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Passage 1 The Road to Happiness There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e.health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy.In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live.In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong.We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are.Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable.If you have a cat, it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles.Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis on instinct.In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten.People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it.A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections.When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism.Passage 2 Love Is Difficult It is good to love, but love is difficult.For one human being to love another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us — the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.But learning time is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, and is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves.Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering or uniting with another person;it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world in himself for the sake of another person;it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances.Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves, may young people use the love that is given to them.Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them, who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves;it is the ultimate, it is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.Passage 3 Business of Insurance Companies Insurance companies do two types of business.One is general insurance against various forms of risk, and the other is long-term insurance which is mainly life insurance.General insurers will agree to pay a person or company a sum of money in the event of something happening or not happening.It‟s a big business today.If the project succeeds, shareholders in your company will expect to be paid a dividend.If you ask an insurer to underwrite your project, then he will require a payment in advance, a premium.If the project succeeds, he keeps the premium, but you don‟t pay him anything else.Paying a premium to an insurer or underwriter is often cheaper than paying a dividend to shareholders.If fewer dividends are paid to shareholders, then more money can be kept as retention to finance the company‟s next project.Another type of insurance business is the life insurance.It differs basically from general insurance in that it is based not on risk but on certainty — the certainty that each of us will one day die.Life insurance is the basis of pension funds which provide for retirement and guard against other contingencies such as ill-health, but is best seen by the financial economist as a means of collecting many small savings to put together into large investments, in short, as a form of intermediation.Passage 4 Seasonal Affective Disorder Some people feel sad or depressed during the winter months in northern areas of the world.They may have trouble eating or sleeping.They suffer from a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or S-A-D.Victims of S-A-D suffer its effects during the short, dark days of winter.The problems are most severe in the months when there are fewer hours of daylight.When spring arrives, these signs disappear and S-A-D victims feel well again.The National Mental Health Association reports that S-A-D can affect anyone.The group says young people and women are at the highest risk for the disorder.It says that an estimated 25 percent of the American population suffers from some form of S-A-D.About 5 percent suffer from a severe form of the disorder.Many people in other parts of the world also have the condition.The idea of health problems linked to a lack of light is not new.Scientists have discussed the issue since the beginning of medicine.More than two-thousand years ago, the Greek doctor Hippocrates noted that the seasons affect human emotions.Today, experts do not fully understand S-A-D, and yet they agree that it is a very real disorder.To treat the disorder, victims of S-A-D do not need to wait until spring.Experts know that placing affected individuals in bright light each day eases the condition.There are other things people can do to ease the problem.They can increase the sunlight in their homes and workplaces and spend more time outdoors in the fresh air during the day.One study found that walking for an hour in winter sunlight was as effective as spending two-and-one-half hours under bright light indoors.Passage 5 Success Is a Choice All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday.If we expect that life won‟t be perfect, we‟ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit.But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.Whether it‟s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic events in your life, these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time.Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it‟s lying in wait just around the corner.To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self delusion.But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and left them lying in the dust.Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God.Abraham Lincoln overcame all difficulties during the Civil War to become our arguable greatest president ever.Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.Franklin Roosevelt had polio.There are endless examples.These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.Passage 6 Is Television a Blessing or a Curse? It is universally accepted that television is playing an important part in people‟s lives.But, there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether television is a blessing or a curse.Television keeps one better informed about current affairs, allows one to follow the latest developments in politics and science, and offers a great variety of programs which are both instructive and stimulating.The most distant countries, the strangest customs and the most attractive scenes of nature are brought right into one‟s room or household.However, some people insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing.They argue that it has brought about many serious problems.The major one is its effects on young people.Children are now so used to getting their information and entertainment from television that their literacy as well as physical ability has been greatly weakened.Even worse than that, vulgar commercials and indecent programs may cultivate their bad tastes, distort their view-points towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted.To sum up, television has both advantages and disadvantages.What ever effects it has, one point is certain, television in itself is neither good nor bad.It is the use to which it is put that determines its value to society.Passage 7 Few US Workers Who Could Telecommute Do So One-quarter of the U.S.work force could be doing their jobs from home if all those able to telecommute chose to do so, and all those people working from home could translate into annual gasoline savings of $3.9 billion, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey.However, many still select to work at the office.The study found that 2 percent of U.S.workers telecommute full-time and another 9 percent do so part-time.But another 14 percent of workers have the option of telecommuting, or have jobs conductive to the practice but choose not to.“The numbers suggest that many people would rather work at the office even if their job allowed telecommuting,” said Professor P.K.Kannan, of the Robert H.Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.“That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow that everybody had the option of telecommuting and you would save a lot of gas, that‟s not going to happen.An hypothesis could be that people still need the „face time‟ with their bosses.Another thing is people miss the social interaction, just being at home.” And with a median one-way commute of 10 miles and a median one-way commute time of 20 minutes, the daily trip for many workers is not that bad, he added.Of those who can already telecommute, most do so only one, two or three days per week, the study found.Passage 8 The Wholeness of Life There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words you have gotten right, you are disqualified if you make one mistake.Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That, I believe, is what God asks of us — not “Be perfect”, but “Be whole”.If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoice in another‟s happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.Passage 9 Workplace Friendships A study into workplace relationships has found having a close friend at work can be a major distraction.Respondents cited excessive chatting, having too much fun and an inability to separate work from play as contributing to a lack of focus.“When faced with a work-related problem many people will prioritize their friendship over their responsibilities to their organization, which businesses may find concerning,” said psychologist and Auckland University of Technology lecturer, Dr.Rachel Morrison.“Workplace friendships are like a double-edged sword.The benefits of a friendly workplace can be really positive, but organizations should be aware of the potential difficulties and how to manage friendships at work.”

