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Unit 6

Intercultural Communication

I. Difficult Sentences

1. Like most ailments it has its own cause, symptoms, and cure.

(1) What does “it” refer to in this sentence?

(= “It” refers to culture shock.)

(2) In the previous sentence, the author uses the word “disease”, but here

the word “ailments” is used. What is the difference between these two words?

(=Disease is a general term referring to an illness which affects a person, animal, or plant. Ailment refers to an illness that is not very serious. Obviously, culture shock is not a serious physical disease that is affecting one’s body. It is just a kind of emotional discomfort usually found in somebody who has been suddenly transplanted abroad. )

(3) Translate the sentence into Chinese.

(=和大部分疾病一样,这种病有其独特的起因、症状和疗法。)

2. … when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to give orders to servants, how to make purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statements seriously and when not.

(1) Say something more about the usage of “when/what/how/ + infinitive”

structure.

(=There are three points to remember when you use this kind of structure: First, this structure is used only after such English verbs as ask, decide, discover, find out, forget, know, learn, remember, see (=understand/perceive), and wonder, etc.; Second, besides “when/what/how”, words like “where/which/whether” can also be used in this structure; Third, the structure “whether + infinitive”is usually used after “want to know” or “wonder.” )

More examples:

*I found out where to buy fruit cheaply.

*I didn’t know when to switch the machine off.

*I wondered whether to write or phone.

(2) Paraphrase “when to take statements seriously and when not.”

(=when we should believe that these statements are worth our attention and when we needn’t pay attention to them)

3. These cues which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, customs,

or norms are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and are

as much a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept.

(1) According to this statement, what makes up our culture?

(=The cues we acquire in daily life, the language we speak, and the beliefs we accept.)

(2) Translate the sentence into Chinese.

(=这些暗示可以是语言、手势、面部表情、风俗习惯或社会行为标准。

我们在成长的过程中获得了这些暗示,就像我们的语言和我们所接受

的信仰一样,它们已经成为我们文化的一部分。)

4. All of us depend for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues.

What is the implied meaning of this sentence?

(=Without these familiar cues such as words, gestures, facial expressions, customs, or norms, we would probably get lost and suffer from frustration and anxiety, and wouldn’t be able to work efficiently.)

5. To an American everything American becomes irrationally glorified.

Do the two words “American” in this sentence mean the same?

(=No, they don’t mean the same. The first “American”is a noun, meaning “someone from the USA,”while the second is used as an adjective, meaning “relating to the US A.”)

6. The culture of any people is the product of history and is built up over

time largely through processes which are beyond his awareness.

(1) What can you infer from this sentence?

(=Culture develops and builds up through a long but hardly

noticeable process.)

(2) Translate the sentence into Chinese.

(=任何一个民族的文化都是历史的产物,经过漫长的、本民族意识

不到的过程才得以积累形成。)

7. To this attitude we give the name ethnocentrism, a belief that not only

the culture but the race and the nation form the center of the world.

(1) To what kind of attitude do we give the name ethnocentrism?

(=We give the name ethnocentrism to the attitude that people

regard their culture as both the best and the only way of doing

things.)

(2) How is ethnocentrism defined in this sentence?

(=It is a belief that not only the culture but the race and the nation

form the center of the world.)

(3) Analyze the structure of this sentence.

(=a. The first part of this sentence uses the technique of fronting (前

置手法). The regular sentence order would be “We give the name

ethnocentrism to this attitude”; b. In the second part, there is an

appositive clause used to modify “belief,”telling us the specific content of this “belief.”)

8. For instance, if an American does something odd or anti-social in a

foreign country which back home would be considered a purely individual act, this is now considered a national trait.

(1) What can we infer from the sentence?

(=People tend to attribute all individual peculiarities as national characteristics.)

(2) Translate this sentence into Chinese.

