their otherwise

shaved heads, or because they worked so patiently that they succeeded in turning

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Is Beauty an Advantage?

Is beauty an advantage? Does it make the beautiful individual powerful? Does it

result in substantially better pay and opportunities in the workplace?

Ten years ago, feminist author Woolf wrote about the beauty myth. Woolf spoke

critically of society's obsession about female beauty and challenged us to place

more value on intelligence, complexity and humor. But media are as beauty-obsessed

as ever. How often do you see gray-haired women presenters? How often do they have

a big nose?

The media may not be entirely to blame. According to an evolutionary psychological

analysis, it is human nature for people to think constant bombardment of images

of flawless models creates unrealistic expectations of women. And women's desire

for beauty may well stem from men's mate preferences. Over evolutionary history,

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高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 80 Civil Rights

Movement against Segregation in the US素材

Unit 80

Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US

During and after World War II, challenges to segregation became more common and

more successful. Three major factors accounted for this:

-- The Great Migration

The great migration was the movement of blacks from the Southern states to the

Northern and Western ones for a range of reasons including better jobs, better

schools, and a less racist environment. It began during World War I, continued during

the 1930s, and expanded dramatically in the 1940s and 1950s. The great migration

introduced millions of blacks to a world in which formal segregation did not exist

and basic facilities, like transportation, restaurant, and public bathrooms, were

open to all people. However, the North was not without racism. Blacks could not move