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21世纪Unit1How do A students like these do it? Brains arent the only answer. The most gifted students do not necessarily perform best in exams. Knowing how to make the most of ones abilities counts for much more. Hard work isnt the whole story either. Some of these high-achieving students actually put in fewer hours than their lower-scoring classmates. The students at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can easily learn. 优等生是怎样做到的?好脑筋并不是唯一的答案.往往最有天赋的学生在考试中未必能表现良好.懂得怎么样运用自己的能力更为重要。努力学习并不是全部.有一些得高分的同学比考的不好的同学用在学习的时间更少.班里的前几名学习都是有技巧的,这些技巧别的学生也可以很容易的学到.Unit2This explains why it can be so difficult to get a western-style discussion going with Japanese students of English. Whenever I sever a volleyball, everyone just stands back and watches it fall. No one hits it back. Everyone waits until I can on someone to take a turn.And when that person speaks, he doesnt hit my ball back. He serves a new ball. Again, everyone just watches it fall. So I call on someone else. This person does not refer to what the previous speaker has said. He also serves a new ball. Everyone begins again from the same starting line, and all the balls run parallel. There is never any back and forth. 这里解释一下为什么和日本学生进行一场西方式的英语讨论如此困难.无论什么时候我发出排球,每个人都只是站在那看着皮球落地.没人把它打回去.每个人都在等待直到我招呼他们来一局.而且当他们开始比赛时,他们并不回击我的球,而是重新发球.又一次,所有人看着球落地.于是我叫上另外一个人.然而这个人同样没有领会先前的那个人说了什么.他又重新发了一个球,每个人都从发球线开始发球,所有球都平行的飞了过去.没有任何一个球飞回来.Unit3Blind and black and poor-what kind of life could this new infant have?In her wildest dreams,Mrs.Morris could never have imagined that her new baby would become a famous musician called Stevie Wonder.At the time,all she could do was pray-and worry.Stevie himself didnt worry at all.Life was too full.He was brought up among church-going people whose faith helped them bear the poverty.He loved music and would pound spoons or forks on any surface that faintly resembled a drum.又瞎又黑又穷 -- 这个新生儿的生活将会是什么样的?莫里斯太太做梦也不会想到她刚降生的孩子将会成为著名的音乐家 - 史迪威·旺达.当初,她所能做的除了祈祷就是担忧.而史迪威自己一点