(=例如,倘若一个美国人在国外做出怪异的或有悖社会公德的事情,在美国国内的人们会认为这纯属个人行为,但在国外却被视为一种民族特性。)

9. Instead of being censured as an individual, his country is censured. Paraphrase the sentence.

(=His country rather than the individual himself would be officially criticized.)

10. This task alone is quite enough to cause frustration and anxiety, no

matter how skillful language teachers are in making it easy for you.

(1) What does “it” refer to?

(= It refers to the act of learning a new language.)

(2) Translate this sentence into Chinese.

(=无论教语言的老师多么擅长于减轻你学习语言的难度,单单学语

言这项任务都足以让你焦虑不安、饱受挫折。)

11. At times it is helpful to be a participant observer by joining the

activities of the people, to try to share in their responses, whether this be a carnival, a religious ritual, or some economic activity.

(1) Analyze the structure of the second sentence “whether this be a

carnival, a religious ritual, or some economic activity.”

(=This sentence adopts the subjunctive mood. Here the third

person singular pronoun “this” is followed by “be” instead of

“is.” This is one type of present subjective (现在虚拟) which is

often used in clauses of condition or concession. The present

subjective can also be found in certain exclamations to express

a wish or hope, very often involving supernatural powers.

More examples:

*God bless you!

*Long live the queen! )

(2) Translate this sentence into Chinese.

(=有时候,参加人们举办的各种活动,不管是嘉年华会、宗教仪式

还是经济活动,在活动中仔细观察,和人们一起喜怒哀乐,这都有

好处。)

II. Words and Expressions

1. transplant:

(1) vt. to move from one place and settle elsewhere

*We start the flowers indoors and then transplant them to the garden.

*His kidney was transplanted in his daughter.

(2) n. the operation of transplanting an organ, piece of skin etc

*Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant. Collocations:

heart transplant surgery 心脏移植手术

a bone marrow transplant 骨髓移植

2. ailment: n. an illness that is not very serious

It was still unclear what caused the victims' ailments.

*The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ailments, ranging from colds to back pains.

CF: ailment,illness, disease & complaint

这些名词均有“疾病”之意。

ailment指身体或精神不适,尤其指小毛病。例如:

*His ailment was only a slight headache. 他身体不舒服,有点轻微的头痛。illness 泛指一切疾病,强调生病的时间或状态。例如:

*Her mother was just recovering from an illness. 他妈妈生了一场病,刚刚复。

disease指具体的疾病,且通常较严重,发病时间也较长。例如:

*She suffers from a rare disease of the brain. 她得了罕见的脑病。complaint指具体部位的疾病,尤其指不是很严重的那种。例如:

*He is having treatment for a chest complaint. 他正在接受胸部疾病的治疗。

3. cure:

(1) n. treatment or substance that cures; remedy

*There is still no cure for AIDS.

预防比任何一种治疗都要好得多。

(=Prevention is far better than any cure.)

(2) vt. to make an illness or medical condition go away

*Many types of cancer can now be cured.

(=Ninety percent of patients can be cured of the disease.)

Pattern:

cure sb. of sth. 把某人的病治愈

*She had some acupuncture treatment which seems to have cured her.

针灸几次后她的病似乎痊愈了。

4. precipitate:

(1) vt. to make (an unwanted event) happen sooner

*An attack on the country could precipitate a world war.

(=The 1929 stock market crash precipitated the collapse of the American banking system.)

(2) vi. to separate a solid substance from a liquid by chemical action, or to

be separated in this way

*This material causes most of the alumina in the solution to precipitate quickly.

(3) n. a solid substance that has been chemically separated from a liquid

老师让他在沉淀物溶解后再加热混合物。

(=The teacher asked him to warm the mixture after the precipitate dissolved.)

(4) adj. happening or done too quickly, and not thought about carefully

*A precipitate decision leads to his failure.

一阵冷风造成气温急剧下降。

(=A cool breeze caused a precipitate drop in the temperature.) NB :

该词作动词用时,近义词为hasten;作形容词用时,近义词为hasty。

5.orient v. to arrange or direct with a particular purpose

*She looked at the street names, trying to orient herself.

