新世纪第二册英语口语考试课文背诵

1、第一单元 A foreigners first impression of the US is likely to be that everyone is in a rushoften 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 daytim

2、e 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. You will

3、 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.外国人对美国的第一印象很可能是：每个人都匆匆忙忙常常处于压力之下。 城里人看上去总是在匆匆地赶往他们要去的地方，在商店里他们焦躁不安地指望店员能马上来为他们服务，或者为了赶快

4、买完东西，用肘来推搡他人。白天吃饭时人们也都匆匆忙忙，这部分地反映出这个国家的生活节奏。人们认为工作时间是宝贵的。在公共用餐场所，人们都等着别人尽快吃完，以便他们也能及时用餐， 你还会发现司机开车很鲁莽，人们推搡着在你身边过去。你会怀念微笑、简短的交谈以及与陌生人的随意闲聊。不要觉得这是针对你个人的，这是因为人们都非常珍惜时间，而且也不喜欢他人“浪费”时间到不恰当的地步。第二单元 Last summer, I returned to visit Nikolai.He made me tea. and did the dishes! We talked while sitting on his

5、couch. Missing the Olympic Team the previous year had made me pause and reflect on what I had gained not the least of which was a quiet, indissoluble bond with a short man in a tropical shirt.第三单元 We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding

6、 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 personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right.That point was emphasized by the fact tha

7、t 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 negative effect onour budding relationship.对于成为居住在美国、异族通婚的夫妻，我和盖尔对未来没有不切实际的幻想。 相互信任和尊重才是我们俩永不枯竭的力量源泉。许多夫妻因为错误的理由结了婚，结果在10年、20年或30年后才发觉他们原来是合不来的。他们在婚前几乎

8、没有花时间去互相了解，他们忽视了严重的性格差异，指望婚姻会自然而然地解决各种问题。我们希望避免重蹈覆辙。事实更说明了这一点：已经结婚35年的盖尔的父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变，这件事给盖尔带来了很大打击，并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系造成了负面影响。第五单元 My 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, after coughing

9、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 minutelong enough for me to photograph thembut the effort was obvious. Near the very end of

10、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.肺部的病痛把我父亲折磨得虚弱不堪，一个严冬，他死于被称为“穷人之友” 的疾病肺炎。他咳嗽了这么多年，我想他的肺部已没有什么完好的地方了。去世前几年，他的呼吸已经很虚弱了，他总得倚靠着某个东西。我记得有一次全家聚会，当时我女儿才两岁，他抱了她一会儿，好让我有时间给他俩拍张照片。但是很明显，他是费了好大劲儿的。生

11、命行将结束前，他才戒了烟，主要是因为他的肺功能已极度受损。 戒烟后他的体重增加了几磅，但当时他太瘦了，所以没人注意到这一点。 第六单元For her first twenty-four years, shed been known as Debbiea name that didnt suit her good looks and elegant manner. My name has always made me think I should be a cook, she complained. I just dont feel like a Debbie. One day, while f

12、illing 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 says now. As soon as I stopped calling myself Debbie, I felt more comfortable withmyself. and other people start

13、ed 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.在她人生最初的24年里，人们一直叫她戴比一个和她的漂亮容貌和优雅举止不相配的名字。“我的名字总是使我觉得自己应该是一个厨子，”她抱怨道，“我真的不想要戴比这个名字。”一天，在填写一份出版工作职位的申请表时，这位小姐一时冲动，用她的中名林恩替换了她的名字戴比。

14、“这是我一生中干得最漂亮的一件事，”现在她对人这样说，“一旦我不再称自己为戴比，我就感到好多了 而且其他人也开始更认真地对待我了。”顺利地通过那次工作面试两年后，这位昔日的女服务员现在成了一位成功的杂志编辑。朋友和同事们都叫她林恩。第七单元 For many people, 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

15、? Eliot asks. Thats very common in professional women. They feel they have to be all things to all people and do it all perfectly. They 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