I am urgently looking for the text translation of the second edition of the New Horizons University English Reading and Writing Course, Volume 2, including parts A and B.

Unit1

Americans believe that no one can stand still.

If you don’t strive for progress, you will fall behind.

This attitude has created a nation devoted to research, experimentation, and exploration.

Time is one of the two factors that Americans pay attention to saving, the other factor is labor.

People have always said: "Only time can control us."

People seem to treat time as an almost real thing.

We organize time, save time, waste time, squeeze time, kill time, reduce time, explain the use of time; we also charge for time.

Time is a precious resource, and many people are deeply aware of the shortness of life.

Time is gone forever.

We should make every minute count.

Foreigners’ first impression of the United States is likely to be that everyone is in a hurry—and often under pressure.

Citizens always seem to be in a hurry to get where they are going. In shops they anxiously expect the clerk to come and serve them immediately, or they use their elbows to finish their shopping quickly. To push others around.

People are also in a hurry when eating during the day, which partly reflects the pace of life in this country. Working time is considered valuable.

In public dining places, people wait for others to finish eating as soon as possible so that they can also eat in time.

You will also find drivers driving recklessly and people pushing and shoving Pass by your side.

You will miss the smiles, brief conversations, and casual chats with strangers.

Don't take this personally,

This is because people value their time very much and don't like others "wasting" their time inappropriately.

Many newcomers to the United States miss the small talk at the beginning of an occasion such as a business visit.

They will also miss the polite exchanges over tea or coffee that may be a custom in their own country.

They may also miss the relaxed, leisurely conversations they had when discussing business in restaurants or cafes.

Generally speaking, Americans would not evaluate their guests through long chats in such a relaxed environment, let alone take them out to eat in the process of increasing mutual trust. , or take them to play golf.

Since we typically assess and understand others through work rather than social interaction, let’s get down to business.

Therefore, time is always ticking in our hearts.

Therefore, we do everything we can to save time.

We have invented a series of labor-saving devices;

We communicate with others quickly by faxing, calling, or emailing them, rather than through direct contact. While face-to-face contact is enjoyable, it takes more time, especially when there is heavy traffic on the road.

As a result, we schedule most personal visits after get off work or at social gatherings on the weekends.

As far as we are concerned, there is little or no correlation between the impersonal nature of electronic communication and the importance of the matter at hand.

In some countries, you can’t do big business without eye contact, which requires face-to-face conversation.

In the United States, the final agreement usually requires a personal signature.

However, now that people are meeting more and more on TV screens, remote meetings can not only solve domestic problems, but also solve international problems through satellites.

The United States is undoubtedly a kingdom of telephones.

unit3

Gail and I planned a low-key wedding.

In our two years together, our relationship has gone through its ups and downs, as often happens when a couple learns to know, understand, and respect each other.

But over the course of two years, we were honest about each other’s weaknesses and strengths.

The racial and cultural differences between us not only strengthened our relationship, but also taught us to be tolerant, understanding and open to each other.

Gail sometimes wondered why I and other black people were so concerned about race, and I was struck by how oblivious she seemed to be to the subtle ways in which racial hatred plays out in American society.

Gail and I had no unrealistic illusions about our future as an interracial couple living in the United States.

Mutual trust and respect are the inexhaustible source of strength for both of us.

Many couples get married for the wrong reasons, only to discover 10, 20, or 30 years later that they were incompatible. They spend little time getting to know each other before marriage, they ignore serious personality differences, and they expect marriage to automatically solve all kinds of problems. We want to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

The facts further illustrate this point: Gail’s parents, who have been married for 35 years, are going through a resentful and painful marriage. This incident has brought a great blow to Gail. And for a time it had a negative impact on our budding relationship.

When Gail told her family about our planned wedding, she encountered some resistance.

Her mother, Deborah, had been supportive of our relationship in the past, even jokingly asking when we planned to get married so she could have a grandchild.

But this time when she heard the news that we were getting married, she did not congratulate us. Instead, she advised Gail to think clearly about whether her decision was right.

"So it would be right for me to date him, but it would be wrong for me to marry him.

Mom, is it because of the color of his skin?" Gail later told me. she once asked her mother.

“First of all, I have to admit that I had reservations about interracial marriage at the beginning, maybe you can even call it prejudice.

But when I met Mark , I found him to be a likable and intelligent young man.

Any mother would be proud to have such a son-in-law.

