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第一单元1.Others in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so theycan be served and get back to work within the time allowed.2.This is because people vale time highly ,and they resent someone elsewasting it beyond a certain appropriate point.3.They will miss the ritual interaction that goes with a welcoming cupof tea or coffee that may be a convention in their own country.4. Since we generally assess and probe professionally rather than socially,westart talking business very quickly.5.Unless a certain amount of time is allowed to elapse,it seems in their eyes asif task being considered were insignificant, not worthy of proper respect.6.Everything that seemed to be so wonderful at first is awful, and everythingmakes you feel distressed and tired.ually at this point in your adjustment to a new culture, you devise somedefense mechanisms to help you cope and to protect yourself against the effects of culture shock.8.You begin to see that even though the distinction of culture is differentfrom your own,it has elements that you can learn to appreciate.9.In this stage,you have reached a point where you actually feel good because you have learned enough to understand the new culture.10. Furthermore, learning about other cultures and how to adjust to the shock of living in them helps you learn more about yourself.第二单元1. I could always count on being encouraged by my coach’s amusing stories and sense of humor In the five years that followed.2. His consistent sincerity, good humor And quiet gratitude, perceptivity,as well as perceptivity set an Olympic standard for love that I continue to reach for.3.Nikolai's patience and my hard work earned me a fourth-place national ranking heading into the pre-Olympic season, but I missed the cut for the 2002 Olympics.4.I was a promising amateur skier, But by no means the top skier who had ever considered trying for Olympic games.5.We awoke the first morning to find Nikolai making breakfast and we madequick work with our spoons around a tiny card table.6.Athletes sacrifice their careers and bodies risking injury, defeat and failure to compete for nothing more than honor for their country and themselves.7.Carl Lewis demanded nothing less than the best from himself and achieved the best with unmatched discipline and commitment to training.8.the amazing Carl Lewis had demonstrated that he was an athlete who lived by winning honestly, loving to complete and working the hardest for the longest time.9.Johnson was stripped of his gold medal and sent packing by the international Olympic Committee when his post-race drug test indicated steroid use.10.It would take the formula of Lewis’ further commitment to the sport and his love for competition to lift some of the suspicion from track events.第三单元1.To start with, I must admit that at first I harbored my reservationsabout a mixed marriage, prejudices you might even call them.2.During our two years together we had experienced the usual ups anddowns of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other.3.Gail and I had no illusions about what the future for us as a married,mixed couple in America.4.When Gail spread the news of our wedding plans to her family she metwith some resistance.5.In fact, he made it very clear when we were discussing marriage that if Ihad any doubts about anything, I should not hesitate to cancel ourplans.6.After much thought, I camp up with a brilliant plan for Rich to meet mymother and win her over.7.He proceeded to pour a riverful of the salty black stuff on the china plate,right before my mother’s shocked eyes, which I had never expected.8.As is the Chinese cook's custom, my mother always made negativeremarks about her own cooking9.Rich was not only not Chinese, he was also my junior, a few yearsyounger than I was.10.She was slicing so quickly that I was afraid the tips of her fingers wouldbecome one of the ingredients of the purple vegetable and pork dish.第四单元1.Aboard the cargo ship that was taking him into enemy territory, he stoodon the deck and read her letter to him again and again.2.And while they all got strength from it, and appreciated her support oftheir cause, John Blandford was the only person to write Ms. Meynell back.3.He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she wasn'twearing a rose.4.The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away and soon vanishedinto the fog.5.He discovered that many of his friends, also in the army, had received theidentical book from the woman.6.But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp.7.I am moving mechanically across the landscape, kneeling on occasionwhen I think I see a bit of timber or other item that I can use to start a fire.8.I glance up in time to see the girl disappearing into the distance.9.I remember I used to purchase apples and throw them to him.10.I am becoming accustomed to this apple diet, but it soon comes to an end.第五单元1.The tobacco industry coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male andfemale heroes smoke like chimneys completely won over people like my father.2.In those poor countries as in American inner cities or on reservations, moneythat should be spent for food goes to the tobacco companies.3.I read in the newspaper that the ends of cigarettes are so poisonous that if ababy swallows one,it is likely to die.4.I remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant, and how patiently Itaught my daughter how to cross a street safely.5.I realize now that as a child I set by, and literally watched my father killhimself by smoking.6.Parents who both hold down full-time jobs may feel guilty about the amountof time they spend away from their children.7.Still others are afraid to say no to their children's endless requests for toys forfear that their children will infer they are unloved.8.This kind of Variability not only loosens the parents' ability to set limits, italso sours the parent-child relationship to some degree.9.Even if you haven't uncovered the reason for feeling guilty, you should beginto make firm decisions and practice responding to your children's requests ina prompt,definite manner.10.The key is to be satisfied with gradual improvement, expecting and acceptingthe occasional slips that come with any change.