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【正文】 vision series in which a boy and a girl are supposed to be exploring distant plas with their parents. In each story, they encounter strange monsters and find themselves in dangerous situations but the parents are reassuring and sensible, as a child’s parents should be in real life. There is an adult character who is a coward and liar, but both the children are brave and , of course, every story ends happily. In my view, children should be exposed to the problems of real life as soon as possible, but they cannot help seeing these through news programs. When they are being entertained, the healthiest atmosphere is one which the hero and heroine are children like themselves who behave naturally and confidently in any situation. 7. The only thing people are interested in today is earning more money Once upon a time there lived a beautiful young woman and a handsome young man. They were very poor, but as they were deeply in love, they wanted to get married. The young people’s parents shook their heads. ―You can’t get married yet.‖ They said. Wait till you get a good job with good prospects. So the young people waited until they found good jobs with good prospects and they were able to get married. They were still poor, of course, they didn’t have a house to live in or any furniture, but that didn’t matter. They young man had a good job with good prospects, so large anizations lent him the money he needed to buy a house, some furniture, all the latest electrical appliances and a car. The couple lived happily ever after paying off debts for the rest of their lives. And so ends another modern romantic fable. We live in a materialistic society and are trained from our earliest years to be acquisitive. Our possessions, yours and mine are clearly labeled from early childhood. When we grow old enough to earn a living, it does not surprise us to discover that success is measured in terms of the money you earn. We spend the whole of ourlives keeping up with our neighbors, the Joneses. If we buy a new television set , Jones is bound to buy a bigger and better one. If we buy a new car, we can be sure that Jones will go one better and get two new cars: one for his wife and one for himself. The most amusing thing about this game is that Joneses and all the neighbors who are struggling frantically to keep up with them are spending borrowed money kindly provided, at a suitable rate of interest, of course, by friendly banks, insurance panies, etc. It is not only affluent societies that people are obsessed with the idea of making more money. Consumer goods are desirable everywhere and modern industry deliberately sets out to create new markets. Gone are the days when industrial goods were made to last forever. The wheels of industry must be kept turning. Builtin obsolescence provides the means。 goods are made to be discarded. Cars get tinnier and tinnier. You no sooner acquire this year’s model than you are thinking about its replacement. This materialistic outlook has seriously influenced education. Fewer and fewer young people these days acquire knowledge only for its own sake. Every course of studies must lead somewhere. . to a bigger wage packet. The demand for skilled personnel for exceeds the supply and big panies pete with each other to recruit students before they have pleted their studies. Tempting salaries and ―fringe benefits‖ are offered to them. Recruiting tactics of this kind have led to the brain drain, the process by which highly skilled people offer their services to the highest bidder. The wealthier nations deprive their poorer neighbors of their most able citizens. While Mammon is worshipped as never before, the rich get richer and the poor, poorer. 8. Communication and Language One of the first things we think about when we hear the word munication language. There are thousands of languages spoken around the world today. In fact, linguists say that there may be as many as 10000. Speaking with others is an important means of munication, but we can also municate without using words, that is by nonverbal munication. Nonverbal munication includes voice quality, eyes movement, facial expression and body movements such as gestures and change in body position. But many people do not realize that everyone uses nonverbal munication. Sometimes, we ―say‖ more with our face and gestures that we do with our voices. Books, magazines, newspapers, radio, television, are other means of munication. Today we can also municate over long distance with the help of munications satellites. Some scientists say that soon machines will be developed for sending message through the earth. The technology necessary to build these machines is very plex. But the language we speak every day is much more plex than the most modern munication technology. 9. Cooperation Goes with Competition In our times, cooperation and petition spread over the world. Both of them speed up the wheel of economy and enrich the intelligence of mankind. It is possible to acplish a plicated program by only one person now. As we know, the more cooperation a pany depends on, the more efficient it will bee in business. Furthermore, we can’t avoid petition in our exchanges. From time to time, we pare ourselves with others, expecting to catch up with others. This is the spirit of petition, by which we pursue the highest goal. It is only by petition in the market that a pany can raise its reputation. Were it not for petition, say, all of us would not enjoy what we have achieved. 10. The Rise of Intellectual Property Protection Intellectual property scarcely existed in the vocabularies of academic researchers and administrators even 15 years ago. Now it is an everpresent part of discussions on research policies and directions. This new importance of intellectual property in academia refl