So, this. It has nothing to do with skin color.

Yes, my friends gossip.

Some of them are even shocked by what you did.

But. Their lives are different from ours.

So you have to understand that Mark's skin color is not a problem.

My biggest concern is that you might be the same as I was when I married your dad. I married Mark for the wrong reasons.

When I met your dad, I thought he was sweet, smart, charming and understanding.

Everything. It was new, so exciting, and we both felt that our marriage was an ideal one, at least on the surface, and that there was every indication that our marriage would last forever.

I didn’t realize that until later. Understand, I didn't quite understand the man I loved - your dad - when we got married."

"But I've been with Mark for over two years," Gail complained. road.

“We’ve been through a lot together.

We’ve seen each other at their worst many times.

I’m sure time only lasts. It proves that we love each other deeply."

"You may be right, but I still think there is no harm in waiting."

Gail. My father, David—whom I had yet to meet—approached our decision with the attitude of a governor rather than a father.

He asked basically the same question as Gail's mother: "What's the rush? Who is this Mark? What is his citizenship?"

When he learned When I encountered problems applying for citizenship, I suspected that I married his daughter because I wanted to stay in the United States.

"But Dad, what you said was so unpleasant," Gale said.

"Then why are you in such a hurry?" he asked repeatedly.

"Mark had citizenship issues, but he always dealt with them on his own," Gale defended.

"In fact, when we were discussing marriage, he made it very clear that if I had any doubts about anything, I had no problem canceling our plans."

Her father began citing statistics showing that interracial marriages had higher divorce rates than same-race marriages, and cited examples of interracial couples he had counseled who were having marital troubles.

He asked: "Have you considered the suffering your future children may suffer?"

"Dad, are you a racist?"

"No, of course not.

But you have to be realistic."

"Maybe our children will have some problems. But whose children won't?

But there is one thing they will always have, and that is our love.”

“That is the idealistic idea of ????interracial marriage. The child will be very cruel."

"Dad, we will worry about it ourselves.

But if we do anything, we must solve all the problems. If all the problems are solved, then there will be almost nothing we can do."

"Remember, it is never too late to change your mind."

Almost everyone is using the phone. Do business, chat with friends, schedule or cancel social appointments, express gratitude, shop and get information.

The phone not only eliminates the need to walk, but also saves a lot of time.

Part of this is due to the fact that while phone service in the United States is top-notch, the postal service is less efficient.

Some people who come to the United States for the first time come from other countries with different cultural backgrounds. In their countries, it is considered rude to work too fast.

In their view, if a certain amount of time is not spent on something, then it seems to be insignificant and not worthy of proper attention.

Therefore, people feel that longer time spent increases the importance of what they do.

But in the United States, being able to solve problems or complete work quickly and successfully is regarded as a sign of level and ability.

Typically, the more important the work, the more money, energy, and attention devoted to it, with the goal of "making the work work."

unit4

The digital clock above the desk at the Grand Central Station information desk showed: six minutes to six.

John Blandford, a tall young officer, stared at the big clock to see the exact time.

Six minutes later, he will meet a woman who has occupied a special place in his life for the past 13 months, a woman he has never met but who has always given him strength through letters.

Shortly after he volunteered to join the army, he received a book from this woman.

Along with the book came a letter wishing him courage and peace.

He discovered that many of his friends who were in the military had also received the same book from this woman named Hollis Meynell.

All of them took courage from it and were grateful for her support of the causes they fought for, but only he wrote back to Ms. Meynell.

On the day he left to fight overseas, he received her reply.

Standing on the deck of the cargo ship that was about to take him into enemy territory, he read her letter over and over again.

For 13 months, she wrote to him faithfully.

Even without his reply, she still wrote to him as always, never less.

During those days of hard fighting, her letters encouraged him and gave him strength.

After receiving her letter, he seemed to feel that he could survive.

After some time, he believed that they loved each other and it was fate that brought them together.

But when he asked her for photos, she politely refused.

She explained: "If your feelings for me are real and sincere, then it doesn't matter what I look like.

If I am beautiful, I will It always bothers me that you only love my beauty. That kind of love would make me disgusted.

If I were ordinary, I would often be afraid that you only give me love out of loneliness and no other choice. I wrote.

In either case, I will stop myself from loving you.

You can make your own decision when you come to New York. /p>

Remember, at that time both of us were free to stop or continue - if that was our choice..."

