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1、Unit 1Whatever else people do when they come together whether they play, fight, or make automobiles they talk. We lie in a world of . We talk to our
2、0;friends, our , our wives and husbands, our bosses, our teachers, our parents and . We talk to bus drivers and strangers. We talk face to face and over
3、;the telephone, and everyone with more talk. Television and radio further this torrent of words. a moment of our waking is free from words, and even in
4、60;our we talk and are talked to. We also talk when there is no one to answer. Some of us talk in our sleep. We talk to our pets and sometimes
5、 to . We are the only animals that do . The possession of language, more than any other attribute, humans from other animals. To understand our we mus
6、t understand the language that us human. According to the philosophy in the myths and religions of many peoples, it is language that is the of human
7、0;life and power. To some people of Africa, a child is a kuntu, a thing, not yet a muntu, a person. Only by the of learning does the child become a
8、0;human being. According to this , we all become human because we all come to know at least one language. Unit 2During the past ten years a great deal of atten
9、tion has been given to telling it like it is. My impression is that this devotion speaking ones mind has more often led to hurt feelings and ruined relationsh
10、ips to great joy. I think we generally agree that never real feelings and withholding all less-than-lovely thoughts about each other leads to constructive communicat
11、ion. Its a great to allow ourselves to admit our human weakness and pursue more honest relationships with others. we need a balance between telling it all and
12、0;telling nothing. Recently I received a letter from a mother who had been by her son to attend a weekend meeting with him. Under pressure from the group,
13、0;her defenses and she heard herself telling her son for the first time that he had been an that she hadnt been planning to have a child. He
14、; told her that he couldnt a single day in his childhood that hed been happy. At that time, this woman wrote, it seemed helpful. We cried and we made
15、0;up; I thought telling truth had been good for us. But the trouble is, it wasnt the whole truth. By the time Tommy was born I did want him, and at &
16、#160;he was happy. Ever since that day, weve both been troubled by some terrible feelings we . I must admit Ive come to the conclusion that some things are
17、60;better left . Honesty is a fine policy, but we need a new sense of balance. Disclosing is not a to every problem even an end in itself. Its us
18、eful under some circumstances and terribly hurtful under . Its a good idea, I think, to bite your tongue for ten or fifteen minutes before saying whats on your
19、 . Try to decide whether its going to open up new and better ways of communication or wounds that may never heal.Unit 3Generation X activists, Rob Nelson and
20、Jon Cowan, say their generation has every right to worry about its future. To help the Xers, Nelson and Cowan have written Revolution X: A Survival Guide for Ou
21、r Generation. We up as America, in many ways, fell down, they write. While older generations watched Neil Armstrong an American flag on the moon, we tuned to
22、 Christa McAuliffe killed in the Challenger explosion. We are the first to a lower standard living than our parents and a that may soon eclipse the size
23、0;of our economy. the harsh realities that Generation Xers face are: A U.S. teenager in 1990 was less to die of an accident, a cardiovascular disease, or pne
24、umonia than someone born in 1960, but more than twice as likely to by suicide or homicide. During the last 30 years, the number of children living in poverty
25、160;has by nearly 30%. Half of the uninsured population in the United States is under age 25. Since the mid-1970s, poverty among young adults has up by 50%;
26、the median income of under-30 parents fell by one-third. In 1993, AIDS was the killer of young adults in 64 cities. The number of people with AIDS worldwide is
27、 to rise from 14 million to 30 million by 2000. Only when millions more of us get the face of the system read up and understand the crises we
28、 , talk about them to friends and family, volunteer, vote, and speak our minds then will we see an end to the reckless policies that have mortgaged our future,
29、 the authors conclude.Unit 4Too often young people become employed quite by accident, not knowing what lies ahead in the way of opportunity for promotion, happiness and s
30、ecurity. As a result, they are employed jobs that afford them little or satisfaction. Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what
31、;they do as long as they can earn a living. Some stay at a job and learn to like it, quit the jobs to look for something that suits them better.
32、0;The young graduates who leave the university look for jobs that offer a salary to their expectation. Very few go out the world knowing exactly what they want
33、0;and without their own abilities. The reason all this ignorance is that there never has been proper vocational guidance in our educational institutions. Nearly grop
34、e in the dark when looking for a job and their concern when they look for a job is to ask the salary is like. They bother to question whethe
35、r they are suited for the job or, even more important, whether the job suits them. Having a job is more than providing yourself and your dependents with
36、daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment. It a pattern of life and, in many ways, determines social status in life, selection of friends, leisure an
37、d interests. In choosing a career you should first consider the type of work which will suit your interest. is more pathetic than taking on a job in which
38、;you have no interest, for it will not only your desire to succeed in life but also your chance to develop your talents and ultimately make you an
39、; wreck and a bitter person.Unit 5Is happiness proportional to income to the money a person has? Is a man two rooms and two loaves of bread than
40、;a man with only one of each? Clearly and destitution do produce unhappiness. Obviously, man needs money to the necessities of life. But this another question. How
41、0;many rooms and how man of bread (and thus how much money) does a man need? Most people the Western world can a minimal requirement for the of
42、0;life, but they still desire to increase their to buy more and more material possessions and status , why? The answer may be that things are today, if
43、;a man is not rich, and respect are not given him by people. This veneration from other people may be a source of happiness than the possessi
44、ons themselves. The modern for wealth is not inherent in human nature, and with social values. If by law, we all had exactly the same income, we should
45、have to find some other way of superior to our peers, as most of our craving for material possessions would cease. Thus a increase of wealth gives no
46、160;competitive advantage to an individual and therefore brings him no competitive happiness. Unit 6You know that multilingual managers can communicate in various languages. Well, multi
47、cultural managers can in various cultures. But I find very few people can cultural barriers and become wholly by foreigners, which is how I define a
48、multicultural manager. It is someone who is deeply that all cultures are equally good enjoys learning the rich of foreign cultures and most likely has been to
49、60;more than one culture in childhood. You cannot motivate anyone, someone of another culture, until you have been accepted by that person. A multilingual salesperson c
50、an the advantages of a product in other language, but a multicultural salesperson can motivate foreigners to buy it. Thats a critical A buyer will not like&
51、#160;a foreigner who is about his own culture. He will find not to buy from such a monocultural salesperson. The is most people are arrogantly monocultura
52、l without being of it. Even those few who have become aware of it cannot it. Foreigners sense this at once and set up their own cultural barrier, effect
53、ively blocking any by the monocultural person to motivate them. Ironically, that multicultural requirement has been too often in hiring managers for international position
54、s. , it has mostly been neglected when sending fast-track managers on international , pointing to almost certain failure. And it is affecting every industry. Even if
55、60;you do not work for a company, you may be in touch with foreign customers, distributors, suppliers, licensers or licensees. Do you have the employee forging th
56、ese relations?Unit 7Have you gotten the impression recently that the computer industry youre so stupid that you need computers to stay well ? I have. Its bad enou
57、gh that I have to put up my editors constantly rewriting my golden words, my assertions, and generally acting as if Im some dork who just wandered in the
58、0;information highway. But heres the computer industry and many excited venture capitalists nattering on about how technology is going to make it possible for me
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