登山者停下来以便辨别自己的方位。

(=The climber stopped to orient himself.)

*The meeting decided that the magazine had to orient to the business community.

Collocation:

orient oneself to sth. 使自己熟悉某事

*It takes new students a while to orient themselves to college life.

新同学要花一定的时间来熟悉校园生活。

be oriented to/towards/around sth/sb 迎合某人的需要, 围绕某事

*The course is oriented towards the needs of businessmen. 这一课程是为迎合商人的需要而设立的。

*A lot of the training is oriented around communications skills. 很多培训都是围绕交际技能展开的。

NB:

该词还可以用作名词,意为“东方”,但通常以the Orient的形式出现。例如:The traveler made a fame for himself by a book about the Orient. 这个旅行家凭了一本描写东方的书一举成名。

6. purchase:

(1) n. sth. you buy, or the act of buying it

*Other customers arrived, made their purchases and left.

那顶帽子买得不错。

(=That hat was a good purchase.)

Collocations:

date of purchase 购买日期

proof of purchase 购买凭证

hire purchase 分期付款

make purchases 购物

(2) vt. to buy sth.

*You can purchase insurance online.

(=Foreign investors are not permitted to purchase land.)

7. a fish out of water: sb. who is uncomfortable; sb. who is at a disadvantage *I felt like a fish out of water in my new school.

Pattern:

be/feel like a fish out of water 感觉格格不入

8. tremendous: adj. very great in size, amount, or degree

*She was making a tremendous effort to appear calm.

这个计划能省我们一大笔钱。

(=This plan could save us a tremendous amount of money.)

CF: tremendous, huge, vast & giant

这些形容词均有“巨大的,庞大的”之意。

tremendous指某物非常大,大得惊人。强调尺寸大小、数量以及程度方面的大。

huge含义广,强调体积或容积的庞大。也可用于引申意义。

vast多指空间、面积、范围的巨大,不涉及重量。

giant非常大,强调比同类中的其他事务大得多。

(Directions:) Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary.

(1) Be careful. The forest is full of ________snakes and spiders. (= giant)

(2) King's new novel will undoubtedly be a ________ success. (= huge)

(3) She praised her husband for the ________support he had given her.

(=tremendous)

(4) ________ areas of the Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.

(=Vast)

9. glorify: vt. to cause to appear more important or better than they really are *Movies that glorify violence may be responsible for some of the rise in crime. (=The emperor's achievements were glorified in numerous poems.)

10. get over:

(1) to find a way to deal with

*Once we've got over the first few months, we should be making a reasonable profit.

我不知道我们应该怎样解决这个问题。

(=I don't know how we're going to get over this problem.)

(2) to become well again after an illness or a very upsetting experience

It's taken me ages to get over the flu.

她从没有从儿子去世的悲伤中恢复过来。

(=She never got over the death of her son.)

11. dictate: v.

(1) to tell someone exactly what they must do or how they must behave

*Islamic custom dictates that women should be fully covered.

(=The media cannot be allowed to dictate to the government.)

她拒绝听命于华盛顿一些愚蠢官员。

(=She refused to be dictated to by some stupid officials in Washington.) *Can they dictate how the money will be spent?

Patterns:

dictate that

dictate to

dictate who/what/how etc

(2) to say words for someone else to write down

*He's dictating a letter to his secretary right now.

12. transmit: v. to send or pass from one person, place, or thing to another

会议将通过卫星进行现场转播。

(=The meeting will be transmitted live via satellite.)

*Radars that transmit at lower frequencies are more effective than high-frequency radars in penetrating clouds, fog, and rain.