One minute to six... Branford De's heart was pounding wildly.

A young woman walks toward him, and he immediately feels a connection with her.

She is tall and slender, with beautiful long blond hair curled behind her small ears.

Her eyes are like blue flowers, and there is a gentle perseverance between her lips.

Wearing a chic green suit, she is as vibrant as spring.

He greeted her, completely forgetting that she was not wearing a rose. Seeing him approaching, a warm smile appeared on her lips.

"Soldier, are you going with me?" she asked.

He involuntarily took a step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell.

She was standing behind the girl, a woman in her forties with gray hair. In his young eyes, Menel was simply a living fossil.

She is not ordinary fat, and her thick and clumsy legs are wobbly when she moves.

But she wore a red rose on her brown coat.

The girl in green walked quickly and quickly disappeared into the fog.

Branford felt as if his heart had been compressed into a small cement ball. He wanted to follow the girl, but he also deeply yearned for the girl who would sincerely accompany him and bring him warmth. woman; and she was standing there.

Now he could see the kindness and wisdom in her pale, fat face.

Her gray eyes shone with warmth and kindness.

Blanford resisted the urge to follow the young woman, even though doing so was not easy.

His hand clutched the book she had sent him before he went off to war, so that Hollis Meynell would recognize him.

This will not become love, but it will become something precious, something perhaps more unusual than love - a friendship that he has always been grateful for and will continue to be grateful for.

He held up the book to the woman.

"I am John Blandford, and you - you are Hollis Meynell.

I am very happy that you can come to see me.

Can I treat you to dinner? ”

The woman smiled.

"I don't know what's going on, kid," she replied. "The young lady in the green suit--the one who just walked by--asked me to take this rose. Pin it on your clothes.

She said if you invite me to go out with you, I will tell you that she will wait for you at the big restaurant near the highway.

She said this is. A test. ”

unit5

My daughter smokes.

While she was doing her homework, she rested her feet on the bench in front of her and the calculator clicked out the answers to the geometry questions. I looked at the half-smoked pack of Camel cigarettes she had thrown carelessly at hand.

I picked up the cigarette and walked to the kitchen to take a closer look. The light there was better--thank God, the cigarettes have filters.

I feel very sad.

I want to cry.

Actually, I did cry.

I stood by the stove, holding a snow-white cigarette in my hand. It was very delicate, but it was something that could kill my daughter.

I steeled myself not to feel bad when she smoked Marlboros and Players. No one I know smokes either brand of cigarettes.

She didn’t know that my father, her grandfather, smoked Camel brand cigarettes before he was alive.

But before he started smoking machine-made cigarettes—when he was young, poor, and bright-eyed—he smoked hand-rolled Prince Albert tobacco. cigarette.

I still remember the bright red tobacco box with a picture of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, wearing a black tuxedo and holding a cane.

By the late 1940s and early 1950s, no one in my hometown of Eatenton, Georgia, rolled their own cigarettes by hand anymore (and almost no women smoked).

The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies--in which the heroes and heroines are both smokers--have completely won over people like my father, who are hopelessly addicted to smoking. Addicted.

Yet my father was never as fashionable as Prince Albert. He was also a poor, overweight man who worked hard to feed his large family. He is black, but he always has a white cigarette in his mouth.

I can’t remember when my father started coughing.

Maybe it was not obvious at first, just a slight cough when I lit my first cigarette when I got out of bed in the morning.

By the time I was 16, the age my daughter is now, he was huffing and puffing uncomfortably every time he breathed; he would have to stop every three or four steps when he went upstairs. Take a break,

Also, he often coughs for an hour straight.

The lung disease tortured my father to the point of weakness. One severe winter, he died of pneumonia, a disease known as "the friend of the poor."

He has been coughing for so many years that I think there is nothing left in his lungs that is intact.

A few years before his death, his breathing was already very weak, and he always had to lean on something.

I remember one family gathering when my daughter was two years old and he held her for a while so I could take a photo of them both. But it was obvious that he had put in a lot of effort.

He stopped smoking just before the end of his life, mainly because his lung function was extremely damaged.

He gained a few pounds after quitting smoking, but he was so thin at the time that no one noticed.

When I travel to third world countries, I see many people like my father and daughter.

There are huge billboards everywhere targeting both of them: strong, confident, or fashionable mature men, and beautiful, "sophisticated" young women, all puffing away.

