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自考英语综合二下册课文 lesson 1

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  [00:00.00]Lesson One  Text
[00:05.09]Courtesy: Key to a Happier World Dr.Norman Vincent Peak
[00:14.24]Many years ago trying to help people with every kind of trouble
[00:21.08]left me with one sure conviction:
[00:25.65]in case after case the difficulty could have been overcome
[00:32.10]or might never have arisen
[00:35.55]if the people involved had just treated one another with common courtesy.
[00:43.21]Courtesy, politeness,good manners call it what you will,
[00:50.86]the supply never seems to equal the demand.
[00:56.50]"It's not so much what my husband says,"a tearful wife confides1,
[01:03.58]"as the way he says it.Why does he have to yell at me?"
[01:10.24]"I hate my boss," a grim-faced office worker mutters.
[01:16.77]"He never shows appreciation2 for anything."
[01:21.74]"All we get from our teenagers,"
[01:25.79]a worried parent says," is a moody3 sullenness4."
[01:33.15]Such complaints are not limited to people who sit in my study.
[01:39.79]Human beings every where hunger for courtesy.
[01:45.35]"Good manners," said Ralph Waldo Emerson,
[01:50.68]"are the happy way of doing things."
[01:54.81]And the reverse is equally true.
[01:58.78]Bad manners can ruin a day or wreck5 a friendship.
[02:04.73]What are the basic ingredients of good manners?
[02:09.70]Certainly a strong sense of justice is one;
[02:15.65]courtesy is often nothing more than a highly developed sense of fair play.
[02:22.81]A friend once told me of driving along a one lane,unpaved mountain road.
[02:30.96]Ahead was another car that produced clouds of choking dust,
[02:37.62]and it was a long way to the nearest paved highway.
[02:43.08]Suddenly, at a wider place,the car ahead pulled off the road.
[02:49.85]Thinking that its owner might have engine trouble,
[02:54.71]my friend stopped and asked if anything was wrong.
[02:59.98]"No, " said the other driver.
[03:03.82]"But you've endured my dust this far;
[03:08.47]I'll put up with yours the rest of the way.
[03:12.91]"There was a man with manners, and an innate6 sense of fair play.
[03:19.76]Another ingredient of courtesy is empathy,
[03:24.90]a quality that enables a person to see into the mind or heart of someone else,
[03:33.68]to understand the pain or unhappiness there and to do something to minimize it.
[03:42.93]Recently in a book about a famous restaurant chain
[03:48.39]I came across such an episode
[03:52.54]A man dining alone was trying to unscrew the cap of a bottle of catsup
[04:00.90]but his fingers were so badly crippled by arthritis7 that he couldn't do it.
[04:08.66]He asked a young busboy to help him.
[04:13.41]The boy took the bottle,
[04:16.57]turned his back momentarily and loosened the cap without difficulty.
[04:24.23]Then he tightened8 it again.
[04:27.86]Turning back to the man,
[04:31.10]he feigned9 a great effort to open the bottle without success.
[04:37.16]Finally he took it into the kitchen and returned shortly,
[04:43.61]saying that he had managed to loosen it but only with a pair of pliers.
[04:51.47]What impelled10 the boy to take so much trouble
[04:56.52]to spare the feelings of a stranger Courtesy,compassionate courtesy.
[05:04.88]Yet another component11 of politeness is the capacity to treat all people alike,
[05:13.13]regardless of all status or importance.
[05:18.17]Even when you have doubts about some people,
[05:22.43]act as if they are worthy12 of your best manners.
[05:28.18]You may also be astonished to find out that they really are.
[05:34.55]I truly believe that anyone can improve his or her manners by doing three things.
[05:42.80]First, by practicing courtesy.
[05:47.77]All skills require constant repetition to become second nature;
[05:54.72]good manners are no exception.
[05:58.79]One simple way is to concentrate on your performance
[06:04.15]in a specific areafor about a week.
[06:09.40]Telephone manner,for example.
[06:13.16]How often do you talk too long, speak abruptly13,
[06:19.51]fail to identify yourself,keep people waiting,
[06:25.67]display impatience14 with the operator or fail to return a call?
[06:32.65]Or driving a car,why not watch yourself sternly for aggressive driving,

  [06:40.80]unnecessary hornblowing, following too closely,
[06:47.07]failing to yield the right-of-the-way?
