【正文】 reet, maybe you will say, “It’s cool.” You may think, “He’s so cool,” when you see your favourite footballer.We all maximize(擴(kuò)大) the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall they had visited. On one student’s paper was just the one sentence, “It’s so cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show that he saw and felt.But the story also shows a scarcity(不足) of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility(可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word “cool”? I can, and I think they are also very cool. “酷”是一個(gè)具有多種含義的詞。在一個(gè)學(xué)生的作文里只有一個(gè)句子，“這太酷了。他們中許多人將在不久掌管這個(gè)國家。這是一種美國人民互相問候?qū)Ψ降挠押梅绞?，但是?dāng)一個(gè)人說：“你好嗎？“即使這人的朋友不是很好，他期望聽到的回答：”好，“?！斑@是一個(gè)較好的方式來表達(dá)你不同意某人。世界上三分之一的人非常富有，三分之二的人非常貧窮。P335 (13)From the time we were babies we have been taught our manners. We are taught how to hold a knife and a fork and not to talk with our mouths full. We are taught how to shake hands and when to stand and when to sit and the way to introduce people.Sometimes good manners in one place are very bad manners somewhere else.Almost everywhere eating together means that you are very friendly to each other. But in parts of Polynesia(波利尼西亞) it is bad manners to be seen eating at all. They politely turn their backs on each other when they are taking food.Some East Africans spit four times as a kind of blessing. They do it to show that they want a sick person to get well, or to bless a newborn baby. In most other places, spitting means just something pletely different. It’s something to do to show that you hate someone.When we go to visit someone we say “Hello”, and “How are you” and things like that.If you were visiting an East African village, everyone would be very careful not to pay any attention to you. The polite thing there would be for you to go quietly, without speaking to anyone, and sit beside your friend. You would wait until he had finished what he was doing and then he would begin talking to you.In a village in Arab, a visitor walks behind all the tents(帳篷) until he gets to the one he wants to visit. If he passed in front, he would be invited into each tent and asked to eat. It was rude(粗魯) to refuse. 從我們是嬰兒時(shí)候起就被教導(dǎo)我們的舉止。他們這樣做是為了表明他們希望一個(gè)有病的人病情好轉(zhuǎn)，還有祝福新出生的嬰兒。如果他在帳篷前面行走，他將被邀請(qǐng)到每個(gè)帳篷，并要吃東西。你要等到他完成了他做的事情，然后他會(huì)開口跟你說話。當(dāng)他們吃東西時(shí)，他們會(huì)有禮貌地留下給對(duì)方。而這個(gè)過程中較富裕的國家由于他們出口得到的卻總是在上升。這是一個(gè)人們盡量善待對(duì)方的重要途徑，這也是語言游戲的一個(gè)部分。我認(rèn)為你錯(cuò)了。正因?yàn)槿绱耍诿绹彝ネ嬗袩?。P330 (10)Today there are about 7,000,000 Americans in colleges and universities. In the United States nearly half of the population(人口) are young persons under twentyfive. Many of them will soon be in charge of(掌管) the country. So their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for older people to understand what young people think and feel.College students today have strong opinions(觀點(diǎn)) about right and wrong. They are interested in making a better life. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older ways. Because of this, there is often trouble in American families. 今天，大約有7,000,000美國人就讀高校。我們都在擴(kuò)大“酷”的意思。周末過得愉快嗎？新游戲進(jìn)展如何？我想你。請(qǐng)準(zhǔn)時(shí)到來！星期一11:23我是凱倫米勒，澳大利亞互動(dòng)電腦游戲的制片人。這是你第五次缺席了。其他熱線給它們的顧問支付報(bào)酬。P326 (7)In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice. Today, it is possible to get advice from radio show, TV programs and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with(同……聯(lián)絡(luò)) advisers. Most hot lines are pletely anonymous(不具名的). Callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usually free, too. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone callseven if the calls are long distance(長途). At some hot lines, the advisers are volunte