新视界大学英语综合教程第三册Unit5Activereading课文及翻译.pdf

新视界大学英语综合教程第三册Unit5Activereading课文及翻译.pdf

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Unit 5 Active reading The lonely American 1 Americans in the 21st century devote more technology to staying connected than any society in history, yet somehow the devices fail us: Studies show that we feel increasingly alone. Our lives are spent in a tug-of-war between conflicting desires – we want to stay connected, and we want to be free. We lurch back and forth, reaching for both. How much of one should we give up in order to have more of the other? How do we know when we it right? 2 Yet people in this country continue to drift apart. We need to know why. 3 First, let ’s look at thefrenetic busyness of our lives. Americans may be the only people in the world who believe that each individual has the right and the capacity to fit whatever he or she wants into one small life. America is the original “You can be anything you want if you really try, and it ’ 4 A good friend described the impact of busyness on our neighborhoods brilliantly: to“ mean visiting people. Now being nice to your neighbors means not bothering them. ” People ’ how busy they are. Lives also are shaped by the respect and deference that is given to busyness – especially when it is valued above connection and community. If people are considerate, they assume that their neighbors are very busy and so try not to intrude on them. Dropping by is no longer neighborly. It is simply rude. 5 We treat socializing as if it ’s a frivolous diversion from the tasks athand rather than an activity that is essential to our well-being as individuals and as a community. Soon our not bothering to call people (o

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