According to the study, many people were concerned about going “softer” with their friends and being expected to treat them with special privileges.“People naturally want to make their friends feel special, but this conflicts with organizational practices or norms that are set up around fairness and equality.Difficulty in managing these expectations can create tension in the relationship.”

Respondents also experienced a great deal of anxiety about speaking to close friends about substandard work.A basic rule of friendship is being non-judgmental and accepting your friends weaknesses, but giving critical performance feedback conflicts with this.“We also found issues related to confidentiality practices, which could mean friends have to refrain from sharing information.This can be really challenging for close friendships that have norms of openness and disclosure,” Dr.Morrison said.Dr.Morrison said organizations should try to provide friendly environments and encourage workplace friendships, but have policies in place to manage potential difficulties.Passage 10 Love Your Life However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it or call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.Love your life, poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.The setting sun is reflected from the window of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man‟s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.The town‟s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgivings.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.Turn to the old, turn to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Passage 11 Man Is Here for the Sake of Other Men Strange is our situation here upon earth.Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, and yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men — above all for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.To ponder interminably over the reason for one‟s own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly.And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment.The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me;a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Passage 12 The Ways to Duck out of Work Want to watch the World Cup in peace without the boss over your shoulder? Simple, con him.A British Internet site offered fans an ingenious range of ways to duck out of work so they can watch games in comfort.The timings of the games, in the early morning or at midday, have posed a dilemma to millions of soccer-mad Britons used to watching games in the evenings or at weekends and desperate to follow England and Ireland‟s World Cup progress live.The British government has already urged employers to bow to the inevitable and take a flexible attitude to working hours or set up TV screens.“The last thing we want is the entire workforce taking an announced sickie on the day of a big match,” Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said.But British sports company Umbro was urging fans to take the matter into their own hands.Its Web site was offering a convincing-looking false sick note signed by a fictitious doctor, F.Albright, to be printed off and taken to work in advance.Alternatively, its “Top Ten Bunk Off Ideas” included such improbable excuses as: “I will be late for work today because I have to pick my uncle up from the train station.He has two bags but only one arm.” For another game, a fan might claim: “My dog ate my car keys.We‟re going to hitchhike to the vet.”

