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　　A person, like a commodity (商品), needs packaging．But going too far is absolutely undesirable．A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages．To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself．A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment(装饰), so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely．

　　A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God．Any attempt to make up would be self - defeating．Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash．Packaging for the middle - aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years．If you still enjoy life enough to keep self - confidence and work at pioneering work you are unique in through plains mountains and jungles, running its course as it should．You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self - satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth．There is no need to make us of hair dyeing．The snow - capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland．Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony (和谐)with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness．To be in the elder’s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe (better quality)edition that attracts one so much as to be unwilling to part with．

　　As long as one find where on stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging．

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　　Humans are social animals．They live in groups all over the world．As these groups of people live apart from other groups, over the years and centuries they develop their own habits and ideas, which form different cultures．One important particular side of every culture is how its people deal with time．

　　Time is not very important in non industrial societies．The Nuer people of East Africa, for example, do not even have a word TIME that is in agreement with the abstract thing we call time．The daily lives of the people of such non industrial societies are likely to be patterned around their physical needs and natural events rather than around a time schedule(时间表)based on the clock．They cook and eat when they are hungry and sleep when the sun goes down．They plant crops during the growing seasons and harvest them when the crops are ripe．They measure time not by a clock or calendar(日历), but by saying that an event takes place before or after some other event．Frequently such a society measures day in terms of “sleeps ”or longer periods in terms of “moons”．Some cultures, such as the Eakinos of Greenland measure seasons according to the migration of certain animals．

　　Some cultures which do not have a written language or keep written records have developed interesting ways of “telling time”．For example, when several Australian aborigines want to plan an event for a future time, one of them places a stone on a cliff or in a tree．Each day the angle of the sun changes slightly．In a few days, the rays of the sun strike the stone in a certain way．When this happens, the people see that the agreed - upon time has arrived and the event can take place．

　　In contrast (成对比), exactly correct measurement of time is very important in modern, in detribalized societies．This is because industrialized societies require the helpful efforts of many people in order to work．For a factory to work efficiently (well, quickly and without waste), for example , all of the workers must work at the same time, Therefore, they must know what time to start work in the morning and what time they may go home in the afternoon．Passengers must know the exact time that an airplane will arrive or depart．Students and teachers need to know when a class starts and ends．Stores must open on time in order to serve their customers．Complicated (复杂的)societies need clocks and calendars．Thus, we can see that if each person worked according to his or her own schedule, a complicated society could hardly work at all．

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　　The first reality TV show in the world was called Expedition Robinson and it was shown in Sweden in 1997．Half the population of the country watched the final event and a new kind of TV program was born．Two years later in Holland, the first series of Big Brother was filmed．Again, it was a great success and the final program was watched by 15 million people．Now more than 20 countries around the world have Big Brother or Expedition Robinson on their TV screens．The ordinary people who take part in the programs are known by millions of people in their own countries and reality TV has become big, big business．

　　For the TV producers, reality TV is a dream coming true because many of the programs cost nothing to make．At some point, the television viewers(观众)are asked to telephone the program to vote or to apply to take part in the show．It is the cost of these telephone calls that pays for the shows．One of the most popular shows is Pop Idol．In the show, a group of attractive young people are made into pop stars．TV viewers vote for their favorite person on the show．The winner makes a record and millions of copies of the record are sold．His or her pictures are published on the covers of magazines or on the front pages of newspapers, and then, they are quickly forgotten．

　　But not everyone is happy about reality TV．In Portugal two TV channels got into trouble because they showed too much of the personal lives of the people in the shows．In France, reality TV is called　"rubbish TV" and the TV studios of Big Brother were attacked three times in one week．In Greece, Big Brother was described as "against human rights and civilization"．

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　　Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team．“Football, tennis, cricket――anything with a round ball, I was useless, ” he says now with a laugh．But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England．

　　It was a mountain bike he received for his 15^THbirthday that changed him．At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest．Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend．Gradually, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength．At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon．

　　The following year he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway’s cold-water exploits．Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, then decided that this would be his future．

　　In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition(探险)towards the North Pole．It took unbelievable energy．He suffered frostbite(冻疮), ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled(雪橇)up and over rocky ice．

　　Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man．His old playmates would not believe the change．

　　Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis．

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　　He's an old cobbler(修鞋匠)with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris．When I took him my shoes, he at first told me：“I haven't time．Take them to the other fellow on the main street ; he'll fix them for you right away．”

　　But I'd had my eye on his shop for a long time．Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman(手艺人)．“No, ” I replied, “the other fellow can't do it well．”

　　“The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “while-U-wait”――without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys．They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap(鞋带)you might as well just throw away the pair．

