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31. What Do You Want to SIIy? .... .. B. 94
32. Whllt Should H. Do? ...... 10. 96

"'s'" 0. DI"'8 .....? .... .. 12. 100

34. Do You a. li.".? .... .. 14. 102

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3"1. P.os " Cons ...... 20. rOB
3B. Whllt Wou ld You Do? ...... 22. 110
39. Mllk in8 Chol ..., .... . 24. 112
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40. Whllt "' th. R.uons? ...... 28. 114

4 1. Risht 0. W.ona? .... .. 30. 116

42. Whot Would Hllpp.. n? . . ... 32.

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44. Who's Who ? ...... 3B. 122

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46. Whllt Is It? . . .. . . 44. 126

4"/. W"'+'. t h. Oiff"",,? ...... 50. 130

4B. Difftl.nt P. lsonlll it i. s ...... 52. 132

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;4. " ..,o"ym, ...... 66. 146

55. l.ifnty l. Quips ...... 68. 148
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;8. Mal{. Ve...., Poi nt (2) ...... 80. 1;6

59. SCle;al Ph",.,omane. ...... 82. 1;8

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Let's Warm UP with Some Riddles!

1. What kind of room has no windo_ or door'tl7
2. They are dark. and alwaye on the run. WIthout t.ne eun, would I>e none,

3. What haa hande but I", not; fleeh, bone Or 1>100.:17

4. I have hola" on the t.op and Pott.om. I have holeo on my left and On my
right. And I h... ve hal". In the middle. y.n; I "till hok:lwater. What am"
5 . I look at yOIl. you look at rna. I raiN my rig ht, you rare<! your left. What
am 11

6. What 6048 around the world and

7. The

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GOmer?

who Invented It, do",sn't want It. The man who pought It.

doesn't need 11:.. Th" rna" who need. It, doeen't know It.

&. Lig ht

alii ill feather. there Ie nothing In It; the eotrons"et man Ga"'t
hold It for much rna..., than. minute.

9. What aate rocke. level" mOUMUlI"",. ru&tllt m~l, pueh"e the .::Ioude
acroes the sky, and maha a young mil" oldr
10. Yellow and white Hard outelda St.ola" from 11f". Wh .. t 111m 17
11. What .:an fill .. room but tlIitee up no epau?
12. If you throw It off th .. hlgh.. &t l>ulldlng It will not break. If you plae .. It
in the oc .. an it will. What Ie It?
1:3. No SOOner epok.. n than broken. What Ie It?
14. The rich men want It, the wi".. men know It. the poot' all nHd It, and
the kind m .. n "how It.
15. You tlee a knife to ellu my head. and weep bee Ide me when I am dead.

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What Do You Want to Say?
I:'",amplc

Many people Ihln k lec h nology brings about ha p piness

and Iha l lime-savIng mach ines give us eKlra lime.
How would you lell Ihem that modem tec hnologIes
and ~ convenlenees ~ ' are really a maIn SOu rce o f
s lress?

"t'"1" very

lime I lose something on the computer after

working on II for hours, I regret that I didn't jus! write
it or type il on paper, because Ihen I IWOI.IId have
somethIng concrele' to show foe all my effort. Whenever I
eal ramyun because it is fast and che<lp 10 fix, ' I get hungry
for Ihe real food that my mom used 10 make with such
lender, loving CIIre. And I have a watch that can tell me what
time it is any place in lhe wortd, and it's guaranteed to
keep time accurately 10 within a few mierosoconds a
year, and wiU work even under 30 meters of water.
Bul il <:051 me almost half a week's salary to get it: I
didn't iY for il aU al once, of course , [charged ' il:
but I'm still paying for it, and the high inter~ is
really mounting up .' And what's worse, J can't
really go on IRlcalion In some foreign country or
even go diving someplace, since I don't hrlIve the
money or the lime.

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1. Apologize to your ~ for being lot e 10. work d ue 10' a
trofflo: 10m.'
1. Tell your boss you wont Ihe doy off beatuse you have a
bod O:Old .

3. Tell a friend why he shou ld sove money for a rainy day. '
II. Cheer up ' your friend who foiled Ihe o:ollege exam a n d
advise her to try another so:hool.
5 . Counsel your friend to stop sm oking.

6. Advise your porent to exerdse more.

1. Tell you r boyfriend (or girlfriend) 10 be sure 10 curry 0
good $un5Cre'en ' on his or her summer voo:ollon .
lJ. Tell your (Iomate!l '101 10 give up on [ngllsh.
9. Advise your brother nOi to choose a job bostd o n solory
alone.
JO. Tell your f"end to get 0 medl(OI checkup ' ~ery yeo r.
11. [xplol n to you r Ch ildren why II Is Important to siudy
hard.
11. Inform ' your employees that 1\ 1$ nec:essory to wt thei r
poy and 10. loy some af them aff.
U. Let your besl friend know thol you WOn'l be oble 10 poy

bock his loon ' on lime.

1 ... Tell you r porents that you ore In love and wont to get
married.

15. Tell your girl or boy ("end that you hove a new lovtr.

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What Should He Do?

Hfl 1$ very fo rge lful.

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<t f he forgets IIppointmerlts. he

needs to get in the habit of

writing them down

lind checking

hl$ calendar ' regularly. If he

forgets names. he should try to

create

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memory link between

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person"s appearance or position

and the name-the more absurd' or

exotic,' the easier It Is to remember. II he forgets
Information on tests. he should slop trying to memorize

everything and try to understand basic processes and

relbtionships. We can aU remember between 3 and 8 things
III once. 50 we need to learn how to organlu bigger and

bigger thoughts into a small number 01 tllregorles:

remembering becomes very easy then. Ifs

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1. He found oul his young $On ho.I "orted s.moldng.

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He ho.I hod his pockel picked ' on Ihe bus.

He ho.I (1 not lire' on the expressway .
He $Ce$ $Omeone drowning.'
He sees $Omeone trying 10 commll sUldde. '

His friend Is about 10 drive home drunk.

I-lis friend 05ks him to lend him $Ome money.
His wife Is spen dIng 100 mUCh wllh Ihe credit cord.
His son says he Isn'l Inlfresled In gelling a co llege
education.
10. HIs wife wonts a fur"' coal faT her birthday.
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11 . His bo$:s wants 10. dole his .lisler, bul $M doesn'lllke him.

12. He hos a chance for 0 big promotion. bUI If he occepts

he will have to move to another country for a long time,
wilhoul his family.
H. His Wife wants to get a divorce.
14. His doughIer wonts to move In with her boyfriend.
I S. He n ~s a n~ Car and a new opartmenl. bul he Co.n'l
afford ' bolh.
16. He has no. money bul has 10. fHd his child.

17. His brolher has com mlned a serious cr1me and need5 on
alibi. '
11J. HIs father Ihrealens 10 CUI o ff' his Inheritance ' If he
monies the only woman he has t"Ver loved.
19. He wonts 10 eol anolher helpIng ' 01 his fovorile food on
hIs birthday. bul his doctor has worned him he muSI
106e $Orne more weight.
20. Ht can ellMr ovoid on orgumenl wllh his mother.ln.low,
Or he can leLl her why her advice 10 his wife Is wrong.
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Men are selfish by mlilu re.

en." of course. is synony mou s ' with

"Mllnkind." So. by nature.

(lind women)

are sellish and generous. sell"Cemered and altruistic.' all at

once. ' But. in terms 01 ' gender. rTl(!n are also selfish. They
Wilnl to be like the lion. who lolls' about aU day In the hot
sun lA'aiting for his mate to catch the lood and bring il 10

him 1he lioness also lakes care of the cubs' and

makes herself available sexually to
"the king of the beasts" III lilly lirTl(!.
Unfortunlliely. human femllies are
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J. Wo m e n are ready to do anything to look more
beautiful.
2. He $OYS li fe 15 worth living for 100 years o r longer.
J . Marriage Is the best part of 0 human being, life.
II. The more children you hove, the hopple. you are.
S. A maxim ' says Ihe worst wife Is better than a dutiful
child.

6. Money mokes you happy.

7. DyIng is bener Ihon living with disgra~.
Il. Animol$ a nd pla nts can think and feel like us.
, . There Is na such place as heaven or hell.
10. Love and morriage are nal the $Ome_and should nol
be treali'd alike.
l l. Good looks do not go wllh good brains.

11. The end justifles the means.

H. If we have the courage of our con victions, anyt h ing we
do Is objectively' all right .
1'1. The meek ' shallinheril the earth.
I S. Honesty Is always the best policy.
16. All politlctoru are crooks.'
1 7. You have to be crazy 10 be a great artist.
Ill. Women ore the weaker sex.
19. After 40, II's all downhill.
ZOo Boy babies ore better thon girl babIes.

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Do You Believe?

'I."'. ampl.
Do you believe In love a l firSI s igh t?

It

bsolu tely not. Jf you think you a re in love but you

.[')- don 't know the object ' of your affection very well.
it's not really love. It"s just infatuation ' o r lust. ' Love must
grow with time and understanding. It requires patience and
responsibility . Infa tua t ion is a desire fo r an immediate
relationship (usually sexual

i nte rcour~)

with li tt le or no

thought about what the other person is really like .

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1. Do you believe thO[ t:nglLsh ablllLy can help you get
through this ever-chaUE>nglng world? How?
Z. 00 you believe what polm reoders' say?
3. 00 you believe what the newspopers say?
of. Do you believe what your porents say?
S. Do you belieVE> what politldans say?
6. Do you believe that sponklng ' schoolboys ha5 a good
educollonal purpose?
7. 00 you believe In God?
I. Do you believe In UFOs? '
,. Do you believe what ods say?
10. Do you believe in any supersllllon? '

JJ. Do you believe In ghOSts?

J1. Do you believe thot your destiny ' Is predl'tE>nnlned?
J3. 00 you believe that money con buy anything?
J ... Do you believe that your Love toward your swet>thear1
won't fade away' as years go by?
IS. 00 you believe II if your spouse says that he Or She will
not marry ogoln after you die?
16. Do you believe In Ufe after dooth?
II. Do you believe that 0 while III" Is nece5S0ry In some

00=1
II. Do you believe the beautiful die young?
Do you believe what sa.1~people say?
ZOo Do you believe whot religious leaders sa.y?

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Priorities

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Buying a car

f course,
the

first

priority is price, I'd

like to boy a cheap
model with cash, so I
wouldn ' t
borrow

have
any

money,

if

possible, I'm willing to buy an old

car to get the best bargain, Design and make ' are also
important factors ' to me, And you know gas is gelling
expensive these days, so everybody is concerned about
mileage,' I like compact' cars be<ause they are economical
in terms of' taxes, gas, insurance, etc. Another oovantage is
that thieves are NEVER interested in small cars.

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I . when you

ch~

Ihe plo, 10 go for your honeymoon.

Z. when you look for Q girlfriend or boyfriend.

J. when you ch~ a plo' 10 live .

... when you decide your major In college.
S. whe n you choose 0 resloumnt for lunch.
6. when you look for Q job.
T. when you choose wherE' 10 spend your vOCQllon .

I. when you choose 0 school for your children.

,. when you pkk your church.

10. wh.m you subscribe' 10 a newspoper.
11. when you go shopping for dothes.

II. wh en you go drinking with your friends.

I J. when you wonl 0 dOClor.
14. wh en you chonge your cunenl job.
IS. when you Off! going to fly 5OmewheTe.
16. when you hove two Importont events to allend 01 the
same lime.
1 7. when you choose a hobby.

I I. when you are shopping for a pel.

I'. when you want to get somf!One a gift.

10. when you emigrate .

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What Are Their Excuses?

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We hear a 101 of excuses In the COUrtie of our personal
and socia l lives. Let ', talk about the kinds of
T1Idonal~tkms '

people often make. What

lIrt!

their most

common exCUse5?

'E'.",,"pl.
Drivers who speed

"r
0

was in a huny.
"' didnt roily

notice how fast I was going. "

" I was IlIte. "

"[ was JUSt keeping up with the flow of traffic,"

"[ was in oomplete control of my car. lind it is always weU
maintained. There was no danger alllll. "
"I didn't think there would be a policeman there."
"People who drive too slow lire more dangerOlJS Ihan IhOe
who go too fasl ."

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hat ar. th./r ."c wscs1

J. Tax evaders
1. Drunken drivers
3. Ohrordng couples
4. Pa ren ts who spank their chILdren
5. Those who roll to quLl smoking
6. Tho.se who are unable 10 quit drinking
1. St udents who do poorly In $(hOOI
&. PoILlldans who don" keep their promises

" Men or women who ha ve 1000e affaIrs '

10. An ex-convIct' who commIts another crtme

J1. HubbIes who forgellhelr wedding onnlvel'$(lry

J1. Employees who are lOll' for work
J J. tmployers who just cut their company's wages

14. Studenls who gave up trylng to loom EngILsh

15. Singles who do nOI wont to marry
16, Girls who smoke
11. Kids who want to stay out very late 01 night
1&. Spouse (or child) obusers

1'. PoILce who kill a suspected ' aimlno l

10, Doctors who do nOl tell their pallents the truth .

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Pros Be Cons

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Yo u are e lected president .

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....: . ;a hy would any honest man wan!

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be presidenl?

No president is able to live his own life anymore.

He is o!ways being targeted by his poIilic.!ll rivals. And he

must always decide Important mailers correctly whi le, a t the
same lime, maintaining high moral standards. In short . his
life has 10 be unexciting and beyond reproach' if he is going
to COfItinue to hokI public esteem. ' But somet imes he must
also make deals' with friends and foes ' alike In order to
&CComplish anything .

But if

ill

man has some inlelleclual ability aod wants 10

serve his coun try. he should try to Improve socie ty if he

can, Such an acllon deserves the respecl of his fellows. And

such a person could use Ihe poYJeT of the presidency' to
make things beuer for everyone. This person would be far
beUeT" than just a power-hungry politician who cares more

about the benefits of office than the national welfare.

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al" about" t"fr. ad_ .. t"agcs a ..d dl_d"a .. t"apes of t"fr.

foII_I ..g :
I . Bei n g a woman
1. Being a ma n
3 . Watching TV
4. Hovi n g a coll~ degree
5. Re ma ining s in gie
6. livin g with yOUT pan- n bi ofter you get man1e'<i
7. Living with yOUT pare n tli-i n .law
If. Being a fullllme hou5ewlfe

9. You r w ife h aving a job outside t h e home

10. Wi n ning the lottery

11. Being the oldest 50n

11.
1 3.
1 4.
15.

Hovi n g d a u ghters only

Being he n .pecked
Being a bl111on alno
Hoving no children

16. OWning a car

1 7. You r daugh teT in h lgh.school havi n g a boyfTlend
l lf. College stu dents having part-ti m e jobo>
1 9. Helng 0 nu n
10 . Living In the big dty

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What Would You Do?

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What wo uld yo u d o If yo ur wife re fu sed to li ve w llh
your pare n ts?

~ irs t I would give he r many reasons why living

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togethe r ImIkes sense.' For example, I would tell her

they a re ge tt ing older and weake r. and more lonely. We also

have a moral responsibility to support them. Bul if she still
didn"1 accept my reasons. I would let he r llve with our
children and I would live with my parents by myself. I can',
let my parents live alone. because they need someone to
take care of them, They sacrificed everything to bring me
up. and now it's my turn ' to support them .

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1. What would you do Jf your hu~bond come home drunk

every night?
Z. What would you do if your chlld",n were behind In their
$ChOOIWOTk1
J. What would you do If your IN'nager slOrted smoking
and drtnldng?
of. Who! would you do If you saw $Omeone with a not II",
on the I'O(Id?
5. Whot would you do If you heard $Omeone $hout. "Slap.
thief"]
6. WhO! would you do If yo u law m oney foil from
$Omeon e'$ bog?
7. What would you do If your child gol 0 blao. eye ' from 0
clo.$$mole1
II. Whot would you do If you got too mUCh chonge bock 01
a 5tore1
,. What would you do If 0 vending machine dldn', return
your money?
10. WhOI would you do If you foiled 10 gel promoledIwice?
11. Who! would you do If your $w(!('theort WQnted to break

up ' wllh you?

11. WhQt would you do If you were In line ond Qn old

womon cut In? '

13. WhQl would you do If you .row 0 noked person Qt Ihe

beach?
14. WhQt would you do If you won the lottery?
15. Whot would you do If you and your best (rtend both
loved the same person?
16. Whot would you do If you were In Q fo",lgn country
with no money?
17. What would you do !fyou saw (I UfO?
111. What would you do If you hod to choose belWN'n your
job and you r morrlage?
J,. Whal would you do If the doctor told you hod on
Incurab]e dlsea$e?
ZOo What would you do If you were the lost person In the
world?

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S uppose yo ur c hild we re spa nk e d In sc h ool. Wou ld

yo u protest to the s chool a uth orities ' or prete nd
nothing happened?

cY panking is an act o f violence regardless o f'

C2)

who does

it. Teachen shoukl no longer be allowed to engage In

such behavior. We all know violence rn.s no educational

value. Violence just begets' more ""olence.

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1. wl1I you 9t't mamed o r remain si ngle?

2. If you were stopped for a traffic vlololion. would you

accept the ticket ' or Iry 10 make excuses?'
J. Vour hubby ' Is unable to su pport your family. Will you
gel a job yourself or simply seek a divorce?
... Will you lake your next vacation by the sea Or In the
mountains?
5. Vau a ..... going to moke a trip to Susan. Wlil you take the
expres$ bus, the troln, or 0 plone? Or will you drive?
6. would you give your s.eal 10

the bus Or

k~p

young child sionding on

It yourself?

7. Would you .other live In an apartment or a

8.

hou~?

you use the f'$COlator or the elevotor If you have 0

chola?
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9. Which do you like belter.

dog Or a cat?

JO. Who Is more Importon . your parent or your Spouse?

11 . Which do you like belter, pop songs o r classical music?

