得体的行为举止无需付出任何代价，但几乎可以为我们赢得一切。假设当一个人逛街，营业员以礼相待。那么这个人感到满意，他会回来再次光顾这家商店。如果销售人员粗鲁无礼，顾客离开时就会不满而恼怒。他可能永远不再回来买东西。因此，良好的礼仪知识具有一定的实用价值，因为营业员的目的是满足顾客，并让他们愿意再次光顾。

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   Good manners cost us nothing but may win for us almost everything. Suppose when a man is shopping, the salesperson treats him politely. Then this man feels satisfied and he will come back and patronize this shop. If the salesperson is rude and impolite in manners, this customer will leave the shop discontented and annoyed. And he may never come back to buy things there. Thus, knowledge of good manners has some practical value because the aim of a salesperson is to satisfy his customers and to make them want to come to his shop again.

我出生在一个教师的家庭，我的童年是在战火中度过的，我没有在座的同学们那样一个美好的童年，在日本侵略者用刺刀把人们赶到广场的时候，我曾经依偎在妈妈身边．后来战火无情地烧掉了我的全家，连我祖父在农村办的那所小学，我的工作大部分时间都是在中国最艰苦的地方度过的。

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   I'm the son of a school teacher. I spent my childhood mostly in the smoke and fire of war. I was not as fortunate as you as a child. When Japanese aggressors drove all the people in my place to the Central Plaza, I had to huddle closely against my mother. Later on, my whole family and house were all burned up, and even the primary school that my grandpa built himself all went up in flames. In my work life, most of the time I worked in areas under the most harsh conditions in China.

一个两难的情况是，一个人要从两件不如意的事情或行动之间进行选择。在我们的日常生活中，我们会遇到一些困境，这是很自然的。当处于两难境地时，很多人想两全其美。然而，在大多数情况下，我们只能做出一个比较好的选择，选择的过程是痛苦的。也许我们可以向同朋友、亲戚倾诉．听取他们的意见。

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   A dilemma is a situation in which one person has to choose between two undesirable things or courses of action. It is natural that we encounter some dilemmas in our daily life. When involved in a dilemma, many people want to make the best of both worlds. However, in most circumstances, we can only make a better choice, the course of which is always painful. Maybe we can share it with our friends, relatives and ask for their advice.

中国钱币历史悠久。中国的首个钱币出现在3000多年前的商代，用的是贝壳。后来由于贝壳不够，人们用铜铸成贝壳的形状，当做钱使，这是最早由金属制成的钱。大约在公元1000年的宋朝，出现了最早的纸币，饺子。如今，在大多数国家中，人们使用的币和硬币作为现金。

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   Chinese money has a very long history. The first kind of money in China appeared over 3,000 years ago in Shang Dynasty. It was shell. Later, lacking of shell, people made bronze into the shape of shell, serving as money, which is the earliest money made of metal. And about A. D. 1000 in Song Dynasty, the first paper money, jiaozi, came out. Nowadays, in most countries, the cash people use is paper money and coins.

信用卡是一种可让持有人将获得商品或服务而无需立即支付现金的卡片。信用卡由银行、信贷公司和零售商店向具有良好信用记录的顾客发行。今天，人们使用信用卡购买几乎所有的东西，从街角的杂货店到华尔街的蓝筹股。

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   A credit card is a card that enables the holder to get goods or services without having to pay cash immediately. They are issued by banks, credit-companies and retail stores to clients with a good credit history. Today people use credit cards to buy almost everything, from groceries at a corner store to bluechip stocks on Wall Street.

政策制定者和公众现在普遍担心家庭正在解体。这一焦虑很大程度上源于过去人们对家庭本质的误解，以及在巨大的社会和经济变化过程中家庭呈现出的弹性持不理解态度。历史上人们普遍认为家庭式稳定的、不变的单位，而家庭只在现在才发生变化；实际上，变化自始至终都是家庭的特质之一。

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   There is widespread fear among poticymakers and the public today that the family is disintegrating. Much of that anxiety stems from a basic misunderstanding of the nature of the family in the past and a lack of appreciation for its resiliency in response to broad social and economic changes. The general view of the family is that it has been a stable and relatively unchanging institution through history and is only now undergoing changes; in fact, change has always been characteristic of it.