Passage 13(91)The First Calendar Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times.They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates.What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word.Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have.They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action.But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began about 35,000 B.C.and ended about 10,000 B.C.By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon.It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar.It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.Passage 14 How to Ask for a Raise One of the most intimidating things to do in the business world is to ask for a raise at your current job.Sometimes, the boss just does not pay you enough money.So what do you do about it? There is a way to request a raise, but you had better be careful when doing that.The best way to make more money within a company is to be in the direct flow of the cash.Companies will want to keep you around if you have some leverage.Being a direct cause of their profits is a great way to gain some leverage.One mistake that people always seem to make is that they are never sure exactly how much money to ask for.If you are going to ask for a raise, then you should have some figure in mind of how much more you want.If you are successful in meeting with your boss and making your case, then it will look awful if you sit there with a blank stare as he asks you how much you want.Consider a realistic percentage, but be willing to negotiate in discuss.Do some research and figure out exactly how much folks make in your profession that have had similar experience and success.Do not ask for a raise based solely upon your personal needs.Instead, concentrate solely on your achievements, merits, and worth concerning the company.By doing this, you will create a professional environment in which you will establish some leverage.Passage 15 Police and Communities Few institutions are more important to an urban community than its police, yet there are few subjects historians know so little about.Most of the early academic interests developed among political scientists and sociologists, who usually examined their own contemporary problems with only a nod toward the past.Even the public seemed concerned only during crime waves, periods of blatant corruption, or after a particularly grisly episode.Party regulars and reformers generally viewed the institution from a political perspective;newspapers and magazines — the nineteenth century‟s media — emphasized the vivid and spectacular.Yet urban society has always vested a wide, indeed awesome, responsibility in its police.Not only were they to maintain order, prevent crime, and protect life and property, but historically they were also to fight fires, suppress vice, assist in health services, supervise elections, direct traffic, inspect buildings, and locate truants and runaways.In addition, it was assumed that the police were the special guardians of the citizens‟liberties and the community‟s tranquility.Of course, the performance never matched expectations.The record contains some success, but mostly failure;some effective leadership, but largely official incompetence and betrayal.The notion of a professional police force in America is a creation of the twentieth century;not until our own time have cities begun to take the steps necessary to produce modern departments.Passage 16 New York May Never Win Its War on Rats Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants — humans.The video broadcast on television a week ago showed rats running wild at a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant just one day after the outlet had passed a city Health Department inspection.It took a bite out of the share price of parent company Yum Brands Inc.and forced a city Health Department shake-up that removed the inspector who conducted the review from duty and led to 13 more restaurant closures on Thursday.The owner of the KFC/Taco Bell franchise, ADF Companies, has closed 10 of its restaurants until they pass inspections, and the city closed three other restaurants because of unsanitary conditions or mice, the Health Department said.Yum Brands on Friday hired an urban pest control expert to review standards at its New York City restaurants.The Health Department warned that greater threats to public health include restaurant employees who fail to wash their hands or food stored at improper temperatures.One epidemiologist agreed.Still, the incident reinforces New York‟s reputation of having a more severe rat problem than other big cities.New York‟s crowded quarters force restaurants to store trash indoors until it can be collected, providing rats with an indoor food source.In addition, New York‟s real estate boom means construction is pervasive, scattering rats to a wider geographic area.Passage 17 Beauty Industry With a bit of “physical preparation” — artificial breast implants, a nose job and a little trimming of fat from the hips — you too can aspire to be Miss World.So says Venezuela‟s latest candidate for the world beauty contest.Andreina Prieto admitted that were it not for the help of cosmetic surgery, she probably would not have made the line-up.The raven-haired 19-year-old was chosen from among 40 other contestants to represent the South American country at the Miss World competition in South Africa.Prieto, wearing a blue bikini, told reporters that prior to entering the competition, she had three separate operations: one to improve the shape of her nose, a liposuction to remove fat from her hips and breast implants.“If it wasn‟t for that, I probably wouldn‟t be here,” she said.She displayed a brilliant smile, but did not say if that too was the result of surgery.Oil-rich Venezuela takes the beauty industry very seriously and has gained a reputation as a “factory” of international beauty contest winners.Venezuelan women have won five Miss World titles and four Miss Universe crowns.A private company, the Miss Venezuela Organization, specializes in preparing candidates for the Miss World and Miss Universe contests, and spends around $72,000 on each contender, in clothes, diets and, of course, cosmetic surgery.Passage 18 Population Growth The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant.According to paleoecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes.The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B.C., followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using.But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth.Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if , technology begins to yield fewer innovations.Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end.Either way — contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth — population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.Passage 19 Food and Health The food we eat seems to have a profound impact on our health.Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon.Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer.Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.The additives which we eat are not all so direct.Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows.Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons.The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market.Although the Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.Passage 20 UK Urged to Update Copyright Laws The UK is currently using copyright laws that are more than 300 years old.Ministers in the United Kingdom are being urged to modify copyright laws to allow users to be able to legally rip CDs and DVDs for personal use.The Institute for Public Policy Research(IPPR)wants users to have a “private right to copy” digital content.The IPPR acknowledged that the music and film industries are justified in battling illegal file sharing.But the IPPR argues that making copies for personal use does not have significant impact on copyright holders.Millions of Britons are violating current copyright laws by ripping CDs onto their MP3 players and /or PCs.Currently, Britons are violating an outdated 300-year-old law when copying CDs and DVDs.The British Phonographic Institute has already stated that it will not pursue its rights to bring private copying cases against users if the copying truly is for private purposes only.An independent research study reports that around 59 percent of Britons believe copying CDs and DVDs to other devices is legal.The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee inquiry admits that he and his children are in violation of the law.“My own view is that the current laws are unsatisfactory as it is difficult to say to consumers that this bit of the law matters and this bit doesn‟t matter,” Conservative MP John Whittingdale said.Passage 21 A Growing Number of American Men Get Alimony Across the country, a growing number of divorced men are getting alimony from their former wives.While far more women receive alimony than men, divorce lawyers estimate that 5% to 10% of their male clients now get such payments, up from only 3% five years ago.Men seeking financial support from the rich and famous ex-wives have made headlines in recent years.But the ranks of ex-husbands getting alimony from their former spouses now are as likely to include the guy around the corner who gets a monthly check from an ex-wife whose bank account is fatter than his.“Women are getting better, higher-paying jobs at the same time that men‟s wages are decreasing,” says Kathryn Rettig, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, explaining why the number of men receiving alimony is increasing.She adds，“If women want equality under the law, they have to take the responsibility for supporting dependent spouses.”

