新视野大学英语预备级第五单.ppt

Too Many Choices in Shopping;Disscussion;; 1. Having too many choices when shopping is considered by many people to a big problem today. Some experts are beginning to wonder if many varieties of one thing may be too much of a good thing.;choice;consider;译文;2. Have you tried to buy breakfast food lately? Was trying to find the right thing to eat difficult? Some stores have more than 40 varieties of breakfast food, and more are on the way. According to one expert, people can spend a large part of their lives making decisions about what to buy. For example, a simple trip to buy butter, sugar,a nd carrots could take all day. Its tiring to spend extra time shopping.;store;dessert;muffin 松饼;trifle 英式冷布丁;-ed vs. -ing;Its tiring to spend extra time shopping. = People feel tired to spend extra time shopping This book is interesting. = He is interested in this book. The history dates are boring. = I am bored by the history dates. ;I feel excited to read the news. = It is an exciting news to read. It is depressing to see so many young people use drugs today. = We feel depressed to see so many young people use drugs today. She was embarrassed when they asked her age. = It was embarrassing to ask a girls age. ;译文;3. Some shoppers, of course, dont mind this at all. Anotoly Rosinsky, a Russian who now lives in Los Angeles, recalls, In Russia, if you want to buy a tin of beer, you stand in line for half an hour. Then you have one choice if they have beer that day. Here, you spend 30 minutes deciding which beer to buy. In the end, you lose about the same amount of time. But this way its much more pleasant.;course;mind;tin;a biscuit / cake tin;beer;stout 烈性黑啤（原产于爱尔兰，有咖啡的苦味，常与甜点配食）;译文;4 Some people, however, think there is a bigger problem than losing time: stress. 5 “You can go into a major shopping area and after one hour it feels like your mind is dead. The reason is that there are too many things to pick from,”says an expert. He adds that people nowadays feel the