【正文】 e concerned, Burton seemed a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow with white hair and mild blue eyes. Kind, gentle and candid, he was described by many as one of the most respectable people on earth. Nevertheless, he turned out to be cruel to a friend in need of his help. He insulted and fooled Turner who was down and out and made him mit himself to an insane venture. What was still more surprisingAppendix I 119was that he was pletely indifferent to Turner39。s death. Without doubt, Burton was a man with a heart of stone.Part III TextBComprehension Check2. c 4. b 6. d1. d3. d5. dTranslation(JAL Appendix III)Language Practice1.handicapped3.take (their) revenge5.stomped7.mercy9.lucky11.froze up13.scooped15.selfconscious17.revenge19.adrift2. for life4. gouge6. good and8. depends...on 10. patted 12. put a stop to 14. shoved 16. let go 18. banking up 20. sluggedPart IV ThemeRelated Language Learning TasksModel PaperMolding CharacterWhy are some people kind and generous, others cruel and heartless? Were they born that way or were the differences in character shaped by differences in experience? The care that is taken in 120 Appendix Ieducating children shows that we place a lot of faith in good upbringing in the molding of character. Yet, children are clearly born with different temperaments and this will lead them to respond differently to the same treatment. Then again, accidents or disease can bring about changes to the brain that can pletely transform a person39。s character.Deciding where the balance lies between nature and external causes can be difficult. Take, for example, the case of the man whose character changed from being amiable and lawabiding to being aggressive and antisocial in a matter of a few weeks. On investigation, it was found that the man was suffering from a brain tumour. When this was removed, he returned to his original kindly character. Later the tumour grew once again, and the same slide into antisocial behaviour began again. In both cases the tumour was pressing on the part of the brain that controls social behaviour and changing the man39。s character. The response from others was understanding and help. However, where a criminal is born with the same type of brain that the tumour caused, our response is not sympathy and treatment, but condemnation and punishment. Is this logical? Is it fair?(236 words)Unit 6Part I PreReading TaskScript for the recording:In the song you are about to listen to we hear what the singer is thinking as he writes his diary. Like many people who keep a diary, he treats it like a friend to whom he can pour out his inmost feelings. From the confidences he entrusts to his diary we learn of what he thinks of the way most people live. He thinks they spend their days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for him. Ashe says:So many people by the score. Rushing around so senselessly. They don39。t notice there39。s people like me.Perhaps he39。s right, perhaps people are too much in a rush to spare enough time for one another.Appendix I 121 Though one suspects they may have other reasons for not sparing the singer time. He sounds altogether selfcentred, looking at the world only from his own narrow point of view. We hear this at the end of the song, when he passes lightly over an Hbomb explosion as something of no concern to him as nobody he knew was involved. Given his outlook, it is probably just as well he has his diary as a friend, as others might find it a bit hard to put up with him.Dear DiaryThe Moody BluesDear diary, what a day it39。s been. Dear diary, it39。s teen just like a dream. Woke up late. Wasn39。t where I should have keen. For goodness sake what39。s happening to me. Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.It was cold outside my door.So many people by the score.Rushing around so senselessly.They don39。t notice there39。s people like me.Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.They don39。t know what they39。re playing. They39。ve no way or knowing what the game is. Still they carry on doing what they can. Outside me, yours truly, dear diary.It39。s over. Will tomorrow he the same:I know that they39。re really not to blame.If they weren39。t so blind then surely they39。d see.There39。s a muck better way for them to he.Inside me, yours truly, dear diary.Somebody exploded an Hbomb today. But it wasn39。t anyone I knew.122Appendix IPart II Text Alexl Organization 1.PartsParagraphsMain IdeasPart OneParas 111The author gives three reasons why we feel so timepressed today.Part TwoParas 1218Not every one is timestressed, and in the case of Americans they have actually gained more free time in the past decade.Part ThreeParas 1923The perception of timefamine has triggered a variety of reactions.Part FourParas 2428The author pins down the crux (fE^p) of the problem and puts forward a remedy for the stress we feel.2. 1) The motorcar causes more traffic problems than it promises to solve.2) The aircraft creates a high demand for timeconsuming journeys that we never dreamed of.3) The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies the hours spent on washing and ironing.4) Instead of making our lives easier, technology goes so far as to cram extra work into our leisure time.5) Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, s and voics.6) Technology eats further into our time by forcing us to handle software glitches on puters and filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.VocabularyI. 1. 1) appliance3) multiply5) prosperity7) aircraft2) parative 4) oblige 6) in reality 8) volunteersAppendix 1 123 9) a handful of 10) distribution11) famine 12) large quantities of/a large quantity of13) widespread 14) streamline15) provoke2. 1) take back 2) clin