testing_yourself_Unit_2

Unit 2

Section 1 课文中已经有了，自己去看吧

Section two

My wife and I visited her family in Mexico ten months after we were married. I had been working on my Spanish and was looking forward to practicing it. On our first evening there, the entire family held a party for us. I spent a lot of time entertaining the children, one of whom enjoyed explaining to me in great detail.

Later I said to my wife, “I really thought my Spanish had improved, but when I was talking with Rolando, no matter how hard I concentrated, I couldn’t understand a thing he was saying.’“no one can,” she replied, “he’s still learning how to talk.”

Section three

At an early age, little girls’ conversation is less definite and expresses more doubts, while little boys use conversation to establish status with their listeners.

These differences continue into adult life. In public conversations, men talk more and interrupt other speakers more. In private conversations, men and women speak in equal amounts, although they say things in a different style. For women, private talking is a way to establish and test intimacy. For men, private talking is a way to explore the power structure of a relationship. Teaching is one job which shows the differences between men’s and women’s ways of talking. When a man teaches a woman, he wants to show that he has more knowledge, and hence more power in conversation. He uses his language to show this. When a woman teaches another woman, however, she is more likely to take a sharing approach and to encourage her student to join in.

But it doesn’t suggest that women are naturally more helpful. Actually, women feel they achieve power by being able to help others.

Unit 3

Section one is winning everything/

Is winning everything/? Ask kids and the answer is probably “No”. ask adults and the answer is probably “yes”. And it is adults who control sports for young people --- with terrible results for many kinds.

Twenty million children between the ages of eight and sixteen play organized sports outside school. Their experiences are sometimes very bad. Why? Because of the adults, often their parents, who watch the games.

Children’s sports are organized like professional sports. Children play baseball and football. They wear all the equipment that professional athletes wear. They have almost everything that adult players have. And many people come to watch their games, especially the families of the players, their parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters.

Because the children’s games are like the adult, professional games, their parents want adult, professional competition. When a child drops a ball, his father becomes angry. When a child does not run fast, his mother might shout, “Run faster! Run faster!‘

And the child? With so angry father and a shouting mother, this is not a happy time. Unhappy and nervous, the child wants to stop playing. The game is not fun now. but he or she can’t stop, because the competition is not finished.

Section 2 因为是对话，就不打了