Time works wonders. Time tries truth. Time is the best

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SECTION A
Time
Time
Time
Time- Conscious Americans
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Background information
Warm-up activities

• What idioms do Chinese people have about time?
• What are the major differences between Chinese
  and western culture?

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• Time works wonders.
• Time tries truth.
• Time is the best healer.
• Time and tide wait for no man.
• All time is no time when it is past.

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What are the major differences between Chinese
and western culture

• ___________ is based on individualism.
• _______________ adventurous and exploration
  based.
• ____________ based on masses (collectivism).
• _________ focuses on balance and mean.
• ________ pays homage to heaven and earth

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What are the major differences between Chinese
and western culture
Attempting to resolve people and nature's
relationship
______ culture is based on science.
________ attempts to fuse the human and 'heaven'
as one.
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What are the major differences between Chinese
and western culture
To resolve people's relationship,
______ culture uses law.
________ uses ethics and tolerance .
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What are the major differences between Chinese
and western culture
To resolve human and spiritualism relationship,
______ culture uses 'god' and religion .
________ emphasizes internal cultivation .
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What are the major differences between Chinese
and western culture
As to ways of expanding,
______ culture expands and develop outwards.
________ expands internally rather than outwards.
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What are the major differences between Chinese
and western culture

• Western culture is based on individualism rather
  than on mass (collectivism). For instance, in the
  US, you always talk about individual rights,
  instead of placing the whole society above your
  own self. This is clearly different in China
  where a country, society or families are placed
  above your own self.

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• Western culture is adventurous and exploration
  based. Westerners like to discover new things,
  invention and expand outwards. For instance,
  bungee jumping is considered adventurous and
  common in western culture, but you will probably
  find no-one doing such a thing in China.

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• Western culture is based on science, which
  attempts to resolve people and nature's
  relationship.
• West uses law to resolve people and people's
  relationship. You can never find 'law'
  well-established in China. For 2000 years, China
  is a land that's based on human relationship
  rather than law.

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• West uses 'god' and religion to resolve human and
  spiritualism relationship. In case of problems
  with your own self, you just pray to god.
• A culture that expands and develop outwards.

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Chinese Culture

• A culture based on masses (collectivism). People
  placed country and family above their own self.
• A culture that is based on humanism and people.
• To resolve the relationship between man and
  nature, the Chinese attempts to fuse the human
  and 'heaven' as one (????).
• To resolve people and people's relationship,
  Chinese uses ethics and tolerance (????).
• To resolve human and spiritualism, Chinese
  emphasizes internal cultivation (????).

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• A focus on balance and mean. By 'mean', it means
  'middle way'. You don't go into extremism. Peace
  is always honored.
• Pay homage to heaven and earth, as well as
  bearing a remembrance to the homeland.
  (????,????) This was accorded to the fact that
  Chinese had been a farming civilization and
  therefore will be more prone to remember their
  land.
• A culture that expands internally rather than
  outwards.

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• Some of the disadvantage of old Chinese culture
• Debase women and chauvinistic
• An over-emphasis on past history
• instead of present (lacks pragmatism)

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Text Structure

• Question (Para.1)
• What are the two things Americans try to save?
• Time and labor

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The ways Americans save time include (Para. 2-7)
Way 1
They treat time seriously.
Way 2
They do everything in a hurry.
They start talking business quickly.
Way 3
They use modern devices to communicate with each
other efficiently.
Way 4
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Conclusion different ideas (Para.8)
To successfully solve a problem and to fulfill a
job with speed is taken by ________ as a sign of
skillfulness
Americans
being competent
The _________ consider it proper to
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foreigners
take time doing things.
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TranslationParaphrase
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I. Paraphrase
1. Americans believe no one stands still. If you
are not moving ahead, you are falling behind.
(L1)
Americans think no one keeps motionless, everyone
moves and advances. If you are not moving ahead,
you will become further behind. 
?become bit by bit further behind  ?(with) fail
to produce sth. at the proper time
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• 2. This attitude results in a nation of people
  committed to researching, experimenting and
  exploring. (L2)

