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Unit1:Writing for myself

Suddenly I wanted to write about that ,about the warmth and good feeling of it, but I wanted

to put it down simply for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle.it was a moment I wanted to recapture

and hold for myself. I wanted to relive the pleasure of that evening , write it as I wanted, however,

would violate all the rules of formal composition I learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely

give it a failing grade. Never mind, I would write something else for Mr. Fleagle after I had written

this thing for myself.

When I finished it ,the night was half gone and there was no time left to compose a proper,

respectable essay for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morning but to turn in my tale of the

Belleville supper. Two days pass before Mr. Fleagle returned the graded papers, and he returned

everyone’s but mine. I was preparing myself for a command to report to Mr. Fleagle immediately

when I saw he lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class’s attention

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Unit3:Public attitude toward science

Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred

yeas, and it I likely to change in the next hundred. Some people would like to stop these changes

and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age. But as history show, the past was not

that wonderful. It is not to bad for a privileged minority, though even they had to do without

modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for women. But for the vast majority of the

population, life was nasty ,brutish and short.

Anyway, even if one wanted to ,no can’t put the clock back to an earlier age. Knowledge and

techniques can’t be just forgotten. Nor can one prevent further advances in the future. Even if all

government money for research were cut off(and the present government is doing it best), the

force of competition would still bring about advances in technology. Moreover, one cannot stop

inquiring mind from thinking about basic science ,whether they are paid for it. The only way to

prevent further developments would be a global state that suppressed anything new, and human

initiative and inventiveness are such that even this wouldn’t succeed. All it would do is slow the

rate of change.

Unit4:The American Dream

After he pass away ,I thought more and more about Tony’s career. He grew in stature in my

mind . In the end , I think he stood as tall, and as proud, as the greatest American industrialist.

They are reached their success by the same route and by the same values and principal: vision,

determination , self-control, optimism, self-respect and ,above all, integrity

Tony did not begin from the bottom rung of the ladder, he began in the basement. Tony ‘s affair

were tiny, the American industrialist’s affair were giant,. But ,after all, the balance sheets were

exactly the same. The only differences was where you put the decimal point.

Tony Trivisonno came to America seeking the American Dream, but he didn’t find it .---he

created for himself,. All he had were 24 precious hours a day, and he wasted none of them.

Unit5:The company man

At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-year- old widow that the

fifty-one-year old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be

hard to replace. The widow didn’t look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her

bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances--- the stock options

and all that.