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TextA急于求成的社会QuickFixSociety詹妮特·曼德尔·戈德斯坦JanetMendellGoldstein我和老公在西弗吉尼亚州度了一周的假，刚回来。MyhusbandandIjustgotbackfromaweek'svacationinWestVirginia.不用说，我们迫不及待地想到那里，于是便走了宾夕法尼亚收费高速公路和几条州际公路。Ofcourse,wecouldn’twaittogetthere,sowetookthePennsylvaniaTurnpikeandacoupleofinterstates.“看哪，那些美丽的农场！”老公高声喊道，田园景色以每小时五十五英里的速度在我们身边滑过。&Lookatthosegorgeousfarms!&myhusbandexclaimedaspastoralsceneryslidbyusat55mph.“你看见那些奶牛了吗？”可是，每小时五十五英里的速度，很难看清任何东西。美丽的农场像移动的绿色棋盘，成群的奶牛在后视镜里缩成了几个小黑点。“Didyouseethosecows?”Butat55mph,it'sdithegorgeousfarmslooklikemovinggreencheckerboards,andtheherdofcowsisreducedtoafewdotsintherear-viewmirror.四个小时里，我们唯一真正的乐趣就是数出口的标志，还有就是想再次停车时会有什么样的感觉。Forfourhours,ouronlyrealamusementconsistedofcountingexitsignsandwonderingwhatitwouldfeelliketoholdstillagain.Icanfeelhowcoldthewateris.我能摸出来这水有多么凉。Thewaterfeelswarm.觉得出这水是温的.Thiswalletfeelstomelikeleather.我觉得这钱包像是皮的.Itfeelslikerain.感觉好像要下雨.Howdoesitfeeltobealoneallday?整日独自一人感觉如何?的确，去那里看上去没多少快乐，事实上根本就没一点儿快乐。Gettingtherecertainlydidn'infact,gettingtherewasn'tanyfunatall.所以，该回费城外的家的时候，我坚持要换条路走。So,whenitwastimetoreturntoourhomeoutsideofPhiladelphia,Iinsistedthatwetakeadifferentroute.我建议说：“咱们去考察一下农村吧。”结果，我们返程的两天里满是新鲜的经历。“Let'sexplorethatcountryside,”Isuggested.Thetwodaysittookustomakethereturntripwerefilledwithnewexperiences.我们游览了内战时的一个战场，站在了一座小山上。一百二十五年前，也是一个七月炎热的下午，一万五千名南部邦联的士兵曾努力想攻占它，不想他们当中有一半人在徒劳的尝试中身亡。WetouredaCivilWarbattlefieldandstoodonthelittlehillthatfifteenthousandConfederatesoldiershadtriedtotakeonanotherhotJulyafternoon,onehundredandtwenty-fiveyearsago,notknowingthathalfofthemwouldgetkilledinthevainattempt.我们驾车缓慢地驶过宾夕法尼亚安静的德国城的主要街道，将速度降至每小时二十英里，以免和去赶集的马匹和马车挤在一起。WedroveslowlythroughmainstreetsofsleepyPennsylvaniaDutchtowns,slowingtotwentymilesanhoursoasnottocrowdthehorsesandhorsecarriagesontheirwaytomarket.在县城的博物馆里，我们欣赏了玩具火车和老式汽车；在工厂的直销商店里（购物），省了七成的钱。Weadmiredtoytrainsandantiquecarsincountymuseumsandsaved70percentinfactoryoutlets.在农户的自助餐厅里，我们饱饱地吃了一顿香料沙拉和家庭自制面包，而后便在外边闲逛，享受着阳光，
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Lesson Nine
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Pre-class Work
Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below.