Just like in America's old cities and Indian reservations, in these impoverished countries, money that should be spent on food goes to tobacco companies. Over time, people not only lacked food, but also lacked air. This not only greatly damaged the children's physical condition, but also caused them to become addicted to cigarettes, which would eventually kill them.

I read in the newspaper and the gardening magazine I subscribed that cigarette butts are very toxic: if a baby swallows a cigarette butt, it is likely to die, but adding a handful of cigarette butts to boiling water will Becomes a very effective insecticide.

As a mother, I feel pain deeply.

Sometimes I feel helpless.

I remember when I was pregnant, how careful I was when eating! How patient he was later when teaching her how to cross the street safely!

Sometimes I wonder: Why do I do this? Is it because she will spend most of her life struggling to breathe feebly, and then poison herself to death like her grandfather did?

I particularly like a quote written in a battered women’s shelter: “Peace on earth begins at home.

"

I think this is true of everything in the world.

I also remembered another quote written to people who want to quit smoking: "Every home should be a no-smoking zone . ”

Smoking is a kind of self-destruction, and it also destroys those who have to sit next to you. Those people may occasionally make fun of or complain about your smoking, but often they can only sit and watch helplessly. .

I realize now that I literally sat by and watched my father commit suicide all those years, ever since I was a kid, to the giants of the prosperous tobacco companies. It must be satisfying to achieve such a victory in my family.

unit7

If you are often angry and tired, it seems that the stress in your life is building up quickly. Lose control, and you may be damaging your heart.

If you don't want to damage your heart, you need to work hard to learn to control your life to the extent you can - and admit that there are many things. You can't control it.

That's the view of Dr. Robert S. Elliott, clinical professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska and author of the new book, "From Stress to Strength: How to Reduce You." Author of "The Burden, Save Your Life."

Elliott said there is a type of person in the world that he calls "thermonuclear people" (i.e., irritable people). >

For these people, stress can cause their blood pressure to rise significantly and rapidly

Elliott said researchers have found that, among other symptoms, people who are stressed have lower cholesterol levels. It's also higher.

"We've done years of research showing that chemicals produced by excessive worry or stress do damage heart muscle fibers.

This happens very quickly, less than 5 minutes. It creates many short circuits, and these short circuits can cause serious arrhythmias.

The heart beats not like a pump but like a bag of worms (messy and limp). When this happens, we will not survive. ”

Elliott, now 64, had a heart attack when he was 44.

He attributed the heart attack in part to stress.

For many years, he has been a "thermonuclear reactor person"

On the surface, he appears calm, calm and collected, but the pressure deep inside makes him exhausted. He's in good health now.

The main predictor of how damaging stress is, he says, is the element of FUD - FUD stands for fear, hesitation and doubt - combined with a perceived lack of control.

For many people, the root of stress is anger, and the trick to dealing with it is to figure out where it comes from. Does this anger come from a feeling that everything must be perfect? ”

“This is a very common reason among working women. They feel that they want to make everyone feel that they are omnipotent, and they want to do everything perfectly.

They think, ‘I should be like this, I have to be like this, I have to be like this. ’ The pursuit of perfection never ends.

Perfectionists do everything by hand.

They are angry because they have to shoulder everything on their own shoulders and get angry about it.

Then they feel guilty and they repeat the whole process over again. ”

“Other people are angry because their lives have no direction.

They take a traffic jam as seriously as a family dispute," he said:

"If you are angry for more than five minutes - if you are sulking, there is no safe outlet ─You have to find out why you are angry. "

"What happens is that the more physiologically agitated people become from psychological stress, the more likely their bodies are to collapse from some kind of heart disease. ”

The way to calm yourself down is to admit that you have this tendency.

By changing some of your views and negative thoughts, learn to no longer be so hostile to things.

Elliot advises people to take control of their lives.

“If there’s anything that can replace stress, it’s control.

What you need is not the FUD factor but the NICE factor—NICE means new and interesting , challenging experiences."

"You have to determine what parts of your life you have control over," he said. "Stop and say to yourself, 'I'm going to take the compass. Come out and figure out what you need.'"

He suggested that people write down the six things they feel are most important in their lives and that they want to accomplish.

Ben Franklin did just that at the age of 32.

“He wrote down the things he wanted to do, such as being a more loving father, a more considerate husband, being financially independent, mentally active, and maintaining a peaceful temperament. He didn't do a good job at all."

