基础英语2（2021级）

王爱琴

目录

  • 1 Another School Year-What For?
    • 1.1 Objectives
    • 1.2 Background information
    • 1.3 Warming-up
    • 1.4 Text comprehension
    • 1.5 Language learning
    • 1.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 1.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 1.8 Exercises
  • 2 Say Yes
    • 2.1 Objectives
    • 2.2 Background information
    • 2.3 Warming-up
    • 2.4 Text comprehension
    • 2.5 Language learning
    • 2.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 2.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 2.8 Exercises
  • 3 The Rite of Spring
    • 3.1 Objectives
    • 3.2 Background information
    • 3.3 Warming-up
    • 3.4 Text comprehension
    • 3.5 Language learning
    • 3.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 3.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 3.8 Exercises
  • 4 The Man in the Water
    • 4.1 Objectives
    • 4.2 Background information
    • 4.3 Warming-up
    • 4.4 Text comprehension
    • 4.5 Language learning
    • 4.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 4.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 4.8 Exercises
  • 5 Quick Fix Society
    • 5.1 Objectives
    • 5.2 Background information
    • 5.3 Warming-up
    • 5.4 Text comprehension
    • 5.5 Language learning
    • 5.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 5.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 5.8 Exercises
  • 6 Wisdom of Bear Wood
    • 6.1 Objectives
    • 6.2 Background information
    • 6.3 Warming-up
    • 6.4 Text comprehension
    • 6.5 Language learning
    • 6.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 6.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 6.8 Exercises
  • 7 Inter-Lesson (I)
    • 7.1 Group work
    • 7.2 pdf
  • 8 The Man in Asbestos
    • 8.1 Objectives
    • 8.2 Background information
    • 8.3 Warming-up
    • 8.4 Text comprehension
    • 8.5 Language learning
    • 8.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 8.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 8.8 Exercises
  • 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man
    • 9.1 Objectives
    • 9.2 Background information
    • 9.3 Warming-up
    • 9.4 Text comprehension
    • 9.5 Language learning
    • 9.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 9.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 9.8 Exercises
  • 10 Pompeii (for self-learning)
    • 10.1 pdf
    • 10.2 Materials
  • 11 Button, Button
    • 11.1 Objectives
    • 11.2 Background information
    • 11.3 Warming-up
    • 11.4 Text comprehension
    • 11.5 Language learning
    • 11.6 Wriiting skill appreciation
    • 11.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 11.8 Exercises
  • 12 A Fundamental Technique in Handling People
    • 12.1 Objectives
    • 12.2 Background information
    • 12.3 Warming-up
    • 12.4 Text comprehension
    • 12.5 Language learning
    • 12.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 12.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 12.8 Exercises
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This is an essay on the problem of lifestyle in our post-industrial modern society.

In modern society, time is money. And we go faster and faster. We are always in a hurry. We are always afraid of lagging behind. We take for granted that faster is better. We can't wait. We must satisfy our needs immediately.

But now the author raises the question: Is it wise to keep speeding? Shouldn't we slow down before we speed out of control? Isn't it more important to spend more time than to save time? Is this quick fix society an ideal society?

Clearly the author is not alone in feeling that way in modern times. People seem to have more and more but they are enjoying less and less. She reminds us of the famous Chaplin movie Modern Times, in which workers appear as extensions of machines rather than machines appear as extensions of human beings.

This is perhaps also a philosophical aspect about speed. It is not necessarily a blessing. In fact, more haste may mean less speed, as the proverb goes.