新视野大学英语读写教程2课后背诵段落.ppt

1、Unit1 A foreigners first impression of the U.S. is likely to be that everyone is in a rush - often under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking attention in a store, or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping. Racing through

2、daytime meals is part of the pace of life in this country. Working time is considered precious. Others in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so they, too, can be served and get back to work within the time allowed. You also find drivers will be abrupt and people will push past you. Y

3、ou will miss smiles, brief conversations, and small exchanges with strangers. Dont take it personally. This is because people value time highly, and they resent someone else “wasting” it beyond a certain appropriate point.,Unit2 In most parts of the world, environmental awareness does not exist. The

4、 great majority of nations concern themselves with economic development, regardless of its effect on the global ecology. But in recent years, as environmental damage has increased, signs of change have sprung up in various pockets around the world. The following are a few examples of countries under

5、taking new environmental initiatives.,Unit3We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious perso

6、nality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right. That point was emphasized by the fact that Gails parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a nega

7、tive effect on our budding relationship.,Unit4 At first glance, this is just another routine flight to Los Angeles, California. Yet for 38 young passengers between fifteen and eighteen years of age, it is the start of a new experience: they will spend 10 months of their lives studying abroad, far fr

8、om their families. Every year the United States is host to an average of 78,000 foreign high school level students, of which 3,000 are Brazilian. All of them go for the same reasons - to become fluent in English, complete high school, and understand everything they can about the American way of life

9、. At the end of each semester, as long as the students pass final exams, American authorities grant a certificate, which is recognized in Brazil.,Unit5My father died from the poor mans friend, pneumonia, one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low. I doubt he had much lung left at all,

10、after coughing for so many years. He had so little breath that, during his last years, he was always leaning on something. I remembered once, at a family reunion, when my daughter was two, that my father picked her up for a minute - long enough for me to photograph them - but the effort was obvious.

11、 Near the very end of his life, and largely because he had no more lungs, he quit smoking. He gained a couple of pounds, but by then he was so slim that no one noticed.,Unit6 For her first twenty-four years, shed been known as Debbie a name that didnt suit her good looks and elegant manner. My name

12、has always made me think I should be a cook, she complained. I just dont feel like a Debbie. One day, while filling out an application form for a publishing job, the young woman impulsively substituted her middle name, Lynne, for her first name Debbie. That was the smartest thing I ever did, she say

13、s now. As soon as I stopped calling myself Debbie, I felt more comfortable with myself . and other people started to take me more seriously. Two years after her successful job interview, the former waitress is now a successful magazine editor. Friends and associates call her Lynne.,Unit7 For many pe

14、ople, the root of their stress is anger, and the trick is to find out where the anger is coming from. Does the anger come from a feeling that everything must be perfect? Eliot asks. Thats very common in professional women. They feel they have to be all things to all people and do it all perfectly. T

15、hey think, I should, I must, I have to. Good enough is never good enough. Perfectionists cannot delegate. They get angry that they have to carry it all, and they blow their tops. Then they feel guilty and they start the whole cycle over again.,Unit8 If we can not, then it is a conviction against our

16、 educational system kindergarten, elementary, secondary and higher. In a time of increasing specialization, a time when 90 percent of all the scientists who have ever lived are currently alive, more than ever, we need to know what is truly important in life. This is where age and maturity enter. Mos

17、t people, somewhere between the ages of 30 and 50, finally arrive at the inevitable conclusion that they were meant to do more than serve a corporation, a government agency, or whatever.,Unit9 But few foreign graduates came home to pay their pledge;, as Nehru had put it. Our leaders had failed to se

18、e that the emphasis on symbol manipulation at IIT left little room for social thought and much scope for the greedy outcomes of capital-driven business. Over the next two decades, IIT graduates educated at the expense of Indian taxpayers played a major role in founding Californias Silicon Valley. Th

19、e personal computer revolution and the invention of the Internet made the demand for skilled labor mushroom to such tremendous proportions that even if every American child were to study nothing but science from now on, we would be unable to keep pace with demand in the decades to come.,Unit10 Murrow knew that Britains fate depended upon the resolution of the people in the shops and streets, the men in the pubs, the housewives, those watching for fire on the roofs, the people who had