“艺术家”，贾科梅蒂曾对他的寄宿生们说：“必须如实描绘他的所见，而非别人所展示的一面。”当时他只有16岁，但这些话却给予他清晰的界定，并在他有生之年产生巨大影响。他生于100年前，是20世纪雕刻和绘画巨头之一，是在雕刻上给予毕加索建议的艺术大师。

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   "The artist," Alberto Giacometti once told his boarding school classmates, "must portray things as he sees them, not as others show them." He was just 16, but those words would define and haunt him for the rest of his life. Born just 100 years ago, he became one of the titans of twentieth century sculpture and painting, an artist who gave Picasso advice on sculpting.

澳大利亚英语的一个显著特征是其比较统一。澳大利亚，一个与欧洲差不多大小的国家，几乎没有方言差异。帕斯人说的话与悉尼人的话听起来相差无异。在英国和美国，正好相反，外人都很容易辨别出这个人是苏格兰人、新英格兰人还是路易斯安那人。

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   A remarkable feature of Australian English is its comparative uniformity. Australia, a continent roughly the size of Europe, has almost no regional variation accent. A citizen of Perth can sound much like a citizen of Sydney. In Britain or the United States, by contrast, even the outsider can probably decide from the local accent whether he or she is in Scotland, New England or Louisiana.

没有品尝过当地美食的旅程不是完整的旅程。在普罗旺斯，你会发现用大蒜，甜西红柿和橄榄油制成的菜肴。普罗旺斯也是全法国著名的葡萄酒产地。那里的人们最擅长保持传统的延续。他们有许多庆祝活动，舞蹈和节日。你甚至可以在星空下的古罗马剧院里欣赏斗牛或诗歌表演。

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   A trip is never complete without tasting some of the local food. In Provence, you will find dishes made with garlic, sweet tomatoes, and olive oil. Provence is also famous all over France for its delicious wine. The people there are well-known for keeping their traditions alive. They hold many celebrations, dances, and festivals. You can even see a bullfight, or enjoy poetry at an ancient Roman theater with the stars shining above you.

最近公布的一项研究调查了72845名来自北美和南美、亚洲、欧洲和中东的13～15岁的学童。研究人员发现，四分之一的男孩和近30%的女孩惯于久坐，并没有得到足够的锻炼，除赞比亚之外所有地区的女孩都不如男生活跃。乌拉圭男孩最活跃，达到42%，而赞比亚的男孩最不活跃，只有8%。印度女孩最活跃，有37%达到建议活动量，埃及女孩最不活跃，只有4%得到足够的锻炼。

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   A study published recently looked at 72,845 schoolchildren aged 13 to 15 from North and South America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Researchers found out a quarter of boys and nearly 30 percent of girls were sedentary and didn't get enough exercise with girls less active than boys in every country aside from Zambia. Uruguay had the highest percentage of active boys, at 42 percent, while Zambia had the lowest, at 8 percent. Girls from India were the most active, with 37 percent meeting exercise recommendations, while girls from Egypt were the least active, with just 4 percent getting adequate exercise.

与普遍看法相反，每晚睡6～7个小时的人寿命更长，而每晚睡8小时或更长的人会英年早逝，根据该问题的最新研究成果。该研究在6年的时间里追踪了110万美国人的睡眠习惯，研究颠覆了许多睡眠医生的建议．他们一直建议人们每晚睡8或9个小时。“旧的观念认为人们需要睡八小时，这中观念和认为彩虹尽头有黄金一样没有科学根据，”一位研究人员说，“这是无稽之谈。”

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   Contrary to popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger, according to the latest study ever conducted on the subject. The study, which tracked the sleeping habits of 1.1 million Americans for six years, undermines the advice of many sleep doctors who have long recommended that people get eight or nine hours of sleep every night. "There's an old idea that people should sleep eight hours a night, which has no more scientific basis than the gold at the end of the rainbow," said a researcher, "That's an old wives' tale."

美国的孩子不是唯一的“沙发土豆”，全球有近三分之一的儿童每天看电视或电脑的时间超过三小时，一项调查了34个国家70000名青少年的研究称。从阿根廷到赞比亚，世界健康组织发现大多数儿童运动不足，富裕国家和贫穷国家的孩子在这项上没有区别。

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   American children aren't the only couch potatoes with nearly one third of children globally spending three hours a day or more watching TV or on computers, according to study of over 70,000 teens in 34 nations. From Argentina to Zambia, the World Health Organization found most children aren't getting enough exercise and it made no difference if they lived in a rich or a poor country.