CF: transmit, send & deliver

这些动词均含“送出”、“发送”、“传送”之意。

transmit 指通过无线电、电视或其他类似的设备将信号、消息等发送出去或指传播知识、疾病等。例如:

*The system transmits information over digital phone lines. 这个系统通过数字电话线发送信息。

*Cultural values are transmitted from parent to child. 文化价值观由父母传递给孩子。

send 最常用,含义广,指把人或物由一地送往另一地,而不涉及事物的内容传送的方式。例如:

*We sent Mom flowers for Mother's Day. 母亲节我们送花给母亲。deliver 指把信件、包裹等物寄发出去或交到某地,或直接交与某人,着重发送这一行为。例如:

*The morning mail has just been delivered. 晨报刚刚送到。

13. build up:

(1) to increase, develop, or become gradually larger

*The firm has built up a wide reputation for fair dealing.

(=He's built up the family firm into a multinational company.)

(2) to make someone well and strong again; strengthen

*Taking exercise will build up your strength.

生病的时候必须休息以便恢复健康。

(=When sick you must rest to build up your health.)

14. by means of: by using a particular method or system

*I found my lost dog by means of a notice in the paper.

NB:

英文单词means比较活跃,有很多固定用法。常用的有:

by all means 尽一切办法, 一定

by any means 无论如何

by no means 决不

15. associate with sb.: to spend time with sb.

*I don't like those people you're associating with.

约翰好像一直和犯罪分子混在一起。

(=John may have been associating with the criminals.)

16. identify oneself/sb. with sb./sth.: to support or feel closely connected with

sb./sth.

*She has always been identified with the radical left.

(=I tried to identify my mind with the old fellow's, and take his view of the world.)

CF: identify, recognize & make out

这些动词均含“认出,识别”之意。

identify指辨别、确定人的身份或物品的归属等。

recognize 所辨认的人或物多是以前所熟悉的。

make out通常指通过人的感觉器官来辨别事物。

(Directions:) Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary.

(1) I didn't ________ you in your uniform. (= recognize)

(2) His accent ________ him as a Frenchman. (= identified)

(3) He could just ________a dark shape moving towards him. (=make out)

(4) Scientists have ________ the gene that causes abnormal growth.

(=identified)

17. to the extent that: so much that

*Violence increased to the extent that residents were afraid to leave their homes.

NB:

英语中还有一个词组与该词组意思相同:to such an extent that,意为“到这样的程度以致”。常用的关于extent的词组还有:

to a certain extent 在一定程度上

to some extent 在某种程度上

to a great/large extent 在很大程度上

18. tendency: n. a characteristic likelihood of doing sth.

*There is an increasing tendency for women to have children later in life.

男孩的好斗倾向比女孩强。

(=Boys have a stronger tendency to fight than girls.)

Collocations:

aggressive tendency 进攻倾向

suicidal tendency 自杀倾向

criminal tendency 犯罪倾向

artistic tendency 艺术倾向

have a tendency to/towards sth. 有做某事的倾向

19. attribute:

(1) vt. to regard sth. as belonging to, caused by or produced by sb./sth.

*We attribute courage to the lion and cunning to the fox.

艾丽思的成功归功于她的聪明和勤奋。

(=Alice's success should be attributed to her intelligence and hard work.)

(2) n. a quality considered as belonging to a person or thing;

characteristic.

*Patience is an attribute of a good teacher.

一名好经理应该具备何种素质?

(=What attributes should a good manager possess?)

20. peculiarity: n. sth. that is a feature of only one particular place, person,

situation etc

*We noticed the peculiarity of his manner at once.

*She was well aware of the peculiarity of her own situation.

CF: peculiarity, trait & attribute

这些名词均有“特性”、“特点”、“品质”之意。

peculiarity指人或事物独具的或奇怪的特点,常带感情色彩。

trait多指人的性格、心情的特征,尤指先天秉赋的持久的行为模式或性格特征。

attribute通常指好的或有用的特征、品质。

(Directions:) Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary.

(1) Courage, love, patience and common sense are desirable ________.

(=traits)

(2) One of his ________ is that his two eyes are not the same color.

(=peculiarities)

(3) He possesses the essential ________ of a journalist. (=attributes)

21. hostility: n. unfriendliness; opposition.