[06:51.61]One difficult but essential thing to remember
[06:56.29]is to refuse to letother people's bad manners
[07:01.43]goad you into retaliating15 in kind.
[07:05.98]I recall a story told by a young man
[07:10.84]who was in a car with his father one night
[07:15.20]when a driver in an oncoming vehicle failed to dim his lights.
[07:22.96]"Give him the brights.Dad!" the young man urged in exasperation16.
[07:29.72]"Son," replied the father, "
[07:33.98]that driver is certainly discourteous17 and probably stupid.
[07:39.94]But if I give him the brights he'll be discourteous,stupid and blind
[07:47.70]and that's a combination I don't want to tangle19 with!
[07:52.84]The second requirement for improving your manners is to think in a courteous18 way.
[07:59.97]In the long run, the kind of person you are
[08:05.15]is the result of what you've been thinking over the past twenty or thirty years.
[08:13.98]If your thoughts are predominantly self directed,
[08:19.30]a discourteous person is what you will be.
[08:24.16]If on the other hand you train your self to be considerate of others,
[08:31.82]if you can acquire the habit of identifying with their problems
[08:37.77]and hopes and fears,good manners will follow almost automatically.
[08:45.64]Nowhere is thinking courtesy more important than in marriage.
[08:51.88]In the intimacy20 of the home it is easy to displace disappoint ment
[08:59.25]or frustration21 or anger onto the nearest person,
[09:05.59]and that person is often a husband or wife.
[09:10.74]"When you feel your anger getting out of control,
[09:15.89]"I have often said to married couples,"
[09:19.96]force yourself for the next ten minutes to treat your married partner
[09:27.69]as if he or she were a guest in your home.
[09:32.84]I knew that if they could impose just ten minutes of good manners on themselves,
[09:40.41]the worst of the storm would blow over.
[09:45.06]Finally, to have good manners you must be able to accept courtesy,receive it gladly,
[09:52.72]rejoice when it comes your way.
[09:56.87]Strangely, some people are suspicious of gracious treatment.
[10:02.62]They suspect the other person of having some ulterior motive22.
[10:09.38]But some of the most precious gifts in life come with no strings23 attached.
[10:16.62]You can't achieve a beautiful day through any effort on your part.
[10:23.15]You can't buy a sunset or even the scent24 of a rose.
[10:29.42]Those are the world's courtesies to us,
[10:34.28]offered with love and without thought of reward or return.
[10:36.32]Good manners are, or should be, like that.
[10:41.28]In the end,it all comes down to how you regard people
[10:47.34]not just people in general but individuals.
[10:53.40]Life is full of minor25 irritations26 and trials and injustices27
[10:59.96]The only constant,daily,effective solution is politeness
[11:07.40]which is the golden rule in action.
[11:11.53]I think that if I were allowed to add one small beatitudeas
[11:18.61]a footnote to the other it might be:Blessed are the courteous.


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1 confides 7cba5bd1e4fef03b447215d633bc1cd9     
v.吐露(秘密,心事等)( confide的第三人称单数 );(向某人)吐露(隐私、秘密等)
参考例句:
  • Now Butterfly confides to Pinkerton that she has secretly embraced Christianity. 蝴蝶向平克顿吐露,她已暗地里信奉了基督教。 来自辞典例句
  • He also confides, in great secrecy, that his own heart still bleeds over Natalie. 他还极秘密地透露,他自己内心里还在为那塔丽感到痛苦。 来自辞典例句
2 appreciation Pv9zs     
n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨
参考例句:
  • I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to you all.我想对你们所有人表达我的感激和谢意。
  • I'll be sending them a donation in appreciation of their help.我将送给他们一笔捐款以感谢他们的帮助。
3 moody XEXxG     
adj.心情不稳的,易怒的,喜怒无常的
参考例句:
  • He relapsed into a moody silence.他又重新陷于忧郁的沉默中。
  • I'd never marry that girl.She's so moody.我决不会和那女孩结婚的。她太易怒了。
4 sullenness 22d786707c82440912ef6d2c00489b1e     
n. 愠怒, 沉闷, 情绪消沉
参考例句:
  • His bluster sank to sullenness under her look. 在她目光逼视下,他蛮横的表情稍加收敛,显出一副阴沉的样子。
  • Marked by anger or sullenness. 怒气冲冲的,忿恨的。
5 wreck QMjzE     
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