2009年受经济衰退影响商务旅行跌至低谷，纽约市营销与旅游组织预计，今年来自中国的游客将增加20%——商务旅行是中国人前往纽约的主要旅游类型。假设这一预计实现，今年将有223000名中国游客前往纽约，小幅超过2008年的纪录。

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   New York City's marketing and tourism organization expects a 20% increase in visitors from China this year compared with a weak 2009 when the recession cut business travel—the major impetus for Chinese travel to New York. If the estimate holds up, 223,000 tourists from China will come to New York this year, topping the 2008 record by a small margin.

美国商务部预计2010年全国范围内的中国游客将增加22%。2010年整个二月，中国大陆和香港地区的游客达141071人，在所有访美游客中排名第九，比去年增加了86%。旅游专家称中国的访美游客通常都会造访纽约。

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   Nationwide, the U.S. Commerce Department predicts a 22 % increase in travelers from China in 201Through February 2010, 141,071 tourists from China and I-long Kong have visited the U. S., ranking it ninth among arrivals with an 86 % increase over last year. Tourism experts say New York is usually on the agenda for Chinese visitors to the U. S.

今天的中国旅游市场同十年前的日本市场很相似，一位总部设在纽约，办事处设在北京和上海的旅游公司高管说。“7～10年内，如果我们不出差错，中国将成访美游客最大的市场。”他说。该公司去年来自中国的预定呈三位数增长。

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   Today's Chinese tourism market is similar to where the Japanese market was 10 years ago, said an executive from a tour wholesaler based in New York with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. "Within seven to 10 years, if we play our cards right, China will be one of the biggest markets inbound to the U. S.", he said. The company has seen a triple-digit increase in bookings from China over last year.

曼哈顿多数的标准旅游景点都很受中国游客欢迎。但旅游经营者也说有一处不大知名，却对中国游客十分重要的景点就是保龄球绿色公园里的“奔牛”。很多中国人认为如果他们摸了这头牛，他们就会在股市中有好运气。

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   Most of the standard tourist attractions in Manhattan are popular with visiting Chinese. But tour operators also say one lesser-known site very important to Chinese visitors is the "Charging Bull" sculpture in Bowling Green Park. Many Chinese think if they touch the bull, they will have good luck on the stock market.

专家说，皮肤癌呈上升趋势，主要是因为我们比以前更大面积地在阳光下暴露皮肤。只在过去50年左右的时间里，人们才把晒成棕褐色的皮肤等同于财富和健康。在上世纪，上层社会皮肤苍白；只有劳动者、牛仔、农夫的皮肤黝黑，而且他们不会穿着比基尼躺在阳光下。我们的寿命更长了，而紫外线的危害也累积下来了，所以50、60和70岁患皮肤癌的人实际上是多年接受日照的结果。

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   Skin cancer is rising mainly because we're exposing more of our bodies to the sun than ever before, experts said. It's only been in the past 50 years or so that people equated a tan with health and wealth. In centuries past, the upper classes stayed pale; only laborers, cowboys and farmers sported tans, and they didn't lie out at noon in bikinis. We're also living longer than ever, and UV damage is cumulative, so 50-, 60- and 70-year-olds are getting skin cancer based on decades of exposure.

有这样一个故事，关于一个叫杰克的爱尔兰人，因为吝啬钱财和被天堂拒之门外。于是他进了地狱。在地狱他捉弄魔鬼撒旦，于是他又被地狱踢出门外，被罚提着盏灯笼永远活在世上。爱尔兰小孩在10月31日那天用大土豆或萝卜做成杰克的灯笼，中间挖空，边上留孔，里头点上小蜡烛。爱尔兰小孩提着这灯笼挨家讨吃的。你在大多数书里读到的万圣节的传统在只不过是小孩的开心之夜罢了。

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   One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingy with his money. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the Earth forever carrying a lantern. Irish children made Jack's lanterns on October 31st from a large potato or turnip, hollowed out with the sides having holes and lit by little candles inside. And Irish children would carry them as they went from house to house begging for food. The traditional Halloween you can read about in most books was just children's fun night.