11. Which do you like belter. an analog watch or a digital

ane? A bot\eryoperated one or one you must wind
you.,...lf?
U. Which foreign languoge do you want 10 siudy after you

master English?
I ... ()c) you prefer going to Ihe movie theoler or watching
movies on TV?

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sugar?

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16. Will you try to quit smoking or cont inue?

1 7. Do you want a son or 0 daughter as your first child?

1 8. Would you remarry o r remain single If your spouse
died?
1 9. What do you like 10 drive more. a compaci car o r a
luxury model?

20. Which do you prefer. an imported car or one made In

Korea?
21. 00 you llke to read magazines. or newspopers?
22. Where do you usually meet your friends? A coffee shop.
a bookstore. a fast-food restaurant, a park? Why?
23. Do you smoke domestic cigarettes or foreign o n es?
Why?
24. Do you like beef or pork better?
25. Which do you like better whiskey?

mokkotl. soju, beer. or

26. Whot would you like for breakfast a traditional Korean dish?

cereal with milk or

27. Would you rather subscribe to a morning newspaper or

an evening paper? An economics paper or a spor ts
paper?
28. Are you going to buy a desktop computer or a
notebook?
29. Do you wa nt your baby to be breast-fed' o r bottle-fed?'

30. Which do you like be tt er - baseball or football?

Amateur or pro sports?

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What Are the Reason ..?

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We s tud y hi s tory In sc hool. Why?

~ he most popular reason is that

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can learn from

our past mistakes. But any serious study of history

show!; that

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don't learn much -we keep doing the same

dumb ' things lime and time again. 1hc real reasons we take '
history is to gain a deeper understanding of human activity
at large. ' and to give ou rselves som e sorl o f nalional
Identity. '

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J. People

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Z. People

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getting faner. W h y?
s(I\I;ng mo~. Why?

3. People o~ getting married younger. Why?

... We requl~ good morals from our leaders, Why?

S. [very coun try hos lows. Why?

6. We study philosophy. Why?
7. We exercise. Why?
n~ re<:reotton. Why?

&. We

9. We try to find extraterNStrio!s." Why?

~llgion . Why?

10. Mony people hove 0

II . One mon: one wOTTlOn. Why?

J Z. People wont totroyel. Why?
U . People wont to wotch the some movies other people
wotchlng. Why?

o~

14. Some people lust wont to be seen on television or hove

their nome$ In the papers. Why?
IS. The older people OTt!. the more reluctont to dlyulge '
thillr true oge. Why?
16. College degrees hove lost some o( their oppeo1. Why?
J7. They s.oy sire can
something. Why?

the means for accomplishing

J&. Voriety is the spice ' of life. oocordlng to some. Why?

19. Democracy is the best fonn of government devised by

monklnd . Why?
10. Love usuolly fodes owoy' os time goes by. Why?

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Mo ney makes people happy.

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money. ' "Money can'l buy you love." for example. Of

course it can't! But it allows you to get

lets you gel

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good;oo. so you can afford to take a desirable

womlIn on an interesting dale. It Jets you buy

good clothes and

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nice car and home,

which will help Impress her. And you can

give her expensive presents. None of
Ihe5e activit ies cons tilule ' "love," bu t

they all represent ' important steps In

the procen . It's better to halle

money in order to win the hean

of lhe one you love than to Jose
your true \oYe for Ibck of re<Vly'

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I. lustlce olwoys triumphs.

2. The more we know about the world. the more we have
to suffer from ~1reSS.

3. PIQtonlc friendship Is ponlble between men Qnd

women .
... Children should be free from homework.
5. Porenl$love u.s uncondltionally."
6, Men wUh a religion are hoppler Ihan men wllhaut one.
7. A call"9l' dlplamo helps a mon get 0 lob.
6. Environmenta l problems can be solved by technology.
9. Harsher punishments dbcauroge aimes.
10. A love motch guoronl~~ hopplness beller thQn on
orronged mon1oge.
II. We get whot we deserve.
1 2. It Is beneT to have laved and lo.st t hon never to have
laved at all .
13. All men are created equol.
14. Divorce b better than unhappiness.

15. A. friend In need b a friend Indeed.

16. Lo'Hls 011 you need.

1 7. The squeaky' wheel gets olllhe gre<l$t'."
16. A. fool and hIs money ore soon ported.
1 9. Patriotism Is the lasl refuge of the scoundrel. '

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Many people are c alling for the abolit io n ' of t he death

pe n all y. T h ey 5a y capital punlshme nf ' 15n' t he lping
bring down ' crime ratel>. What would happen If their
d e mand we re IIccepted?
Answer
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n faci. many countries have done lIv.'ay with' capital

punishment. The odd' thing is that it does not

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to

make any difference al all. The various kinds o f crimes

committed in any given sociely remain hllrly' constant.' If
murders were common before the death penalty was
removed. they continue to occur al II similar rate. If
kidnappings ' hardly ever happened. they don"t suddenly
Increase JUSI because of the removal of Ihe alleged '
deterrence' Ihat the dealh penalty represents. Laws need 10

be fairly and effectively enforced ' to avert ' rising crime

rates. but the actUllI nature of the punishment doesn 'l seem
10 make much difference .

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Tobocco ond alo:ohol problem' Ore to blame ' for many

dl~ses ond aimes, Their bad effKU ore sometimes even
c:ompared wllh drog' problems. So what do YOll think Obaul
doubling t he p ri ce o f liquor' and o:Igarettes7 Whot would
hoppen tf the govemment suddenly did 50?
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Ma n y people sOli like to have a baby boy for their fin;t

o:hUd. Whot would happen If this trend went unabated?'

If people, upeclolly the young,

rontlnue to enloy Junk food ' (or

Instant food). wha t will
hoppt'n?

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Many ~ple don't like
polltlo:lans. most of
whom are men. Who'
do you t hink about
electing a
female
prestden{1 Would It lead
to higher trust for
govemment orrlctals1

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If there were no mandatory ' retirement age In the

workplace, what would happen? Who would benefit and
who lose?
(6)

What would happen If the gloOOI computer sySIli'm broke

down, ' Including Ihe internet?

In
What would happen If English borne on o rtl do] language
In Ihb country ? Would it couse on Improvement In most
people's English obillty?

'"

All workers seem tired and under heovy Sire" these days.
What do you think about giving them m o re leisure time?
What would happen If they worked o nly four days 0 w~k?
Do you think II would help lmpm ...... productivity?
(9)

Current lows are sold 10 be much too permissive.' Whot do

you think 0001,11 moking thl'm stricter? For Instance, whot
obout sending drunk drivers 10 1011 for long periods of lime?
Would there be any bad side e ffects?'
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What would happen If adulterers ' did not hove 10 worry

about going 10 prbon?

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Quizzes

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An swer lhe followlng quesllo ns IlIld .... 1'P1Y addltkmal

commenlary.'

'E'.ora....pl.
Whal IS lhe dlslance belwee n Seoul "nd S usan?

l 1 is more than 400 \un and It takes about 5 hours by

car. If you take a lraln. you could get !kere In 4 hours.

But flying Iillkes

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1, Where Is the Statue of Liberty?

2, Whot Is the highest mounta in In the world? Wheni' 1$ 111
J, What three things Is raris famous for?
If, What Is the biggest lake In the world ? Where Is It?

5, Name the counUles that are known to have mode

atomic bombs.
6. What Is the hlstol1collmpoct of Apollo II?
7. Who are the top S automokers In the world?
6. Which countries have the strongest populotlon control
poUdes?
9. Nome 10 countries that produce petroleum.
10. What are the th ree events that comprise ' a triathlon?

11. What WIlS the lorgest empire In history?

12. Who Is the world', rkhest person?
H . What 3 cou ntri es have the largest populations?

n. Whot ore the .5 large st cities In the world, by

population?
15. Whot Is the world's tallest building?

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Who's Who?

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Martin Luther King. Jr.

Answer

l~g. was an AFrican-American minister who led the

. ~ cIVIl rights movement in the United States in the

1950s and 1960s. H e used the tactics of nonviolent civil

disobedience {or. deliberately' and publicly. but peacefully,
disobeying unjust, immoral laws) to achieve his goals .
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he was assassinated ' in
1968. He is the only American whose birthday is a national
holiday.

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hat did the" a c co,"pll$ h ]

Alben Einstein

2. H elen keller

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king Sejong
Wolfgang Amadeus M ozon
Abrohom lincoln
Nell Armstrong

7. Alfred Nobel

8. C horles Donvin

Thomos Alva Edison

10. Sigmu nd Freud

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What Sub-Categories Are There? )

I
Ql) What kinds of crimes are there?
Q2) What do you think is the most he inous ' c rime?

AI) There are many. For e xa mple. mugging. ' fraud, '
vandalism ' and murder.
A2) The worst crime is torture.' I think. It destroys victims
minds as well as their bodies. It makes people confess to
things they are innocent of and forces them to abandon '
their most deeply cherished principles. Even if people
survive to rture. its effects stay with them their entire lives.
Rape ' is another heinous c rime we often overlook. ' It
demolishes ' a womans (and sometimes. also, a man 's) selfrespect. But society o ften blames the victims of rape, rather
than the rapists themselves.

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Q l ) What kinds o f movies a.., there?
Q21 which do you like the m ost?

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Qil Whal kinds of fntlts are there?

Q21 Which do you like

~t?

J.
Q I) Whol kinds of mU$ic are there?
(2) Which do you enjoy the m O$H

Q I ) Ust the klndsofweother.

Q21 What kinds of weather do you like the m ost?

s.
Qil How ca n we classify personality?
Q2) Define your own personality type.

"

Qil Whol kinds or professional

sporU are played throughout the
world?
Q21 Whal'$ the dlfferen, between
amateur and profrsslanal sport?

7.
Ql) list the trofflc rules drivers break most oflen.
Q2) Which of these are the most dangerous to break?

8.
QI)

Whot kinds of coreers are there?

Q2) What Is the world's best profession?

Qll What kinds of cars ore there?

Q2) What kind of cor do you want? Why?
10.

Ql) Ust

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few common diseoses,

Q2) Whot disease ore you most afraid of?

ll .
Q I ) What kinds of books are there?
Q2) Which kind of book do you prefer to read?

12.
QI) How mony colors are there?
Q2) Which color is your favorite? Why?

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QI) Name M'\'ero l

~Igner

brond$,

Q2) W h ot 1$ m O$t Important In c h ()()$lng a brond nomecO$t, q u ollty, o r rome?

".

Q I ) U$t 10 counuies you would like 10 vis it.

Q2) Which one wouLd you like to spc>nd th e lo ngli!stllme In ?
H.

QI) Whal ore severol popular TV $how$?

Q2) which night has Ihe bli!sl leLevlslon Sh0W3? What are
Ihey?

".

QI) Th ere are m a n y kinds or newspaper articles. Name as

m any as you can .
(2) Whot l$l h e m OSI enjoyabl e part o f th e n ews paper?

"Q I ) Make a list of composers or songwrilers.

Q2) W h ich o n e Is you r favorite?

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QI) Who are th e world's greol<.'St $Ingers1

Q2) Which one do you spc> nd the m ost lime Ii$te nlng to?

What Is It?

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The gradual Increase In Ihe wa rmth of Ihe nlr afound
the eanh because lhe heal can", leave 1he Illmosphere.'
This can a lready be seen In the

exlTt'n"Ie '

tempen.lures

o f rec.:enl yelUs. Even ftre as with modera te climates

repOrt much houer s u mmers and colder win ters .

II- Questions
I . What Is II?
2 . What are the c"uses of this phenomenon?

1. Greenhouse Effe<;t.
2 . Aimosl certainly. Ihe majo r reason Is the Increased
amoun t of carbon being burned by fllctories and

automobiles. As II

lIoCcumu~les '

in the atmosphere. it

(!liPS ' more s.mllght .

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Someone who 15 responsible for prolec1lng one or more
specific penons ogolnst possible ollack.
QI) Who Is thi s perwn?
Q2) Who e mploys thll; person?

A contest In which ticket:!; are JQld , The winning ticket ar

number Is picked randomly. '
QI) What Is 1t7
(2) What Is the main purpose of th is ocllvlty?

3.
Inability 10 sleep
Q I) Whalls Ihls disease called?
Q2) Who usually suffers from II?

A plea of equlpmenl worn around Ihe upper body \0 keep

penon 00001 ' In Ihe water.
QI) Whal 15 It?
Q2) Who needs II?

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A su dden violen t movement of the eart h 's surface, caused

by volcanic action or by the re loose of buill-up' stress olo ng

geologic" fa ul ts. '
Q I ) What is it?

Q2) What happens when It occurs?

6.
An Im agi n ary machine In wh ich people ca n t rave l
backwards o r forwa rds I n lime.
Q l ) What Is it?

Q2) Do you think we ca n change the past or future?

1.

A croom or lotion used to. protect the skin from the sun.
Q l ) What is it?
Q2) W h o. needs it ?

8.

A containe r tho t Is filled with objects tyPloo\ ' of 0. particular

time and place.
QI) What Is It?

Q2) Why would people bury one of these?

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1'".1 II

The right to remain In another coun"y If you cannot live

sofely In your own because of the polltlcal sI tuation t he re.
QI) Whotls II?
Q2) Who seeks II?

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A branch of computer science that explores and develops

the abmty of computers to Imitate human reosonlng. '

Q I) What Is It?
Q2) Would you >-Icome hu m an_like roboU?

Permission to tmv..1 In Or conduct

In a foreig n country.

~rtaln

klnd$ of octlvltles

QI) What Is It1

Q2) Should countries restrict the activities of foreigners?
lZ.

A document ~rtlfylng thaI one has completed the number

and kinds of courses required for gmduatlon.
Q I) What is It?
Q2) W hat b lu us..fu lne5$7

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A place whl'll' books, periodicals,' films and o ther types of
Infonnorton media OTt' stored.

QI) Whol is It?

Q2) Why is It nec6SQry1

l4.
A source of government revenues' levied' upon a person's
Income, purchases, or possessions.
QI) Whol is il?

Q2) Is It fair, proper, or ne<essary?

H.
A method of choosing government leaders by meons of
popular co nsent. '
Ql) What is it?

Q2) Wha t Is its biggest foul t as a way of providing good

government?
16.
Private donations of money or services to "the needy,"

QI) What is it?

Q2) Wou ld gover nmen t programs be morl' effec ti ve In
dealing with the problems?

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"A. means of providing for the noUon', dtfen:lfl by n!qu1rin9

military $C'rvla from certain ptople.

Q1) What 1$ It?

02) Is II fair, proper, Or

n~ry?

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The notion tha t everyo ne within a give n society should

have exactly the S<lme opporlunltles ond f'e5pon 5l bllities
rtgOrd less o f gl:' nd@r,' .... li9;on, stotus, elc.
QI) Whot Is II?
Q2) Should Ihe!'\' be exCO!p!lon5?
J9.

One means of persuoding ptople 10 buy certoln products or

5ervkn. eSIX'Clolly vlo ' the medlo.
Q1) Whotls II?
Q2) How do we know If 115 claim s are true?

20.
Agree m en t bel ween nall ons regulollng their relallans
toward f!O,h o ther.
Q I ) WhotlS It?

02) Why Is this neceiiMlry?

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What's the Difference?

S tude nts a re some times confused b y s imila r wo rds .

Let 's ta lk about how their real mea nings diffe r.

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Pub lic Re lal km s (PR) and a d w rtisl ng

tC'l R is often called

~spin. ~

It is an attempt to promote a

w~ good public Image for a person or company. Ads

are, quite simply, designed to sell goods or services. ra ther

than create an Image.

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Talk, T.1Ik, T.11k 2 I I'urt II

1. POllution and c:ontamlnatlon

2. Com m erdab and ods

J . Fiction and nonfiction
'I. Weather and dlmOle

5. Biography ond autobiography

6. Sports a nd exerdse
1. Translation a nd

In terp~taUan

8. Hospital and cli nic:

9. rlred and laid off
10. 00ct0l$ and physidans

11. learn and memorize

11. Aptitude o nd ability
lJ. Quolity ond quontlty

1'1. tsplonage' and

I ntelUge n~

15. Infer and Imply

16. College a nd university
1 7. Custom and habit

18. Reponer and journalist

19. Statesmon and poli l idon

20. Thrifty and sU ngy

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Different Personalities

.. I'\.Z.",d M.! 1
People h llve diffe rent p erso nalities. lind hen ce
differe nt attitudes towlIrd the sa m e thing. Talk abo ut
these d ifferences In the following cases .

.. 'E'.ampl.
Those who live In thE! c ity and those who live In the
CQuntry

~ any people live in lhe city bec"use lhey have 10. for

school o r employmenl. Bul some would rather live

in a rural ' a rea. . City life is

hectic. ' impersonll!. ' noisy.
and expensive. Country
lile is more relaxed. and
people kn ow ellch
Olher

beller.

BUI

Ihe re

is nOI liS

much 10 do Ihere .

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1.

Buye~

and

n o n.buye~

of lottery ti<;kelS

1. Those who drive wfely ond lhose who drive recklessly

3. Those who moke money In the stock market a nd those
who lose
... ~ who ore wcce:ssful In Ihelr job and those who are not
5. Those who lead a happy Ufe ond those who do nOl
6. Rich peop le ond poor
7. OptImists ond pesslmlslS
&. leoders ond followe~
,. Those who quI! smoking ond those who co nnOl
10. Crimlnols and low-obldlng prople
ll. llors ond h o n est fo lks
12. Playboys (and "bullerflles" ' ) and Ihe monogamous'
U . Hard workers ond goldbrickers '
H . Good studcnlS and poor sludents
15. The physlcolly octIw ond the couch poiOtOl'll '

16. Tourists ond 5lay-o thomes

17. Readers and televiSio n walchers
1&. lovers of fasl food ond lovers of gourmel ' reSlaumnts
Fans of pop music and o f dosslcal music
10. Writers ond rMders

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11. Cot lovers ond dog-Iovers

21. 8oskelboll fans ond wre5IJJng fons
13. Those who wOlCh soop operos and those who just watch
the news
1". Concert goers ond lhose who only lislen to CDs
15. Skiers and scubo dlwrs

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What Does this Mean? (1) "\

E"""Ple
Backseat drive r

It.

passenger who constantly gives the drlw:r unwanted

l'l- advice, warnings. and criticism. Backseat drivers

often make the driver irritated ' and

neT\P'OU5.

likely tnal he will gel into a traffIC eccIdenl.

making it more

So. when you

are riding in a ear with someone else. you ', e belle, off'
remaining silent and letting him do the actual driving. even
if you think he isn't doing a very good,lob,

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2J. Dutch treat

z.
z.

