【正文】 ne call. It was the owner of that little wild food restaurant: “I woke up this morning to find most of the animals that they freed yesterday have e back to the kitchen yard.” 短文 33 I fell in love with the minister’s son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese. For Christmas I prayed for this blondehaired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose. 短文 34 When I found out that my parents had invited the minister’s family over for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners? What terrible disappointments would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food? 短文 3536 短文 35 值得記住的是，閱讀本身是一項人類固有的行為，一項從進化史的角 度存在不過一瞬間的發(fā)明。最近幾十年來，教育界已經(jīng)浪費了幾十億 美元用于糾正“閱讀缺陷”，而實際上所謂的“閱讀能力”根本就不 存在。閱讀是一項人造的概念，對一系列非常有限的人類活動而言 具有很高的價值 ——但絕不是所有的活動。 短文 36 毫無疑問，人們都想擁有閱讀能力，這常常使人感到愉悅。到 2025年， 上千萬的美國人仍將閱讀書籍和雜志作為娛樂追求，而這種令人開心 的習慣將毋庸置疑地在后人心中占有一席之地。然而，正如并非每個 公民都被強制接受欣賞古典音樂的訓練一樣，也不該強迫他們相信 閱讀肯定會帶來享受。對于大多數(shù)學生來說，閱讀和寫作在現(xiàn)代世界 里是回報有限但難度很大的事業(yè)。 短文 3536 ? 短文 35 ? It’s worth keeping in mind that reading itself is an inherent ? human activity, an invention that in evolutionary terms has ? existed only for a blink of an eye. School districts have wasted ? billions of dollars in recent decades to correct “reading ? disabilities” when in fact there is no such thing as “reading ? ability” to start with. Reading is an artificial construct ? that is of high value for a very limited set of human ? activities—but by no means all activities. ? 短文 36 ? There is no question that reading is a desirable and often enjoyable ? skill to possess. In 2025, tens of millions of Americans continue ? to enjoy books and magazines as recreational pursuits, and this ? happy habit will undoubtedly remain part of the landscape for ? generations to e. But just as every citizen is not forcibly ? trained to enjoy classical music, neither should they be coerced into ? believing that reading is necessarily pleasurable. For the majority ? of students, reading and writing are difficult enterprises with ? limited payoffs in the modern world. 短文 3738 ? 短文 37 ? 我永遠忘不了 1946年的復活節(jié)。那一年我 14歲，妹妹奧絲 12歲， ? 姐姐達琳 16歲。我們和母親住在一起，我們四個人都知道該如何在 ? 所得很少的情況下過日子。我的父親在 5年前去世了，沒給母親留 ? 下一分錢，只給她留下了 7個正在上學的孩子。 ? 短文 38 ? 那天，教堂中有一位傳教士。他談到非洲的教堂是如何用被風干的 ? 磚塊砌成，但是他們?nèi)孕枰I屋頂材料的錢。他說建一座教堂， ? 屋頂需要花費 100美元。傳教士補充道：“難道我們不能做出一點 ? 犧牲來幫助那些貧窮的人嗎？”我們彼此看了看，臉上均露出了 ? 一星期以來的第一次微笑。 短文 3738 ? 短文 37 ? I’ll never fet Easter 1946. I was fourteen, my little sister, Ocy, was twelve and my older sister, Darlene, was sixteen. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with no money and seven schoolaged kids to raise. ? 短文 38 ? At church we had a missionary speaker. He talked about how churches in Africa made buildings out of sundried bricks, but they needed money to buy roofs. He said one hundred dollars would put a roof on a church. The minister added, “Can’t we all sacrifice to help these poor people?” We looked at each other and smiled for the first time in a week. 短文 3940 ? 短文 39 ? 盡管情感長期以來被認為是女性的專利，但男人傾訴感受的頻率 ? 與女人一樣，他們以類似的方式描述自己的情感經(jīng)歷。一項對 50 ? 萬成年人所做的情商分析表明，男人在情感意識方面評分也很高。 ? 盡管男人和女人都嘆氣、哭喊、高興、憤怒、大叫和生氣，但兩 ? 性處理和表達情感的方式有所不同。 ? 短文 40 ? 這或許解釋了在不同文化環(huán)境下進行的 125項研究中，男孩和 ? 男人為何在闡明手勢、面部表情和語調(diào)等非言語類信息時準確 ? 率始終較低。男人對情感的反應也不甚強烈 ——并且忘起來更快。 THANK YOU!