【正文】 We live in the best time of history.1. Firstly, our living conditions today are superior to those of any past?！钡羌僭O(shè)讓他們選擇的話，現(xiàn)在的人們?nèi)匀粫?huì)選擇現(xiàn)在而不是其他的時(shí)代。 Yet, given the choice, no one today would prefer to live in any other time. 133. The problems of modern society have led many people to plain: 39。 社會(huì)給予的客觀獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)并不能衡量真正的成功。 Even though history offers few foolproof panaceas for living today, the author’s claim that today’s world is so unique that the past is irrelevant is too radical.1. Admittedly, history has helped us learn the appropriateness of addressing certain social issues, particularly moral ones, on a societal level.2. However, the only firm lesson from history about social ills is that they are here to stay.現(xiàn)在和過去 126. Society39。 I strongly agree that we define ourselves primarily through our identification with social groups, as the speaker asserts.1. Any developmental psychologist would agree that socialization with other children plays a critical role in any child’s understanding and psychological development of self.2. As children progress to the social world of the playground and other afterschool venues, their earlier recognition that they relate more closely to some people than to others evolves into a desire to form welldefined social groups, and to set these groups apart from others.3. However, as young adults take on the responsibilities of partnering, parenting, and working, they appear to define themselves less by their social affiliations and more by their marital status, parental status, and occupation. 120. So much is new and plex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present. 如果我們要定位自己最重要是要定位自己所處的社會(huì)團(tuán)體。 1. The claim that individual responsibility is a necessary fictions has some merit in that a society where individuals are not held accountable for their actions and choices is a lawless one, devoid of any order whatsoever.2. A correlative argument for individual responsibility involves the fact that lawless, or anarchist, states give way to despotic rule by strong individuals who seize power.3. As for the speaker’s second claim, it flies in the face of our everyday experiences in making choices and decisions. 個(gè)人責(zé)任的概念是一種很必要的虛構(gòu)。 is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people39。 Generally speaking, leaders are the results of a bination of internal qualities and external conditions.1. The demands place upon a person could challenge him or her to bee a leader.2. However, the statement seems to suggest that anybody can bee a leader if demands are placed on him or her, which is unwarranted.3. Besides opportunities, one also need to have certain qualities to make a leader.時(shí)勢造英雄 93. The concept of 39。 領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者主要是由身負(fù)的責(zé)任所造就的。 現(xiàn)在的人們太個(gè)人主義了。 To be more exact, great thinkers and artists are generally out of step with their time and society.1. Many great artists remained obscure all their lives.2. There are countless examples of original thinkers who were either ignored or misunderstood by their time and their society.3. However, there are cases of greater thinkers or artists who were recognized and rocketed to instant fame in their own time and their own society.另類天才 真正深刻的思想家和充滿創(chuàng)造力的藝術(shù)家總是超前于他們所在的時(shí)代和社會(huì)的。 therefore, they need a period of time for adaptation.新手和老手 72. One can best understand the most important characteristics of a society by studying its major cities. 在任何領(lǐng)域中商業(yè)、政治、教育、政府掌權(quán)者應(yīng)該在五年后就讓位。 People in different cultural environments would respond differently to this statement.1. On the one hand, western cultures tend to focus on differences among ideas, individuals and groups.2. The danger of traditional societies, on the other hand, is to ignore differences forcing individuals and groups to conform to one authority.3. A healthy attitude is to be sensitive to both differences and similarities.統(tǒng)一和差異 The fact that only a few people deserve highprofile awards is in