Elliot said you can start by listing 12 things and then condense them to 6. Prioritize.

“Don’t push yourself to do the impossible. Do things that will affect your personality, your ability to control, and your self-worth.”

“Keep them in mind A card that you can carry with you and look at when needed.

Since we can’t have 26 hours in a day, we have to decide what to do first.”

Please. Remember: priorities will change over time.

“Children grow, dogs die, and your priorities change.”

Another key to managing stress, according to Elliott The factor is "acknowledge that there are some tough things in your life that you have little or no control over—like the economy and politicians."

You have to recognize that sometimes things like traffic jams, When it comes to deadlines and annoying bosses, "you can't fight it, and you can't escape it. You have to learn to live with it."

unit10

The hot summer and early fall of 1940 , night after night, a deep and steady voice flew across the Atlantic, from Britain to the United States, telling the story of Britain's fight for survival under the repeated attacks of German bombers.

This strong and steady voice, with a hint of North Carolina accent in American accent, comes from Edward R. Murrow, head of CBS Europe.

As bombs fell and flames spread across the city's streets, Murrow announced: "This is London."

His voice expressed a sense of responsibility for this. The sadness of the ancient city's suffering also conveys a sense of confidence that no matter what suffering it has to endure, London will stand firm.

London is indestructible.

Intense air raids began in mid-August, and Nazi bombs began to fall on the English Channel coastline.

As German bombers cast black shadows over the white cliffs of the Straits of Dover, Britain's Civil Defense Forces prepared to fight on the beaches, cliffs and mountains until the last British man died or the invaders were defeated. Until driven away.

Air Marshal G?ring's bomber pilots were convinced that they would ultimately defeat the British.

Hitler and G?ring believed that Britain would surrender when London burned to the ground like Warsaw or Rotterdam.

But the British are luckier than the Poles in Warsaw and the Dutch in Rotterdam.

They had the English Channel as a natural barrier against Nazi ground forces, and the Royal Air Force to fight the Nazis in the air.

London's ordeal actually began in the first week of September, when Hitler was finally convinced that the British had no intention of surrendering.

On September 7, 1940, nearly 400 German bombers violently bombed the city in broad daylight.

G?ring once boasted: “This is the historic moment when our air force puts a bomb directly into the heart of the enemy for the first time.

”

Fires burned, houses collapsed, gas pipes burst, and thick black smoke rose from the streets.

Men, women and children all felt the power of the bomb.

Radar sirens are screaming, ambulances are speeding from one place of pain to another, and firefighters are facing the flames at every turn.

It seems impossible for any city to continue to fight after suffering such heavy losses

With bombs exploding all around and planes strafing down from the sky, it seems impossible for the citizens to go about their business as usual. , go to work, eat, sleep, and do everyday things.

But the city holds on.

Trains bring people to work from the suburbs.

The bus bumped along the street.

The fire was under control.

Bottles of milk were delivered to the door, and the women took them home. It was as if the war was happening thousands of miles away. As soon as the newspapers came out, people bought them and rushed to work while reading the reports of the war in London.

Edward R. Murrow spoke in a low voice. A steady voice began to announce: “This is London. ”

The tone of his voice during the broadcast was as if nothing could stop him from saying these words.

When he said these words, he did not deliberately show any emotion. A heroic spirit.

He simply told people the fact that the city still existed.

Murrow knew that the fate of Britain depended on the determination of these people: in the shops and on the roads. The men drinking in the pubs, the housewives, the men watching the fires from the rooftops, the men facing countless difficulties and sufferings

The fate of Britain still depends to a great extent. For the few pilots who flew into the sky day and night to fight against groups of Nazi bombers

These Royal Air Force pilots have reached the limit of fatigue, but they are still exceeding their own limits. Fight on.

The people of London are also on the front lines of the battle, but they cannot get the satisfaction of directly attacking the enemy.

They cannot take to the sky to destroy enemy aircraft.

They must dig quickly in the basement to rescue their friends buried under the ruins;

They must put out the endless fires;

They must be strong, to endure whatever disaster the enemy throws at them.

In a broadcast on October 1, 1940, Murrow declared: "Remember: these men are brave and patient; under bombing. All men are equal; this war is a contest of speed and organization; the political system that best protects civilians and preserves their dignity will win. ”

Facts have proved that Murrow’s prediction that ordinary people will achieve final victory is correct.

Those Nazi powers were eventually defeated by the Allies.