高原反应，也被医生们成为急性高山疾病，是由于气压减少和高海拔地区含氧量低而引起的。有的症状轻微，如疲劳、头疼和恶心，也有的症状严重。在严重的情况下，肺部积水造成呼吸困难。大脑也可能膨胀，导致昏迷和死亡。

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   Altitude sickness, also known among doctors as acute mountain sickness, is a result of the reduced air pressure and lower oxygen concentrations at high elevations. Symptoms can range from the mild, such as fatigue, headaches and nausea, to the severe. In serious cases, fluid collects in the lungs, causing difficulty breathing. The brain can also swell, leading to coma and death.

农业部称猪肉价格已经连续14周下跌，跌至四年来的最低位，甚至比一些蔬菜便宜。四月的第一周，猪肉平均价格为每公斤9.43元。猪肉价格大跌迫使政府增加冻肉储备粮，几年前政府为稳定猪肉价格在全国建立了一系列冷库。一份引用了政府数据的报告称今年的生猪价格下降了21%。另一份报告说猪肉价格低于扁豆。

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   Pork prices have fallen 14 weeks in a row according to the Ministry of Agriculture, their lowest level in four years, and cheaper even than some vegetables. In the first week of April, the average hog price was 9.43 yuan a kilogram. The porcine price plummet has forced the government to add to its frozen pork reserve, a series of icy warehouses around the country it set up a few years ago to stabilize pork prices. One report, citing government statistics, says live pig prices have dropped 21% this year. Another report says pork prices have fallen below the lowly lentil.

猪肉在中国的商业活动中起着至关重要的作用。中国共有500万头猪，每三人拥有一头猪。从宏观上看，例如人口，中国是世界上占有猪的量最大的。印度在这方面也相形见绌。第二大生产国是美国，拥有65万头猪，根据联合国粮农组织数据显示。实际上中国生产的猪超过了排在其后43个国家产量的总和。

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   Pork plays a vital role in China's commerce. There are almost half a billion pigs in China, one for every three people. In gross terms, like in humans, China dwarfs other countries in pigs. And there's no India of pigs to rival China. The next biggest producer is the U. S., which has 65 million pigs, according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization. In fact China produces more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined.

汉语没有吸纳外来词的传统，这和日语不一样，影响日语的语言包括汉语、英语甚至法语，法语和英语的拼写是一致的。外来名称和其他专有名词通常会转化为相应的汉语词语，汉语中吸纳的英语词汇通常会发生发音变化，并用汉子书写，例如咖啡或沙发。

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   The Chinese language doesn't have a particularly strong tradition of adopting foreign words, unlike, say, Japanese, which has been heavily influenced by the Chinese and English languages, or even French, which at least shares the same writing system as English. Foreign names and other proper nouns are usually rendered into rough Chinese equivalents, and English words that have made it into the Chinese lexicon typically undergo some changes in pronunciation and are written with Chinese characters, such as "kafei" for coffee or "shafa" for sofa.

分析说许多低收入的撒哈拉以南非洲国家和一些亚洲国家的人口增速已经超过了经济增长率。亚洲人口4.2亿，是世界上人口最稠密的地区。下世纪初非洲的人口预计将增加三倍至36亿人。在许多欧洲国家和日本的生育率已低于更替率，人们担心劳动力和生产力短缺可能会威胁到生活质量。

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   Analysis says many low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa and some in Asia have seen a growth in population that is outpacing economic growth rates. Asia's population of 4.2 billion makes it the world's most populous region. Africa's population is expected to triple to 3.6 billion people by the start of the next century. Fertility rates in many European nations and Japan have dropped below the replacement rate, causing concern that shortages of labor and productivity could threaten the quality of life.

张齐，一位毕业于山西省的26岁大学毕业生，于4月3日成为首位入住的房客。张在一家广告公司工作了4年，月薪4000元。之前她和3人合住在北京三环的一间两居室公寓里，房租每月800元。但张希望住得便宜点，省下钱来给家人。她父亲两年前去世，母亲没有工作，妹妹大学还没毕业。

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   Zhang Qi, a 26-year-old college graduate from Shanxi Province, became the first to move in on April As an employee with an advertising company for more than four years, Zhang earns a decent salary of around 4,000 yuan a month. She used to live with three people in a two-bedroom apartment along Beijing's Third Ring Road, paying 800 yuan a month for her part of the rent. But Zhang wanted a cheaper rent to save more money for her family. Her father died two years ago, leaving behind her mother who has no job and her younger sister who is yet to graduate from college.