v. to support an idea or a plan
n. enjoyment
adj. being old and therefore valuable
bicentennial
n. the day or year exactly 200 years after a particular event
n. information or instructions you get before you have to do sth.; here: news in brief (without details)
n. a piece of furniture with doors, shelves or drawers for storing things
n. a wheeled vehicle, especially a private horse-drawn vehicle
checkerboard
n. 棋盘，方格图案
adj. a ～ war: a war between two parties of the same country
v. to force into less space
v. to put into a smaller or shortened form
confederate
adj. belonging to a polit the C ～ army: the Southern army in the American Civil War
convenience
n. the condition of being suitable to one's needs and easy to reach
v. to delay until a later date
n. a limited range and amount of food you eat when you want to get thinner
n. a short piece of writing that gives the most important facts from a book, report, etc. 文摘
adj. 荷兰的
n. a very large strong meat-eating bird with a hooked beak and very good eyesight
featureless
adj. uninteresting, without noticeable features
adj. (infml) very beautiful
gratification
n. satisfaction
n. a group of animals of one kind which lives and feeds together
n. a large piece of ice floating in the sea, most of which is below the surface
v. not to take notice of
v. to pass on a disease to sb.; to corrupt
interstate
n. (AmE) a very wide road for long distance travel
n. the two or three parallel areas on a main road which are divided by painted lines to keep fast and slow traffic apart 车道；the fast ～: the lane for going past other vehicles 快车道
v. to stay a little longer because you do not want to leave
liposuction
n. the removal of fat from sb's body by means of suction
n. 微波（炉）
n. abbr. for miles per hour
n. a shop through whi here: （工厂附设的）门市部
adv. here: (infml) suddenly
adj. typical of the simple peaceful suitable for feeding sheep and cattle
n. a salary check
Pennsylvania
n. 宾夕法尼亚州（US）
n. 商标名：“宝丽来”，一次成像的照相机
pre-digest
v. to make a book or article shorter and simpler for easy use
v. to make sb. feel less tired or less hot
revitalize
v. to put new strength and power into
n. the way from one place to another on a map
n. a mixture of raw vegetables
n. natural surroundings in beautiful and open country
n. the surface of a computer display 电脑屏幕
v. to move through (life) quickly, hardly touching the surface
v. to pass by quietly without being noticed
adj. (food) having a pleasantly strong taste
adj. hardly noticeable unless you pay careful attention
superficially
adv. not deeply or thoroughly
supermarket
n. a large shop where a customer can choose from a large number of different kinds of food or other goods
symbolically
adv. 具有象征意义地
n. a musical work for a large group of instruments 交响乐
n. a short simple tune that is repeated and developed in a piece of music 乐曲主题
v. to visit for pleasure
n. (AmE) a large road for fast traffic, esp. one that drivers have to pay to use
n. a strong wish for sth.
n. a slightly different copy of the book
n. abbr. for video cassette recorder
West Virginia
n. 西弗吉尼亚州（US）
Proper Names
Quick Fix Society
Janet Mendell Goldstein
Read the text once for the main idea. Do not refer to the notes, dictionaries or the glossary yet.
My husband and I just got back from a week's vacation in West Virginia. Of course, we couldn't wait to get there, so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a couple of interstates. &Look at those gorgeous farms!& my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph. &Did you see those cows?& But at 55 mph, it's diffi the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. Getting there certainly didn't se in fact, getting there wasn't any fun at all.
So, when it was time to return to our home outside of Philadelphia, I insisted that we take a different route. &Let's explore that countryside,& I suggested. The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences. We toured a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill that fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt. We drove slowly through main streets of sleepy Pennsylvania Dutch towns, slowing to twenty miles an hour so as not to crowd the horses and horse carriages on their way to market. We admired toy trains and antique cars in county museums and saved 70 percent in factory outlets. We stuffed ourselves with spicy salads and homemade bread in an &all-you-can-eat& farmhouse restaurant, then wandered outside to enjoy the sunshine and the herds of cows — no little dots this time — lying in it. And we returned home refreshed, revitalized, and reeducated. This time, getting there had been the fun.
Why is it that the featureless turnpikes and interstates are the routes of choice for so many of us? Why doesn't everybody try slowing down and exploring the countryside? But more and more, the fast lane seems to be the only way for us to go. In fact, most Americans are constantly in a hurry — and not just to get from Point A to Point B. Our country has become a nation in search of the quick fix — in more ways than one.
Now instead of later: Once upon a time, Americans understood the principle of deferred gratification. We put a little of each paycheck away &for a rainy day&. If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside cabin, we saved up for it, and the banks helped us out by providing special Christmas Club and Vacation Club accounts. If we lived in the right part of the country, we planted corn and beans and waited patiently for the harvest. If we wanted to be thinner, we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited patiently for the scale to drop, a pound at a time. But today we aren't so patient. We take out loans instead of making deposits, or we use our credit card to get that furniture or vacation trip — relax now, pay later. We buy our food, like our clothing, ready-made and off the rack. And if we're in a hurry to lose weight, we try the latest miracle diet, guaranteed to take away ten pounds in ten days... unless we're rich enough to afford liposuction.
Faster instead of slower: Not on we don't even want to be kept waiting for it. This general impatience, the &I-hate-to-wait& attitude, has infected every level of our lives. Instead of standing in line at the bank, we withdraw twenty dollars in as many seconds from an automatic teller machine. Then we take our fast money to a fast convenience store (why wait in line at the supermarket?), where we buy a frozen dinner all wrapped up and ready to be put into the microwave... unless we don't care to wait even that long and pick up some fast food instead. And if our fast meal doesn't agree with us, we hurry to the medicine cabinet for — you guessed it — some fast relief. We like fast pictures, so we buy Polaroid cameras. We like fast entertainment, so we record our favorite TV show on the VCR. We like our information fast, too: messages flashed on a computer screen, documents faxed from your telephone to mine, current events in 90-second bursts on Eyewitness News, history reduced to &Bicentennial Minutes&. Symbolically, the American eagle now flies for Express Mail. How dare anyone keep America waiting longer than overnight?