Su nday drlver

22. BIg Brother

reer pressure

23. Anlfldallntelllgence

Cheapska te

21f. C ulture shock

S. BIg m out h

25. Henpec;ked hUSbond

6. C lock watcher

26. Yes-man

7. lunk food

27. Black sheep

28. Social drtnker

Skin chaser

9. Nineto-flve lob

29. Knowlt-oli

'0. BrainwashIng

30. Junk mall

U . Bralnslonnlng

3J. Back stabber

J 2. Pre nuptiologreement

32. Back slopper

J3. Vending maCh i ne

33. Gold digger

J -9. l\.1amo's boy

31f. Gold bncker

J 5. O n e night stand

35. Golden years

J6. Eutha nasia

3 6. Mr. (or Ms.) Right

J7. White Ill.'

37. Crying wolf

18. Sh o plifter

38. Wolf In sheep's clothing

J 9. Unan imous de<is lo n

39. Yuppi e

20. Ufe expectancy

1f0. Spin doctor

What Does This Mean? (2)

'E"'."mpl.
The bo ttom li ne Is thai I a m pa id to wi n ga m es, nOI to
prom o te good will.

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......,.s he "bot tom line- is the sum of a column of figures,

1 such as an accountant might make. So it is the Final.
most imponant. result.

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'E'_pltII/tt """tilt the unde,.lItted - a s ...-tt:

J. My wife ond I 0'" mired ond living on 0 fixed Incomc
2 . Thf:)' how.' two (hild",n ond 0'" fol rly ~

3. Ttll him , In no uncena!n lenns thol he mUSI gel 0

4. My wife ond [ have
yps gnd dOwns,

s.

Job.

typlcol morliogt, wllh the usuol

lone occepted her divorce matter-pf-factly.

6 . My personal recipe ' for success Is: do whot you love o nd

don't look QI Ihe dock
T. 11 IS (tnainly 0 strong orgument ogolnst euthonlzlng

pets until gil possible a!Jema tiya haye bun explored

8. Never "ngag<" In a shouting motch with your daughter.
If sh" $CJ"Mm5, bite yoyr tongyc, low"r your voke ond
.$Oy onythlng you fee] (Ompelled to Kly In a volce only
slightly 000""" 0 whisper. If you (Qn't monogt thOl, tell
her quie t ly Iho! you will di$(u$5 the subll'(t wllh her
when you 0'" colmer. Then do it.
9. Mom hos mode II plain t hat under no clrcymstan(es
will she ever live In a rell",m ent home.

10. IImmy Is 100 selfish. He has nO notion of olvecQnd-tgke

wi th olher children.

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What Does This Mean? (3)

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h 's a kind of spiritual snobbery' thai makes people
think they can be happy wilhoul money,

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~ his means thaI some people are proud 10 claim they

don' t need money 10 be MpPY. But lhey are nol

really happy, lhey are only lTying 10 pretend that they are.
Actually, they have no ab!!ity 10 make money themselves
and lire 100 poor to

recognl~e

how money helps make

people happy.

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1. Nobody co n glye y<:Iu wiser odvtce tho n y<:Iunelf.

2. Glye. ond you ma y keep your friend eytn If you lose
your m o ney; lend, a nd t he ( h onCfl' o~ Ihm you will

lOS(' you r friend even If you gel you r m o ney back .

.J. Blessed ' Is he who expects nolhlng, for he shall never be
dlsa p polnled.
4 . Never truSI t he advice of a ma n In dlfflC\.l lt y.

S. A leon ' com prom ise 15 beller Ihon a fo l lawsuit. '

is. W e ask advice, but we m eon opproballon .'

T. Your sionding In Ihe comm u n ity is U labllshe-d by whm

people soy behind you r back.

&. The borrower Is serva nl 10 the lender.
,. A

woma n 's beau ly Is not a gift

10. II tokes 0 loose rein '

10

10

m a n _only a bribe.

kec-p a morr1age IIgh l.

11. So m t pta p ie se ld o m repe al gassl p ' - the woy t h ey

heord II .
1 2. A marriage wi thout contllet Is a lm ost a s Inco ncelyo ble '
0$ a nation wit hout crbb.

1.J. You ca n mak e m a re frien d s In a monlh by bei n g

Interested In t he m than In le n yeo rs by trying to gel
t he m interested in you.
14. Children hove more need o f models Ihon o f crlllcs.

1.5. II is on error to suppose thol courage means brovery in

everythi ng .

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16. Some people are always grumbling' because roses have

thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
17. Adolescence ' Is like a house on moving doya temporory meu.

lB. Much of good mo nners consists In knowi ng when to

pretend that what Is happeni ng Isn't.
19. The opposite of love is not hate, It's apathy.'
20. When a man says money oon do anything, that settles'

It; he doesn't have any.

21. Love Is the whole hIstory of a woman's life, but jusl on
episode In a man's.
U . I find television Vf!ry educational. [very time same-txxIy
turns on the !let I go into another room and read a book.

23. The first half of our life Is ruined by our parents, the
second half by our children.
24. How little we would enjoy life if we never flattered '
ourselves.
25. We must be greater than God, for we have to undo' His
Injustice.
26. There are two kinds of failures : those who thought and
neVf!r did, and those who dId and never thought.
27. There 15 no failure except In no longer trying.
28. Some people merely ask whyr and others de ma nd to
know why not.

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19, A ~ure route 10 humlliotlon 1$ 10 admit that you paid

what the car dealer was aSking.
30. The tlme 10 stop talking Is when the ot he r
afflrmatlvely but soy$ nothing.

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Proverbs

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Beauty Is only s kin-d eep"

cY omething that 15 skin deep is shanow' and SllpeTficlaJ" '

--e')

It doesn" t e)(tend very far" To say "Beauty is only

skin-deep - Implies that something has a pretty exterior" ' but

that "s about all. What you don "t see i$ hidden unde r the skin
and it may be more important than physical beauty"

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E' xpla/tt whGt eh __ $A!t/ttgs _ t t:

J. wsy come, eruy go.
1. Don't gel mad. gel even.
1. Man dOt$ not live by brood alone.
4. Money lol u.
5. Actions speak louder than words.
6. A mon Is known by Ihe company he kei:ps.

7. Money begels money.

Il. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

,. A roiling

~Ione

gothers no moss.

10. The shoemaker's kids alwaY' go borefO(>I. '

JJ. Thot's life.

11. TIme will tell .

H. You con't teach an o ld dog n_tricks,

plea~ everybody.
J5. One mon's trosh Is another mon's t~sun!'.
14. You con't

16. It Is better to die on you r feet than

ll~

on your knees,

J7. Jt Is easier for 0 comet to go through the ~ of a nttd.le

thon It Is for 0 rich man 10 enter the kingdom of

heaven ,
Ill, It Is better to light one ca ndl e than to curse the
darkness.
J'. Everybody's bU5lne:<s Is nobody'. busIness.
20, If you don't make mIstakes you don't make anything.
lJ. Guns don't kill people. People do.
11. The g<055 Is always greener on the other side of the
ren,
11, Money dOt$n't grow O n trees.
14. lovt' Is blind.
15. Do os I say, not as I do.

16. Then!' Is no such thing as 0 free ride.

27. A penny saved Iso pennyeamt!d.

11l, "Business before pleasure.

1', Behind every successful man there Is 0 womon who

~n't have a thing to wear.
10. Every man Is hIs own worst enemy,

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Idioms

II> tXlllmplc

The company ha s bee n In the red for e ig h t Y'lars .

.....-s his means

1

company

h..

been in debt o r losing

money for a lo n g
time. A profitable
concern ' is "in the
black." T he colors
refer to' the ink accountants use
to make the situation obvious.

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1. It serves you right
2. Walk a mlle In my shoes/Put yourself In my
J. I don't buy that e"planotlon.
". [yery man has his price.
S. You're the boss.

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6. lott's make up_

T. I mean it.
a. I quit smoking cold turkey.
9. Two of the flye candidates' who hod thrown their hou
In the ring hoye now thrown In Ihe towel.
10. Two malor credit card firms have gone belly up.
ll. All the condldoleS look to hoye a strong position, but

lone has the Inside trock because she's single.

12. We will toke a chance on the wealher and hoye the
party outdoon.
H . People fighting for their freedom often do not draw the
llne at murder.
1". He thought the soup 100 hot and mode a scene about It.
15. Don't do It! You are playing with fire.
16, When he 50W the slu of the bill, he hIt the ceiling,
1 T. After yean of ftnondol struggle, the company now sees

light 01 the end of the tunnel.

la, It moy toke two to lango, but I still Ihlnk It was more
her fault,
19, It's a deal.
20. The book mode a big splash a couple of years ago .

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Acronym
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AI
Ql) What does It mean?
Q2) What benefits may thi s technology bri ng abo ut?

.. ft..nswer
A I ) Artificial Intelligence
A2) If machines can learn to think. they can make accurate.
objective' decisions almost immediately. People take
longer and are prone ' to both error
and bIas . '

So. AI

could take much of

the guesswork '
out of ordinary
life.

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1. UNICEf
QI) What don It mean1
Q2) What does II 001
2. IMf

QI) What does II mean?

Q2) Whal does II 001
3. CEO
QI) Whal does II mean?
Q2) Name 3 famous CEOs.
of. GMfs (genetically mooltil'<! foods)
QI) Whal does II mean?
Q2) Are they sofe? Why do people worry aboullhem?
S. urOs
QIJ Whal does It mean?
Q2) Why are _ exdted obout them?
6, HDTV

QI) What does It mean?

Q2) Whal makes uS exdled about It?
T. AIDS
QI) Whal does II mean?
Q2) Why Is II o ne o f the most fearful diseases?
6. FDA
QI) What does II mean?

Q2) How does this InsUtute affect ather countries'

Indwuies1

9. CCTV
Ql) Whot does It mean?
Q2) Where ort' they~?
10. CPU
QI) What does II mean?
Q2) Whot kind of machine needs a CPU to Opo!Mte?

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Lifestyle Quips ~

to

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Even waler laSles bad when taken o n doctor"s orders.

~ his means Ihat being forced 10 do something takes

the pleasure away from that activity.

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IIplal,. what th . . . .,..,,,. mea,. :

1. A m lstoke Is proof thot $Om eone WQ$ lit loo~t trying to

occomplbh $Ometh lng.

1. Hoving m oney ond friends Is eosy. HOving friends and
no money Is on accomplishment.
~. Ability will enable a mlln to get to the top, but It tokes
choracter to keep him there.
'I. Man blames m ost accidentS' on fate-but feels 0 m ore
personol responsibility when he makes a hole-tn-one.
5. Every accomplishment, great or smnll, ~ torts with the
right dectslon, " J'II try."
6. AdviCe 15 never nppredo ted. ' If 11 leads to 0 good result.
the recipient thin ks It W05 hIs own Idea; ond If It turns

out bodly. he eternally ' biomes the gIver.

" Ambition wlthout delermlnntlon h05 no destination. '
II. A wealthy oochelor' 15 wmeone whll :;aved money 10
get married. and then changed his mind.
9. The le05t experienced flshermon always cotches the
blQ9Ht flsh.
10. Whenever your teom trades away ' a useles.s no-nome.
he Immedlotely ri5l'S to stardom .'
ll . A 10umey of 0 t hou$Ond mlles begins w1th 0 si ngle step.
11. Knowi ng when 10 hold Or to fOld_lt's the $Ome In cords
OS In love.
11. You should make hay while the sun shines.
H. Moybe money con't buy love. but It con rent It.
15. Wisdom meon s knowing the difference between
determination to transform those condit ions which can
be changed. and acceptance of thO$e which connOI.

16. It's never too late to put your past behind you.
1 1. She W05 a woman w1lh II past - but Ihot dldn 'l stop her

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Laughter Is the Best Medicine! )

1 ~.Q'dM./ 1
laugh your way to better health! A lot of medical
research Indicates that laughter produces significant
changes In Immune system' functionality, beginning on
the cellu lar leve l. We ha ve long been aware that
negative factors, s uch as depression ' and stress, can
compromise' the Immune system, But now scientists
have clear evidence that laughter can Improve It, And
the best part about this discovery Is that you don't have
to walt until you're III to experience the medical benefits
of laughter. Even If you don't laugh much now. you can
begin to prac tice right away,

.. 'E'.ampl.
They 've been married five years and she still hasn ' t
to ld him ho w muc h money he 's earning,

Immune syat..,, : _~_tem tho, ~

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-rs his means his wife regards her husband as

1.

as

making nw:hlne,

~nd

~ money-

he seems 10 accept his destiny'

henpecked hubby, ' giving her all the money he makes

without quest10n or (ompi<oint. 11'$ II Irllgedy thllt most

.n the money lhey make to their wives

husbands hand 0YVr'

~nd

then have to beg for' an

IIlIow~nce .'

Do you think this

Is a good kiell' Or do you think husbands

should handle all financial matters

themselves?

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the",:
1. He doe~n't carT)' life insurance, only fi~ insurancehe knows where he's going.
1. My mother-in-Iow WQS kidnop ped lost week. The
kidnapper saId If we didn't send $25,000 q uick, we
would hove to lake her bock.
3. He married his secretory. think ing he'd continue to
didO!e' 10 her.
II. He's marrying ot 70 ond stllllooklng for

home near

a school.
5. When he buys anything. he sees on ly the initial

payment.
6. They took the "for better or worse" ' vow, but they
didn't say "for how long,"
7. The only time he opens his mouth is to ask her for
the apron and the vacuum cleaner.
B. She threatened 10 divorce him o nce, and he could n't

help shedding' a few cheers.

9. He never knew what hoppine$S was until he married
her-then it was 100 lote.
10. fudge \0 dere ndant: ' "I n ote that in a dd itio n to
stealing cash, you took watches, ri ngs and pearls."
"Yes, your honor: replied the mon In the dock. ' "I
wos laug h t that money alone doesn't brIng
happiness.~

11. "Joe is the man for me: sold a starry-eyed ' young
woman to her mother. "He's nice. He's handsome.
He's sma rt. He's hardworking. He's runny. He's
strong. He's kin d."

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malTled." inlerrupted her mather.

Nobody's perfectl~
He told his children SonIa Claus is 100 old to gel around
ony mare.
"Father, I want to gel monied,"
"NO, my $On, you'.., not wise enough."
"Whe n will I b@wise<.>noug h ?"
"When you rid ' yourself of the ideo that you wont to b@
monied."
When he', in. she's out. Wh,m she's In. he's out. They
can't find eoch other to discuss a dIvorce,
He could convince his wIfe that she looks fat In 0 fur
~He'5
~So?

12.
1$.

14.
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16. She swore she wouldn't tolk to him tor 0 month ond he's
unhappy oboutlt~the monih 1$ olm()$t over.
I T. He's very sympathetic. He con'l beor _Ing on old lody
standing up in the subwoy, $0 he always buries his heod
in a newspaper.
18. As soon as she stans giving her side ' of the argument,
he shuts off' his heorlng Old.
19. " I've had bod luck with both my wives."
"How comer
"The flnt ron off with another man ."
"And (he sondr
"Oidn'I."
20. "My uncle hod on automobile aeddent, but the doctor
told him he would have him walking In 0 month ."And did her
" Yes. When the doctor sent his bill, my uncle had to sell
his car 10 pay It."

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Make Your Point (1)

1
Bas.ed o n the a lven outline, g ive u. your opin ion in

detail ,

E'mp'.

o Helll lh Is lhe moll ImpOrUml thing In life .

o O no.:e II Is 10$1 you can 'l gel II Mo.:k o.:om p le le ly.
o Be .... re 10 elll we ll , sleep e nough li nd IllI'Old $Ires.s If

p05Slble .
o

Exe rcise also helps you remai n fit ' .

o Regula r checkups ' are

Indis pensa ble ' 100.

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tel eopIe

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recoup' their laMes on the &Ioo:k market,

~~ 'eg.!ILn 1I Iowr s "ffect1ons (or find 1I new lover). or

reform their cha racter. but they may nol ever be able 10

recover Ihe,r 1os1 health. However. laking eliTe o f ourselves

Is lIc l UlIlIy eas ier thlln we may think . If we have lin
adequ.eile. bIIlanc:ed diet. if we gel enough rest. and if we
PK8 ourselves lind keep everything in proper pl!l"Spectiw'

to

mlnlmi~e

activity Oller

stress. most of US aIIn mbinlllin our physical

II

long period

(ll

lifetlme'l comfortably "nd

en)oyllbly The other really Important aspect of si llying

healthy Involves regular exercise. BUI you don ', hlIve 10

work out ' In lin eKpensiYe gym for many hours a week. A
brisk ' wlIlk lo r 30 minute$ II lUay Is all most people need.

though they may want to suppl emen t ' Ih ls wilh a few

minutes 01 stretching. Last. but nol \eMt. gel II thorough
medical

examl~lion

every yell . Within dIoys, you will either

know that you must take some necessary steps to keep

from geUing sick. c. you wiH nave complete peace of mind

knowing thai nothing is wrong with you'

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Gas prices are skyra<;kcting. '

You want 10 ge l rid of you r ca r soon.
Too mony cars arc on the road.