周四公布的经济报告显示，美国住房和就业市场稍有回暖。美国劳工部说，上周签领失业救济金的美国人少了5000多人，全国失业人数为388000人。虽然这是自去年四月以来的最低水平，对于一个健康的经济体而言仍然偏高。

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   Economic reports published Thursday show the U. S. housing and job markets getting a little better. The Labor Department says 5,000 fewer Americans signed up for unemployment compensation last week, putting the nationwide total at 388,00While that is the lowest level since last April, it is still above the level seen in a healthy economy.

目前美国的失业率已下降到9%，一些经济学家说，下降的势头会放缓。一份来自商务部的报告显示十月份开工的住宅项目数目减少，但签发的施工许可数目上涨，特别是公寓项目增加了。

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   The U. S. unemployment rate has fallen to 9 percent and some economists say it is likely to decline slowly. A separate report from the Commerce Department shows builders started construction on slightly fewer homes in October, but the number of building permits issued for future construction surged, particularly for apartments.

周一美国庆祝哥伦布日。10月的第二个星期一为哥伦布日，这个联邦假期纪念克里斯托弗·哥伦布到达美洲。意大利探险家哥伦布航行驾驶西班牙轮船航行，对新世界进行了四次探险，但一直没完成他最初航行的目标——寻找到亚洲西远洋航线。但哥伦布引领美国人探险，开辟了世界历史的新时代。

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   Americans are celebrating Columbus Day Monday. Columbus Day is a federal holiday observed on the second Monday in October, marking the anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag, led four expeditions to the New World, but never accomplished his original goal—to find a western ocean route to Asia. Instead, Columbus ushered in a new era in world history by opening up the Americas to exploration.

1777年6月14日，国会发布一项法案。美国国旗定为13道条纹，红白相间，联合旗帜为蓝底，上有13颗白星，代表新的星群。两百年来，人们很想知道为何选择这种图案，但一直未能了然。我们知道13颗星代表着为自由共同反抗英国的13个殖民地区。

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   On June 14th, 1777, the Congress issued a resolution. Resolved that the flag of the United States be 13 stars, alternate white in red, in a blue field, representing the new constellation. For over two hundred years, people have tried to discover why this exact pattern was chosen, but we will never know. We do know that the 13 stars represented the 13 colonies that had banded together for liberty against the British.

芬兰人比其他国家的人更常使用移动电话，确切地说有65%。而在美国这一数字是25%。事实上，“电话”在芬兰语中意思是小手。是谁创造了它?一个名声远大过芬兰的芬兰公司——诺基亚。在1992年以前，该公司最有名的产品是厕纸和长筒胶靴，后来则致力于移动电话的经营，从而成为世界上最大的移动电话生产商，占有全球25%的市场份额。

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   More Fins use mobile phones than any other people in the world. 65% to be exact, that's compared to 25% in the United States. In fact, the Finnish word for the phone means little hand. Who makes it? The Finnish company with more name recognition than Finland itself, Nokia. Back in 1992, the company's best known products were toilet paper and rubber boots. Then it concentrated on mobile phones and became the world's largest producer with 25% of the global market.

很多时候，我们不知道我们有多饿，因为我们太忙了，顾不上关心自己的身体。结果，只有到了饿极了的时候，我们才去吃东西。而这个时候不适合进食，因为当你极度饥饿的时候，你就不会健康地进食。你的血糖水平很低了，所以需要快速地补充糖分——这个时候，面包圈、饼干、白面包或者可口可乐铁定比沙拉或者健康的三明治更吸引你。

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   Many times we are not conscious of how hungry we are. We ignore our bodies because we're too busy thinking about other things. As a result, we only eat when we're famished, and that's not a good time to eat, because you don't make healthy eating decisions when you're super hungry. Your blood-sugar level is too low, and your body just wants a quick sugar fix—a donut or some cookies or white bread or a Coke will be much more appealing than a salad or healthy sandwich.