Like women, men are being awarded alimony for a few years as compensation for putting their wives through college or graduate school or for following transferred spouses around the country.And, like women, men are persuading judges to award them alimony indefinitely if they are sick or disabled or have stayed home to raise children.In out-of-court settlements, high-income women are even agreeing to pay alimony to their ex-husbands instead of giving them some property because alimony is tax-deductible.Passage 22(92)Rainbow I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky.It is so beautiful!There is a fairy tale saying whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold.Of course, it is not true.Neither could you find the pot of the gold, nor could you ever find the rainbow‟s end.No matter how far you run, it always seems at a great distance.A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower.It is not solid, for it is only the effect of light shining on raindrops.The light from the sun shines on the rain as it falls to the earth.The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colors which we see.It is called a rainbow because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow.That is also why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky.We see a rainbow only during showers or storms, only when there is still rain in the air and the sun still shines brightly through the clouds.Every rainbow has many colors which are arranged in the same order.The first or the top color is always red, next comes orange, then yellow and green, and last of all the blue and deep blue or violet.A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.Passage 23 Gratuitous Gratuities Everybody loathes it, but everybody does it.A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans hate the practice.It seems so arbitrary, after all.In America alone, tipping is now a $ 16 billion-a-year industry.Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service.Tips should not exist.So why do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.The better the service, the bigger the tip.Such explanations no doubt explain the purported origin of tipping.In the 16th century, boxes in English taverns carried the phrase “To Insure Promptitude”(later just “TIP”).But according to new research from Cornell University, tipping no longer serves any useful function.The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants.The correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.Customers who rated a meal as “excellent” still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price.Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics.In America, the custom has become institutionalized: it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service.In Europe, tipping is less common.In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all.How to account for these national differences? Look no further than psychology.According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper‟s co-author, countries in which people are more extrovert, sociable or neurotic tend to tip more.Tipping relieves anxiety about being served by strangers.Passage 24 Football Team‟s Only Game Was Drugs

They looked like a real football team — with snarling coach included.But the 10 men arrested at the weekend in Spain‟s southern province of Cadiz were not going to play a match, despite their yellow and blue kit.They were drug traffickers who used their footballs, knapsacks and club strips, emblazoned with the team name of a local town, Guillen Moreno CF, as a ruse to fool border police as they passed from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in North Africa, to Algeciras, on the southern Spanish mainland, a police spokesman in Cadiz said.The fake team would usually cross the Straits of Gibraltar into the province of Cadiz on Saturday afternoons with the hash tucked beneath their jerseys and stage a drama to enhance their credibility before border agents.The supposed manager, 49, would carry a roster in his hand and continuously bark at the young men “Everybody pay attention, everybody stay right here!” and “Come on, follow me!”.The players would cross back to Ceuta on Sundays after the fictional match and actual drug sales in Spain.Police do not know how long the fake season lasted before a tip spurred an investigation.The game ended when officers stopped their cars in Cadiz and found a total of 16kg of hash hidden beneath the men‟s strips in little pellets taped to their bodies.Passage 25(93)Sleep Sleep is a part of a person‟s daily activity cycle.There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles.If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows.When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, and your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular.Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes.This is called stage 1 sleep.For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep.The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be.Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all.Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm.This is stage 4 sleep.You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly.The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves.Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids.This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep.It is during REM sleep period that your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow and regular once more, and you will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep — only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.Passage 26 Face and Fortune Recently, at the instigation of my publisher, I had some photographs taken.I do not enjoy the process of being photographed.However, after I compared the new photograph with one taken twenty-five years ago, my feminine vanity suffered.My first instinct was to have the prints “touched up”.As I thoughtfully considered the photographs, I knew that a still more important principle was involved.A quarter century of living should put a great deal into a woman‟s face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.In that length of time she has become intimately acquainted with pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, life and death.She has struggled and survived, failed and succeeded.She has lost and regained faith.And, as a result, she would be wiser, gentler, more patient and more tolerant than she was when she was young.Her sense of humor should have mellowed, her outlook should have widened, and her sympathies should have deepened.And all this should show.If she tries to erase the imprint of age, she runs the risk of destroying, at the same time, the imprint of experience and character.I know I am more experienced than I was a quarter century ago and I hope I have more character.I released the pictures as they were.Passage 27(94)Readers Reveal Stuff of Dreams Psychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams.A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades.People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense.The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares.But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat.According to Mark Blagrove of the University of Wales, the study is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams.Dr.Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies.They found that 58% of all adults had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming — and that women could recall more dreams than men.Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares.About 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading.Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don‟t.Passage 28 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known, as the king of steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America.His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves.“He who dies rich, dies disgraced, ” he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history.He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie‟s generosity.His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.Passage 29 Princess Diana What was it about Diana, Princess of Wales that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess.To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction.Diana was beautiful, in a fresh-faced, English, outdoors-girl kind of way.She used her big blue eyes to their fullest advantage, melting the hearts of men and women through an expression of complete vulnerability.Diana‟s eyes, like those of Marilyn Monroe, contained an appeal directed not to any individual but to the world at large.Please don‟t hurt me, they seemed to say.She often looked as if she were on the verge of tears, in the manner of folk images of the Virgin Mary.Yet she was one of the richest, most glamorous and socially powerful women in the world.This combination of vulnerability and power was perhaps her greatest asset.Passage 30 A Greek to Remember Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who established the philosophy of cynicism.He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something.When questioned about his odd behavior, he would reply, “I am searching for an honest man.”

