新视野大学英语读写教程2课文原文及课后答案集合.doc

PAGE 1 新视野大学英语 读写教程2 课文原文 目录 TOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u Unit1 1 Passage A Time-Conscious Americans 1 Passage B Culture Shock 2 Unit 2 3 Passage A Learning the Olympic Standard for Love 3 Passage B The Standard for Olympic Excellence 5 Unit 3 7 Passage A Marriage Across Nations 7 Passage B Rich Meeting His Future Mother-in-law 8 Unit 4 10 Passage A A Test of True Love 10 Passage B Love Under the Nazis 11 Unit 5 13 Passage A Weeping for My Smoking Daughter 13 Passage B Stop Spoiling Your Children 14 Unit 6 16 Passage A As His Name Is, So Is He! 16 Passage B Judge by Appearances 17 Unit 7 19 Passage A Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life 19 Passage B Are You a Workaholic? 20 Unit 8 22 Passage A Theres a Lot More to Life than a Job 22 Passage B What Youngsters Expect in Life 23 Unit 9 25 Passage A Never Be a Quitter in Face of Life 25 Passage B From Hardship Comes Success 26 Unit 10 28 Passage A Reports on Britain Under the Bombs 28 Passage B Forty-Three Seconds over Hiroshima 30 PAGE 54 Unit1 Passage A Time-Conscious Americans Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring. Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other being labor. ??We are slaves to nothing but the clock, it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a persons hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count. ?? A foreigners first impression of