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  Unit Four

  Waiting in Line

  The British queue up and the Americans wait in line, except for New Yorkers, who wait on line. No one seems to know the reason for this local idiom. It is

  something to ponder while waiting in/on line.

  Another thing to ponder: It is estimated that Americans spednd up to five years of their lives in that tedious, weary but unavoidable process known as waiting. Studies show that otherwise rational people act irrationally when forced to stand in line or wait in crowds, even becoming violent.

  Queues are a grim reality of city life. While there seems to be no consensus onthe city's worst line, the ones mentioned most often in talks here and there were lunchtime lines at banks and post offices and, among younger people, movie lines and college-registration lines.

  "Bank lines," said Mark Sloane, an investor. "No matter what time of day you bank, the number of tellers is inadequate to the number of patrons. Even when the bank is open you see long lines infront of the money machines outside."

  "Supermarkets," said Ed Frantz, a graphic artist, who once abandoned a full shopping cart in the middle of a long checkout line. It was not a political act. "The line was filled with coupon clippers and check writers," he recalled. "And suddenly I had to walk away. Food no longer mattered."

  In any line the fundamental rule is first come, first served, or what dsocial scientists call "distributive justice." Exceptions may be made, say, in fancy restaurants where the headwaiters have their favorites, but, in general, the rule prevails.

  If misery loves company, so do sports fans. Dr. Leon Mann documented this several years ago when, as a Harvard professor, he studied the long overnight queues for tickets to ball games in his native Australia.

  "Outside the stadium something of a carnival atmosphere prevails," he wrote in The American Journal of Sociology. "The devotees sing, sip warm drinks, play cards and huddle together."

  Like the teams they had come to watch, the fans in line took timeouts. Some worked in shifts, with certain members leaving to take naps or eat meals, while others saved their places in line. Some staked claims in line with items of personal property such as sleeping bags and folding chairs. "During the early hours of waiting," Dr. Mann noted, "the queues often consisted of one part people to two parts inanimate objects."

  Nobody has ever seriously studied Helen Quinn's Saturday morning line for Metropolitan Opera tickets, but perhaps someone should --Miss Quinn is not an official at the Met.

  For 15 years standees at the opera have been doing  just that,  thanks to Miss Quin's ticketing system. She makes, dates and numbers her tickets-- one for each of the 175 standing room spots available-- and dispenses them to early birds. Assured of a place, ticket holders then leave and return shortly before 8 A.M. to line up for the real tickets.

  idiom n. 1.習(xí)語,成語 2.風(fēng)格,特色

  ponder v. 思索,考慮,沉思

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  contemplate vt. 1.盤算,計議 2.思量,周密考慮 3.注視,凝視

  weary a. 1.疲勞的,疲倦的 2.使疲勞的,令人厭倦的 vi.厭倦的,不耐煩

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  tiresome a.令人疲勞的,令人厭倦的

  grim a. 1.討厭的,糟糕的 2.嚴(yán)厲的 3.嚴(yán)酷的,無情的

  consensus n. [單](意見等)一致,一致同意

  patron n. 1.資助人,贊助人 2.老主顧,顧客

  resent vt. 對...表示忿恨,怨恨

  graphic a. 1.生動的,形象的 2.繪畫的,文字的,圖表的

  coupon n. 1.禮券,優(yōu)惠券 2.配券,票證

  clip n. 1.夾子,回形針,別針 2.彈夾,彈倉 3.剪,修剪 4.剪報,電影片斷

  vt.(clipped;clipping) 1.夾住,扣住 2.剪,修剪 3.削減,縮短

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  clamp n.夾頭,夾具,夾鉗 vt.(用夾具等)夾緊,固定

  prevail vi. 1.流行,盛行 2.獲勝,占優(yōu)勢 3.說明,勸說,誘使

  prevalent a.流稈的,普遍的

  misery n. 1.痛苦,苦惱,苦難 2.悲慘的境遇,貧苦

  carnival n. 1.表演會 2.慶祝,歡宴 3.狂歡節(jié)

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  feast n. 1.盛宴,筵席 2.節(jié)日

  sociology n. 社會學(xué)

  sip v.(sipped,sippig)小口地喝,抿,呷 n. 小口喝

  huddle vi. 1.聚集在一起 2.把身子蜷成一團 vt.使聚集在一起

  n.擠在一起的人,一堆雜亂的東西

  inanimate a. 1.無生命的,非動物的 2.無生氣的,單調(diào)的

  metropolitan a.大城市的,大都會的

  dispense vt. 1.分配,分發(fā) 2.配(藥),發(fā)(藥) 3.實施,執(zhí)行

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  disperse vi. 1.分散,散開 2.消散,消失 vt. 1.使分散,趕散 2.使消散,驅(qū)散

  Unit Five

  Aggressive Patriotism in Sports

  Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic games have done little to support the view that sports encourages international brotherhood. Not only, was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by minor national contests.

  One country received its second-place medals with visible indignation after the hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the users objecting to the final decisions. They were convinced that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents' victory was unfair. Their manager was in a rage when he said:"This wasn't hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished." The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension of the team for at least three years.

  The American basketball team announced that they would not yield first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their contest. The game had ended in disturbance. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play. A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player popped it into the basket. It was the first time the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. The American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.