第六单元1.While filling out an application from for a publishing job, the young womanimpulsively substituted her middle name Lynne, for her first name Debbie. 2.For better or worse, qualities such as friendliness or reserve may be suggestedby your name and conveyed to other people before they even met you.3.She came up to me at a party, pressing for an introduction to a veryimpressive man.4.Though most of us would like to think ourselves free from such prejudicednotions,we are guilty of name stereotyping to some extent.5.If your name no longer seems to fit you, do not despair;you are not stuck withthe label.6. A standard criticism of sociological research is that it goes to great lengths toprove what most people with common sense already know.7.We were prepared to act out some mildly unusual behaviors that might speakof some emotional problems, without appearing seriously disturbed.8.As it turned out, there was no need for dramatics;people turned us off ortuned us out on the basis of appearance alone.9.We were not up to trying our act at an exclusive restaurant, so we wanderedaround the first floor and left.10.Just looking poor brings with it prejudice, accompanied by removal of muchof the social grace most of us take for granted.第七单元1.If you often feel angry and overwhelmed, as if the stress is spinning out ofcontrol,then you may be hurting your heart.2.If there is one word that should be substituted for stress, it is control.3.If you stir the anger within you and let it build with no safety outlet ,you haveto find out where it is coming from.4.Americans tend to become trapped in a working and spending consumptionmode driven by merchants, which leads them to rack up their expectations. 5.They deny the excessive time they are devoting to work, and they rationalizethat their schedule is for the family and essential to being promoted.6.They tend to view themselves and their work as indispensable, and theirworking long hours as commitment to the company.7.You need to learn to take charge of your life where you can and recognizethere are many things beyond your control.8.What happens is that the angrier people get, with mental stress, the morelikely they are to blow apart with some heart problem.9.That kind of question can often get them started toward regaining more of abalance in their lives.10.For many people, the root of their stress is anger, and the trick is to find outwhere the anger is coming from.第八单元1.The survey revealed what I had already suspected from informal polls ofstudents both in in Macon and at the Robins Resident Center.2.To them, less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy oflife,so now the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting.3. A friend of mine was making twice the salary of college instructors duringher first year on the job, even before she graduated from college.4.She was fond of telling her friends what they could do with their music,history and literature.5.Everyone wants to be financially comfortable, but we also want to feel thatwe have a perspective on the world beyond the confines of our occupation. cation teaches us not only to see the connection between things but also tosee beyond our immediate needs.7.Weekly we read of unions that went on strike for higher wages only to drivetheir employer out of business.8.The most important argument for a broad education is that we improve ourmoral sense through studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages.9.But my college roommate also hosted a classical music show on the collegeFM station and listened to Wagner's music as he studied his accounting.10.But at the same time let's ensure that students are prepared for the day whenthey realize their short-sightedness.第九单元1.Mother never deceived herself about my abilities to do so, and so she pushedme toward working with words from an early age.2.When we lost our house a couple of months later she was left with nothingbut a difficult life to care for.3.She often used Edwin as an example of how far an ambitious man could getwithout much talent.4.It was proved that my mother's scheme to push me toward literature from anearly age had been absolutely right.5.Her voice in my head is more powerful than my will to refuse, so I pull myselffrom bed.6.John decided that the only way a deaf person could succeed in business wasto take ownership of the problem and develop his own business.7.No matter how bright you are, the thing that I look at most as an employer isattitude and how it relates to productivity.8.Frustrated by the lack of employment opportunities for deaf individuals, heand his brothers took out a huge loan and founded a software company in the Silicon Valley.9.It is not abnormal to hire people you know and trust, and for me many ofthose people happen to have disability.10.Everyone deserves to have the opportunity to do a good job, and as a resulthave a sense of pride in being a part of society.第十单元1.The hardships of London really started in the first week of September, whenHitler was at last convinced that the English did not intend to give in.2.Newspapers appeared and people bought them, hurrying to work andreading reports of the battle raging over London.3.Much depended upon the handful of pilots who rose day after day and nightafter night to meet the flocks of Nazi bombers.4.The pilots in the RAF reached the limits of exhaustion and then went beyondthose limits, still fighting.5.They had to dig quickly in cellars to rescue their friends who had been buriedunderneath the wreckage.6.The air exploded in blinding lighting and color, the rays shooting outward asin a child's drawing of the sun, and Kaz was flung to the ground violently. 7.Kaz's father had been born to a family of some wealth and social positon inHiroshima, and had emigrated to America in the early 1920s in the spirit of adventure, not of need or light.8.There was a courtyard in front of the place and two gardens in back, one toprovide vegetables, the other one to delight the eye in the formal Japanese layout.9.What remained of the life he had made was blown to bits, though his homewas more than a mile from ground zero.10.The illness had not really left her,it had gone into hiding, and the physicaland mental after-effects of that historical day would trouble Kaz all the rest of her life.。