The subway lakes you onywhcn'! in the city Oil lime.

(2)

You wanlla stQrt laking

lunch box to work.

You're sick o f eating out.

o

Restaurants are too expensive.

Too mo n y people fill th e restaurant, ma king it noisy and

uncomfortoble.

(3)

You think TV con never be educational.

It rots a child's brain.

Commercials encourage overspending_
Child re n are gett ing fat from watching TV.

(4 )

It's amazing how few people seem 10 be really worried

about A IDS.

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AIDS kills you, (lnd it'~ spreodlng '(lst.

YO\l oon get It from ... n9Oglng In \lnso'e sex or even getting
a blood transfusion. '
MOSI Impo rtantly. o n e musl get adequate In form ation
aboult he disease before It b too late.
By ta kIng preve n tive' measures. onyone oon be sa f....
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(S)

People o~ prejudiced a golnst rot people.

ObesIty' Is a dlsea.se.
Fa t people do not just ea t whatever they p!('<l$f.
They hove difficulty burning up colorll!$ In theIr every<kly
activity.
o Even exerdse doesn't help same fat people.

(6)

We shOu ld make tObacco Ill egol.

It Is fatal to smo kers a nd nonsmokers a li ke a nd poses
great rlsks to people's health.
Il ls among the mo.st addictive ' of all subslances.
Stcondhond smoke can ruIn the health even of Innocent
non4mokers.

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It is true that politicians disgust ' us with their low moral

standards.

People are becoming indifferent to politics.

They often neg lect to vote.
The easiest way for evil to triumph Is for the good to sl!

bock Gnd do nothing.

We can only stop the vicious circle' of corrupt ' politics by
voting Intelligently.

(8)

Stress is unavoidable in modern society.

We must learn how to cope with' it. If not, we will all be

destroyed by it.

But we can also moke It our life's locomotive. '

If well managed, It stlmulates our creative power Gnd

leads us to better lives.

(9)

Crime rates ore on the rise.

Laws are 100 permissive.
Strict punishment is sold to discourage criminal acts.

Singapore is the outstanding' example of this theory.

But the death penalty should be the exception, not the

rule. '

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1
Co pitol punbhmenl is 100 eXlreme, given Ih e uncenolnrles

of th e law and police practices.

No o n e sh ou ld be ollowed 10 take
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human Ufe-not even

ju dge.

( 10)

Som e peop le say life Is predetermined before ou r birt h .

~511ny

co nn o t be chang ed.

But we shou ldn ', be di scouraged. T here 15 $O m e lh lng even

stron ger thon fotc.
Good hoblls and bad habits ore Our "reo l destiny."
If you choose good hobits. your life Is full of IIghl, but bod

o nes lead you to dorknes5.

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Make Your po,n@D

l7.alttpl.
W hy Is a co llege ed uca tion Importa n'"

college education expands ou r knowledge of Ihe

Il.. world. II deepens our interests. II widens our

abi lities. it makes us more broadmioded' and less ignoran!. '
it provides us with useful human contacts, it forces us to
work hard to ach ieve something wort hwhile. and. perhaps
most importantly. it gives us a certificate (called a diploma' )
for success.

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~ alee fIOUl' po/ott; Oot t;he follow/ltg is.....:

1. Why a~ friendS Importa nl to us?
2. Why do we hav" 10 be o n lim" fOT appointm en ts?
1 . Why Is It m os t difficul t to k ee p our pr omises to
ourselves?
4. Why 1$ II don9"rou~ \0 driVio' drunk?
S. What does having a lob moon fOT you?
6. What Is the Importance of family?
1. Why Is low necessary?
8. Why ore morals necessary?
9. Are you afraid of dying? Why or wh y no\?
10. Tell us why WI' shou ld 100m English .
11. Wha t l><'neflts' doos money provld(>?
1 2. Ho w does m o n ey spoil us?
11. Argue that me n (Ire more In telligent Ihon women (or
vice versa). '
1'1. Refute' Ihe argument lust mode.
lS. Why do many l>rople gel mmTled?
16. [x p lain why be Ing s ingle Is b e lleT Ihon having a
sPOUSE".

1 7. Illustrate' why swdylng Is imponant.

18. !'rove Ihat swd ylng Isn't everyt hing In life .
19. Think of all t h" reasons why peop le can', qull drinking
and s m oki ng.
20. Co nvin ce uS Ihol all t he reasons give n In 19 a re lust
lame' excuses.
21. Capitalism ' Is I><'lter Ihon soda lism ' _ or Is It1
22. ~ I wo uld rather be 10vOi!"d Iha n be rich ."
21. Dt>spite ilS inl'/fidency. democracy Is Ihe best form of
goVl!rnment.
2 4. Such Is the war of Ihe world: th e big fish always feed
upon ' the smal fish .
2S. Why Is loornlng English a "n ecl'5S0ry evil"?

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F xample
J uve nil e crimes a re beco m ing m ore prevale nt. '

"'( US! a gi<lnce at any population' chart will show that

e....J wherever there are a lot of young men (between thei r

early teens and late 20s). crime rates will go up. These are a
veIY act ive force in SOCiety. they have lots 01 ene rgy and
probably too much free time. but they also lack matu rity.

So. unless they have jobs. they are usually on the prowl ' for
something exciting to do. especially something that may
make them some money. But they don't usually understand
the consequences '

of their

actions. they are focused

only on short"term
thrills' or needs.

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poi"t 0" tit. /OlI04Nl..g . -/AI plt ......... .. A:

1. People are getting more impatient.

1. Divorce rotes are going up.

1. The gop between rlch and poor Is wldfnlng.
4. The number o f wOmen who smoke Is Increasing.
$. The number of childless couples Is on the rise. '
6. Many young people are choosi n g to remain slngl<~
lo nger or not getting mamed at all.
7. A two-Income fomlly Is becoming the nonn.
I. People are almost always busy.
9. Almost everybody invests In stock.
10. Among young people. physical Iltness' Is getti ng worse.
11. Ufe~xpectoncy' 13 expanding.
12. More people are driving than ever before.

/1. As women become more like m e n . men are gell[ng

mall! feminized. '
l'I. Children show less respect to t heir elders than they used

'0.

1$. Many emigrants are returntng home.

16. No o ne reads as much as his grandparents did.

17. Dis h onest, unsc r upulous people are more likely to
succeed thon the morolly uprlght.
II. The old ways are d[soppearlng.
19. Mall! alcohol Is being consumed tho n ot ony other time
in history.
10. family size is much smaller than even 40 years ago .

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A t Oba cco co mpany executive ' traveled th e co untry

lookIng for longtime smokers In good he-o.lth. He found
one man who admItted ' to smokIng for 70 YWTS.
" If yo u do a commercIal ' for u s . " th e executlve
explaIned, "we'll pay you $10,000,"
" It'$ 0 de-o.l, " sold the smoker, "When do I 5Iort?"
"How a bout IOa.m, tomorrowr
"Con ', do II the n, son - I newr quit !ughlng till noon !"

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(I ) Why did the

executi~

lrovel sa far?

(2) Whot did he offer 10 do for the smokel"?

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Diane Ro bb, a 37year-old copywrit",..

and mo the r o f two, oomllo res her
IIf" to "riding a wa ve: lump ing
o n your slIrfboord ' a t six in th"
m o rning , a nd w(uhlng liP' o n
Ih" be a c h a t t en thai nigh!. "
Sh e d oes n ' t kn o w how s he'd
cop,, ' without a mi cro wave Oven
and takeout food .' Vet her mother a sc h o o lt co c h e r who own"d far fewe r convenlen ce~ _
a lwa ys swm ed to have free ti me . "S h e even hod ti m e to
hong d o thes On the line and hoke p ies." says Robb. Whm s
going o n? I:<n 'l modem techno logy $Uppooed 10 provide less
work a nd m a re leisure? JUSI the o pposite m ay be true. O n e
tech nological innova tion after ano ther has me t o ur demand
for a fa sler tempo, then speeded II li p som e m are. labor.
sovl ng deviCft eosed the drudge ry ' of o ur Uves bUI a dded to
Ih l' I'x~ ns e . So we have becom e tw o_ paycheck' fam ilies,
b ut s UII h a ve \ 0 w o rk overtime a nd ev en th e n mu s t
m oonlight ' In o rde r to keep up.
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Que.tlo".
( I) What does Diane think about her life?
(2) What does sh" think a bout m lcl"(lwaW! ovens?

(3) What does "ta keout food " m oo n?

(4 ) Old her mot her lood a bwy life, too?
(5) Why d oesn ' t the new techn o logy bri ng Us m o re leisure

lime?
(6 ) Sum u p the story In your own

word~.

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Recent ly I was invited to lecture on anxiety ' to several

hund red mental-health professionals. My toIle. was
scheduled to follow those of a n u mber o f promine n t'
psychiatrists. ' When my turn carne, [ was especially
nervous, because the speale.er before me hod been
part icula rly impressive and charming. As [ approached
the podium,' my heart pounded ' and my mouth went
completely dry. "What am [ doing herer I asked myself.
Making mailers worse, my p resentation ' dealt partly with
the fear of public speaking. To calm myself, I tried an
unconventiona l' tacHc. ' [ asked the audie nce, " How
many of you feel nervous when you give a
speech?" Nearly every hand went up.
"Well, that's exactly how [ feel
right now!" T he audience
responded with laugh ter. I
relaxed and was ab le to
move easily Into my
presentation.
C2WffStlon5
(1) Where was the writer invited?
(2) Why was he nervous before he gave his lecture?
(3) What was h is lecture about?
(4) How did he relax himself?
(5) Sum up the story in your own words.

Talk. Ta lk, Ta lk 2 / 1'"" \

A teen-oger wQS lounging ' on the nClOr watching TV when

the phone rang.
- Hello, so n , ~ sold the voice. Where Is
your motherrShe's out working In t h e
go rden.
MWhot?" barked ' the fo t he r.
"Your mother 15n', oS young
and strong 0$ she used to
be . Why are n ' t you
helping her1 "
" \ Con ' I ,~ wa s Ihe reply.
Crandma's using Ihe other

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(I) What was the teen-ager doing?

(2) Who coiled him?

(3) Whol wos his mom doing?
(4) What was his grandma doing?
(5) Why couldn't he help his mom?
(6) Sum up the story In your own words .

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Men are fatter than women.

And despite our fondness
for needling ' wives and
gi rlfriends about being
lousy ' drivers, we ' re
much more reck less
when we gel behind
the whe e l ' - more
llkl'ly to drive drunk and less
likely to strop' on a seat belt. We are olso much more
comp<!tltive than women socially. Wl' try to trump' one
anot h er wi th status, In the form of a more presllglous job
or higher salary. Often, however. getting that p rom otion
or bonus Involves wo rking longer hours. which means
coping with unhealthy levels of stre5.$, eating junk food
and mi5.$ing sleep. Success Can also require takIng risks.
So, os part of this hmacho'" lifestyle, we or<' more likely
to ignore thl' dang e rs of smoking and drinki ng. Ml'n
probably don't pondl'r' effects as thoroughly as waml'n.
who tend to think marl' about co n sequl'nces thon
processes.

Questlo"s

Who smoke and drink more, men or women?

(2) Who drive more carcle5.$ly?
(3) What do pr<'"Sligiou$ lobs a nd higher salaries mean to
ml'n?
(4) Is success easy for men to achieve? Why or why not?
(5) Why do men drivl' so fast and ignore the dangers of
smoking a nd dri n king?
(6) Sum up the story in your own words.

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I grew up In a ~mal1 town where the primary SChoo l was 0

ten.mlnute wolk fTOm m y hou${! ond In a n age, not so lang
ago. when childre n could go ho m e for lunch and find their
mothe rs waiting there fo r them. AI the time, I did n OI
consider thb a luxury, alth o ugh today II cenalnly would be.
I took It for granted ' that mothers werl'! the 5andwlc h.
makers, the fingerpalntlng appreciators ' and the homework
mo n itors. I only knew t hat when the
noon b ell rang, I wou ld ra ce
breathlessly home. My mother
would be sta nding at the
lap of the stairs.
smiling down at me
with a lO Ok that
suggested I was
the on ly Impor_
tant thing s h e
h ad on
her
mind. For Ihls,
am fOTl'V\'r grateful.

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(I) Where did Ihe wrttergrow up?

(2) whol set'med to be molhen' chief roles when the wriler
WQS young?
(3) Whot did tht mom do when the writer rushed home for
lunch?
(4) What Is the wri ler grateful for?
(5) Sum up the siory In your own words.

l'Groy

hair

does n ' t

rne<ln fuzzy' thinking_

Sigmund Freud

published his first grea t

work 0\ 44 , and (Onlln ued

10 devel<,p hi s theorie s of
psyc hoo.nolysLs ' over Ihe next
fo ur decades . Enviro nmentalist author Roc h~ 1 COT$on
completed her classic' unock on pollution ot 55. " If you
continue roodlng, thinking. and creating all your life, the
knowledge you gain Improves your Intel!lgen ce, $Q)'$ the
author of (I book o n women aging _ " The speed o f
re050nlng a nd remembe r Ing may d ecrease, but the

quality does nOI , so , given enough time, you'll score

beller and beller on lnlelllgen~ testll ' a s you oge. We do
lore iIOme broln cells with oge. But neu rosc\entlStll ' now
know we grow more connecting bron ches between broln
cell$ - lnO'('Qslng our depth of knowledge _ through our
70s, If Wi.' live (I mentally stimulating life.

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( I) Does thinking blur' {l $ we get older?
(2) How can we be<:ome more Intelligent In spl1e of old
nge?
(3) How con Wi! deepen our knowledge ('Yen though we
1O/ie broin cells?
(4) Sum up the sto ry In your own words .

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11 Is dIfficult to ImagIne the seo ever runnIng out of' fish. 1\

Is so vast, so d<!<!p. SO mysterious. Unfortu n ately. It Is not

boltom less. Overflshtng, cou p led with ' destrucllve fishi n g
pradtC<!'5, Is destroying th e fish and their environmen t. As ( l

result, govern men ts have had to dOS(> down some areas of

oceon 10 commerciaL Osh l ng. 81g, h \gh-te<:h fleets e n nlfl!
Ihal everything In their path Is litera lly Hoovered u p. '
Anything too smoll, o r the WTOng thing. Is thrown back,
ellher dead Or dying_ Tha!'s an Qverag" of mOn! than 20

mllllon metric tons of need leMly killed morine ' life every
yl'(lr. Adm ittedly. ' some cou nt ries o re lK!glnnlng 10

odd~ '

thIs problem, bu t anyone can see It Is vllol we find mo re

SUStai n able ' met hods or tl$hln g before every ocean beco mes

Dea d Sea. It would make sense,

one could argue, 10 dedo re a
moratorium ' o n fishing In
order to give the fish
enough lime to recover.
grow 10 full size. and
repro d uce. a n d then
catch them In a way that
doe$ n 't waste ot h er sea
life resources .

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(1) What Is destroying the tbh and their environment?

(2) So what have governments done?

What Is the problem wl lh high-tech Oshing methods?
(4) Who! 1$ one sU$tolnoble way o f fish in g?
(5) Su m up the story In your own words.

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<?At 35 , Stephe n was a he avy smo ke r and 100 pounds

overweight. His health was so poor that even climbing
stair.> was an ordeal.' Then he had a heart o ttack. '
"At fir.>t. [walked because [didn't want to
have another heart allac k." he say s.
" N o w I walk be cause I enjoy It. "
Stephen has discovered that walkIng Is
not only good for his health, but 0 way
to re lax and to SOCialize a s well. The
good news 1$ that moderate workouts '
can substantially' reduce the odds' or
dying of heart disease. cancer, ond other
couses. In fo ct, researc hers believe
that half the decline generolly
ouoclated with aging Is due to
Inactivity. By moderotely
exe rcising, a person between
30 and 70 may retain os much
a s 80 percent of his phySical
abllity.

Quntkms

(1) Wha t

wos Stephen'S health

like before?

(2) Why did he start walking?

(3) What benents does walking bring aoout?
(4) Who t Is largely responsible for our phySical dec!!ne?
(5) How can we maintain most of our physical abilitles
Into old a ge?
(6) Sum up the story in yo ur own words.

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Every so often, adults suffer anxIety oUacks ' ond ch ildren

o~ n~less ly frightened out of their wits' by some weird'
predicUon Ihol on a 'rtoln day the world will come 10 an
end, Poople have actually quIt their lobs, given away Ihelr
houses and belongings, and walled for the earth to swallow
Ihem up . When It does n 't happen, you hear Ihe some
excuse: God changed his mind . Bu t even Ihe Bible says no
one kn ows what day or h o u r Ihe world will end. The t h ing
everyone 5C<' m s \ 0 forget Is Ihal every mlnule of every hour
of every day, "Ihe world comes to on end" for so m ebody. We
are all goIng to die, sooner or later. II could be today In a
cor occident Or a fall down the stairs , Heart attacks strike
suddenly, DIseases claim ' millions. There are flres, floods
am:! 10rnodOS' _more Ihan enough trogedy 10 go around.
And I n Ihe end, of course, for th ose who "escape," theN Is
death from ol d age. No molter how healthy we are,
evenlUolly, our ports wear out.' So, what 's 11'11' big deal? '
The message Is. live every day as If II were your lost. Don't
put o ff Ihe ploosures and toYs for "onolhe r lime." II 'S always
10ler Ihon you think .

