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Lesson1 1.Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left me out. Everybody, except me, was born with the ability to think. 2.In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and irresistible spring in the neck. At that time, it seemed to me that he was not controlled by thought, and it was the working of his genes that compelled him to turn his head toward young girls. 3.Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen’s golf, as honest as most politicians’ intentions ,or as coherent as most books that get written. Practically, grade-three thinking is as incompetent as most businessmen’s golf, as dishonest with most politicians’ speech, as incoherent as most publications. 4.They have immense solidarity , we had better respect them ,for we are outnumbered and surrounded. Grade-three thinkers usually represent the great majority. We had better respect them because we are fewer in number and surrounded by them. 5.Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on side of a hill. It is human nature to enjoy agreement because it may bring peace, comfort and harmony, just as cows will eat the same part of grass as the same way as the others do. 6.It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and still do .But my acquaintances vanished ,taking the girls with them. What had happened to Ruth and I now happened again and again. I had some good friends who supported me and share the same belief with me. But my grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances. Lesson 2 1.Bella was the boarding-house lovely, but no one had taken advantage of the fact. Bella was young and pretty and was seen as the beauty of the boarding-house, but no one had shown any particular interest in her. 2.He possessed a brain ,and since no one understood it when he used it, it was resented. He was too smart for them, and everybody felt annoyed. 3.But Mrs. Mayton never allowed more than three minutes to go by without a word; and so when the silence had reached its allotted span, she turned to Penbury and asked. But Mrs. Mayton would not tolerate any silence for more than three minutes. So when no one broke the silence within three minutes she lost her patience and, turning to Penbury and asked. 4.It found the spot all right. The weapon went through Mr. Wainwright’s heart. 5.No, I answered ,I have come to cure it. “No,” Miss Wicks answered, “I have come to put an end to your cough.” Lesson 3 1.Most students are usu. Introduced to the study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly immersed in a vast sea of names ,dates, events and statistics. For most students, they begin their study of history with a thick textbook in which there are a great number of names, dates and statistics for them to remember. 2.They cannot help but feel that two diametrically opposed points of view about an event cannot both be right, yet they lack the ability to decide between them. Students cannot help feeling that two completely differently points of view about an event cannot both be true, but they do not have the ability to judge which one is true. 3.Can we eliminate all disagreement? If the state of our knowledge were such that it provided us with a model of unquestioned validity that completely explained human behavior ,we can . Can we get rid of all disagreement? We can if our knowledge could give us a perfect model that completely explained human behavior. Unfortunately no such model has ever existed. Lesson 4 1.“My parents , and my wife’s parents, and our priest, decided that I wasn’t feeling up to it, and finally I decided so too.” “My relatives and friends persuaded me not to go to the ceremony personally because it was too risky. At last, I decided so too.” 2.“…I’m a sculpture ,not a demonstrato r.” “I’m only a sculptor and I was not interested in politics.” 3.In Orlando you develop a throat of iron. “When black folks in Orlando drank brandy, frequently they had to put back their head and drink it up in one gulp in order to avoid police detection, and because brandy is a very strong drink, you gradually develop a very strong throat —like a throat of iron.” 4.So I thought I’d go and see the window, and indulge certain pleasure human feelings. “So I thought I’d go and see the window, and enjoy secretly some pleasant feelings —feeling s of pride for one’s genius.” 5.You know it’s by one of your own boys, don’t you? “You may not know that this sculpture was made by a black person like you.” 6.She knows it won’t be an easy life. “The mother in the sculpture knows that there will be much suffe ring waiting for her and her baby.” 7.I didn’t feel like a drink at that time of life. “I don’t want to have a drink because it is very late now. As a black man, I am not allowed to stay in the city late at night.” 8.He wasn’t looking round to see if anyone mi ght be watching. He wasn’t caring about other people’s opinion concerning his walking along with such a black man like me. 9.Our land is beautiful , but it breaks my heart. “I felt proud of the beautiful scenery of our country, but I also felt sorry about it s Apartheid laws.” 10.….as though they wanted, to touch me somewhere and didn’t know how… It looked as if these white people wanted to forget the racial difference and to know me, but it’s a pity they do not know how. The invisible barrier was still there bet ween the white and the black. Lesson 5 1.Some days I couldn’t look at her at all. My hands would shake and my voice used to crack when I spoke and I’d feel sick in my stomach I loved her so much that sometimes I did not even dare to look at her. Often when I saw her, my voice would go hoarse and I would feel sick. 2. She was generally very nice and polite, but, so far as romance went, I think I was definitely at the bottom of the reserves as far as she was concerned. She was nice and polite to me just as she was to everybody. But if we are talking about love, I definitely would be the last one to win her heart. (I definitely would be her last choice.) 3. How rotten. Aren’t people rotten, sometimes? How terrible! How disgusting! Don’t you think people are te rrible, deserting their friends like that? 4. Sharon, it’s passing thing, I promise. It’s something we all go through. Sharon, I can assure you that this feeling won’t last very long. You will grow out of it. We all have this experience when we are young. 5. Sharon, understandably, is a little shaken by this outburst. Sharon had never expected Trudy to say these things about her husband. She is shocked. 