Passage 1
Three New Yorks
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulences as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere el and came to New York in quest of something.
zhrOf the three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetic deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements.
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the ttlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to t up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape t
he indignity of being obrved by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitca and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference; each embraces New York with the inten excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company
Passage 2
My Garden
Jack Lee leaned back in his garden chair, twirled a glass of champagne and said: “My garden is the ideal place to have breakfast. There are very few days of the year when I can’t sit out here in the sun at 7 am.”
willandgrace美国派4Jack, until recently chairman of the South Australian Film Corporation, first visited Australia to direct films such as the original A Town Like Alice. With his Australian wife, Isabel, he has lived in the same Woollahra hou for 20 years.
The first part of the hou was built in 1842, added to in 1860 and again in 1890. It has had an interesting and, at times, chequered career. According to legend, the hou was bought by the Earl of Jery, a one-time Governor of NSW, for his mistress. And, for a while, it suffered the fate of many Victorian mansions by becoming a boarding hou for 30 people.
Today it is peaceful and well-tended; just minutes from the City, the garden is quiet, spacious and private.
In the early morning, Jack likes to listen to the sounds of the garden. The trees are full of birds. Wind bells chime faintly in a lemon tree and, if the wind is in the right direction, he can hear the faint rumble of the first plane landing.
Passage 3
Lateral Thinking
Edward De Bono
A father is busy putting decorations on to the Christmas tree but as quickly as he puts them on his two-year-old son pulls them off. He is about to put the child in a play pen when his wife suggests that it might make more n to put the tree in the play-pen and leave the child outside. Instead of keeping the child away from the tree one can keep the tree away from the child. Lateral thinking involves moving sideways to look at things in a different way. Instead of fixing on one particular approach and then working forward from that the lateral thinker tries to find other approaches.
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. A committee that is convinced that parking meters are the only way to control city parking will spend its time deciding what meters to u, where to put them and how to patrol them. A lateral thinker would look at other approaches: letting people park anywhere they liked so long as they left their headlights on; giving people licences which would allow them to park free in town only one day a week and so encouraging car sharing; visible licences that the motorist would pay for if he wanted to park anywhere in town.
Our thinking traditions are very firmly bad on logical thinking in which we start off with a certain way of looking at things and then e what we can deduce from that. This can be called vertical thinking since it involves building on what is accepted as traditional. Vertical thinking is for using ideas and lateral thinking is for changing them.
代价英文Most of our thinking does not take place at the logical stage but at the perceptual stage which precedes this. Lateral thinking is to do with changing perceptions and finding new ways of looking at things. Lateral thinking is the practical process of creativity. There are various deliberate techniques such as the u of stepping stones (produced, for instance, by reversing the usual situation). Lateral thinking turns creativity into a tool. In a patterning system such as the mind provocation is as important as analysis—and more important for changing ideas.
(作者爱德华•德•波诺为英国剑桥大学教授，横向思维之父)
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Passage 4
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1 With its products be t by curity flaws and virus, Microsoft Corp. t up a $5 million reward fund for information that helps law enforcement in hacking investigations. 校长英文
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