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第一课： The Company in Which I work 1、章节知识点 背景知识（Background knowledge） Joseph Heller 词汇 (Vocabulary) JosephHeller drain bypass strain distribute grudge incur stimulate motivate budget boost 短语 (Expressions) come upon /on credit sb. / sth. withsth. in the longrun ontrial brood on / oversth. lookahead thriveon convert ? to/ into ? fall victim (to sth.) take advantage of sth. /sb. 词语辨析 (Wordanalysis) occur,incur ingenuous,ingenious implicit,explicit compliment, complement stimulate, simulate wonder,brood grudge,malice cunning, shrewd 难句理解（Sentence comprehensio）n All these twelve men are elderly now and drained by time and success of energy andambition. They seem friendly, slow, and content when I come upon them in the halls and always courteous and mute whenthey ride with others in the publicelevators. ...and I will bypass him on most of our assignments rather than take up his time and delay their delivery to people who have an immediate need forthem. They are always on trial, always on the verge of failure, collectively andindividually. They strain, even the most secure and self-assured of them, to look good on paper; and there is much paper for them to look goodon. The result of this photocopying and distributing is that there is almost continuous public scrutiny and discussion throughout the company of how well or poorly the salesmen in each sales office of each division of the company are doing at any giventune. When they are doing poorly, they are doingterribly. The company, in fact, will pay for their country club membership and all charges they incur there, and rewards salesmen who make a good impression on the golfcourse. In fact, I am continuously astonished by people in the company who fall victim to their ownpropaganda. Virtually, I am constantly astonished by people inthe company who were fooled by their own exaggerated statements. Every time we launch a new advertising campaign, for example, people inside the company are the first ones tobe taken in byit. Th