大学英语周记 篇2

现今的大学生普遍学习英语多年, 按理说应该基本能够运用英语来表达自己的思想, 但是能够真正做到的并不多, 非英语专业的大学生中能够准确运用英语来表达思想的更是寥寥无几。学生普遍认为运用英语进行口语表达比英语写作容易。比如笔者经常利用课前10分钟鼓励学生将他们近期的见闻和感想用英语表达出来。不少学生跃跃欲试, 他们或多或少都能够讲出点内容。但是有时候布置学生将某一话题写成一篇文章就引起一片哗然。为什么会出现这样的情况呢?因为多数学生运用语言的准确性不好, 提起笔来不是忘记单词的拼写就是无法有效地组织语言。很多平时听起来似乎很流利的英语一旦写成文字就错漏百出, 经常出现辞不达意的情况, 中文式英语更是常见。针对目前非英语专业学生普遍存在的难以用英语表达思想的现状, 笔者提出尝试利用写作英语周记的方法来激发学生的英语学习兴趣, 提高他们运用英语表达思想的能力。

二、写作对英语学习的作用

写作对提高英语的综合运用能力有帮助, 这是很多人都认同的观点。如果一个人有足够的时间来进行英语写作都有困难, 经常出现用词不当, 语法不规范, 行文不通顺的情况, 那么很难想象他能够在口头交流的时候表达出准确的英语来。因此写作对英语的学习具有不容忽视的促进作用。

参考王初明教授的观点, 笔者认为以写作的方法来促进英语学习具有以下好处:

1.写作可以提高学生学习英语单词的效率。王初明教授 (2005) 在一项写作与词汇记忆的实验中发现, 英语单词如果在写作中用过一次, 被记住的几率明显增加, 这说明写作能够提高学习者记忆英语单词的效率。

2.写作不易产生英语学习的心理障碍。同样是用来表达思想的英语, 写出来比说出来的心理压力要小得多。因为通过口语来表达有个发音的问题, 如果发音不标准, 往往会给说者带来一定的心理压力, 生怕会被别人笑话, 久而久之容易产生心理障碍, 使得英语表达能力得不到提高。但是写作就不同, 写作可以是个人行为, 写出来的东西可以不必与其他人交流, 所以由写作而产生的成就感和自信心会不断增强, 使得英语运用能力得到提高。

3.写作能够使语言使用更加准确、规范。我们知道口头交流与语境有直接的关系, 有了真实的语境, 交流就变得容易, 即使是说“洋泾滨”英语也可以让人听懂。但是如果只能用“洋泾滨”英语来对一个事件作评论就会使表达凌乱不堪, 容易使听者迷惑不解。我们学习英语的最终目的是要能够准确、恰当的运用它。相对于听、说、读而言, 写要求学习者更加关注语言的准确输入。因此, 英语写作锻炼可以规范语言表达, 使我们对英语的运用更加规范。

学习英语的最终目的无非是要能够运用英语来进行准确、有效的听、说、读、写。尽管英语写作已经不是我们现在英语教学的重心, 但是在我国能够让所有的学生都有机会直接用英语来交流的条件还不成熟, 如何使语言表达更加的准确、规范是摆在我国每个语言学习者与每个语言教师面前的一个难题。所以笔者认为仍然有必要利用英文写作来巩固和促进英语学习, 提高英语学习者的综合运用语言的能力。