Superficially instead of thoroughly: What's more, we don't even want all of it. Once, we lingered over every word of a classic novel or the latest best seller. Today, since faster is better, we read the condensed version or put a tape of the book into our car's tape player to listen to on the way to work. Or we buy the Cliff's Notes, especially if we are students, so we don't have to deal with the book at all. Once, we listened to every note of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Today, we don' instead, we can enjoy 26 seconds of that famous &da-da-da-DUM& theme — and 99 other musical excerpts almost as famous — on our &Greatest Moments of the Classics& CD. After all, why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts? Our magazine articles come to us pre-digested in Reader's Digest. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever. Even our personal relationships have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with something called &quality time&, which, more often than not, is no time at all. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle — paying attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface.
When did it all begin, this urge to do it now, to get it over with, to skim the surface of life? Why are we in such a hurry to save time? And what are we going to do with all the time we save besides, of course, rushing out to save some more? The sad truth is that we don't know how to use the time we save, because all we're good at is saving time... not spending time.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we should go back to growing our own vegetables or making our own clothes. I'm not even advocating a mass movement to cut all our credit cards into little pieces. But I am saying that all of us need to think more seriously about putting the brakes on our &we-want-it-all-and-we-want-it-now& lifestyle before we speed completely out of control. Let's take the time to read every word of that story, hear every note of that music, and enjoy every subtle change of that countryside. Let's rediscover life in the slow lane.
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Lesson Nine
声音资料是Text C 的，暂时没有Text C原文
下面的原文是Text A 的，不是该声音的原文。
Pre-class Work
Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below.
v. to support an idea or a plan
n. enjoyment
adj. being old and therefore valuable
bicentennial
n. the day or year exactly 200 years after a particular event
n. information or instructions you get before you have to do sth.; here: news in brief (without details)
n. a piece of furniture with doors, shelves or drawers for storing things
n. a wheeled vehicle, especially a private horse-drawn vehicle
checkerboard
n. 棋盘，方格图案
adj. a ～ war: a war between two parties of the same country
v. to force into less space
v. to put into a smaller or shortened form
confederate
adj. belonging to a polit the C ～ army: the Southern army in the American Civil War
convenience
n. the condition of being suitable to one's needs and easy to reach
v. to delay until a later date
n. a limited range and amount of food you eat when you want to get thinner
n. a short piece of writing that gives the most important facts from a book, report, etc. 文摘
adj. 荷兰的
n. a very large strong meat-eating bird with a hooked beak and very good eyesight
featureless
adj. uninteresting, without noticeable features
adj. (infml) very beautiful
gratification
n. satisfaction
n. a group of animals of one kind which lives and feeds together
n. a large piece of ice floating in the sea, most of which is below the surface
v. not to take notice of
v. to pass on a disease to sb.; to corrupt
interstate
n. (AmE) a very wide road for long distance travel
n. the two or three parallel areas on a main road which are divided by painted lines to keep fast and slow traffic apart 车道；the fast ～: the lane for going past other vehicles 快车道
v. to stay a little longer because you do not want to leave
liposuction
n. the removal of fat from sb's body by means of suction
n. 微波（炉）
n. abbr. for miles per hour
n. a shop through whi here: （工厂附设的）门市部
adv. here: (infml) suddenly
adj. typical of the simple peaceful suitable for feeding sheep and cattle
n. a salary check
Pennsylvania
n. 宾夕法尼亚州（US）
n. 商标名：“宝丽来”，一次成像的照相机
pre-digest
v. to make a book or article shorter and simpler for easy use
v. to make sb. feel less tired or less hot
revitalize
v. to put new strength and power into
n. the way from one place to another on a map
n. a mixture of raw vegetables
n. natural surroundings in beautiful and open country
n. the surface of a computer display 电脑屏幕
v. to move through (life) quickly, hardly touching the surface
v. to pass by quietly without being noticed
adj. (food) having a pleasantly strong taste
adj. hardly noticeable unless you pay careful attention
superficially
adv. not deeply or thoroughly
supermarket
n. a large shop where a customer can choose from a large number of different kinds of food or other goods
symbolically
adv. 具有象征意义地
n. a musical work for a large group of instruments 交响乐
n. a short simple tune that is repeated and developed in a piece of music 乐曲主题
v. to visit for pleasure
n. (AmE) a large road for fast traffic, esp. one that drivers have to pay to use
n. a strong wish for sth.
n. a slightly different copy of the book
n. abbr. for video cassette recorder
West Virginia
n. 西弗吉尼亚州（US）
Proper Names
Quick Fix Society
Janet Mendell Goldstein
Read the text once for the main idea. Do not refer to the notes, dictionaries or the glossary yet.