　　My man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled．He wiped his hands on his blue apron(围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week．”

　　I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf．

　　“See what I can do?” he said with pride．“Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work…”

　　When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me．He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft．

　　These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption(消费)rather than a way to realize their own abilities．In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done．

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　　Scientific experiments can sometimes go wrong and when they do the results may range from the disastrous to the troubling．One such experiment took place in South America about fifty years ago．Whether its final consequences will cause serious damage or nothing more than a small trouble still remains to be seen．

　　The story began in 1956 when an American scientist working in Brazil decided to solve the problem of increasing the productivity of that country’s bees．He imported a very active type of African bee from Tanzania and mated(交配)it with the more easy-going native variety to produce a new kind of bees．The new bees worked harder and produced twice as much honey．It seemed that Professor Kerr, for that was the scientist's name, had a total success on his hands．

　　Then things began to go wrong．For some reason as yet unseen, but perhaps as a result of something in their environment, the new bees began to develop extremely attacking personalities．They became bad-tempered and easy to be angry, attacked the native bees and drove them from their living places．

　　But worse was to follow．Having taken over the countryside, the new bees, with their dangerous stings(叮), began to attack its neighbors－cats, dogs, horses, chickens and finally man himself．A long period of terror began that has so far killed a great number of animals and about 150 human beings．

　　This would have been bad enough if the bees had stayed in Brazil．But now they are on the move, heading northwards in countless millions towards Central and North America, and moving at the alarming speed of 200 miles a year．The countries that lie in their path are naturally worried because it looks as if nothing can be done to stop them．

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　　Ours has become a society of employees．A hundred years or so ago only one of every five Americans at word was employed, i．e．, worded for somebody else．Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself．And fifty years ago “being employed” meant working as a factory laborer or as a farmhand．The employee of today is increasingly a middle - class person with a formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual(智力的)and technical skills．Indeed, two things have characterized American society during these last fifty years：middle - class and upper - class employees have been the fastest - growing groups in our working population - growing so fast that the industrial worker, the oldest child of the industrial revolution has been losing in numerical importance in spite of the expansion of industrial production．

　　Yet you will find little if there is anything written on what it is to be an employee．You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a rise．At least you can find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it is the mechanic's trade or bookkeeping．Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets different standards, and requires a different preparation．Yet they all have employee - ship in common．And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government, employee - ship is more．important to success than the special professional knowledge or skill．Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of being an employee than because they do not gain the skills of their trade．The higher you climb the ladder, the more you get into the management, and the greater the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical ability or professional knowledge．

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　　Suppose a key man in your firm had just met with a terrible accident．The doctor tells you that this man upon whom you depend for directing sales, checking your books or for performing some other important roles will be laid up for months．You'd have to replace him, wouldn’t you? And probably at a pay about equal to his?

　　Then you'd be faced with double paying for one job because stopping the pay of an injured man would simply be out of the question．

　　You can prevent this kind of unproductive out going on your payroll by providing your key man with the protection of Travelers Business Accident Insurance! This insurance provides total medical expense and a weekly income in case a key man is disabled for some time．Should the disability prove everlasting, income for life would be a certainty．Why not make out a list of your key men now? Then get together with Travelers Insurance Company, and let us tell you how little it costs to apply this much needed protection to your business．

　　Write and we’ll serve you!

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　　"So, Mr．Banks, you're going on holiday with your family to Bournemouth, " said the police officer．"You left Bradford early this morning and came down the motorway．Then you left the motorway near Tewkesbury and stopped to buy a paper at a little place called Stanway．It was 11 o'clock．Then you stopped about fifteen minutes later here, in Stow, and went into the back of your Somna－Mobile(家庭旅游车), but your wife wasn't there．"

　　"That's right, officer．"

　　"Perhaps she got off at Stanway, " the policeman said．

　　"We didn't hear mum, " Vicki said, " I think…"

　　"I want my mum, " Eddie said．He began to cry．

　　"We'll find her, sonny(宝贝)"the policeman said kindly．

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　　"So, Mrs．Banks, " the man said, "Your husband stopped here, in Stanway, about fifteen minutes ago and you went into the supermarket to get some coffee．Your husband didn't know you weren't in the back of the Somna and…"

　　"Perhaps he knew she wasn't there, " the woman said．

　　"Quiet, Matilde．He didn't know and must have driven away．Then we stopped and our Somna is exactly the same as yours．So you got in and made coffee．"

　　"I've lost my husband and my children, " Fay said．

　　"Don't worry, Mrs．Banks, " the man said kindly．"Well find them．I suppose they are traveling south．

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