三、写作英语周记的意义

在写作英语周记的过程中, 学生既能巩固所学的知识, 如单词、语法的运用, 又能增加吸收新知识的机会。通过周记学生把自己的点滴记录下来, 他们可以看到自己的进步, 学习英语的兴趣也会得到提高。鉴于写作对英语学习的种种益处, 笔者提出让学生以写作英语周记的方法来练习英语写作, 养成笔头表达思想的习惯, 从而全面提高他们综合运用英语的能力。为什么选择写作周记来进行英语写作练习呢?众所周知学好英语需要一个漫长的过程, 需要日积月累。写作周记正是一个点滴积累知识的长期有效的方法。

1.英语周记的内容和目的

英语周记就是用英语写的关于前面一周发生的情况记录。周记的内容可以非常广泛, 可以写关于学生自己的生活、见闻和对新近发生的事件进行描述或表达自己对事件的看法, 也可以写关于自己学习英语的情况, 如对前面一周学习的总结, 一篇英文读物的读后感或英文电影的观后感, 也可以对前面一周老师的教学作一次个人的评价, 并提出建议或意见等。所以周记的内容可以根据学生自己的兴趣由学生自己决定。这样一来就避免了由老师确定题目, 使学生过于依赖老师, 失去学习语言的自主能力。

让学生自主写作周记的目的有三:一是帮助学生了解自己的英语水平, 因为通过周记写作, 学生可以发现自己在英语学习上所存在的问题, 以便他们利用周记的写作温故知新。二是鼓励学生在写作过程中不断增加语言知识的积累, 进而提高自身听、说、读、写等综合运用语言的能力。三是利用周记的写作为老师和学生搭建一个相互沟通的平台。

2.让学生写英语周记的作用

英语周记的写作除了与普通写作一样能够提高学习者综合运用英语的能力, 它还具有其独特的好处。

首先, 周记的写作可以不设框框, 让学生有自由写作的空间。学生想写什么, 何时开始, 何时结束都可以自己控制, 不受其他的干预和限制。与传统的写作教学相比, 写作周记属于以学生为主体的自主学习, 能够引发学生表达思想的欲望和冲动。写作周记使学生可以不受约束地用英语来表达自己的真实感受和生活体验, 使得作文有话可写, 有感而发, 自然而然学习的心理压力就大大降低, 因此让学生写作周记能够有效地调动和激发学生的情感要素, 使他们对英语的学习更加积极主动。

其次, 因为英语学习是一个漫长的过程, 很难立即见效。很多学生对此认识不足, 急于求成, 往往容易产生急躁情绪。有的学生对英语学习感到无可奈何, 甚至悲观失望。面对这样的情况, 老师可以鼓励学生通过写作周记来提高学习英语的兴趣。

再者, 周记给师生提供了一个相互交流的平台。通过写作周记学生找到了一个向老师吐露心声的有效途径。他们可以将一些内心的情感用英语表达出来, 这样一来英语运用能力得到提高, 学生的情绪也得到倾诉, 所以写作周记有利于学生的身心健康。学生的周记对于老师来说也很重要。通过学生的周记老师可以及时了解学生的学习和生活情况, 对于有困难的学生可以适时给予帮助。

四、结语

虽然有很多方法可以促进学生的英语学习, 但是根据我们国家仍然缺乏学习英语的语言环境的现实, 写作对英语学习的促进作用不容忽视。利用写作英语周记让学生练习英语写作, 养成笔头表达思想的习惯, 从而全面提高他们综合运用英语的能力。这种写作教学方法能够适应我国的国情也适用于不同的学习阶段和不同英语水平的学生, 具有现实的可操作性。

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大学英语周记200字 篇3

第一个礼拜的实习，我可以简单的总结为几个字，那就是：多看，多问，多观察，多思考！赵经理主要让我了解一些我们公司的背景、产品、发展方向等。另外，尝试了跟同事多沟通，因从交谈中也能够学到不少东西。同事们都很热心，很照顾我，经常在我碰到困难的时候便主动伸出援助之手，他们耐心地教我如何使用打印机、传真机、复印机等一些常用的办公用品，如何接打电话。还从我是大学刚毕业的学生的角度来替我考虑，鼓励我做事要放手去做，不懂就问，没关系的，令我非常感动和欣慰。为了能够真正的学到知识，我很严格的要求自己去做好每一件事情，即使再简单的事情（整理文件资料）我都会认真考虑几遍，因此，虽然做得不算快，但能够保证让人满意。篇三：三年级周记200字

三年级周记200字 今天，我和外婆去菜市场买菜，菜市场很杂闹，路坑坑洼洼人很多。我和外婆拥过来，挤过去，路上有很多菜叶。残渣。我和外婆东看看，西瞧瞧，菜市场里的菜很多很多，让我眼花缭乱。

