新视野第三册U8-revised-new-guo-group 8.ppt

Zooming In: An Integrated English CourseBook III Unit Eight Man and Society Before Reading_2.2 The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. — Bertrand Russell Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. — Jerry Flint Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. — Albert Einstein If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s the father of cooperation. John Ashcroft 如果需要是发明之母， 那么它也是合作之父。 —约翰·阿什克罗夫特 Listen and Respond Listen to a short passage entitled “Competition” three times and try to fill in the blanks on Page240. Competition is a way of life in todays world. Our society encourages competition. Individuals must constantly improve their work performance if they want to keep their jobs. Companies must continue to improve their services and products to survive national or international competition. As a result, the entire society prospers, at least economically. Cooperation in the form of monopoly or price-fixing is illegal in many countries as it kills the spirit of competition. American people do not allow their governments to operate any business, because they believe that the government-run business will be ineffective due to lack of competition. In the past decade, we have seen computers shrinking in size, increasing in power, and declining in price. We have also seen a rapid expansion of telecommunications networking at a reducing price. All of these good things happen only because of competition. Competition does not occur in business alone. It appears in many other forms. The Olympic Games are a form of competition, and so are colleg