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( 1) How dots Doomsday ' news affect
many ad u lts and children?
(2) What 15 Ihe common excuse wh e n the o pocolypllc '
prediction d oesn'l come lrue?
(3) whol does Ihe Bibl e soy oboul Ihe 1051 day of Ihe world?
(4) Why does the writer Ihink Ihol talking OboUI Doomsday
m~ns nOlhlng1
(.s) 50, how shou ld we live our lives?
(6) .sum up Ihe story In your own words,

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M : I'm nat a kid any mare, I n~d to. start del:ldlng what
I'm galng to. do. with the rest af my life.
r ,Well, It's never too ('(Irly to sta rt. What would you Uke to.
da?
M : Dod's friend X1ld he could gel me a lOb In his ofnee

r , Doing what?
M

Sales. He sold that the lab Is hard until yau get

experience_a lot of hours every we"k_but that the
pay would be real good.

r ,1 don't knaw. 501"57 That doe5n't stri ke ' m" as being

X1mNhlng you'd enl oy ar l'Ven be very good at.
M , Why nat?
F : Well, two reasons. I suppose. The fiBt one is thot you're
nOI really much of a "people pe~n." '

M ' Vau m('(ln yau don'tlhlnk I'm friendly?

F : No., yau're very friendly - but only with people who
know you well. You '~ more the Introv"rted ' type, kind
af shy at flrsL Salesmen are usually mo~ gregarlaus'
and outgoing. '

M, OK. What's the second rt<>son?

r: I

think you're 100 honeS!.

You'd probably try to tolk
your clients Into ' buying
somebody else's products If
you thaught they could
get a better deal.

M , ['m not that dumbl'

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F ,Oh, y~ you .. ..,! But I wouldn , 001111 btlng too stupid, I'd
coil II havtng tao much Integrity '
M But real good solesmen can make lots of moneyl
T : Yel, they con. E$p<.'Clally If they work on .. commI55ian. '
But they have to be really good ot III For most people, 115 a
foostor. fomlne 51luotian.
M , Whot does tha t mean?
F : II mea n s you eithe r m ake a lot o f money o r ha r dl y
anything at aU. Why don t you try somet hing Ihot you'd
bt more comfortable with?
M : like what?
F : Well, you like music a lot. and I think you playa pretty
mean ' soxophone. Why don't you try 10 get work as a
musician?
M : Tolk obou t "[eas' or fomine "! Thot"s one of Ihe hardest
fields to break Into ' thai there Is.
f: True. But money Isn, everylhlng. lust remembtr, you might
be doIng thiS for the ~t of you r life , Wouldn't you mtherdo
something you'd enjoy than something you'd hate?
M : Not If II meant starving 10 deathl
F : No, of course nOl, But you'U never know If you don't try.
Why don't you give It you r best shoO ' And If you con 'l
make It, ' 01 leasl you won't h ave to go th roug h ' life
regretti ng Ihol you didn't lab the chance. '

I, Why do you do 1M job you do nowl (or, Why did you chooJr)'OUr
wr~ corrrrl)

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F : Look 01 thiS!
M : Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. What Is It?
r : It's a catalog o f all the new fur coot styles.
M : Mmmm. Very interestlng. The models are all ve r y
attractive.
F : Which one do you llke?

M : Which model?

F: No! Which coat?

M : Oh, ' don't know. They all look OboUI the sa me to me.

F: Well, I can't quite make up my mind ' eithe r. II's one of

these three, though, d on't you think?
M : Sure, those are all very nice.

r: Don 't you think ,'d look good

In o n e of them?
M :' think you look good
in anything!
f : Why, thank you.

But what about

one of these? Do
you think I'd
look good In it?

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M :

Yes, )'f!', yn. O f (OUIW. What

r : You

a~

you getting at? '

know my birthday Is coming up.

M : Certainly. You don't think I'd fa~t that!

Its in about two

we.k.s, rtght1
F : Twelve days.

M : Su~, I kn ew that. I just didn't know wha t today was.

F ; Wouldn't you li ke to s how your wife off' In one of these?

[)(In' t you t hink you'd b<i! th<! envy o f all your frlends1
M ; I al~dy a m . b/i'caulI<' I've got the most beo.utlful wi fe In
thc wor ld . Even without a n expe n sive coot_you don't
need to gild the lily. ' you know.
F : Sut [won t tol I think t hese are IlUt gOrgE'OUSI '
M : But whot about t he morollssue?
F : What morol Issue?
M : You know. killing all those poor defenll<'less animals - In
t he m OSt brutal ' ways imagInable-lust to ski n ' their furs

off. [shudder' just to thin k aboutlt.

F :

You don't do much shuddertng when you order a steak

eoll

10

M : Sut this Is different. Th e steers ' were born with ju st o ne

purpose In life - to be butcheroo ' to feed people. Sut thell<'
animals are free. wild things, which arc ca ught In a
palnf'ul trop ' fo. days and then clubbed ' to dl!<lth!

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F : You d idn't think much about those poor wild fish you
caught lasI weekend. They were caught with your
paInful hook in Ihelr mouths, and then you scaled'
Ihem wIthout mercy! '
M : I don" know what 10 say....
F : Why don't you just admit you don't want to spend that
much money on my bIrthday? Or, better yet, why don't
you just decide which one you like the best and order il
for me right now so it gets here on lime?
M : But [ wanted to surprise you!
F : So, surprise me! Don'ItelI me which of these three you're
getting!

QWflstions

1. What do you think about the animal-rights activists' tactics, '

such as spray painting the furs people are weoring?

2. Is there a moral difference between hunting, fishing, ar

trapping?

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'D'.'ogue
M : I don 't u nderstand how we keep electing such obviously
dishonest p<!opJe to public office!
F : Why? What happened this time?

M : Thai guy] voted fo r ! Despite his p romises to reduce

taxes, he just voted to rolse them.
F : Well, you know, circumstances chongI' sometimes.
Maybe, as a responsible public official, he hod no
choice. These a re bad economic times, you know.

M :Thell he should have lol d u s thot, under cer t ain

circumstances, he would consider a new tox. He should
have been more ca reful to te ll us what those
circumstances would be. Bu t he should not hove given
us a bla n ke t statement ' that he would not ever faise
taxes. Tha t was an oulrlght' lie!
F : Well. maybe he didn't thInk It through ' completely. But
if he hod told you he
mig h t have to raIse
t axes, would you
have vote d for
him?
M : Maybe.

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F , Reolly? Arc you su re?

M , At lea sl he wou ld be on honest man. SomeUmes honest
peop le may disagree. But at leost he wou ld deserve' our
..... pect, whelher he QOI our vOle or not.
F : But if he dldn 'l gel you r vote, he wouldn't be In offlce.
M : But he $hou ldn 't have lied 50 blatantly. '
F : Would It be okay If he only lied a little bl l?
M : No. He has a duty 10 tell uS the truth .
F : rust Uke advertLsers? If they told uS about th .. wor.1I oSpecb
of th .. lr products, nobody wOll ld buy them.

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M : Moybt>
shOll ldn 't expect comple te hane uy, In t hOl case.
But n ot lelllng us everything is nOI the sa m e o~ glvLng us
false Informotlon.
F : 00 you always tell everyone the t roth?
M : Usually.
F : t:ven If It will co use 0 fn .. nd unne<:essary grief? Even If It
will hurt Ihe feelings of someone you care about?
M : I wouldn"1 go OUI of my way 10 hurt them. but I wouldn't
tell th<.'m som et hing tho t was unl rue.
F : Whot about when you d id n 't wont to go OU I wllh your
buddl~ 10$1 week. Vo u told them you hod on Important
appointment , but really you lus t want .. d 10 go home.
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F : Why do I have to s tudy En glish, anyway? Why d on't t h e

ot h e r people ju s l lea rn my lang u age for 0 cha nge? '

M : Well, it's just the u n fortunate way history ha s d eveloped .

For 400 yea rs, the English were (onquering much of the
wo rld. " T he su n neve r se ts o n t he Brit is h Em p ire,"
remember that saying? An d then they werE' e<ll psed' by

anothe r EngUs h -spea kl ng people. The Americans are not

o n ly t he strongest na t ion in history, bu t they olso
plonee.-ed' most of the m odern med ia - like movies and
radio and records. A n d the Brits developed TV!
F : I didn't ask for a histo ry lesson! I asked you w hy ] h o ve
to stud y En gl ish!
M : Because no one e lse is goi n g to learn your lon9 u 0genobody else wan ts to or has to! S ut since En glish is a
global la n guoge, iI's m uch easier for people of diffen:>nt
languages- let's soy Ko.-eo n and Hi n dI, or Germ a n and
Swa h ili - to all com mun icate in Englis h . Nobody can
leorn all of the la nguages there
are, b u t we ca n all learn
o n e fo reign la n guage.
It's lust easier If we a ll
learn th e same ane,
that's all.

F : You still aren't

addressi n g ' m y
question !

Talk, T.llk, Tillk 2 / 1',," \ I

M : You're learning English becuuse the government o n d your

sc hool told you to!
F : At lostl Sut why did they make s uch a silly rule?
M : If we wont to export our p roducts, Or buy foreign goods
thOi we don't make ourselves_If you wont to go Into
business - It's lust to Our advantage to use English. It's all
about e-co namlc survival.
F : Sut I don't won t to go Into business. [ Iwt wa nt 10 en loy
life - and that doesn't Indude st udying Engllshl lIs too
hard and too oonfu~ing!
M : log ........ that It'S not a very $Cnslbte' language_too many
Inconsi~tencles and exceptions ta rules. But there are
reasons to study It that will help U$ enjoy o u rselves.
r : Such os7
M : Such as seei ng reolly good movies ond TV shows, a n d
listening to good music, ond even re<lding good books. In
the modern world, mony of these very enjoyable activities
are enhanced ' by undel"litandlng Engll$h.
F : OK, I see you r point. Why dont we go see a movie?
M : Don! you hove 10 study?
r: WelL. how about going to see a new American film?
Attording 10 ' you, thot's studying, right?

1. Why Or" you )Iudying lnglilh ? Woo/Is your P'JfPOJf!?

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2. Dtht!r than yourown Ianguogf! or English, what OIht!r kmguogf!

would you prf!ff!t" to US<!", if any? Why?

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M ; J need som e advice.

F : That's what I'm good at - telHng you what to do!

M: I don't know what to major' in.

F: You're pretty good at writing, aren't you? Why don" you
toke literature classes, or maybe Journalism? '

M : If 1 toke Lit., the only kind of job I could gel would be

leach ing. And If Journalism, reporting. Those OTC both
poorly paid professions, don" you think?
F :Money Isn"

everything, you know. Vou should do

something that gives you pleasure.

M : Making money gives me pleasure. Maybe I s h ould go
Into medicine.
F : Bu t you aren't very strong in ma th.
M : No, bUll got solid A's In Biology.

F : ThaI's righ t, but you also have to loke a lot of Math

classes. Why don'! you lim it your choices to something

more possible? A lot of good stu dents are turned away'

from Med. Sc hool.
M : What about Business?
F : Why not? But it has a Jot of moth too, right? Like
Statistics and Accounting?
M : Maybe I s hould just choose some maror that isn't very
popular, to improve my odds' for getting into a good
school. I can always think about what [ want to do later,
after I graduate, while I'm In college.

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C .. sson 3 5 . Dia logu e

F : But it's ha rd to ch ange your m a jor mid way throug h . Isn't It

better to p ick som et hi ng you 're good at. and will proba bly
do well In, and that you will enjoy doing for the rest or
your life? rfyou're already good at It. it should also be ~sy
for you to gel acccpt<:'din Ihot fie ld of stud y.
M : That m a kes sense. ' BUI If I kn ew what I wa n tM to d o, I

wo u ldn'l have asked you.

Qu ..s tlo".
1. How many career <:hokes hove you mode in your life? Whal were
they. and did they work out' for you?
2 . Who are you most likely 10 lurn 10' for a d vice?

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I F:

Sometimes I just don't know what to do.

M :Oh?

F: Yes. Should I te ll a desperately ' sIck potlenl h e's

probably going to die? Should I lie, and tell him that
there's hope? Should I let the family know but le ll Ihem
nOlto let him know?
M : What's wrong with telling the truth?
F : No one can ever be absolutely s ure. I've seen people
recove r who hod absolutely n o cha n ce, and I've see n
otheJ"S die who hod a pretty good shot' at survival.
M :So?

F : Anllude seems to have a lot to d O wIth ' recovery. People

who know they'r(! going to die just gIve up - and if thaI
happens, they always die.
M : But maybe they would have died a n yhow, how ca n you
be s ure? I know that if I were going to pass on, ' I'd want
to know in advance. That way] cou ld try to leave no
s tone unturn ed . ' I could make sure that my family was
taken core of financially, t could try to prepare them
psychologically for my demise, ' and we could senle any
unresolved problems. Then at leasll could die In peo.ce.
F : You should do those th ings while you're s till heallhy.
When you're dying, you're too s ic k, In body and soul, to
do anything. But If you have hope, you may have som e
strength 10 do these things, Ujusl In cose. ~

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M : Well, you're the docto r, Bu t you wid you don't al wa ys

know whot to do,
F : I' m a doctor, I'm n ot God, My lob is to try to cu ...:. peop le, If
I can, Bu t [can't see the [u tu...:., l[ ] tell them they hove one
m o nth to live and they re<:ovcr, m any rewn t ii, And you
might not believe thIs, but their [amllies rese nt It too t hey've alrea dy com e to grips with ' theIr grid on d so they
have trouble rendjustl ng to the fOCI t ha t their husband Or
fother - whocvcr- Isn't goIng to die afte r a ll. But hope
bin ds them together beller tha n despair, -

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I . would you wont a d oc/or or 0 forTilne feller /0 Ie/ you know when

you were going

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2 , Would you prefer 0 short, happy Ijfe Or 0 long, bmer one'

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M: I won the lottery! I won the lottery! ThIs Is terrible!

F : Whot are you roving about? '
M : I lust found out that I'm a rich man, all of a s udden.
F : What's so terrible about that?
M : Now I won' t know who my reo ] friends are _ t cun't be
certai n if people like m e or my money.
F : But you ca n afford to be generous to your old friends you can all do things together that you've o nl y drcomed
of. Your old friends knew you whe n you were poor.
M : Bu t money changes people. They look at you differently,
and the ir attitude toward you isn't the sa m e any more.
They become jealous' of your s uccess, while you learn to
distrust their motives.
F : But just think what you
can do with all your
wealth. Trave l. Live in a
b ig h ouse, anywhere
you wont to. Indulg e '
yourself. You ca n offord
t o lake good c ore of
yourself, get plastic
surge r y, ' make s ure
you're
always
as
healthy us possible. Isn't
that wonderful?
M : Before I had all this

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Inoney, I didn 't have to worry about anything. Thtngs just

took care of themselves. ' But now [ have to make ~Un:' that
1 don't lose It a ll by spendi ng It foolishl y. I dont want to
give II all 10 th e ol rlll1($ ond h ot el.~, I"C(Ilto rs ' and dOdOTS.
Th ere an:' a 10 1 of unscrupulo us' I>copie OU I the re who will
do a n ylh lng 10 gel my money.
F :

Then why d o nt you lust give II 10 a charity? Maybe you1I

fed better.

M : And everybody w ill la ugh at m e. "You fool' " th ey' ll ~y,

You just gave all your m oney away. What good did It do
you1 "
F : Why did you COler the 10Uery, anyway?
M : I dldn'l. '" frlend bought m e Ihe Uckl'l as a favor. '
F : He mU $t be pretty upse t n ow<
keeping It .

cu r~ lng '

h imself for n o t

M : I wish h e had!

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1. Whol would you do if you won 0
2 . Whal if. the most likny

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F : Are you worrted about your kids picking up bad hobits?
M: Of course. Doesn't every parent have that concern?
F : What do you do aboul preventing il?
M:To some exlent, I'm res igned. ' I have real good
communication with my children, I hope, and I think
they would talk to me abaut things Ilke that.
F : And If you told them not to smoke, or not to drink, or
not to have sex, would they listen to you?
M : I'm sure th at they would listen. But J'm not sure they
would necessarily obey.' Kids are a 101 Uke their parents
were when they were the same age. Peer pressure' and
wontIng to be "adults" are very powerful Influences on
teenagers.
F : What do you thInk about setting a good example? Are
kids more Hkely, do you thInk, to pick up these habits If
they know their parents do them?
M: Anything con have on Influence. But every person Is
different.
F : What do you mean?
M: Some kids will justify smoking because their parents do
It. And if Mom and Dod tell them that smoking is a
terrible habIt, they'll just soy: "Practice what you
prooch!"
F : Then moybe ( should moke my husband stop smoking!
M : His not smoking might be a good idea, as far os his own

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h('<llth Is concerned, b ut it mIght not have thc cffe<:t on

you r kids that you wo nt.
f : Sut you sold ....

M : I sold t'Veryonc's diffcrenl. O1her kids will refuse to smoke

or drink I~t be<:01UC! Ihey see Ihel. porenU do II and Ihey
$eC! oil Ihe problems 11 ca uses. So a porenl mlghl be a good
negollve rolc modcl. ' also.
f : Then wha l can I do?

M : lust try to be h onesl wl1h your children. Don'l preach ' 01

Ihe m, but Iry 10 be good role models (as for os possIble nonc of us are perreel, you know). If they make some
wrong eholces a lo n g the way. we shou ld exfH!CI this. lust
re m e m ber, wc we n t through thc somc process whcn wc
were growing up, and wc d ldn', always do it right ei ther.

F : But I just can't help worrying about It.

M : Me, too. Sut In the long run ' we have to ossumc ' Iho t
basically they'll be
fine.

Q._"on.

1. Dt!sc:ribe a (ose;n which rou octM agoinst

rour POI?fl/J' odllke.

2. How does someone res;5t peer pressure WI'rhoor becoming 0 social

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M : 00 you like to drive?
F : well, I have to drive. Every da y.
M : I don 't mean driving to wo rk o r 10 go shopping. I mean
drIvi ng just for the fun of II .
F : No, m os tly it's a chore ' rather than a fun thi ng to d o.

Too mu ch h eavy traffic, too hard to nnd a place to park.

