【正文】 te lies? Do you think the lies will be well received once they are exposed?A: According to the passage, the nature of white lies is to seek selfinterest: People tell white lies basically for selfpromoting purposes. White lies may have different receptions in different cultures. In western cultures as is illustrated by the example, white lies may not be well received as the people value honesty and integrity more than caring and face value。 and the society as a whole would falter and collapse as its members do not trust each other any more.4. Are all white lies unacceptable? What is the yardstick of acceptable lies?A: Not all white lies are unacceptable. Some falsehoods like setting somebody up for a surprise party or telling children about the tooth fairy can be justified. However, you have to consider the attitude of the deceived towards lying and the consequences, . whether your act will undermine his trust in you.Explain the sentences in your own words1. “Psychological barriers wear down。he may bee less cautious against being caught.2. Once they’ve bee mon enough, even the small untruths that are not meant to hurt encourage a certain cynicism and loss of trust. ()When it bees mon enough to tell small lies, even the small unharmful ones will induce doubt and distrust. most understandable and forgivable lies are an exchange of what ethicists refer to as the principle of trust for the principle of caring. (para. 16)Those lies that are most understandable and acceptable are based on what moralists call the principle of love and care rather than that of trust.III. ExercisesTranslation exercises: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or phrases given in the brackets，他就裝瘋。(profess)Many women in America profess that they are unhappy with their status of secondclass citizens.，他脫口說出了秘密。(spare)He is very popular among his peers as he always tries to spare others any trouble. DictationChildhood is less clear to me than to many people: / When it ended I turned my face away from it / for no reason that I know about, / certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. / For many years that worried me, / but then I discovered / that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. / Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures / with which to fort themselves, / and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, / to excuse what they have bee. / I think I have always known about my memory. / I know when it is to be trusted / and when some dream or fantasy entered on the life, / and the dream, the need of dream, / led to distortion of what happened. (Source: Lilian Hellman, Julia. )Oral activitiesGroup discussionwho do you think is in the wrong, the officer of the Foreign Affairs Office or the American professor?An American exchange professor is now teaching in a university in Southern China. The flat he is acmodated in by the school authority faces an openair market and every morning he is woken up by the noise outside. He decides to move to the other end of the building and goes to the Foreign Affairs Office of the university. The reply he receives is “ We must give it more thought.” he returns to his home and waits for two weeks, but no reply is given. He waits another two weeks, still without any answer. He feels cheated and decides to leave China the next semester.Writing practiceWrite an essay of about 300 words on the following topic:My View of Telling LiesTears in Heavenwould you know my nameif I saw you in heavenwould it be the sameif I saw you in heavenI must be strongand carry on39。ll find my way (yes I will)night and day39。s peace I39。cause I know I don39。ll be no more tears in heavenwould you know my nameif I saw you in heavenwould it be the same if I saw you in heavenI must be strongand carry on39。cause I know I just can39。cause I know I don39。(warp)You should get rid of any prejudice, resist temptations and let nothing warp your judgment.，經(jīng)常在頭腦里編織依仗一張復(fù)雜的網(wǎng)絡(luò)。(prevarication)Prevarication is one of the techniques this businessman likes to empl