001)Town and Country Life in England
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difference between town life and country life in England. In the country, everybody knows everybody el. They know what time you get up, what time you go to bed and what you have for dinner. If you want help, you will always get it and you will be glad to help others.
In a large town like London, however, It can sometimes happen that you have never en your next door neighbor and you do not know his name or anything about him. People in London are often very lonely. This is becau people go to different places in the evenings and at weekends. If you walk through the streets in the centre of London on Sunday, it is like a town without people. One is sorry for old people living on their own .They could die in their homes and would not be discovered for weeks or even months. (154 words)
Uful Words and Expressions: next door n．隔壁 lonely adj．孤独的，寂寞的；偏僻的，人迹罕至的 the neighbors nex door隔壁邻居 lonely life孤单的生活；a lonely old man一位孤独的老人
002)A Change in Women’s Life
The important change in women's life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them. (154 words)
Uful Words and Expressions:life-pattern 生活方式 effect [i'fekt] n. 结果，效果，作用，影响
The old system is still in effect. 旧制度仍然有效。 He is, in effect, my rival. 实际上他是我的竞争对手。
The medicine quickly took effect. 药物很快见效了。 share the joys and hardships 同甘共苦
003）A Popular Pastime of the English People
One of the best means of understanding the people of any nation is watching what they do with their non-working time.
Most English men, women and children love growing things, especially flowers. Visitors to England in spring, summer, or autumn are likely to e gardens all the way along the railway lines. There are flowers at the airports and flowers in factory grounds, as well as in gardens along the roads. Each English town has at least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings of every kind have brilliant window boxes and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them.
But what the English enjoy most is growing things themlves, If it is impossible to have a garden, then a window box or something growing in a pot will do.
Looking at each other's gardens is a popular pastime with the English. (144 words)
Uful Words and Expressions:
means n．方法；方式；手段 a means to an end达到目的的方法 by no means决不，一点也不 by all means务必；无论如何；千方百计地by fair means or foul不择手 by means of 通过；用；借助于 pot n．罐，壶 windbox n．窗台上的花盆箱，窗槛花箱 pastime n．消遣，娱乐
004）British and American Police Officers
Real policemen, both in Britain and the U. S., hardly recognize any common points between their lives and what they e on TV---if they ever get home in time.
Some things are almost the same, of cour, but the policemen do not think much of them.
The first difference is that a policeman's real life deals with the law. Most of what he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law and what facts can be ud to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a lawyer, and what's more, he has to put it into practice on his feet, in the dark and, running down a narrow street after someone he wants to talk to.
Little of his time is spent in talking with beautiful girls or in bravely facing cruel criminals. He will spend most of his working life arranging millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, ordinary people who are guilty—or not of stupid, unimportant crimes. (177 words)
Uful Words and Expressions: think much of 重视，尊重 in court 在法庭 gulty look内疚的神色 the guilty party犯罪一方
005）Living Space
How much living space does a person need? What happens when his space needs are n
ot met? Scientists are doing experiments on rats to try to determine the effects of overcrowded conditions on man. Recent studies have shown that the behaviour of rats is greatly affected by space. If rats have enough living space, they eat well, sleep well and produce their young well. But if their living conditions become too crowded, their behaviour and even their health change obviously. They can not sleep and eat well, and signs of fear and worry become clear. The more crowded they are, the more they tend to bite each other and even kill each other. Thus, for rats, population and violence are directly related. Is this a natural law for human society as well? Is enough space not only satisfactory, but necessary for human survival? The are in teresting questions. (14手相命运线
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