Unite 1 （P4 第四段）
Consider also the heroic example of Abraham Lincoln,who faced substantial hardships,failures and repeated misfortunes in his lifetime.His background was certainly not glamorous.He was raised in a very poor family with only one year of formal education.He failed in busine twice,suffered a nervous breakdown when his first love,died suddenly and lost eight political elections.Later in life,he suffered profound grief over the tragic death of three of his four children.Yet his strong will was the spur that pushed him forward,strengthening his optimism,dedication and determination.It intensified and focused his efforts and enabled him to triumph over the overwhelming failures and profound difficulties in his life.A hundred years later,people from around the world commend Abraham Lincoln as the greatest American president of all time.
Unite 2 （P34 第十二段）
At the ridge of the jetty,I whirled around,convinced I’d see an athletic swimmer plowing through the rough water toward the boy.To my dismay,no one was there.I turned back out to the sea to see the boy battered by vicious waves about 25 yards jumped in,I felt like I was back in that pool ,breathle,struggling,terrified.Salt stung my eyes.Focus,I shouted in my head.Where is he? Unite 3 （P64 第六段）
Soon,Audrey was transformed from a malnourished immigrant to an internationally famous movie star.Director Billy Wilder complimented her,saying,”Audrey walked beautifully,she spoke beautifully.” Although she won many Academy Awards and other honors for acting,Audrey felt that her most significant work was humanitarian work with those in need ,and as the mother to her two sons.She suffered through two divorces and from her memories of the war.Yet,Audrey never let her sadne overcome her or jeopardize her hope for a brighter future.Audrey finally met her soul mate,Robert Wolders,and spent the last 12 years of her life with him.
Unite 4 （P94 第八段）
Of course,this mental flexibility doesn’t come from mere distance,a simple change in latitude and longitude.Instead,this renaiance of creativity appears to be a side effect of difference:We need to change cultures,to experience the disorienting diversity of human traditions.The same facets of foreign travel that are so confusing(Do I tip the waiter?Where is this train taking me?) turn out to have a lasting impact,making us more creative because we’re le insular.We’re reminded of all that we don’t know,which is nearly everything;we’re surprised by the constant stream of surprises.Even in this globalized age,we can still be amazed at all the earthly things that weren’t included in the Let’s Go guidebook and that certainly don’t exist back home.Unite 5 （P124 第五段）
Besides the mere hours spent in leisure.workers and laborers differ in the amount of personal satisfaction they derive from their jobs.Workers who enjoy their jobs will be happier,le streed,and generally more satisfied with their lives.They will also work with more diligence and precision because they have fostered a sense of personal pride in their jobs.On the other hand,laborers,whose sole inventive is earning their livelihood,feel that the time they spend on the daily grind is wasted and doesn’t contribute to their happine.Instead of valuing all 24 hours of their day as enjoyable and productive hours,they gauge only the time spent in leisure and play as meaningful.Unfortunately,laborers are all too commonplace,and only a small percentage of the population is in lucky position of being workers.Unite 6 （P153 第八段） One day we hear that they’ll be giving out candy in a st ore near the warehouse.Immediately we make a long queue of cold and hungry children.We stand in the frost all night and the following day,huddled together to summon a bit of warmth.Finally,they open the store.But instead of candy,we are each granted an empty metal container that once held some fruit drops.Weak and stiff from the cold,yet at this moment happy,I carry my treasure home,guarding it jealously.It’s valuable;the inside wall of the can still has a sugar residue.My mother heats some water and pours it into the can.We have a dilute,sweet drink:Our only nutrition for days.Unite 7 （P182 第
七、八段）
When Sue received her last unemployment check,she felt a wave of profound grief.With no income to deposit,Sue’s checking account deteriorated into negative balances.Her car was on the verge of being repoeed.And,the constant harament of the financing company for her car loan added to her daily stre.Each day,like a ping pong ball,Sue went back and forth between resolve and despair.It was a sickening plunge considering that only a short year and a half before,Sue was earning $56,000 a year at her old job,enjoyed vacationing in places like Mexico and the Caribbean,and had started busine school at an excellent university.Unite 8 （P211 第二段）
The fact is that Chinese parents do things that seem provocative,unimaginable,even illegal,to opinionated Westerners.Chinese mothers can dispense with formal courtesies and say to an obese child who gorges on food,”Hey fatty,lose some weight.”By contrast,Western parents must be humane,tiptoe around the iue,talk in terms of “health”,and never ever mention the f-word.And still their kids end up in therapy for eating disorders and a negative self-image.I’ve thought long and hard about how Chinese parents can get away with what they do,and I think there are three ideological differences between Chinese and Western parents.