参考例句:
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
6 innate xbxzC     
adj.天生的,固有的,天赋的
参考例句:
  • You obviously have an innate talent for music.你显然有天生的音乐才能。
  • Correct ideas are not innate in the mind.人的正确思想不是自己头脑中固有的。
7 arthritis XeyyE     
n.关节炎
参考例句:
  • Rheumatoid arthritis has also been linked with the virus.风湿性关节炎也与这种病毒有关。
  • He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.他患急性风湿性关节炎,在医院住了三个月。
8 tightened bd3d8363419d9ff838bae0ba51722ee9     
收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧
参考例句:
  • The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
9 feigned Kt4zMZ     
a.假装的,不真诚的
参考例句:
  • He feigned indifference to criticism of his work. 他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。
  • He accepted the invitation with feigned enthusiasm. 他假装热情地接受了邀请。
10 impelled 8b9a928e37b947d87712c1a46c607ee7     
v.推动、推进或敦促某人做某事( impel的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He felt impelled to investigate further. 他觉得有必要作进一步调查。
  • I feel impelled to express grave doubts about the project. 我觉得不得不对这项计划深表怀疑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 component epSzv     
n.组成部分,成分,元件;adj.组成的,合成的
参考例句:
  • Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
  • Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。
12 worthy vftwB     
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
参考例句:
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
13 abruptly iINyJ     
adv.突然地,出其不意地
参考例句:
  • He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。
  • I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。
14 impatience OaOxC     
n.不耐烦,急躁
参考例句:
  • He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.进展缓慢,他显得不耐烦。
  • He gave a stamp of impatience.他不耐烦地跺脚。
15 retaliating c6cf6ecd71cb9abcbf0d6c8291aa3525     
v.报复,反击( retaliate的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The administration will begin retaliating in six weeks if EC policies remain unchanged. 凯特先生说,如果欧共体一意孤行,美国政府将于六周后开始报复。 来自互联网
16 exasperation HiyzX     
n.愤慨
参考例句:
  • He snorted with exasperation.他愤怒地哼了一声。
  • She rolled her eyes in sheer exasperation.她气急败坏地转动着眼珠。
17 discourteous IuuxU     
adj.不恭的,不敬的
参考例句:
  • I was offended by his discourteous reply.他无礼的回答使我很生气。
  • It was discourteous of you to arrive late.你迟到了,真没礼貌。
18 courteous tooz2     
adj.彬彬有礼的,客气的
参考例句:
  • Although she often disagreed with me,she was always courteous.尽管她常常和我意见不一,但她总是很谦恭有礼。
  • He was a kind and courteous man.他为人友善,而且彬彬有礼。
19 tangle yIQzn     
n.纠缠;缠结;混乱;v.(使)缠绕;变乱
参考例句:
  • I shouldn't tangle with Peter.He is bigger than me.我不应该与彼特吵架。他的块头比我大。
  • If I were you, I wouldn't tangle with them.我要是你,我就不跟他们争吵。
20 intimacy z4Vxx     
n.熟悉,亲密,密切关系,亲昵的言行
参考例句:
  • His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.他声称自己与总统关系密切,这有点言过其实。
  • I wish there were a rule book for intimacy.我希望能有个关于亲密的规则。
21 frustration 4hTxj     
n.挫折,失败,失效,落空
参考例句:
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
22 motive GFzxz     
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
参考例句:
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
23 strings nh0zBe     
n.弦
参考例句:
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
24 scent WThzs     
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉
参考例句:
  • The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
  • The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。
25 minor e7fzR     
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
参考例句:
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
26 irritations ca107a0ca873713c50af00dc1350e994     
n.激怒( irritation的名词复数 );恼怒;生气;令人恼火的事
参考例句:
  • For a time I have forgotten the worries and irritations I was nurturing before. 我暂时忘掉了过去积聚的忧愁和烦躁。 来自辞典例句
  • Understanding God's big picture can turn irritations into inspirations. 明了神的蓝图,将使你的烦躁转为灵感。 来自互联网
27 injustices 47618adc5b0dbc9166e4f2523e1d217c     
不公平( injustice的名词复数 ); 非正义; 待…不公正; 冤枉
参考例句:
  • One who committed many injustices is doomed to failure. 多行不义必自毙。
  • He felt confident that his injustices would be righted. 他相信他的冤屈会受到昭雪的。
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