第一单元
1 In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, led his Grand Army into Russia. He was prepared for the fierce resistance of the Russian people defending their homeland. He was prepared for the long march across Russian soil to Moscow, the capital city. But he was not prepared for the devastating enemy that met him in Moscow -- the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter.
2 In 1941, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, launched an attack against the Soviet Union, as Russia then was called. Hitler's military might was unequaled. His war machine had mowed down resistance in most of Europe. Hitler expected a short campaign but, like Napoleon before him, was taught a painful lesson. The Russian winter again came to the aid of the Soviet soldiers.
第三单元
28 My mentor, Curt Carlson, is the wealthiest man in Minnesota, owner of a hotel and trav
el company with sales in the neighborhood of $9 billion. I had to get to a meeting in New York one day, and Curt generously offered me a ride in his jet. It happened to be a day Minnesota was 好人好事的新闻hit with one of the worst snowstorms in years. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was clod for the first time in decades.
29 Then, though the storm continued to pound us, the airport opened a runway for small craft only. As we were taxiing down it to take off, Curt turned to me and said gleefully, "Look, Harvey, no tracks in the snow!"
30 Curt Carlson, 70 years old at the time, rich beyond anyone's dreams, could still sparkle with excitement about being first.
31 From my standpoint, that's what it's all about. Prepare to win. Never stop learning. Believe in yourlf, even when no one el does. Find a way to make a difference. Then go out and make your own tracks in the snow.
第4单元
1 The mere fact that America still attracts millions of people is evidence that it is not in decline. People aren't attracted to a place of decline. Signs of decline are sure to be found in a place as 额头不饱满complex as America: debt, crime, the homeless, drugs, dropouts. But the main characteristic 标准模数of America, the first and most enduring impression, is dynamism, energy, aggressiveness, forward movement.
2 It is so hard to think of this nation in decline when you know that there are vast regions of the planet which are absolutely paralyzed, incapable of any improvement at all.
3 It is difficult for me to agree with Paul Kennedy's thesis in The Ri and Fall of Great Powers that America must inevitably follow historical precedent. That's the way history ud to be -- all powerful nations declined and gave way to other empires. But maybe there is another way to look at what is happening. I have a n that what is going on here concerns much more than the fate of a nation.
4 It may be that the Euro-centered American nation is declining as it gives way to a ne
w Pacific civilization that will include, but not be limited to, America. Historically speaking, America may not decline, but instead fu with the Pacific culture to create a kind of vast Pacific collage, a mix of Hispanic and Asian cultures linked through the most modern communication technologies.
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第五单元
1 For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen. I do not know very much about them. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. I think they must have small insight or great vanity. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.
2 The reflections have occurred to me becau I read in this morning's paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe. He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years. I knew him very little, but he interested me becau once he gave me a great surpri. Unless I had heard the story from his own lips怎么做豆腐, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. It was more startling
becau both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type. Here if ever was a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled,不容置疑的近义词 and blue eyes. I suppo he was about sixty when I knew him. He was always neatly and quietly dresd in accordance with his age and station.
3 Though his offices were in Kobe, Burton often came down to Yokohama. I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship, and I was introduced to him at the British Club. We played bridge together. He played a good game and a generous one. He did not talk very much, either then or later when we were having drinks, but what he said was nsible. He had a quiet, dry humor. He emed to be popular at the club and afterwards, when he had gone, they described him as one of the best. It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him. I met his wife, fat, elderly, and smiling, and his two daughters. It was evidently a 红包作文united and affectionate family. I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes.
His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he could possibly rai it in anger; his smile was benign. Here was a man who attracted you becau you felt in him a real love for his fellows. At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell with point a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been something of prefertoan athlete. He was a rich man and he had made every penny himlf. I suppo one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroud your instincts of protection. You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly.
