河南大学生掏鸟案-大班班务计划
Unit
1
Social
customs and ways of behaving change. But they do
not necessarily always change
for the
better. Things which were considered impolite many
years ago are now acceptable.
Just a
few years ago, it was considered impolite
behaviour for a man to smoke on the street.
No
man
who
thought
of
himself
as
being
a
gentleman
would
make
a
fool
of
himself
by
smoking when a lady was in
the room.
The important thing to
remember about social customs is not to do
anything that might
make other people
feel uncomfortable
—
especially if they are your guests. There is a story
about a rich nobleman who had a very
formal dinner party. When the food was served, one
of
the guests started to eat his peas
with a knife. Other guests were amused or shocked,
but the
nobleman calmly picked up his
knife and began eating in the same way. It would
have been
bad manners to make his guest
feel foolish or uncomfortable.
Unit
2
Undoubtedly,
Tibet
is
one
of
the
harshest
places
for
human
existence.
It
is
cool
in
summer but freezing cold in
winter. In Lhasa, the mildest city temperature may
exceed 29C in
summer while plummeting
to -16C in winter! Sun radiation is extremely
strong in Tibet. The
sunlight in Lhasa
is so intense that the city is called Sunlight
City. The thin air can neither block
off nor retain heat so that the
temperature extremes can be met in daytime and the
same
night respectively in Tibet.
However it is not impossible to visit the holy
snow land. April to
October is the best
time to visit Tibet, out of the coldest months,
which are from December
to February
usually. The average temperature in north Tibet is
subzero and winter arrives in
October
until the following May or June. July and August
are the best time to visit the area,
enjoying
warm
temperature,
intense
sunshine,
beautiful
scenery
and
festive
events.
May,
June
and
September
is
the
tourist
season
in
east
Tibet.
In
winter,
roads
are
all
blocked
by
heavy snow. Landslides and
rock falls frequently occur, which will make
travel difficult.
Unit
3
I could hear the guard
blowing his whistle, so I ran onto the platform
and up to the train.
Luckily
someone
saw
me
coming,
a
door
opened,
and
I
jumped
on
while
the
train
was
moving out of the station. “Phew!” I
thought. “That was hard work!” I was sure the
other
passengers could hear my heart
beating; it was so loud, and I was in a cold
sweat.
After a while, I
recovered, and had a look at the other passengers.
The compartment was
full, but I was the
only one standing. The people in the carriage
turned their eyes away as
they noticed
me looking at them; all except one, a beautiful
woman sitting in the corner. I
saw
her
watching
me
in
the
mirror.
Automatically,
I
adjusted
my
tie.
She
had
seen
me
running for the train: maybe this was
my lucky day after all. I prepared to say hello.
She spoke first, however.
“Would you like my seat?” she asked. “You look
rather ill.” That
was the day on which
I realized I was getting middle-aged.
Unit
4
Aesop
was a very clever man who lived in Greece
thousands of years ago. He wrote many
good fables. He was known to be fond of
jokes. One day, as he was enjoying a walk he met a
traveler, who greeted him and said,
“Kind man, can you tell me how soon I shall get to
town?”
“Go,” Aesop
answered.
“I know I must go”,
said the traveler, “but I should L
ike you to tell me how soon I shall
get to
town.”
“Go,” Aesop said again
angrily.
“This man must be mad,”
the traveler thought and went on.
After he had gone some distance, Aesop
shouted after him, “You will get to town in two
hours.” The traveler turned around in
astonishment. “Why didn’t you tell me that
before?” he
asked.
“How
could
I
have
told
you
before?”
answered
Aesop.
“I
did
not
know
how
fast
you
could walk.
Unit
5
Americans know
that
higher
education
is the
key
to the
growth they need to
lift their
country, and today
that is more true than ever. Just listen to these
facts. Over half the new
jobs created
in the last three years have been managerial and
professional jobs. The new jobs
require
a higher level of skills.
Fifteen years
ago the typical worker with a college degree made
38 percent more than a
worker with a
high school diploma. Today that figure is 73
percent more. Two years of college
means a 20 percent increase annual
earnings. People who finish two years of college
earn a
quarter of a million dollars
more tan their high school counterparts over a
lifetime.
Unit
6
I began my career during
college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto
radio station.
The
station’s
program
manager
was
also
a
professor
who
taught
one
of
my
classes.
I
convinced him
that she needed a youth reporter because that year
was International Youth
Year. After
graduation, I took a job as a television news
reporter and later, news anchor. But
sports reporting was something
different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating
was my first
assignment.
I
had
two
months
until
my
new
job
began.
It
was
like
waiting
an
entire
summer
for
school to start. I spent those two
months talking to figure skating coaches and
judges. I read
boring rule books. I
drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and
made notes about our
conversations. I
even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters
laugh.
Unit
7
Thomas
Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest
genius of his age. There are only a
few
men
in
all
of
the
history,
who
have
changed
the
lives
of
other
men
as
much
as
the
inventor
of
the
first
useful
electric
light.
But
Edison
could
never
be
happy
only
because
someone said he was a genius.“ There is
no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said
that
what people called genius was
mostly hard work.
But
Edison
was
a
dreamer
as
well
as
a
worker.
From
his
earliest
days
as
a
child
he
wondered
about
the
secrets
of
nature.
Nature,
he
often
said,
is
full
of
secrets.
He
tried
to
understand them; then, he tried to
learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of
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