M : Then ge t o ut of the city, Take the ex p ressway if you're
interested In a feeling of speed and power, but I prefer
driving out in the cou n tryside. It's very relax ing 10 be in

the fresh air a nd the sun shine, sm e lling the woods and

=p'.
F : I' ve driven on the highwa y, too, but I neve r go t that

sense of power and speed you were talking about.

M : That's beca use you drive a co m l>octi Yo u need to get a
b ig co r If you really wa n t to e nloy dri vI n g!

F : I Ihoughl obout getting a luxury model, but since I need

a car fo r ilS utility' value only, I rejec ted the ideo. Gas

ond toxes ore too h ig h , and traffic and parking wou ld

be eve n bigger problems fo r me If I hod a big car.
M ; O kay. Bul yo u don' l kn ow what yo u 're missi ng. '
F : Why don't you toke m e out o n 0 drive so m eti m e? Then I
could get the pleasurc too - even m ore, si nce I wouldn ',

have to drive!

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(J ... s t/oHS
1. Whal I, Ihe main P"'P05<! for driving?
2. Why do ~I<! drive, even lhough ills inconvenient and COSIly.
when Ihey cauld lak.e a bus or subway?

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M: I'm glad J didn't go to college!

F: How can you say that? An education is the most
important thing in the world!
M : I agree. Bul I didn't say I wasn't educated. I said I'm
glad [ never went to college.
F: But why?

M ' Because the really important thIngs I know! couldn't

have leomed at a university.
F: Such as?

M : Take my job ski1!s, for instance. The only way 10 learn

how to do whot I do Is by doing it. You can't pick it up
from some book.
F: But you don 't go to school only to find a jab later. You
go to broaden' your knowledge about the world.
M : But you don't learn how to llveonly life tooches you how to do
that. You have \0 be out in
the world on your own.
Mistakes are inevita ble'
but necessary - and no
degree ' can let you
ovoid them.
F: But if you broaden
your perspective.'

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you'll make fewer of them _ and you 'll be expecting them.

so you can be more philosoph ica l about you r goof.ups. '
And you'lI make vo.luable contacts' for later on.
M : Anyone on the boll' makes contacts anyway, bUI Ihe ones I
make all' in the cont ext or demonstrotlng that I know how
10 gel .hlngs done, nOI lust play social games.
F : You know people wl.h college degrees have higher sto.us'
than those who don'\.
M : So? for most people It's (1 fake ' status. Th ey don't really
learn much at SChool. they lust PUI In Ihelr time ond s~ nd
Ihelr money. Thcy'~ smart('r when they groduo.e becouse
they'T<:' older and more moture-but If Ih('y were .eolly
living. with 0 Job (md fomlly and responslblllltes. they'd be
even mOT<:' moturl' .

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1. IJ hoving a college deg/ff all rhol ;/ is JUpPOS1lo be,
2. Whkh is beller, omtmel' Imow~ <X .,J<pnwflu?

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M : You mean girl fric n ds?

F : No. I mean women who were your friends bU I with

whom you had no romantic attachments. '
M : or I:ourse I have. Some of my best fr[('nds hove been

women.
F: How is that possIble? As soo n us you sto rt getting
Intimate' wIth eac h other, one of

you~or

both of

you! - start to get sexually attracted, don't you?

M: Sometimes. Thol hos olso happened, where friendship

hos blossomed into' love. That's how J got to know my
wife, in fact. We were friend s long before we were lovers.

F : Thot's my point. exactlyl

M : But it isn't olways Iho\ way. I still
often

do things

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women friends. We go out

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dri nk,

exhibits

together, we stay In close

tou<:h. But my wIfe woul d

kill me if she thought we

were anyt hing more than
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F : You moon you Or<! never te m pted? '

M : I'm no wlnt. ' Sometimes I've oc'Cn tempted, sure, But not
wl!h all of my women friends, And even with the few I
have been tempted by, it's never developed Into anythi ng
since I fell in love with my wife. To give In ' to my
temptation wou ld destroy my morriage I'('lollo n ~hlp and
also my frlc ndshl p , so [ would 10SC cv... ryth ing,
f : I 5tlll find It hard to beU ... ve, C ... nol n ly, In my ",xperlencc,

I've nev... r gol1en close to any mon who didn't 500n try to
toke odvontogc of ' me, I t h ink II 's lus t not pOssible ,
blologlcolly speo.klng, to be In constant contact with eoch
oth ... r withou t lOSi ng control. It's lust Insti nctual behavior,
we can't help It,

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aSliure you, most of t he m 01'(' lust JK'Ople who enioy the
company of good friends whether they are me n or womCn ,

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F : What is it?

M : It soys here that in some roses people who have shorter

workw~ks may octuaUy produce more than th05e with
longer anes.

F : Does it soy in which roses that's true?

M: Sure. It's full of case st udies, with a 101 of charts and
statistics. 11'5 mostly economic mumbo-Iumbo. ' But It's a
fas(inating idl'(l, nonetheless. '
F : 1 can understand how it could be true, though. A worker
puts in the some number of hOUTS every day, no molter
what he has to do. So tf the worklood is light, he tokes a
lang ti me to complete the task, and if it's heavy he has
to work harder to k~p up.

M' Also, for extremely repetitive' tasks like working on an

assembly line, the whole lob is rather mindless and
tiring. Doing it for a short time and ta king a lot of
breaks is probahly the most efficient way of proceeding.

F : If what you 're soying is true, why don't we just work less
and less so we could spend more time on our hobbies
and with our families?
M : Probably Management Is sUll rather oldfoshioned.
They think the employees should be on the joh all day
long or they shouldn't be paid.
F . That's probobly portly true. But they're all supposed to
be looking for a competitive edge. ' If they could he
shown that they would get more done this way. they
should welcome the chance.

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M : And you 'd think that unions ' too would push harder to
ha ve m ore time off. It 's a wi n _win si tuati on ' for Labor ond
CopllOl both, I shou ld think .

F : Ah, but ma ybe there 's the rub.' If [ were a worke r who p ut
In 8 hours a day 5 days a week o n d got pa id SIO.OO on
ho ur, I'd make S400 0 week. If you were my boss, you 'd
lum p at' the opportu n ity to le t me wo rk 4 days a week.
because t h en you'd only have to pay me S3201 And,
according 10 th is article, I'd be e~ n m ore productive than I
om n ow. so you' d get m ore wo r k done and s pe n d less
m o ney for It. You'd get rich much fosler.
M : But yo u , the worker. would foil even further behind.
becouse you wouldn't make as much mo n ey.
r : The solution , o f course. would be t o raise my hourly wage
to S I 2.00 on hour, o r a lillie more. so I'd stili have th e
SO me pa y chk as before.
M : Rut the psych o logica l effecl s would sU Il w e<OT off.' O n IIghl
days you wou ld stili stretch Ihe lime to fit the job. a nd on
hea vy days you'd have to st ruggle to fi nish on Urn I'. Afte r a
while. accordlng to this theory, you would soon revert ' 10
you r o ld level of effldency, only then the company would
be paying you a lo t m OT(>.
F : Mayt>(> Ihe SOlutio n would be to vary Ihe wo rk schedul e.
Som e weeks I'd wo rk S da ys a week. bu t m ake less per
ho ur, ond other weeks I'd on ly do 4 days bOIl at a higher
wage. Maybe the variety woul d ke<>p me o ff-bo lonce just
enough t hot I'd sloy near my compeliUve peak.
M : O r maybe you 'd resent working on extra day an d n OI
making any rno", mon ey.

Q ..es t/o"s
I . What ijnds 01 /Ob! require Ihe Iongesl />00,., wjlh rhe IeO!t pay?

2. Whot iinds 01 jobs are the ClJsh~I' (the Offl'S lhol have the most
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spending o Il that
money o n space
ex ploration. ' Th ey could use that cash to relieve' some o f
the problems we have here on Earth - poverty,
overpopulatlo n , t h e destructlon of the ecosys tem, '
alcoholism - the llst is endless.
F : Don't you get excited every time they send a new probe'
to some other planet?
M : Not particu larly. Maybe It's Important to find out m o~
about the unIverse we Uve In, but we have more p ressI ng '
concerns right here, light now.
F : Sut don't you rea lize that a lm ost all o f the
m iniaturization ' ond the advances in com pu ters have
been mode possi ble beca use of the spoce progrom?
M : I dI dn 't soy! was entirely opposed. Sut ! thInk our
priorities o~ a bit skewed.'
F : Actually, m ~t Of the m on ey has gon e Into aspects of th e
space program that have helped us cope with ' some of
the same problem s you mentioned.
M : What do you mean?
F : Well, things like weath er satellites. This helps uS p~pa~
for imminent' emergencies, ' so we're sofer. And with all
the addltlonal kn owledge about weother potterns,
farmers can plan better what kind of crops to plant. an d
when to plant th e m . $0 th ere's more food available. '

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in Sla n lO n eou~ ' new s a nd Informat io n , Includin g cell
p hones.
M : Okoy. I' m o lw I"1!Ody 10 con cede ' ot h er useful areos - like
m ilita ry defense a nd espi o nage. '
F : O h, dea r. I w ish you h a dn't brough t Ihol up . Fo r too much
h as beell spent o n war. If the mllllo ry w o u ld keep the ir
h a nd$ o ff' Ih e s pace progra m , we could ge t m o re useful
p rog rom$ o ff the ground ' _ and we'd hove m ore mon ey for
Ihe p roble m s you're jnterest~ In l
M : SuI s tro ll g de fe n se 1$ n ec e ssa r y. 1\ pr es er v e s o ur

Independen ce and kC{!p5 us o ul o f wO r.

F : Rut

I!'~ li ke a n y Olhe r arm s race-everybody is Iryl ng to

d ev ise n ew defen ses ogol nSI new ogg re lve te<: hno logies,
wh ile also d{!Veloping n ew Ie<:hnologles 10 overcom e th.....,
d efen5eS1 II 's a selfperp('lua ting ' cycle o f de$lruCllw ness.
M : I" s bft n go ing o n eve r s ince t h e firsl m en In venled Ihe
spea r 10 overco m e the lo n ger knife w m eone hod made,
a nd Ih en 5Om eone In ven ted a sh ie ld, a nd even tu a lly co m e
bows a nd a lTo ws a n d g un$. Progress never en ds.

F : Rut we sh o u ld be s pending s pa ce m o n ey
p roble m 5, not creating ne w o n es. A nd o n
eve ntua ll y,' we'", goi ng to ha ve 10 00 o ble
Ihe m oo n a n d o th e r plane ts , o ft er w e've
o ne, '

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ex plo ration to e xpand o nlO
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1. Who l hm ipOCe exploration ~ 10 Irnprow your life, If you Ihink

il hoJ?

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mankind rol he. rhon the benefil o f a few rich narlom?

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people in hIstory.
M : Are you !"COding one now?
r : Yes. I think the lists are In!('resting, ond I always leurn a
lot. But I just don't understand how o ne ca n ca mpore
th e v('ry dlff('rent achievements of great me n - and
greot women, too, of course.
M :Well , let's s('(' . Napoleon wa s
ce rlainly o n (' o f the gre ate s t
gE!n('rals In hlstoryF : Y('s.
M : - Bu t h(' was defco ted at Waterloo
by Wellington. So, Is Wellington
th(' greo ter gE!nera l7
F : Even before Waterloo, Wellington
had defeat M Napoleon 's a rmies
In Spoln. But Napoleon Is always rated much higher on
the scale' of g!"rotness.
M : It's probably because Napoleon was not only a gen eral.
~l e was a self-made man who selled' po wer In France.
ln troduced many new lows, and chan ged the politicol
situation in Europe forever. Even th ough he eventuall y
lost on th e battlefleld, hIs accompllshments we re
permanent.'
F : But Wellington also beco me the British prime minister.
M : That's true- bu t he was a much IX'lter general than he
was a statesman. So, In th e lotollty' of Ihelr Impod,'

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Napoleon was more importanl thon Welli ngt o n.

F , Yes, I have nO problem with thai analysis. ' And I Ihlnk
I"fl>wnoble ludgmenu con be form ed OboUI Ihe relative
lmpot1once of Olher poUUcal and military t1gures ' - even if
an obsolule consensus ' i$ not possI ble.
M ,So, whal's your problem?
F : How ron you compare Ih e relative merits o f greal l)COple In

Ol h er flelds?
M , What d o you meon?
I: : 1 m ea n w e can look 01 Gcnghl$ Khan and Napoleon and
Alexande r the Great and lullus Caesar, fo r lnslonct', an d
set' Ihot tht'y all did simILar Ihlngs, And w t' ca n form a
judgment about which one hod Ihe greatest Impoct. BUI
how can we- compore their achievemen ts wllh d Lssl mllor
ca ~? How can we say Ihol Napoleon was grealer than
Got'lhe _ who n ever led on army or governed a country,
but Is con skieTed One of the grealest ge nlu$I!"$' In hlslary?
M , Hmmmm. That's a good point . J'II have to think Oboul

Ihol .
F : A sdentlst li ke Einstein. A co mposer like Boch . A poet like
Shakesl)C(Ire. A phllosophe r like Plal o. A religious leader
like Muhammed. All oflhese people a chieved g reat things,
and Ihey ~tlIl affect ou r lives. 6ut ho w can we decide which
one Is "]:K,tter n than a nother? They're all so differen t.
M : II 's like co mparing apples and omnges.
F : Or more like compari ng apples with Apple computeD or
Appl e Records.

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M : Yeoh. And one of his most p owerful poems was
something like - I don't know it exactly - but
somet h ing like, "if we have to die, it shouldn't be like
wild pigs, surrounded by dogs. We sho uld die like men,
pressed against the wall, fig h ting against the vicious'
pock.'" The poem is bener, of course. It's called "if We
Must Die," or something li ke that.
F : I'd like to read it sometime. It sounds like a pretty good

poem.
M : it is. But the irony of it all was that C hurchill was trying
to get more help from the US 10 resist the Germa ns. So
h e used a poe m w ri tten agains t American racism to
make his point, without knowing it, by a man who
himself hod fled from British ru le.
F : Wow. He could easily have offended the Americans. and
the US co uld have completely cut off any more aid.
M ; That's righ t. But fortunately Franklin Roosevelt, the
Amer lcon p res ide n t, d idn ' know anythIng obout
McKay either, so no harm was done."'

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I' : Me, 100. How do you ston d ' Ih e eager on Ucl paUon o f Ihe
Olympics every fou r yea~? As. Ihey get closer and closer, [

can hordly loke ' II.

M : I used 10 be Ihal way . Bu l Ihe comme r cial ' and
naUonallsllc aspeas have laken away a 101 of Ihe fun for
me . It u sed 10 be Ihal Olympic at h le l es were str lclly

amaleur, Ih al Ihey de d lco led t hemselYes to physical

perfection out of t he she<! r' love of t he sport. But now we
get 10 "e n joy big name len nls a nd basketba ll MOTS, who
make mlllions of d o ll ou every ye a r, s h OW o ff' I helr
su perior s ki lls.
F , In some ways, maybe this d<>e$ toke away from Ihe ones
who don 't get paid, who slruggle a n d struggle lust for the
Ideal o f p hysical perfection. On Ihe other hond, it's 0 th rill
to walch Ih" ones perform who hove m astered Ihelr croft '
so thoroughly. '

M : Too ma n y of t h em ore more wonied aoou t their paycheck

Ihon t hey are about theIr a th leticism .' They act li ke spoil<'<l
kids, nol Il ke d<'<llca led adul lS.

1. Is it

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to play 0 iport badly or to wotch groo/

pIo~'l

perform?

2 . Woold you encooroge your children /0 become profflllionol

alhlete!, even at Ihe COlt oIlocr;{;cing their ~IICOtkm'

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F : Nothing. It's just old, thol's all.

M: How old is it?

F: 1 guess about 2 years.

M : Tha t's not very o ld. Does it work?
F: It works fine. But It's slow. [ wont to gel
more speed Clnd memory.

system with

M: Why?
F: [ pion on integrating' all of my home entertainment
functions - steIl'o, TV, gomes. DVO, ond so on - into
one system, plus my phone and microwQve oven and
ot her electroniCll. so I can cosily manage it 011. Even if
I'm not 01 home, I (on control the temperature, fix a
hot m eaL It will mak e everyt hin g more
convenient.
M: Why do n ', you just get
robot thot will do all of
your work for you?
Cook, clean, pay your
bills, take (OTe of your
kids?

F: I'd love to! BUI I don't

think we've come thot

for yet, have we?

M , Aren't you afro ld of losing your humanlly ' by dep.mdlng
too muc h on machi nes? Isn 'l II work thnt de fines us as
human beings?
F , Portl y. Bul we can all work m o re e ffi cie n t ly wllh
mechanical or elect roni c hel p, And we don't hove to do
the Stupid, repetitive ocb all the tlme, They can be loke n
ca~ of qulle n l!iy, and flawlessly,' by machines,
M, Rut they're all port of the process. 11'5 like usi ng a spell
checker with a word processor. The progroms can 't tell if
we wont the word "bad" or "bed", a s king as lI 's spelled
corre.;tly,
r

Rut it will slJlJ calch a 101 of ot h er s illy errors; thOi we

would ove rlook,' becous@ we're already conditio ned 10 see
what we Ihlnk we wrote, like "thler " for Instance,

M : The more h lgh.lech society becomes, Ihe more people are

Irylng 10 go back 10 the basic., ' 10 make t h ings by hand,
\0 do alilhe hard work that has been made unnecessory,
F : Atld Ihat's good. if it gives them persona l $Q II sfactlon , Rut
the rest of uS are freed up to do o the r things In Ufe every
da y, We hove more t ime to exercise, or con lemplote, ' or
creote, o r meditate
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beca use m achi nes can do everythIng be tter. And the n
the machines wil l to ke over, ' a nd mankind w lll eit he r
becom e exti nct' o r poI n tless. '
F ; You exaggerate.'

are alread y slaves to t heir mobile p h o n es or

co m p u ters o r a u tom obiles, Soo n we'll all be slaves' to
the robot society.