*The guard dog showed signs of hostility toward the newcomers.

(=Recently there has been hostility towards the Prime Minister from members of his own party.)

Collocations:

open hostility 公开的敌意

*They eyed each other with open hostility. 他们带着明显的敌意注视对方。

popular hostility 公众的敌意

*Pictures of refugees aroused popular hostility towards the war. 难民照片引起了公众对于战争的愤怒。

hostility to/towards sb./sth. 对某人或某事的敌意

*There was fierce hostility to the new policy. 新政引起了强烈的敌意。

22. open up:

(1) to (cause to) spread or unfold

*With a microscope, a whole new world of investigation opens up.

*新国际公约带来了更多反恐合作的可能性。

(=The new international agreement opens up the possibility of much greater co-operation against terrorism.)

(2) to open sth. that is closed, locked, or covered

*Open up, this is the police!

(3) to stop being shy and say what you really think

(=Last night was the first time that Ken had opened up about his

feelings.)

23. allocate: vt. to divide and give as a share

*You should allocate the same amount of time to each question.

*One million dollars was allocated for disaster relief.

CF:

assign, distribute, divide & allocate

这些动词均含“分配”、“分发”之意。

assign指分配某项任务给某人或让某人负责某事;也可指为某事指定时间、地点。

distribute通常指将整体或定量分为若干份来分配。

divide普通用词,强调将某物分成若干份分配给他人,当某物一分为二时,含平均分配之意。

allocate将某物划归特殊用途使用或将某物划拨给特定的人。(Directions:) Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary.

(1) The Wall used to ________ East and West Berlin. (= divide)

(2)The Ford Foundation ________ millions of dollars for cancer research.

(=allocated)

(3) Clothes and blankets have been ________ among the refugees.

(=distributed)

(4) I've been ________ the task of looking after the new students.

(=assigned)

24. participant:

(1) adj. participating; sharing.

*Participant reporters are welcome at the council meeting.

(2) n. someone who is taking part in an activity or event

*Last summer, children's art program had fourteen participants.

(=At the end of the conference, all the participants were asked to fill out

a questionnire

25. as such: properly so named; in the exact meaning of the stated thing

*If Mr. Green chooses to act like a child, he may have to be treated as

such.

分娩是一个自然过程,也应该这样被对待。

(=Birth is a natural process and should be treated as such.)

Collocation:

be treated as such 被这样对待

be recognized as such 被这样认可

be accepted as such 被这样接受

III. Useful Expressions

1. 职业病an occupational disease

2. 因……而产生result from

3. 社会交往social intercourse

4. 使自己熟悉(新情况)orient oneself to

5. 握手shake hands

6. 购物make purchases

7. 对……当真take sth. seriously

8. 面部表情facial expressions

9. 在……过程中in the course of

10. 离水之鱼;不得其所的人 a fish out of water

11. 心胸开阔be broad-minded

12. 一系列 a series of

13. 对……做出反应react to

14. 抱怨complain about

15. 克服,战胜get over

16. 除了in addition to

17. 社会风俗social institutions

18. 增加,积累build up

19. 用,依靠by means of

20. 使自己适应adapt oneself to

21. 和……打交道associate with

22. 和……打成一片,认同identify with

23. 到这样的程度以至于to the extent that

24. 例如for instance

25. 个人行为an individual act

26. 因为due to

27. 而不是rather than

28. 尽快as quickly as possible

29. 进行交谈carry on a conversation

30. 打开,展开open up

31. 宗教仪式 a religious ritual

32.被这样对待be treated as such

V. Proverbs and Quotations

1. Every country has its customs. 乡有乡俗。

2. Do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。

3. Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our

country.

我们的心目中要有国家,要有整个国家,而且只有我们的国家别无其他。4. Culture itself is neither education nor law making, it is an atmosphere and a

heritage.

—Henry Louis Mencken, American writer and editor 文化本身既不是教育,也不是立法,它是一种氛围,一种遗产。

——美国作家、编辑亨利·路易斯·门肯5. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.