?commit sb./sth. to (doing) sth. ?commit
oneself to sth. devote to (doing) sth.
As a result of this attitude, Americans tend to
devote their time and energy to researching,
experimenting and exploring.
Practice
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• Decide your choice and tell why
• Everybody ______ on earth is pulled downwards by
  the earth.
• A. located B. locating
• The gardens ________ with beautiful flowers
  sparkled in the heavy dew.
• A. crowding B. crowded
• He didnt wish it ___________ .
• A. mentioned B. mentioning

B
B
A
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• 3. Theyll miss the ritual interaction that goes
  with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be
  a convention in their own country. (L23)

Theyll be sad because theyll not have the usual
exchanges that go with a welcoming cup of tea or
coffee. These exchanges may be a common and
regular practice on similar occasions in their
own country.
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be able to do

• 4. In the U.S., however, its taken as a sign
• of skillfulness or being competent to solve a
  
• problem, or fulfill a job successfully, with
• speed. (L51)

In the U.S., however, if you can solve a problem
or do a job quickly, you will be considered as a
person having skill or ability.
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II. Translation

• 1. We are slaves to nothing but the clock. (L5)

?? ???????????
more
slave to drink slave to money
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????
3. However, people are meeting increasingly on
television screens, conducting teleconferences to
settle problems not only in this country but
alsoby satelliteinternationally. (L40)
?? ????????????????????,???????????????,????????
???????????
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Word Using
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fall behind sb./sth.(L1) ? become bit by bit
further behind
e.g. If youre not moving ahead, youre
falling behind.
Translation ????????????????
Key Hes been falling behind his group members
in English.
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fall behind with sth. ? fail to produce
sth. at the proper time
e.g. fall behind with the rent
Translation ???????,????????
Key Im falling behind with my work I must
try to catch up.
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to be slaves to (L. 5)???
A man of strong will feels in control of his own
life while a man of weak will feels himself to be
a slave to his fate.
?????????????,??????????????
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result in (L2) cause, have as a result,
lead to
e.g. The accident resulted in the death of two
people.
Translation ?????????????
Key Acting before thinking always results in
failing.
result from be caused by, because of Nothing
has resulted from his efforts. ?????????
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account for (L6) ? give a satisfactory
explanation for
e.g. The man couldnt account for the fact
that the money was found in his house.
Translation ?????????????????????
Key Jenny had to account to her father for
every penny she spent.
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account for ?be a proportion of sth.
e.g. North Sea oil accounts for a high
proportion of our trade earning.
Translation ???????????
phrases on account of ?? on no account
??take account of take into account ???
Key Girls account for half of the class.
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count (L9) vi. If sth. counts, its
important or valuable
vt. calculate
e.g. We want every minute to count.
Translation ???,?????????
Key Every minute counts before the exam.
phrases count in ? ??count on/upon
rely on ??count out ????count up ??
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convention (L24) n. customary practice
??,??
e.g. Convention now allows women to smoke in
public.
Translation ????????????????
Key Its the convention for men to wear suits
on formal occasions.
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much less (L28) still less, let alone and
even less likely ????
e.g. Theyre always short of water to drink,
much less to bathe in.
Translation ??????????,???????
Key The old man can hardly walk, much less run.
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given noun (L35) (given that clause)
prep. taking into account
e.g. Given her interest in children, teaching
should be the right career for her.
Translation ?????????,?????????
Cf. Given that theyre inexperienced, theyve
done a good job.
Key Given their inexperience, theyve done a
good job.
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be worthy of (L50) deserving ??
e.g. It seems as if the task were not worthy
of proper respect.
Translation ????????
Question What is worthy of your working
hard?
Key He is worthy of our praise.
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worth, worthy????
be worth n. be worthy of n. be worth doing
be worthy of being done cf.
of being done. sth. is worthy
to be
done.
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Assignment

• Learn Section A with the help of the website.
• Finish the exercises to Section A