M ; Peo ple

F ; Don't be sill y.' Robo ts will n eve r need sla ves, becau se
t hey ca n do all th e wo r k b etl er than we ca n. T h ey
wou ldn 't need u s fo r a nyth In g.
M ; Exactl y!

Qu.stIO"S
1. Is il ponible 10 become too dependent upon mochi..,ps? How?
2. If robou ond computers actually did everything for us, what
would we do?

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M; I'm In the neighborhood. ' How about meeting me for a

beer and some talk?
F; I con't right now. My favori te show is onl
M ; No problem. Just tope ' it and watch itloter.
F, That's a good ideo. I never thought of that.
M , Not only does that let you
watch TV at your own
convenience,' but It also lets
you fas t-forward through Ihe
commercials.'
F; You don't like commercials?
Sometlmes Ihey'n! the best port
of the show.
M ; Not after you've seen them a
doten times olready. 8ut,
usually, th ey're pretty bad
nnyway.
F; OOn 't you re-allze how skillful thei r makers are? They
have 10 establish a character and 0 sItuation-and sell
you a product, too! _ln less than a mInute. Makers of
movIes and televi sion shows now apply th e sa me
cinematic techniques that Ihe commerctals pIoneered. '
That's why modem films seem to be much fasterpaced
than the ones of even 20 years ago.
M: But I don 't like the mi nd gomes' thaI Ihey ploy. A
sim ple advenlsement bosicolly just gIves me the facts
and tells me to buy a product, but com mercials want to
toke away my self-w1l1.'

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r : So do pri n t od S. MO U of the tec hniqu es o f modern

advertising we re deve lo l>ed In the 1920$, lo ng ""'faN! TV.
Th e only differen ce Is lhat we call print advertisements
"o ds " a n d TV adve rU$e menu commercials." Sut Ihey
have th" sa m " purpose and uS<! the some psychology. The
cammerctols lu~ t hoye the a d ded ""nefits of so und and
movement, that's a ll. And they reach a larger audience, sa
they cost mall'.
M : I do n 't know. The ads seem pretty 5tralghtfa rword ' to me,
not SO manlpulolive.'
F: You 've just \>e(! n bra lnwa shffi .' lust look cl ose ly at the
language Ihot Is used and Ihe Image t hat Is oolweyed.
Sometimes Ihey even have hldd"n "subllml nol" ' m"ssoges
e mbedded.'
M : Reolly?
F : Sure. A rool famo us example WO$ an AmerLco n whiskey
ad Ihat had naked women In the Ice cube$. They weren'I
o bylous. but If you looked rea lly cI<e ly you could se.-.
them .
M : I'm amazed!
1' : Meanwh ile, I'm miss ing my fayorlte sh o w, co mmercials
and all. Gel o ff' Ihe phone, and I'll put In a blank tape
and meel you On the corner In 5 mInutes.

1. Who poyi lor

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Why?

2. Do you buy thingJ bOV$f! rou J"""hem odYf'rf/JJ on TV 01" in

print, 01" b01JJf!'~ how bun recommended to rou by people
you know?

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enough Indlons~?
f ; Sure. It m e an s that there are too many so-co il ed
leaders, but there aren't eno ugh other people a rou nd
for them 10 lead. Everybody wonts to be In charge, bu t
nobody wonts to follow o rders.

M: Wha \'s wrong wit h that ? We 're all s upposed to be

leaders, aren't we?
f : Yo u can't be a leader unless o th e rs follow you .

Everybody can 't be Ihe leader all th e time.

M : Then h ow d o we te ll ' If so m eone Is baSically a leader or
a follower?

f: I don't know. I s uppose tha t th e ones who have

independent jud gmen t are least li kely to be follo wers.
Ho wever, they are not necessarily lead ers, because they
may just do things on theI r own .
M : What d o you mea n?
f: Well. people wh o lust blindly obey' the lo w, no matter

what. They are usua ll y l:onform lsts,' and th ey aTe m ost

li ke ly to be mere followers.
M : You mean t"Tlmlna ls ate leaders?
f : Usually not, because Ihey don't wan t a n yone e lse to know
that they are low-brookers. Then they might go to jai l or
fQ<:e heavy fines. So they m ight not be leaders, sin re they
don' t have anyone to fo llow them, b ut they certaInl y
aren't followe rs th em selves. They don't pay any atte ntion
to Ihe rules thot society forces the o lhers to obey.

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dlffe renre betw~n leoders ond followers? How does One
be<:oml' one rother thon th e OI her?
F , It's hurd 10 generoll:te. ' But ] th ink thot peopl e who spend
o lo t of time wul<:hlng television m oy lea rn u lot, but Ihey
tend to be very passive. They don 'I <:h olle"ge u n yl hlng
they see OT heur, they just ubso rb ' eve r y t h ing like 0
spon ge. But people who read serious ' books ore probably
more Independen t-minded. They tol<.e ti m e to we igh ' the
orguments ond moke 0 mtko l' jud g m ent o n thei r own.
O K. Th onks 0 lot. I'll

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you lo ter.

F : Who l ', the sudden hu ny?

We ll, If you t h ink 0 leade r n eed, to be " dee p reader,
maybe 1 belleT go out ond buy 50me p h ilosophy books.
F , But If you were a reol leader. you wouldn't lus t do
som et h ing be<;uuse 1 to ld you .

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1. Why o.e we willing to follow on)'Onf!' eM?

exomple) 01 JJderJ today w hom )lOU admire.

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F : The American court system Is undemocratic!

M : Why do you think so? People are tried ' by a "jury' of

their peers, " unless they choose to hove only a judge
dedde.

F : Thot port is good, but It's stH! undemocrallc.

M: Howso?

F : Well, In a democracy dectslons On! made by voting-the

mQjority wins. But a jury has to reach a unanimous '
dedsion. Everybody has to. agree on guilt or innocence,
or they hove to hove a new trial.

M , Not every thing is decided by a simple mojority. ' For

example, some very seri ous kinds of business, such as
ratifying ' a treoty. need 0 2/3 mojorlty. Does that make
it undemocratic?
F: [ think so. To me, a democracy means majority rule -

even if U's only a mojority of o ne person.

M: Thot m ig ht w ork okay for
m ost th ings. Afte r all,
tomorrow someone may

chonge his mind and

t h e majority might
vo te the other way.
This could be a very
c ha o ti c ' situa ti o n .
and it would su re
make it hard to make
any plans. But maybe

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F ; That's the way r look at It.

M : Bul II works because Ihe Yale may nOI be permonenl and

ca n be ch o nged r'!loUvely eoslly, as Ihe situatio n ch ang<!s

Or as we know m ore OboUI II. BUI someUmes we need 10
h oye mol"1.' slablllty Ihon thaI. We n(Oed to be pl"1.'tly sul"1.'
Ihol we're ma king Ihe I1ghl choice, be<:ouse chonglng II
mlgh! be very hord. A lreaty, for Ins!onCe_ lhls nef!ds Ihe
ag ree m e n l of 01 lea SI IWO countries. and should be
considered a relatl ye ly perm a ne n t cond il lon . O t herwise,
Ihere cou ld never be an y truS! belw een no tion s.
F : Bu l sometimes lreatles need 10 be changed.
M : Sure. And t hen Ih")' are renegotloled. Bul It's all 0 Yery
long, dellberale ' process tn whiCh both porttes try 10 gel
th .. beSI dl'Ol. ' But neithe r side wo n lS the ol h er one 10 keep

cho nglng lis m ind eve ry day!

F: Besides, you cho nged Ihe sublect. I was lolklllg OboUI 0

ju ryl
Bu t Ihe pri n ciple Is Ih e sam ... If we' re going 10 punish
someone 5e'Yerely ' - rnoybe toke his Ufe'-we shou ld be as
carefu l as we can. If we change our m ind to m orrow, we
con'l brI n g a dead man bock to life ond soy "Oops, I 'm
sorry. We !houghl It oYer a nd decided you're In noc.. n l a fte r
01L .~ Bu l If. ofter seei ng Ihe evidence. aU 0( us Ih lnk you're
guilty, we probably won'l change our mind laleron.

aUeS f/o " .

1. Should ordinory ci{iufIJ mok .. kgoI d;';OfIJ, or should IhI' matt..,
bf! I6t 10 IhI' "lI{)ef'Is such as /owyffs and jcJdgnl
2 . In ancirnl liffl<!s, IhI' C,.... ks hod a 'oll .. ry bl'ftNe I'OCh bonk 10
dl'(ide who Ih ..i, 9 ..n",01 would bI' lhal doy. Whal do)'OU Ihink
aboul II'ar procedure?

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I F: You look tired today.

M: A hOrd day at the office.
F : Why don't you slow down ' some?' You only live once.
M: I can't. I have too many responslbilltles. ['m up to my
neel< in debt,' and if I don't bust my butt' right now [
won't get a promotion I've been waiting fo r.
F: But if you g<!t promoted, won't you hove to work even
harder?
M : I suppose so. But "II make more money and my family
will be bener off.'
F : That's very noble ' of you. But you have a right to enjoy
the fruits of your labor too.
M : lost year we went to Europe for vocation.
F: I know, yo u told me. As [ recall, even In PariS you hod
to do business on the phone and prepare some kind of
financial analysIs so it would be ready when you got
back. to work. It doesn't sound llk.e much of Q vocation !
M : When [ took the job I I<new what the requirements
were. [ have no one
to blame but myself.
F: Why didn't you get
a different job?
M: It was available

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a nd I needed to moke a lot of money. Rut I'm pretty tired

o f U. Every day, U"S th e so m e old thing .
F: Why dan'l you qui t ond do somethi ng you lIke7
M : I hove 100 muc h time and efrort Invested, I'm too old and
tired to s tart ove r,' a n d I c an't afford lo c hange. How do
you gel through the wee k look Ing so happy all the time?

F : ]u51 lucky. I guess. I've never been particu larly crazy' about
m o ney, so I looked around until I found :IO mething I'd
e n joy. I don'l gel to take va cations In rronce. and I don't
have a lo t o f material possession s, but I' m not o ften bored
with my jo b. In fact, sometimes 1 don't even wonl to leave
o nd go h ome untlll'm nnlshed.
M : Thol sounds terrlnc. I wish I slill had Ihat (ttll tu de.

F: O n Ihe Olher h and, l'm gelling o lde r t oo. I d o n 't have

muc h sew e d up or Invested . l'm enloyl n g lire now, but
what aboul lale r on1 An d , meanwhile, I regret nOI beIng
a ble 10 do things like spe ndln.g time In Floren ce. I would
really love 10 see thO$C museums and c hurch es! But I'll
p robably n ever hove Ihe chance.
M : Th e n1' must be som e sort of compromise. ' Why ) h ould we

have 10 c h oose betwee n lave and m oney?

F: LIfe jusl lsn't faIr, Is It?

intntsf~ in Jtting fhe churr:hes and muU'UmJ In

Flcunu:l Whol wooJd)'OU roIlier do, if)'OU hod lhe chona?

l . Au you

2 . W"leh iJ twun; a tkmanding iob fhot)'OU hove fa wcriflCe

yoorwlf to in eJt.chonge ~ gr>1 financial reword, or OOI1lhol is
cosy and allows you a 101 cI free lime """" lhoog" you do nol

ho"e much money?

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minute.

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M; You shouldn', run yo ur life occording to his schedul e.

Take so m e time fOf yourse lf.
F; That sound s very ni ce, but it's n o t easy to d o. My kids
need m e, and [ don't want to let them down. '
M ; You s h ould find a middle way, so you ca n take care o f
you r chi ldren and take care o f yourself, too.
F; But that's not casy to d o .
M : W he n I was a ki d, [ was a lways frustrated ' when my
pa rents wouldn't le t me do wha tever I wanted. I didn't
feel that they ho d the right to run ' m y life.
F : [ fe lt t hat wa y as well. I could hardly w alt to leave
home a nd be on my o wn.

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M : An d now look ot younelf. You still don t do Ihlngs bc<a us@

you want 10 do them, you do th ings be<:o use you t hink
your children ne! you 10 do them.
F : Ironic,' Isn 'l il11 thought the first half of my Ufe W(l.$ being
ru ined by my porents, but now Ihe second half Is being
ru ined by my kids.
M : 00 someth ing a bout It .

I' : W h at?
M : Give your kids more opport unity to mnke decisio n s On

their
ow n
Tha i
were
II 's a

own. Let them be more ~po n slbl e for living their

lives. without yo ur Invo lve ment or Int e rven ti on. '
way they wo n 't feellhe same way you did when you
growing u p, and you 'll have m ore time for you rself.
wlnwln ' si tuation .

F: I wish II

were as easy a s you m a ke II sound.

M : It Is! Just give It 0 try, you 'll see.

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F; What? Were you speaki ng to m e?

M: Oh, I wos just repeating a phrase I hoord lost night. " It
Is better to die on your feel thon !lve o n you r knees."

F: Cool.' W h o saId th at?

M: Probably lo ts of people. Whenever so m eone Is
protesting ago lnst gross ' unfairness.
F: It sou nds like so m e th in g Winsto n Churchill m igh t have
so id.

M: He might hove. Indeed, I k n ow he s o ld somethi ng

sim il ar in (I speech at th e beginning of World War II .
F: Rea ll y? Yo u mean Ch u rchill really d id say that?

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M : I don', remember If Thot's whOT he sold. (xw:tly, o r not . I'd

have to look 1I up. ' Bul It was ,!;Omethlng Uke th ot. He was
quoting 0 '!;on net ,'

F : Poetry? C hurchill?
Sure. He did It q uite often . He W05 0 greol orato r' himself,
but he also used 0 lot of other people's word~ when he was
t r yi ng t o build Eng lond's c;o n fldenee again s t Hiller's
Invasion.
F : I didn't know tha i. Thot's very Inten:>stlng.

M :

M : In fOCI, ii's even m ore Inter1'stin g thon that .

F : In what woy1
M : He probabl y wasn't awore o f the Identity of the o.ulho., he

Iusl ilked the sUn1ng ' sentime nt .

F : So?
M : Well , the poet was a la rnal eon nomed Cloude McKoy.
F : So?
M , Jomoloo W05 sli ll a Brilish colo ny. Mc;Kay had ned British
oppression ond ended up In New York. In HQrle m .
f : Ok. So?

M : In Americ;o, he 11.151 fo und m ore blgolry' ond radsm. He

gol m ore and m ore biller, ond m o re ond mo~ radlcol ' In
h is poliUc;o.l orienTa lion, '

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F: Yeah?
M : Yeoh. And one of his most p owerful poems was
something like - I don't know it exactly - but
somet h ing like, "if we have to die, it shouldn't be like
wild pigs, surrounded by dogs. We sho uld die like men,
pressed against the wall, fig h ting against the vicious'
pock.'" The poem is bener, of course. It's called "if We
Must Die," or something li ke that.
F : I'd like to read it sometime. It sounds like a pretty good

poem.
M : it is. But the irony of it all was that C hurchill was trying
to get more help from the US 10 resist the Germa ns. So
h e used a poe m w ri tten agains t American racism to
make his point, without knowing it, by a man who
himself hod fled from British ru le.
F : Wow. He could easily have offended the Americans. and
the US co uld have completely cut off any more aid.
M ; That's righ t. But fortunately Franklin Roosevelt, the
Amer lcon p res ide n t, d idn ' know anythIng obout
McKay either, so no harm was done."'

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1. Whol don WironyWmean? In whol way WIlJ lhe Chufrhill speech
if'Ollicl

2 . Which is REAlty /)ell"r; do you

"living on your /tneeJ " ? Why?

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That's my last c igarette!
I MF :: That's
No it isn't. You still have most of 0 po ck in your pocket.
it)

M: [ know tho\. But [ mean that ['VI' smoked my lost

cigarette. [ promised myse lf this morning that I'd have
o ne more today, after lunch, and then t wouldn't eve r
smoke anothe r o ne.
F : Do you think you can q uit just like that, ca[d turkey? '
M: Sure. Why not? It lust takes a lI tllc wlll power, that's 0[1.
F : But what you n eed is "won't" power. Havc you ever
tried to Slop before?
M: Wcll, yes. But t didn't reolly mea n It then. '
F : Why are you so sure you're serio us' now?
M: Yesterday my doctor told me I'd better quit. He was
worried about cancer. We d id some tests, and I' m a ll
right, but I was very concerned for a while,
F : That's how both of my parents quit s m oki ng. They were
In the hospital, and th e doc tor sa[d don't smoke
anymore, and they didn't. My fa ther said [t was cosy,
he didn't even think about it even though he'd smo ked
for 20 o r 30 ycars, but my mot h er sold s h e mi ssed
tobac c o a lot and really hod to st ru gg le against
temptation. '
M; So It can be done!
F: Sure, But it's hard. Most people only lost for a few days,
and then they sla rt right in again.

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F : Well . If this doesn't work. why don't you set up a sched ule
Qf redu ced Intoke? How m a oy clgorettes do you s moke
eoch day ?
M : I don't know. Maybe 2Q.

F: Okay, ston roUonlng' you r dolly supply. Tomorrow, count

QUt 19. When you smoke the Iwt one, thaI's II for the dayl
No excu ses. Then, the next day, just allow you rself 18.
And so on. That way you can wean ' yourself away from
your nlcoUne depe nden cy grod uolly.
M ; That .Kiunds li ke a good Ideo. Anything else?
r: Keep you r hands and moulh bUSy. Ha ve sa m e gu m or
oondy 10 chew o n when you wanl 10 smoke.
M: So far, Ih l$ 5(l und$ pretty easy. AnythIng else?
f ; Keep away from ,U uoti o ns In which you usually s m o ke .
l)Qn 't go 10 001'3 Qr ni g htcl u bs. or resto uronts where people
smoke.

M : O h . Moybe this wo n 't be sa easy a h er

aU. I look forwa rd 10 ha nging QU t'
with the boys every nlghl .
Maybe I'd beller think
about this.