—J. H. Payne, American dramatist and act

金窝,银窝,不如自家的草窝。

——美国剧作家、演员J. H.佩恩

6. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, it has to take you in.

—Robert Frost, American poet

无论何时何地家永远是向游子敞开大门的地方。

——美国诗人罗伯特?弗罗斯特

7. Go where he will, the wise man is at home. His hearth the earth, his hall the

azure dome.

—Ralf Waldo Emerson, American thinker

明智者四海为家——地球是他的壁炉,蓝天是他的客厅。

——美国思想家拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生Translation

1. As a proof of our

hospitality, we Chinese will

repeatedly ask the guests to

help themselves to the

dishes on the table.

2. It is by means of listening

to what people say and

observing how they behave

that we have strengthened

our capacity to understand

our society.

3. One’s sense of security

comes from familiarity with

the environment, so people

have the tendency to resist

or avoid new situations.

4. We tend to have the prejudice against or even hostility towards people from a certain area, which can be attributed to the fact that we are unfamiliar with them.

5. I believe that it is polite to decline directly, while my parents seldom say“no” so as not to embarrass others.

6. There are two ways to build up knowledge: to get it personally or by second hand experience. Reading, which opens up a new world of different cultures, belongs to second hand experience.

大学英语1教材答案

Unit 1 Vocabulary 1.F ill in the gaps with words……. 1). Respectable 2).agony 3).put down 4).sequence 5).hold back 6).distribute 7).off and on 8).vivid 9).associate 10).finally 11).turn in/out 12).tackle 2. Rewrite each sentence…… 1)…has been assigned to the newspaper’s Paris office. 2)….was so extraordinary that I didn’t know whether to believe him or not. 3)….a clear image of how she would look in twenty years’ time. 4)….gave the command the soldiers opened fire. 3. Complete the sentences… 1).reputation; rigid; to inspire 2).and tedious; What’s more; out of date ideas 3).compose; career; avoid showing; hardly hold back Ⅱ. Synonyms in Context

