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2021年1月8日发(作者：吕颐浩)
Popular Pastime of the English People

One of the best means of understanding the people of any nation is watching what
the do with their non-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 gardens all they
way along the railway lines. There are flowers at the airports and flowers in factory
grounds, as well as in gardens along the roads. Each English town has at least one
park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings of every kind have brilliant
window boxes and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them.
But what the English enjoy most is growing things themselves. If it is impossible
to have a garden, then a window box or something growing in a pot will do. Looking
at each other’s gardens is a popular pastime with the English.
4. British and American Police Officers
Real policemen, both in Britain and the ., hardly recognize any common points between
their lives and what they se on TV—if they ever get home in time.
Some things are almost the same, of course, but the policemen do not think much of
them much of them.
The first difference is that a policeman’s real life deals with the law. Most of
what he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law
and what facts can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much
law as a lawyer, and what’s more, he has to put it into practice on his feet, in
the dark and, running down a narrow street after someone he wants to talk to.
Little of his time is spent in talking with beautiful girls or in bravely facing
cruel criminals. He will spend most 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, unimportant crimes.
Useful Words and Expressions:
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1. think much of 重视，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 Space
How much living space does a person need What happens when his space needs are not
met Scientists are doing experiments on rats to try to determine the effects of
overcrowded conditions on man. Recent studies have shown that the behavior of rats
is greatly affected by space. If rats have enough living space, they eat well, sleep
well and produce their young well. But if their living conditions become too crowded,
their behavior and even their health change obviously. They can not sleep and eat
well, and signs of fear and worry become clear. The more crowded they are, and more
they tend to bite each other and even kill each other. Thus, for rats, populations
and violence are directly related. Is this a natural law for human society as well
Is enough space not only satisfactory, but necessary for human survival These are
interesting questions.

6. The United Nations

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In 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 the General Assembly.
In the General Assembly, every member nation is represented and has an equal vote.
The second part is called the Security Council. It has representatives of just 15
nations. Five nations are permanent members: the United States, Russia, France,
Britain, and China. The 10 other members 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 from member 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 on when this is
necessary. But they did vote to try to stop wars.
Useful Words and Expressions:
1. representative 代表
2. General Assembly 联合国大会
3. permanent 永久的，持久的
4. Security Council 联合国安全理事会

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7. Plastic

We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic
cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups,
and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles!
Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We
call it a produced or manufactured material. Plastic was first made in the 1860s
from plants, such as wood and cotton. That plastic was soft and burned easily.
The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plastic starts 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. Some are soft and bendable. Some are clear. Some are many- colored. There
is a plastic for almost every need. Scientists continue to experiment with plastics.
They hope to find even ways to use them!

10. Private Cars
With the increase in the general standard of living, some ordinary Chinese families
begin to 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 on public transport, and hence no irritation caused by waiting
for buses or taxis. However, others strongly object to developing private cars. They
maintain that as more and more cars are produced and run in the street, a large volume
of poisonous gas will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causing actual harm
to the health of people.
Whether private cars should be developed in Chicago is a difficult question to answer,
yet the desire for the comfort and independence a private car can bring will not
be eliminated.
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12. A Young Man’s Promise
One day, a young man was writing a letter to his girlfriend who lived just a few
miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful
he thought she was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally he said
that in order to be with her, he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would
face the greatest dangers that anyone couldn’t imagine. In fact, to spend only one
minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest
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 mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name,
he added:
“By the wThat Isn’t Our 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 of them.
Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and said, “They’ll be ready next
Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”
“No,” Mrs. Williams said, “please send them to us.”
The photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs. Williams was not happy when she saw
them. She got into her car and drove to the photographer’s studio. She went inside
and said angrily, “You took some photographs of me and my husband last week, but
I’m not going to pay for them.”
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“Oh, why not” the photographer asked.

“Because my husband looks like a monkey,” Mrs. Williams said.
“Well,” the photographer answered, “that isn’t our fault. Why didn’t you think
of that before you married him”
ay, I’ll be over to see you on Wednesday night, if it doesn’t rain.”