  Incidents of this kind well continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game. In the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism.

  tragic a. 1.悲慘的,可悲的 2.悲劇(性)的

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  dreadful a. 1.糟透了的,極不合意的 2.極端的,極其大的 3.可怕的,令人畏懼的

  pathetic a. 1.差勁的,令人生厭的 2.可悲的,可憐的,引起憐憫的

  disastrous a. 1.災(zāi)難性的,造成災(zāi)害的 2.極壞的,很糟的

  catastrophe n. 大災(zāi)難,災(zāi)禍

  destructive a. 破壞(性)的,毀滅(性)的

  comic a. 喜劇的,滑稽的

  incident n. 1.發(fā)生的事 2.事件,事變

  incidence n.[單]發(fā)生率

  incidentally ad.順便說及,順便提一句

  indignation n. 憤怒,憤慨,義憤

  indignant a. 憤怒的,憤慨的,義憤的

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  fury n. 1.狂怒,暴怒 2.狂暴,猛烈

  furious a. 1.狂怒的,暴怒的 2.強烈的,激烈的

  dismay n. 1.失望,氣餒 2.驚恐,驚愕 vt. 1.使失望,使氣餒 2.使驚恐,使驚愕

  hockey n. 曲棍球

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  versus prep. 1.以...為對手,對 2.與...相對,與...相比之下

  federation n. 1.聯(lián)合會 2.聯(lián)邦

  suspension n.1.暫停,中止 2.停止參加,暫時剝奪 3.懸架,懸置機構(gòu)4.懸浮液5.懸,掛,吊

  disturbance n. 1.擾亂,打擾 2.騷亂,混亂 3.心神不安,煩惱

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  harassment n. 1.侵?jǐn)_,騷擾 2.煩惱,困苦

  patriotism n. 愛國主義,愛國精神,愛國心patriot n. 愛國者,愛國主義者

  patriotic a. 愛國的,有愛國心的,顯示愛國精神的

  Unit Six

  Manners Are Practically Non-Existent

  Manners nowadyas in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought. In fact, it is saddening to note that if a man does offer his seat to an older woman, it is nearly always a Continental man or one from the older generation.

  This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves "First come, first served," while a greyhaired woman, a mother with a young child or a cripple stands? Yet this is all too often seen.

  Conditions in travel are really very hard on everyone, we know, but hardship is surely no excuse. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behaviour of these stuot young men in a packed refugee train or a train on its way to a prison-camp during the War. Would they have considered it only right and their proper due to keep the best places for themselves then?

  Older people, tired and irritable from a day's work, are not angels, either -- far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.

  If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems imperative, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite. Shop assistants won't bother to assist, taxi-drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductor pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or offer the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration.

  名人名言

  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  ----Beverly Sills

  metropolitan a.大城市的,大都會的

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  municipal a. 市的,市政的

  courtesy n. 1.謙恭有禮 2.有禮貌的舉止(或言詞)

  cripple n. 跛子,傷殘人 vt. 1.使跛,使受傷致殘 2.嚴(yán)重削弱,使陷于癱瘓

  stout a. 1.發(fā)胖的,胖而大的 2.結(jié)實的,牢固的 3.勇敢的,大膽的,頑強的

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  sturdy a. 1.強壯的,結(jié)實的,堅固的 2.堅定的,堅強的

  hardy a. 1.強壯的,堅強的,能吃苦耐勞的 2.耐寒的

  robust a. 強壯的,健康的

  muscular a. 肌肉發(fā)達的,強壯的

  fragile a. 1.易碎的,脆的,易損壞的 2.虛弱的,脆弱的

  irritate vt. 1.使惱怒,使煩躁 2.使(身體某部分)不適,使疼痛

  irritable a. 1.易怒的,急躁的 2.(器官等)過敏的

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  aggravate vt. 1.加重,加劇,使惡化 2.激怒,使惱火

  angel n. 1.天使 2.可愛的人

  brisk a. 1.輕快的,生氣勃勃的 2.興隆的,繁忙活躍的 3.寒冷而清新的

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  energetic a. 精力充沛的,充滿活力的

  slack a. 1.不活躍的,蕭條的,清淡的 2.懈怠的,馬虎的 3.松(馳)的

  n. (繩索等)松弛部分 vi.懈怠,懶散

  weary a. 1.疲勞的,疲倦的 2.使人疲勞的,使人厭倦的 vi.(of)厭煩,不耐煩

  shove vt. 1.亂推,擠 2.亂塞,隨意做 vi. 用力推,擠 n.猛推

  commend vt. 1.表揚,稱贊 2.推薦

  imperative a. 1.必要的,緊急的,極重要的 2.命令的 n. 必要的事,必須完成的事

  growl vi. 1.(動物)發(fā)狺狺聲 2.低志咆哮著說話

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  howl vi.嚎叫,吼叫,(風(fēng))呼嘯 n.嚎叫,吼叫,(風(fēng))呼嘯

  yell vi. 號叫,叫喊 n.號叫,叫喊

  mutter v. n.輕聲低語,小聲抱怨

  mute a. 1.緘默的,無聲的 2.啞的,舉說話的 3.(字母)不發(fā)聲的 vt.消除(聲音),減輕聲音

  murmur v. n. 小聲說話,小聲抱怨,咕噥

  buzz n. 嗡嗡聲 vi.發(fā)出嗡嗡聲

  deteriorate vi. 變壞,惡化

  deterioration n. 變壞,惡化,墮落

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  crumble vt. 弄碎 vi. 崩潰,瓦解

  perfection n. 完美,完善

  [聯(lián)想詞]

  intact a. 完整無缺的,未經(jīng)觸動的,未受損傷的

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