My husband and I just got back from a week's vacation in West Virginia. Of course, we couldn't wait to get there, so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a couple of interstates. &Look at those gorgeous farms!& my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph. &Did you see those cows?& But at 55 mph, it's diffi the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. Getting there certainly didn't se in fact, getting there wasn't any fun at all.
So, when it was time to return to our home outside of Philadelphia, I insisted that we take a different route. &Let's explore that countryside,& I suggested. The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences. We toured a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill that fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt. We drove slowly through main streets of sleepy Pennsylvania Dutch towns, slowing to twenty miles an hour so as not to crowd the horses and horse carriages on their way to market. We admired toy trains and antique cars in county museums and saved 70 percent in factory outlets. We stuffed ourselves with spicy salads and homemade bread in an &all-you-can-eat& farmhouse restaurant, then wandered outside to enjoy the sunshine and the herds of cows — no little dots this time — lying in it. And we returned home refreshed, revitalized, and reeducated. This time, getting there had been the fun.
Why is it that the featureless turnpikes and interstates are the routes of choice for so many of us? Why doesn't everybody try slowing down and exploring the countryside? But more and more, the fast lane seems to be the only way for us to go. In fact, most Americans are constantly in a hurry — and not just to get from Point A to Point B. Our country has become a nation in search of the quick fix — in more ways than one.
Now instead of later: Once upon a time, Americans understood the principle of deferred gratification. We put a little of each paycheck away &for a rainy day&. If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside cabin, we saved up for it, and the banks helped us out by providing special Christmas Club and Vacation Club accounts. If we lived in the right part of the country, we planted corn and beans and waited patiently for the harvest. If we wanted to be thinner, we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited patiently for the scale to drop, a pound at a time. But today we aren't so patient. We take out loans instead of making deposits, or we use our credit card to get that furniture or vacation trip — relax now, pay later. We buy our food, like our clothing, ready-made and off the rack. And if we're in a hurry to lose weight, we try the latest miracle diet, guaranteed to take away ten pounds in ten days... unless we're rich enough to afford liposuction.
Faster instead of slower: Not on we don't even want to be kept waiting for it. This general impatience, the &I-hate-to-wait& attitude, has infected every level of our lives. Instead of standing in line at the bank, we withdraw twenty dollars in as many seconds from an automatic teller machine. Then we take our fast money to a fast convenience store (why wait in line at the supermarket?), where we buy a frozen dinner all wrapped up and ready to be put into the microwave... unless we don't care to wait even that long and pick up some fast food instead. And if our fast meal doesn't agree with us, we hurry to the medicine cabinet for — you guessed it — some fast relief. We like fast pictures, so we buy Polaroid cameras. We like fast entertainment, so we record our favorite TV show on the VCR. We like our information fast, too: messages flashed on a computer screen, documents faxed from your telephone to mine, current events in 90-second bursts on Eyewitness News, history reduced to &Bicentennial Minutes&. Symbolically, the American eagle now flies for Express Mail. How dare anyone keep America waiting longer than overnight?
Superficially instead of thoroughly: What's more, we don't even want all of it. Once, we lingered over every word of a classic novel or the latest best seller. Today, since faster is better, we read the condensed version or put a tape of the book into our car's tape player to listen to on the way to work. Or we buy the Cliff's Notes, especially if we are students, so we don't have to deal with the book at all. Once, we listened to every note of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Today, we don' instead, we can enjoy 26 seconds of that famous &da-da-da-DUM& theme — and 99 other musical excerpts almost as famous — on our &Greatest Moments of the Classics& CD. After all, why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts? Our magazine articles come to us pre-digested in Reader's Digest. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever. Even our personal relationships have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with something called &quality time&, which, more often than not, is no time at all. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle — paying attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface.
When did it all begin, this urge to do it now, to get it over with, to skim the surface of life? Why are we in such a hurry to save time? And what are we going to do with all the time we save besides, of course, rushing out to save some more? The sad truth is that we don't know how to use the time we save, because all we're good at is saving time... not spending time.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we should go back to growing our own vegetables or making our own clothes. I'm not even advocating a mass movement to cut all our credit cards into little pieces. But I am saying that all of us need to think more seriously about putting the brakes on our &we-want-it-all-and-we-want-it-now& lifestyle before we speed completely out of control. Let's take the time to read every word of that story, hear every note of that music, and enjoy every subtle change of that countryside. Let's rediscover life in the slow lane.
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