看。那一棵棵小白菜齐齐楚楚站在那里，像一个个水水灵灵的小姑娘，抖着翠绿的裙子，骄傲地昂着头。

瞧。那一行行的黄瓜早已上架，绿叶黄花，真是好看。

最后，我和外婆，买了一大袋的菜，绿得滴翠，紫得闪光，红得流油，实在可爱。这一周，最让我记忆犹新的就是探寻蚂蚁的奥秘。

周三下午放学回家，我在院子里发现了一个蚂蚁洞，好奇心驱使着我，我拿了一些很小的面包渣，放在蚂蚁洞的周围。过了一阵子，我见几只蚂蚁出洞了，像是闻到了空气中的面包味。有一只蚂蚁回洞了，应该是去请帮手的吧!剩下的几只蚂蚁沿着气味，找到了面包渣。这几只蚂蚁试图将它搬起，它们失败了。帮手找来了，他们一起将面包渣搬起，准备回洞了，在上坡的时候，一只蚂蚁不幸跌了下去，我以为它死了。可它并没有死，又朝墙上爬去，我感到疑惑不解，它明明跌了下去，为什么又死而复生了呢？

为了 找到这个答案，我翻阅了许多书，终于在《十万个为什么 》 中找到了答案。原来蚂蚁在下落时，六条足在剧烈划动，使身子保持平衡，这样一来，蚂蚁就摔不死了。

一只小小的蚂蚁点燃了我一颗探索动物界奥秘的心。逛街

大学机电实习周记 篇4

（1）工作前按规定润滑机床，检查各手柄是否到位，并开慢车试运转五分钟，确认一切正常方能操作。

（2）卡盘夹头要上牢，开机时扳手不能留在卡盘或夹头上。

（3）工件和刀具装夹要牢固，刀杆不应伸出过长（镗孔除外）；转动小刀架要停车，防止刀具碰撞卡盘、工件或划破手。

（4）工件运转时，操作者不能正对工件站立，身不靠车床，脚不踏油盘。

（5高速切削时，应使用断屑器和挡护屏。

（6）禁止高速反刹车，退车和停车要平稳。

（7）清除铁屑，应用刷子或专用钩。

（8）用锉刀打光工件，必须右手在前，左手在后；用砂布打光工件，要用“手夹”等工具，以防绞伤。

（9）一切在用工、量、刃具应放于附近的安全位置，做到整齐有序。

（10）车床未停稳，禁止在车头上取工件或测量工件。

大学机电实习周记2

上周我们进行了钳工实训课，总的来说受益匪浅。

刚开始我的心情是充满了疑问，不解的是，我们学计算机的，怎么会干钳工这样的活呢！但现在想一想，学了不少的课外知识，有些东西能让我终身受益。这是多么可贵的呀！

从安全教育，动作要领和工具的使用到拿起锉刀的实际操作，这无疑是一个理论与实际的过渡。有些东西是要自己去摸索的，有些东西是要从理论中去发现用于实际。从开始的打磨平面，就让我学到了要想做好一件事并不是那么的简单，要用实际去证实它。眼见的不一定真实（平面看上去很平，但经过测光就能发现它的不足）；这让我想到了学校为什么要我们来这里实习，是要我们懂得学习的可贵，学习和打磨平面一样要有一丝不苟的精神才能做到最好，同时还要让我们认识到动手的重要性。只是一味的学习理论，那也是远远不够的，没有实际的体验，发现不了自己的动手能力，这都需要理论与实际相结合。更需要头脑和双手的配合。

从平面打磨到划线、打点；从修整形状到钻孔；从铰孔到攻螺纹，每一步让我学到的东西是别人拿不走的。

从这里我知道了，什么是钳工，知道了钳工的方要内容是为划线、錾削、锉削、研磨、钻孔、扩孔、铰孔、攻螺纹等等。了解了锉刀的构造；分类、选用、锉削姿势、锉削方法和质量的检测。

钳工实习锻炼了我们，提高了我们的整体综合素质，使我们不但对钳工实习的重要意义有了深刻的认识，而且提高了我们的实践动手能力，使我们更好的将理论与实际相结合。巩固了我们所学的知识，同时让我们学到了老师的敬业精神。老师不厌其烦的给我们查找操作中的错误。我们还发扬了团结互助的精神，促进了同学们之间的友谊。

在实习过程中我们取得了劳力成果————————精美的螺母。看着这精美的工件竟然是我亲手磨制而成的，这种自豪感、成就感是难以用语言表达的。没有想到当初那么大的东西现在变成了一个精美的工件是一下一下磨出来的，这也是就人们说的“只要功夫深，铁杵也能磨成针”吧！