17. Living Things React
You and all organisms live an environment. An environment is made up of everything
that 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 to
a change, it reacts in certain ways. All living things respond in some way.
Have you ever noticed how plants and insects respond to light Plants bend toward
light. Insects fly toward light.
Living things also respond in other ways. The leaves on some trees respond to a change
in season. In autumn, they change colors and then fall 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.
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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 environment

18. Flowering Plants
What are the parts of a flower
Flowers can have male parts and female parts. The female parts make eggs that become
seeds. The male parts make pollen. Pollen is a powdery material that is needed by
the eggs to make seeds. To make seeds, pollen and eggs must come together. The wind,
insects, and birds bring pollen to eggs. Many animals love flowers’ bright 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
delivered to the female flower parts.
Over time, the female parts turn into fruits that contain seeds. Animals often eat
the fruits and the seeds pass through their bodies as waste. The animals do no know
they are working for the plants by planting seeds as they travel to different places!
Useful words and Expressions:
1. flowering 开花的
2. pollen 花粉
3. powdery 粉状的
4. sugar 含糖的，甜的
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5. nectar花蜜，甘露


19. Finding the Direction and Location
How can you tell which direction By day, look for the Sun. It is in the east in the
morning and the west in the afternoon. At night, use the Big Dipper to help you find
the North Star. It would be better to bring a compass because its needle always points
north.
How do you know how far you have gone You could count every step. Each step is about
two feet. You’d better wear a pedometer which is a tool that counts steps. If you
know where you started, which direction you are heading, and how far you have gone,
you can use a good map to figure out exactly where you are.
Today there is a new way for travelers to figure out where they are. It is the GPS.
It has 24 satellites that orbit the earth and constantly broadcast their positions.
Someday you may carry a small receiver as you hike and use GPS to find out if you
are there yet!
Useful Words and Expressions:
1. dipper北斗七星
2. compass 罗盘
3. pedometer 步数计
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4. GPS= Global Position System全球定位系统

5. orbit 轨道，绕……轨道而行
6. receiver 接收器

20. America’s Worst Surprise
December 7, 1941 was one of the worst days in American history. Nearly all Americans
who are old enough to remember that day can still remember what they were doing at
the moment they heard “the news”. The news was that America had been attacked!
Shortly before 2:00 ., a radio dispatch came into Washington from Honolulu, Hawaii.
“Air Raid, Pearl Harbor— This is no drill.” Japanese planes had begun an attack
on the largest American military base in the Pacific. They first destroyed planes
on the ground. Then they bombed the ships in the harbor.
No one had expected the attack. So no one was prepared for it. And it did not take
long for Japanese to do their damage. When the smoke cleared, the Navy counted its
losses. Eighteen ships had been sunk or badly damaged. Nearly 150 planes had been
destroyed. More than 2,400 Americans had been killed and more than 1,200 wounded.
Useful Words and Expressions:
1. dispatch 派遣，急件
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2. air raid 空袭

3. drill 军事训练，操练
4. Pearl Harbor 珍珠港
Place of Our Own
We are all usually very careful when we buy something for the house. Why Because
we have to live with it for a long time. We paint a room to make it brighter, so
we choose the colors carefully.
We buy new curtains in order to match the newly decorated room, so they must be the
right color. We move the furniture round so as to make more space—or we buy new
furniture—and so on. It is an endless business.
Rich or poor, we take time to furnish a room. Perhaps some people buy furniture in
order to impress their friends. But most of us just want to enjoy our surroundings.
We want to live as comfortably as we can afford to. We spend a large part of our
lives at home. We want to make a small corner in the world which we can recognize
as our own.

for Work
You can see them in every airport in the world. They are businessmen and women who
have to travel for their work.
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When they first applied for the job, they may have thought of good food and hotels,
huge expense accounts and fashionable cities. Now they have to sit in airport lounges,
tired and uncomfortable in their smart clothes, listening to the loudspeaker
announce “The fight of Tokyo, or Berlin, or New York is delayed for another two
hours.” Some people say to me, “How lucky you are to be able to travel abroad in
your work! You can go sightseeing without paying any money by yourself!” They think
that my 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 would never visit if I was a tourist.

27. Intelligence
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid Or is intelligence developed
by our environment and our experience
Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our
intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a
genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who
lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives
in rich and varied surroundings. Thus, the limits of a person’s intelligence are
fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment.
This view, held by most experts now, can be supported in a number of ways. As is
easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The
closer the blood relationship between two people is, the closer they are likely to
be in intelligence.

29. Time
Time is tangible. One can gain time, spend time, waste time, save time, or even kill
time. Common questions in American English reveal this concrete quality as though
time were a possession. “Do you have any time”, “Can you get some time for this”,
“How much free time do you have” The treatment of time as a possession influences
the way that time is carefully divided.
Generally, Americans are taught to do one thing at a time and may be uncomfortable
when an activity is interrupted. In businesses, the careful scheduling of time and
the separation of activities are common practices. Appointment calendars are printed
with 15-,30-, and 60-minute time slots. The idea that “there is a time and place
for everything” extends to American social life. Visitors who drop by without prior
notice may interrupt their host’s personal time. Thus, calling friends on the
telephone before visiting them is generally preferred to visitors’ dropping by.
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Useful words and expressions:

1. tangible 切实的
2. kill time 消磨时间
3. reveal 显示，揭示
4. scheduling 行程安排
5. slot 缝隙