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Have yoo_uied 10 quit? Shore yoor

eX(N'rienceJ.

2 . Whof il fhe hardest habit}'OllVe ~ t ried to "'eoil Weuo

weee!""" How did roo do it?

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M ; Don't co t that tomato!

F ; What? Why not?
M ; Can't you read the
label? Tha t's been genetlcaUy modified.'
F ; Urn. So?

M; Oon't you know what that meons?

F ; It moons that biologists have changed the genetics of
this tomato to make it grow bigger or juicier or tastier.
So It's a better tomato than a natural one.
M; Vou still don't get iV do you? Nobody knows the longterm bad effects of fooling a round' with the genes.
Many expens are convinced that everything in nature
has a purpose, and so removing or changing even one
gene may have unforeseen ' and horrendOUS ' effects.
F ; Vou mean like the appendix? ' Probably one Ilme, tens
of thousands of years ago, it served a real purpose in
our bodi~. But now it's a big health risk, and doctors
routinely remOve it if they ore perfonnlng other surgery.
And we don't even notice that it's gone!
M : Voeh. I've heard that argument before. You cauld soy the
sa m e thing abou t the re m nant ' of the tail that our
ancestors once had. or maybe even male nipples_ They
don't have any function, they are just useless
appendages.'
F ; That's light.
M; Bu t they're iust superstructure. like the rest of the body.
Even Im p ortant thi n gs like arms and legs can be

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compensated' fo r If th(!y are damaged. But the genellc

structure Is much different. 11 '5 the ba$l$ for Ihe enU re
humon siruct u re. And o n ce altered, II con'l be changed
back 10 t h" way It was ugol n . The MnCW humanlty~ starts
to reproduce. ' and wi t hin u si ng le gen(! rallon t he re's on
enllwly new species.
F : But we're not wlkl ng about h u man gen(!lic e ngI neeri ng. '
we 're ta lki n g about growi n g betler food . A tomoto Is a

pwlty simple organism . not a super.compllcated design

like a person .
M ; Bul we 'd better not be messing with ' things we don 't

understand. The consequences could be dire' Indeed.

I' : You sound llke a Lu d dite. ' o p pose d to a n y a n d every
tech nological udvu nce lust because you don't understond
1\ fu lly yourself.

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I. Cloning iJ I~ moking 01 on e"oct duplicate'" 01 ~ argonlJm,

Ihoogh nol in on odull form. Should humon belngJ be cloned!

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2 . Are there ony forms Of Jcientific research Ihot should not be

PU'$lJoo. under ony d rcumJlonce! (for 1m/once, ntw, ~n more
destructive weopons; human gefH!tic manlpvlotion; psychological
conditioning? )

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F : Do you remember my friend Pam?

M : Who could forget Paml I've never known anyone who was
os much trouble os Porn! But 1 dldn', think she wGS your
"friend. "
f: Of course she w<u. Ba sically. she was 0 good person.

Pe<.>ple lust misunderstood her, thor's aiL

M: Misunderstood! That's an understotement ' If ever Ihere

waS one. I thought she would do anythIng for money.
F : Not anything. She waS certainly ombltious. but she wasn't
o thief or <I prostitute. '
M : Ambitious? She was unso::rupulous! ' She might not hove
been" streEt girl. ' but she didn't mind using her body to

gel what she wonled.

F: You',e bein g too h ord' on her.

M: ! don't thInk so. How many tImes did she gel engoged,
o nl y to break it off for 0 h<'ft y ' settle ment! How many
tim~ did she gel divoJ"'d? Each lime. s h e come ou t o( her
"big romon",," considerably ' rlcher thon before.

f: You just don't understand Pam. She always meant well,

but she always fell In love too easily and nev", realized it
until it was too late.

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right for herself.
A girl has 10 look after herself. The men s h e 9Ot:nVOIVed
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with we .... just horrid' human ht>ingst
And well.heeled, ' comcidenlally.'
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F : You're too cyn lool ' fo r you r own good.

M : Moybe that's h ow I mancoged 10 keep out 01 Porn 's clu tch es, '

F : Sh e was certainly bener off without you , thot'. for Sure. But I
think . h e'. fl n olly fo und someone .ultable,
M, O h ? So you h eard from h e r?
F , YH. I 9"'t a n ko/ leller yeste-rday. She enclosed

some s nopshOb'

of h er new !>CO U , '

M : I should h aW! guessed! Anolher rich one, I belt

F : 11,1" goes to s h o w how wro n g you are. He's a s poor as 0

c h urc h m ousel ' But h e's sweet ond hord workln g, and he
thinks Ihe world of' Pm. Thai '. what s he oay!, anyway.
M : Well, I must ad mit I'm s urprised . Moyl><: . he ho. 0 heart' In
her ch est after all, IlOI lust a sofe dePOSit box . What ebe does
s h e soy?
r : She's h elping him get through sc h ool, and h e's Set to
graduat e th l' s p ring. And h e hO I greo l pros p ecU ' - h e's
already getting molar tab o ffersl
M : In what field?
r : He', planning o n being a big OOrpomle lawyer.
M : Now, Ihls sounds like Ihe !'om I knowl It's the some Old MOry.
Th e names hove been c hanged, bu' Ihe plot ' re molns Ihe
some.

1 . Do you blow anyone who UJes his

for self.odvrmtogel

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het" own chorm oc/usive/y'

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M: Ah! I remember when I wo.\ young. I hod lOIS of friends
I could pol around with, ' and we were always having
fun together.
f : That's nIce.
M: We were always doing so me th ing excI ting - going
swImmi ng or playing football. Loter on, It was going
out on the town after work. We'd hit ' five or six clubs a
night before going home.
F: Sounds like a good time.
M: II was, indeed. And on weekends, I a lways had a dale.
A new girlfriend every month or so. Always beautlful,
always wellgroomed' . Talk aboul good limes!
f : Yes. I Imagine so. What happened?
M : Well, eventually I found the woman of my life! !t was
love at first Sight, let me tell you. From the moment I
saw her, [ knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life
with her.
F: Did she feel the same way?
M : No, she was pretty aloof' a t first. 6lH 1
persisted. And finally she started going out
wllh me. 1 slopped hanging around ' with
my buddies and , of course, t stopped
dating other women. Six mon ths lat er
we got married.
F : How romantlc.
M : Yes. And then she got pregnant. I wos
working two jobs every duy, just 10 make
ends meet. ' t was a maniac' for money!

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And It nil we nt fo r her{lnd the child .

F : I'm glad thlnQ$ wo rked o ut fo r you .
M : Who says they worked out? While I was out working, she
was sitting around home getting olde-r ond fotter. Wh en
I'd co me home, either she wouldn 't get off the pho ne to
talk 10 m e, or she' d bring up an yt h ing lust to pi ck' a 09ht.
F : How terrible.
M : I pu t up with ' It as lo ng as I could . But eve nt ually I lust
cou ldn 'l sta nd It anymore. We Onally broke up.' She got
th e h o use a nd cu stody ' o f the ch ild, and T stili have to
send h er m oney every month .
F: Well , at Teru t you're free n Ow.
M : Tha t 's righi, ['m free: I' m n o t worlh anything. Myoid
friends have all moved o n 10 other things. th ey don', ha ve
ti m e for m e a n y m ore. And I'm not the you ng stud ' I used
to be. The gorgeou s women are n o lo nger Interested In m e,
an d I do n't have enough s pore m o ney co take {lny of the
ot h er ones oU{. I'm lon ely and depressed, ond I don' t see
any prospectS for Imp rovem e nl.
F : Why are yo u telling me all of thls1
M : I was h op ing to ask you out o n 0 dot e. I t h ought maybe
you could turn my li fe around .'
F : I'm so rry. I olreody have 0 boyfrie nd .

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you think thaI way?

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maintain a fomily's flftds. and taking time elf from work to spend
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M ; Somebody shou ld do $Oml!t h ing about AIDS.

F : It's onl! of thl! most-studloo diseases in the world, but so
for nobody is close to dlscovl!ring a cure. So wha t can
we do?
M : There are drugs available that slow down the progress

of the disease. But th ey're enormously e xpl!nslve. We

need to gel them to the people who nee d them the
most, usually the poorest on earth.
F : How? By forcing the p harmaceuti ca ls' to c ut their
margins? ' Th e drug com panies spend a lot o f money on
reseo.TCh, and by the time 011 their tesu ond approvals
ore completed, their patents' OT(' ready to e xpire.' So
they o nly have a short wi ndow of 0PI)(Irtunlty' to make
Cl p rofit.

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M: But In this cos(' they should be forced to m inimize their

COSIS to the potlcnts, given the ser1ou~ness of Ihe di~se
ond the th rcot t hat il poses 10 us a iL
F: If Ihey <:ouldn 't make ony money from theIr resear<:h, Ihey
wouldn't perform ony. And we'd all be d e nied ' new
medl<;lnes In Ihe fUlU rc.
M : I stili think their prollts o~ exorbitant.' They shoul d be
regulated ' In the publl <: lnteres!. ' But , meanwhile ,
som eone should Slort raisIng money to buy thl! drugs 01
thl! besl bu lk' !"(lIes Ihey call get for <:haritoble dIstribution.
F : I ogree wilh you Oboul t hat. Unfortunately, most of the
vl<:Ums these days live In oountrtes where oorrupt ' offl<:l al.s
I>o<:ket ' most of the m o ney. Even worldwide ch orltles, even
UN groups. hove dlfll<:ultles making su~ the supplies are
properly handed out.'
M : And educatlonal programs! In a few Ins ta nces, people
u SI!d 10 91!t AIDS fr om blood lran$fu slo n s, but mo st
hospltols and blood banl<$ hove changed thl! rules, so that
Is nOI very CommOn a ny mOre. Almost all AIDS cases the.w
days have two couses: u slng Infect ed needles 10 shOal
drugs, and unl'rol~>cted S('x.
r : Though Ihl! progrom 15 still wry contravel'$lol, ' some tilies
o nd <:ountrles glvl! drug oddl<:U cleon needles. Bul Ihot
:seems to me IIkl! encouraging bad behovtor. We should be
making it hord@rro rdruggles' togel(l nx, ' not easier!

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enough, but why make It worse for the users tha n it
already is? An overdose' may well kill them, but that's
beller than the slow, linger in g ' death from AIDS.
Besides, they have lovers who they ca n pass the disease

'0.

F ; Not if they practice safe sex. There's o nly a very tiny'

chance of getting AIDS if you use a co ndom every time
you make love. '
M : Tha t 's where education comes in. No matter how mU(;h
it costs, we hove to get people to change their habits.

F; You forget that a lot of the unpro le<\ed sex Is practiced

by people who orc not fully rational. Often they have
been drinking heovll y or under the inn uence of d rug,
and their judgment is impaired. ' That's the same
reoson It's hard to get drunk drivers off the rood.
M: It can be done, but nobody said It would be eosy. And

there's one othe r thing that ca n be done, a s well.

F ; Whot's that?

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Instead of !roo tln g them like they got whot's coming to
th~m for t h e ir Immoml ~ behavior. W ho t ev~r they did,
however t hey come down with ' th~ dlseosc, wheth~r they
were thoughtless one lime or whether they have a
thoroughly reddess lifestyle. or If they w ere lust Innocent
vlctlm s o f circ u mstan ce-t h ey o re re oLly lust poor.
suffe ring huma n bei n gs wh o o re going t o dIe a ve r y
ml se rnble death very SOO n . T h ey sho u ld b e treated like
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For some 300 yeors, ca pitalism h as r<.>o ll y developed. 11

hus changed the world. More people live longer and
enloy morc happIness than ever before In hIstory.
F: But U's not because of the (;opitallsu! If Ih ey had thei r
way. workers would lust be another COSI factor 10 be
ex pl oited. ' Pay them as URic as possible, work them as
hard us possIble. and then when they' re worn o ut from
lo b o r, lunk ' them and replace them with new er,
stronger o n es.
M; Yes, [ ag ree that eorly capitalists thought thaI way. And
so me s till wOuld If they were all owed to. But havIng
artluen t' custo m ers of your goods 15 even m o re valuabl e
lhon having cheo p labo r.

F: So, thing s gO\ better because If the capltollsl5'

e nlig hten ed ' self-Interest, Is that what you 're trying ta
tell me?

M : In port. But. also, cap lloil sl soc iety 0150 led to

democratic government. And workel"$ who vote Or(! able
to look after themselves p retty well. The workpla.:e i$
sofer. jobs Or(! m ore se<:u re, ond Pl"09rams arc c rooted to
look after people who can 't work.
F : Bu t the capitalists res is t every efforl to make other
people's lives belter. They d on'l want to 50crlflce even a
litt le bit of their o wn fabulous ' wealth to make th e
world a beller place 10 live. But they s ure da have
enough 10 buy Ihe poli ticia n s they wanl!
M : Left to his ow n devices, ' Ihe Iyplcal capitalisl wauld be
pretty selfis h , I agree. But, usually, h e's not left to his
own devices .

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F : Then wh y don 't we ju st finish the job ond creale a socia list
society? 1t 5 e ntire purpose 1$ 10 ma ke p eo p l e e qual
econom lco lly. If the weolth we re m ore ~nly' distributed,
a few l)('()ple wouldn't h Q(1rd' for m o n,) m o ney than Ih ey
need at the ex pense o f' the man y wh o don 't have e n ough
to live.
WI : The probl e m Is, if people (;a nnol be nefi t (ro m thei r Own

hard work and foresight, ' Ihey d o n't bother to work hard
a nd look ah e ad. That's why m os t of th e Communist
societies (;a l1apsed. ' Nobody wo s a ll o w e d to pu rs u e hi s
OWn bene fit. a nd then there wasn't enoug h benefit to go
around. Sodety a s a whole, and Ihe peop le In It , be<:ame
eco n o mi cally equal , all rig ht - th ey all be<:ome poorer
and poorer.
F : That's o nly an extreme example. loIS o f no n com munist
soda list gove rnm e nt s have don e ve r y well fo r their
el il otens. Healt h CO re is provided for th em. they live In
~n t home!i and go 10 good 5<:hoo ls. The won<t poveny Is
eliminated ' from their midst .' What's wrong wit h that?
M : No th ing . Bu t that's be<::ause co l'ltallS15 are slill allowed 10
make m o n e y a nd bring o u t new, Improved goods and
se rv ices. You mus t realize. thou g h . t h at everyo n e pays
really high taxes, and the govern ment se rvlU's that a re
provided are u sually th lrd- or fourtlHa te. They're beller
thon n o thing, but no t top n a t(;h .'

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M : J work hard. So does m y wife. BU! we don', seem 10. be
gelling anywhere. life is just as hard as It WQS when we

were slortlng out . And yet. the very rich ore getting
even richer.
F : No, it's not f(llr, Is 117
M: No.. BUI I wish we could do something about It.
F ; That's lust the way it Is. I gues5, ond always hos \)e(on .
M: But why?
F: I f you spend all doy working. you don't hove the time
o r energy to look Qu t for eosier ways to make money.
You have Q job 10. do, you can'l spe nd yo ur whole doy
whef!lIng and doolI ng.

M : And you don't hoY(' enough maney fo r your own nee<b,

well enough give 1110 other people In the form of bribes.'
F: Thot's righl .

M : I've got two kIds In college, and Q bIg weddIng to poy

fo r In the fall. I don', know how I'm goI ng \0 monage .

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now my youn g(>5t da ug h ter wan ts to get a nose lob.' She

says tha t sh e's too selfconscious about he r looks, and If
sh e's going to fi nd a sUit able husband, she has 10 compete
against all t hose other girls who hove had cos metic
surgcry.' Wha t 's nex l?

J' : If only we were rich , none of thi s would matter. We could

offord II oIL
M: I kn ow. It 's so u n fa ir.

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F: Whot are you doing?

M : loo king at m yoid h igh school yearbook.
F: Ca n I see?

M : Of course.
F : 15 the re a picture of you? Oh! You look funny.
M : It's the hairstyle, I think. But the kids no w look preny
funny too, don'l yo u think?
F : Not if you Ilke o range.
M : Things were greot then. No t a CO l"(" In th e wo rld. The
only th ing I hod to do was concentra te on my school
work.
F : [remember p Ull ing In a lot of lime at school, but m ost
of it wasliOClallz:l ng' wi th m y friends .
M : Nobody can study all the Um e. We all have to ha ve
some lime to re lax and learn to be o u rselves.
F : But II seem s to m e th at all you ng folks do today is ploy.
M : They don't see m serious about a nyt hing, except looktng
good a nd having a good time.
F : My famil y never had enough m o ney for m e to oct like
that.
M : Mine either. But that dld n ', m oo n I could n'l ha ve fun
doing the simple things. lus t talking to my frie n ds,
taking a walk, goi ng o n a picnic o n weekends.

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F : I dldn', hove 0 co r unUl I wos mlddle-oged .

M : I did, bu, o n ly ofter I got morrle<:!. But I wO$n 't oble 10 vhit
o foreign country until I w .... m lddle-oged.
F : A n d WI! cen ol n ly d idn 't hove com puters on d video gomes.
We hod TV, b ui ll wos o n ly on a f\!W hours 0 day.
M : A n d going to the m ovies wos on evenl ' 10 loo k. forword 101
Eve n SQ, I don'l reo::all bei n g bored . I co uld n n d a g re o t

deo! of ho p ptness lu st reo.d lng 0 book.

f : T hol 's Ih e w o y [ reme mber II, 100. W h ol'! goi ng to h op pcn
to the$C kids todoy? They sef'rn Uk.e they're In such 0 hu rry
to go now h ere, ond they wont 10 do ond hove everything
now. W hOI are t h ey goi ng to 00 for the SO-or 70! - yeors
Ihey hove oheod?
M : Yes, som eti m es I feel sorry for them .

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won 't be o rou nd ' w hen
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