这一周的实习是短暂和辛苦的，但是我学到的东西是保贵的，让我体会到了做一个工人的辛苦与快乐，同时也巩固了自己的知识，这一切都给我留下了美好的回忆。

大学机电实习周记3

这一周的工作还是省模，不过心态好像好多了。因为在这里的基本工作都做了一些了解。省模主要是先用油石打磨去刀纹，油石使用时要配合研磨液。刚开始时还闹了一个笑话，我误认为是水了。当时真不好意思啊，这就是典型的学不专，记不全。接着是二百四号的`砂纸，四百号的砂纸，八百号的砂纸，一般到八百好就已经达到要求了，有些要求更高的用到了一千二百号的砂纸，磨出来的零件都可以照出自己的影子了。这就是所谓的镜面啦。厂里的食堂伙食还不错，至少我认为和学校里的不会差到那里去，有时候觉得更好一些。宿舍是四到五个人住，条件有些简陋，不能使用大功率的电器，甚至要在宿舍里使用电视机都得提出申请，够寒酸的。晚上还会有老鼠来光顾没有藏好的食物，太可怕了。

大学机电实习周记4

我被介绍并认识了该企业的核心制造环节机加工车间主任——张师傅，也是我在这个企业期内的技术指导老师（师傅）。我和她初次交谈时，就发现这个人在机械理论和实践经验上很娴熟，技术也应当精湛。张师傅对我说，即使你很清楚这些千斤顶生产过程，也会在实际中遇到复杂的问题。任何员工要能自己解决所面临的困难，从实际中的基础做起是关键，逐渐积累和丰富自己的工作经验。我也深知这一点，所以在以后安排工作上，我不能有任何挑剔。我可能被张师傅会安排在环境较差的一线去工作，这个我也会欣然接受，不管做什么事情都要一步一步、踏踏实实的干，从点滴出发，这也对我以后人生道路有很大的磨砺，我很高兴，这也能使我能熟练和掌握最基本的操作技能，加强锻炼自己的实践能力。我看到很多生产车间日夜兼程地无休止的工作，其中的艰辛疲惫只有他们能感受到，我也做好了充分的心理准备，以饱满的精神状态迎战这次难得的实习机会。

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高二英语周记汇总 篇5

篇一：高二英语周记

It was the first day of our holiday.All of us were very happy.Why? Because we have one months to do things we love to do.We are free.Although we have some homework.But we can finish them in several days.And the rest time we can make good use of.My god!We have been very tired after hard studying.In winter holidays, I want to have full sleep and eat good food in order to replenish myself.Last but not the least, I will have a good rest.篇二 ：高二英语周记

It was the second day of our holiday.I felt good.I felt I’m free.I had a lot of time to do things I like.My parents are in Beijing.So I live alone but I don’t feel lonely.But I didn’t do something special.I stayed at home and watched TV.Oh!I wrote an English daily composition.It was my homework.Today, I have slept for 14 hours.I thought I was very tired.It was time for dinner.I must go!I am very hungry.篇三：高二英语周记

It was the third day of our holiday.Today, there are many business in my mother’s company.So my mother told me to help my uncle who is the manager of my mother’s company.I sat in my mother’s office and help her answer the telephone.While I was free, I was writing my homework.Although I also have a lot of time to do my homework, I still do it.Because in my mother’s office, I had nothing to do.If I did nothing, I was wasting my time and my life.I can’t do the foolish thing.We should take good use of our time.篇四：高二英语周记

It is a special day today.My mother sent one hundred basket of red bayberries.I like to eat red bayberries.It tastes nice.When they arrived in Shanghai, they were still fresh.But most of them would be sent to my mother’s business friends.I chose the best basket of red bayberries to eat.I put the rest in my refrigerator.Red bayberry is my hometown’s special product.It is well-known in china.Many people like to eat it.篇五：高二英语周记

Today, I still went to my mother’s office.My mother was very busy, so was my father.They always live in Beijing.They must get up early.Because they will manage the factory.So I know they are very laborious.So I should save my money.Also I should help them.Although I can’t do something useful, but I think I should share the work with them.I am one of my family member.In the future, I will take a job and work.It’ time for me to begin to learn how to work.篇六：高二英语周记

一个高一孩子的周记 篇6

语文是朕的皇后, 虽然朕几乎从来不翻她的牌子, 可她的地位依然是那么的稳固;英语是朕的华妃, 朕其实并不真正爱她, 只是因为外戚的缘故总要给她家几分面子;数学是朕的嬛嬛, 那年杏花微雨, 也许一开始就是错的;体育是朕的纯元皇后, 那才是心中的挚爱;至于政治、历史、地理、生物这些卑微的官女子, 朕理都懒得理她们, 到底是谁让她们入宫的!

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