6. Nobody would miss her except the national union of bakers. Nobody cares whether she lives or dies. She is of no importance to anybody except to the national union of bakers, because she is such a big consumer of their products. 7. Douglas reacts like a charger on hearing the bugle call. Douglas responds like a fearless horse when it hears the bugle call. 8. She lands a blow that Vic doesn’t care for. She gives him a blow that he does not quite like/a blow he does not find amusing/a blow that hurts. 9. Sharon comes up for air and props herself against the side of the pool, breathlessly and strangely happy. Sharon comes to the surface to take a breath. She leans against the side of the swimming pool and appears breathless and happy in an odd way. Lesson6 1. They rest upon mere tradition, or on sb.’s bare assertion unsupported by even a shadow of proof… (Para. 1) They are only based on tradition, or on somebody’s assertion, but are not supported even by the least amount of proof. 2. It is consistent with all our knowledge of psychology to conclude that each would have grown up holding exactly the opposite belie fs to those he holds now… We can conclude, based on all our knowledge of psychology, that each would have grown up having exactly the opposite beliefs to what they have now. 3. Of course we do not cease… to adopt new beliefs on mere suggestions… to take on ly the most striking examples, the enormous influence of newspapers and the effectiveness of skilful advertising Of course it does not mean that when we grow up we no longer have these mistaken beliefs. We still do. We are still easy and often willing victims of newspapers and advertising. 4. Much of what passes as such is not, strictly, thinking at all. It is the mere “parroting” of ideas picked up by chance and adopted as our own without question. Most people, most of the time, are mere parrots. Most peop le, most of the time, are mere parrots. They simply echo, or repeat others’ ideas without question. 5. It may be part of the traditional belief of the people or the race. A person’s racial, cultural, national, political, class, gender, generation identity,while enabling him/her to see the world in a unique approach, also tends to limit his/her vision. 6. The age-long struggle of the greatest intellects in the world to shake off that assumption is one of the marvels of history. It took many scientists of greatest learning hundreds of years to struggle against the assumption that the planets moved in circles. The success of getting rid of that assumption is one of the miracles in human history. 7. Many modern persons find it very difficult to credit the fact that men can ever have supposed otherwise. Yet—they did. Many modern people are hard to believe that for some time men had ever thought they were thinking with their hearts. Yet it is true that the ancient people really thought in that way. 8. Other beliefs are held through self-interest. Modern psychology leaves us no room for doubt on this point. We adopt and cling to some beliefs because—or partly because—it “pays” us to do so. We hold and cling to some beliefs merely because it is in our interest to bel ieve them. Modern psychology has already proved this point, and as a result, there is nothing to doubt 9. Indeed, he would probably be highly indignant if told of what anyone familiar with modern psychology can recognize so plainly. He would surely feel furious if someone told him a plain fact that he had held some beliefs through self-interest, which anyone who is familiar with modern psychology can recognize very easily. 10. But we may extend the term to cover also his interest in social position; popularity with his fellows; the respect and goodwill of those whose respect and goodwill he values. But the meaning of this term might be understood in a broader sense. It may include his concern for position, popularity, fame, respect, love, etc. 11. In adult l ife, as we have often observed, a bitter quarrel may change a man’s opinion entirely. Antagonism to a man usually produces some antagonism to his opinions. There was a time when we believed that we should oppose whatever our enemies supported and support whatever our enemies opposed. This often proved to be wrong. 12. What keen satisfaction we find in belittling the opinions, or attacking the opinions, of somebody of whom we are jealous, or of somebody against whom we bear a grudge! If we dislike or envy a person, we will tend to disregard or attack his opinions, from which we may acquire a strong satisfaction. Lesson 8 1.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process. To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion, which is referred to as “globalization”—a fashionable term used only recently. 2.Europeans saw economic unification as an antidote to deadly nationalism. Europeans regarded economic unification as a way to prevent nationalism. 3. A decade later, even after Asia’s 1997—1998 financial crisis, private capital flows dwarf governmental flows. Ten years later, even after Asia’s financial crisis of 1997—1998, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmental capital flows. 4.The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants is exceptional only for its size and bitterness. The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeover is much bigger and a lot bitter. 5.Meanwhile, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa—whose embrace of the world economy has been late or limited—fared much less well. Meanwhile, Latin America and sub-Sahara Africa, whose integration with the world economy has been late and limited, were not so lucky. 6.The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts. The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people’s attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flows became too lopsided. 7.What prevented the Asian crisis from becoming a full-scale global economic downturn has been the astonishing U. S. economy. It was the surprisingly vigorous growth of the U. S. economy that saved the Asian crisis from escalating into an all-round economic depression. 8.It remains possible that abrupt surges of global capital, first moving into Asia and then out, will have caused, with some delay, a larger instability. It is still possible that sudden increase or withdrawal of the world’s ca pital, first moving into Asia and then out of it, will have made Asia more unstable. 9.But this does not mean that a powerful popular backlash, with unpredictable consequences, is not possible. But this does not mean that a powerful hostile reaction from ordinary people, which will have unpredictable consequences, is not possible.