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3.A篇俱乐部和社团 聚会、喝酒、吃饭--哦,还有工作--都让时光流逝,但你内心深处确有一些很想追寻的东西,却无法实现。你一直在寻找的,我的朋友,就是将你自己投身到大学社团中的机会,去发现各种各样的活动。这些团体在像牛津这样的城市里散发着勃勃生机。 不论你是想保持已有的兴趣,还是培养新的爱好,你首先应该到牛津大学学生会的新生集会上去看看那些令人眼花缭乱的俱乐部。手持一张新生集会的入场券,你就可以得到一份崭新的关于牛津大学方方面面的综合指南。如果你错过了这场集会,别泄气,在新生周里发给你的牛津目录上,你将看到各种社团的介绍。你不妨稍作浏览--这可是你见识大学生活的重要机会。 人们投身社团生活的程度各不相同。有的完全沉醉于一个俱乐部,在接下来的三年里几乎不跟非本俱乐部成员说话,直至成为该组织的领导者。其余的人更愿意选择灵活的方式,参加几个社团,参加凡是他们感兴趣的活动。还有许多人,也许有点笨,完全无视大学社团的存在,只是与大学里的伙伴们在一起打发时间。 社团使人们有大量的机会结识校园以外的人,特别对于文科学生来说,这是难能可贵的。但是别忘了,许多学院有自己兴盛的社团,你也能在新生周里加入这些社团。音乐和戏剧总是很受欢迎,有兴趣的人聚在一起做点什么,也并非难事。如果你有心为学校新搞一个莎士比亚说唱社团,你可以向大学校监申请注册,还可获得启动资助、贷款及其他好处。 尤其是对大社团而言,其中的一个负面就是学生的钻营。"钻营"指的是有些学生在俱乐部或社团里追求职位的提高(通常是要做主席),有些社团,比如牛津大学学生俱乐部或同业协会总能吸引那些比别人更有野心的人。当学生们突然想到他们空白的履历,想到履历将与他们将来能否找到一份高收入的工作密切相关,想方设法往上爬就几乎是在所难免的了。尽管如此,也不用担心:绝大多数学生不赞成这种自我钻营的行为。他们能够从容的面对生活。 三百多个社团,对每个人来说,都应该能找到自己的位置。除了一些倾向明显的政治聚会和体育俱乐部外,所有的主要宗教都有自己的组织;有热衷于不同国家或地区的社会与文化的社团,从中国到保加利亚,以及从苏格兰到埃塞克斯的英国各地区;有热衷于义工、文学、音乐、戏剧和科幻小说的协会;还有五花八门的奇特组织,比如玛格丽特女子学院布丁协会,牛津特技协会,以及普胡牌友协会。你会喜欢它们的。 3.B篇心态平衡 在今天的现实生活中,保持心态平衡十分必要。生活中心态失衡,既无法很好地工作,心身也不能得到全面的发展。生活中有时心态失衡,人们就会觉得不满足,不愉快。 在学习和工作中我曾经历过巨大的压力,也试着用各种办法调整自己来减轻压力。最终我发现,好好利用业余时间是个办法。业余时间对我来说是不可或缺的。否则,我肯定会要发疯的。我的大部分业余时间都用于读书,听音乐,跟生活中的朋友交谈,或者跟网上遇到的人聊天。我真的很喜欢在外面找一个安静的地方读沃尔特·惠特曼和罗伯特·弗洛斯特的诗歌或著作。如果我没有时间做这些,那我也干不好别的事情。读书放松的同时,听音乐对我来说也是很重要的。如果我情绪低落,我就听慢悠悠的歌,如果我心情高兴,我就听快节奏的歌。音乐是人类共同的语言,能表达不同的情感。音乐能触及灵魂,确切地说,我认为音乐表达的实际上就是心灵的感受。 生活中的朋友和网上的朋友都是我业余时间和社交生活的一部分。朋友对我来说总是重要的。不论我做什么,他们都是我的支柱。不论我处于什么情况,我的好朋友们总是支持着我。没有他们,我不可能过着健康的心态平衡的生活。不久之前,我经历了一小段时间的失意。手头所有的工作都没有进展,也不再跟朋友们谈心。就这样过了一个礼拜,我的一个好朋友将我拉到一边,邀我跟她出去散步。我们谈到我的情况,她帮我一起分析我到底想干什么。真不知道如果她不在我身边,我会怎么样。 许多事情都有助于你调节心态。压力是一种十分危险而又累人的经历,往往是消沉和不幸的开始。但如果真有了压力,你应该做点什么而不光是等待,比如跟朋友说说,或是听听音乐。这样你也许就会觉得自己不该这么沮丧,这么心事重重。 在生活中,保持心态平衡是很重要的。要是心态失衡,每一天的生活都将是难熬的。大胆创新地利用业余时间将起到决定性的作用。 4.A篇玛塞娜的工作经历 进大学不久我就下定决心,在进入"现实世界"前先到国外呆一段。四年级的时候,我的大多数同学都在忙着为"现实世界"的工作面试,我却在研究怎么才能去另外一个国家工作。刚开始打听的时候,我对去哪儿,干什么都很随便。我就是很想出国,让我干什么都行。 不久我就听说了一个叫"北美学生英国大学俱乐部"的计划,像是专为想出国工作的学生制定的。它给在读或是刚毕业的学生提供工作签证,让他们能到海外工作。因为语言相通和找工作容易的关系,在六个可供选择的国家中我选择了英国。 毕业两个月后我横渡大西洋,到伦敦之前花六个礼拜把整个欧洲跑了一遍。1997年8月24日,我带着一张工作签证来到伦敦,但却没有工作,也没地方可住。我得承认那确实挺让人害怕的!到的第二天,我度过了我的第一个英国假日--银行休假日。这是个全国

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