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compassion. It must recognize the hazards of tribalism. It must teach man the most difficult lesson of all-to look at someone any where in the world and be able to see the image of himself. The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. With such an education and with such self-understanding, it is possible that some nation people may come forward with the vital inspiration that men need no less than food t require mountains of gold or thunderin propaganda. It is concerned with human destiny. Human destiny is the issue. People will respond. He concluded the book with this hopeful affirmation: War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice Contribution to Peace and Human Well-being is concern, for the victims of Hiroshima, following a postwar visit to that devastated city, became quite personal. He arranged, with funding from Saturday Review readers, for medical treatment in the United States for twenty-four young Japanese women who came to be known as the" Hiroshima Maidens Saturday Review readers also supported the medical care of 400 Japanese children orphaned by the atomic bomb In the 1950s Cousins and his wife legally adopted one of the"Maidens A few years later, again with the support of Saturday review readers, Cousins helped create a program for the"thirty-five Polish women who had been victims of Nazi medical experiments during the war Criticism of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing During the 1950s Cousins was outspoken in his criticism of atmospheric nuclear testing. In 1957 he was among the founders and became the first cochairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy(SANE). In the early 1960s he became an unofficial citizen diplomat, facilitating communication between the Vatican, the Kremlin, and the white House which helped to lead to the soviet-American nuclear test ban treaty. Upon ratification of the treaty in 1963, President Kennedy publicly thanked Cousins for his help with the treaty, and Pope John XXIII awarded Cousins his personal medallion Anti-war voice oppose the american role in Vietnam oppose the nuclear arms race. argue for a strengthened United Nations leading to world govermment As he wrote: The essential lesson most people still resist is that they are members of one species. It is this that we all share-the emergence of a common destiny and the beginning of the perception, however misty, that something beyond the nation will have to be brought into being if the human race is to have any meaning Attitude towards disease a regimen(养生法) high doses of vitamin C positive emotions (including daily doses of belly laughter) 2

2 compassion. It must recognize the hazards of tribalism. It must teach man the most difficult lesson of all—to look at someone anywhere in the world and be able to see the image of himself. The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. "With such an education and with such self-understanding, it is possible that some nation or people may come forward with the vital inspiration that men need no less than food. Leadership on this higher level does not require mountains of gold or thundering propaganda. It is concerned with human destiny. Human destiny is the issue. People will respond." He concluded the book with this hopeful affirmation: "War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice." Contribution to Peace and Human Well-being His concern, for the victims of Hiroshima, following a postwar visit to that devastated city, became quite personal. He arranged, with funding from Saturday Review readers, for medical treatment in the United States for twenty-four young Japanese women who came to be known as the "Hiroshima Maidens." Saturday Review readers also supported the medical care of 400 Japanese children orphaned by the atomic bomb. In the 1950s Cousins and his wife legally adopted one of the "Maidens." A few years later, again with the support of Saturday Review readers, Cousins helped create a program for the " thirty-five Polish women who had been victims of Nazi medical experiments during the war. Criticism of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing During the 1950s Cousins was outspoken in his criticism of atmospheric nuclear testing. In 1957 he was among the founders and became the first cochairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). In the early 1960s he became an unofficial citizen diplomat, facilitating communication between the Vatican, the Kremlin, and the White House which helped to lead to the Soviet-American nuclear test ban treaty. Upon ratification of the treaty in 1963, President Kennedy publicly thanked Cousins for his help with the treaty, and Pope John XXIII awarded Cousins his personal medallion. Anti-war voice oppose the American role in Vietnam; oppose the nuclear arms race, argue for a strengthened United Nations leading to world government. As he wrote: "The essential lesson most people still resist is that they are members of one species. It is this that we all share—the emergence of a common destiny and the beginning of the perception, however misty, that something beyond the nation will have to be brought into being if the human race is to have any meaning." Attitude towards Disease a regimen（养生法）: high doses of vitamin C positive emotions (including daily doses of belly laughter)

"the life force may be the least understood force on earth" Books:"Anatomy(Btr) of an IlIness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and regeneration, The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness Reflection on Atomic Bomb i wonder if we might go back to that day in august when the world learned of the dropping of the atomic bomb. As editor of a leading magazine in the United States, what was your reaction? What were your thoughts, and what did you do? And one had a feeling, or at least I did, that a curtain had dropped on human history and that a new curtain was going up, and that no one quite knew what the new script would be. But the fact that the old play had ended seemed rather clear. It also to me that a blanket of obsolescence(荒废,退化) had been thrown over human history because all the things that human beings did, in terms of civilization, suddenly seemed to have no valid ity because there was now no mechanism by which human beings could provide for a reasonably secure future. We had always lived with the habits of war, and now methods for fighting war represented an entirely new dimension in warfare which threatened the species as a whole but the habits of war and the habits of thinking about relations among nations, hadn't changed, and so we were trapped. And so I say there was a sense that the curtain had come down on one stage in human history and a new curtain was going up, the script for which had not been written And you became an even more intense an advocate of world government and world federalism as a way out Since I am opposed to anarchy, and since the principle danger in the world was anarchy on a world level, I couldn' t take leave of my convictions about the dangers of anarchy just because nations created this situation Quotes by Norman Cousins Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic History is a vast early warning system Life is an ad venture in forgiveness A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortalit Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences Summary of his life

3 "the life force may be the least understood force on earth“ Books: “Anatomy（剖析） of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration,” “The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness.” Reflection on Atomic Bomb I wonder if we might go back to that day in August when the world learned of the dropping of the atomic bomb. As editor of a leading magazine in the United States, what was your reaction? What were your thoughts, and what did you do? And one had a feeling, or at least I did, that a curtain had dropped on human history and that a new curtain was going up, and that no one quite knew what the new script would be. But the fact that the old play had ended seemed rather clear. It also seemed to me that a blanket of obsolescence(荒废，退化) had been thrown over human history, because all the things that human beings did, in terms of civilization, suddenly seemed to have no validity because there was now no mechanism by which human beings could provide for a reasonably secure future. We had always lived with the habits of war, and now methods for fighting war represented an entirely new dimension in warfare which threatened the species as a whole. But the habits of war, and the habits of thinking about relations among nations, hadn't changed, and so we were trapped. And so I say there was a sense that the curtain had come down on one stage in human history and a new curtain was going up, the script for which had not been written. And you became an even more intense an advocate of world government and world federalism as a way out. Since I am opposed to anarchy, and since the principle danger in the world was anarchy on a world level, I couldn't take leave of my convictions about the dangers of anarchy just because nations created this situation. Quotes by Norman Cousins Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. History is a vast early warning system. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Summary of his life

In June 1983 Cousins told the graduating class of Harvard Medical School that the conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice.. must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. " These certainly were the concerns that obsessed him throughout his life and over the years he battled through his writings and actions to make them matters of more general concern. Driven by the shock and portent of Hiroshima, he worked to combat unchecked nationalism, promote federalism, and build a sense of world citizenship, in the belief that people as a whole might yet construct a new world order of peace and justice. His optimism, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to the preservation of human life were equally unquenchable W p question Today everybody agrees that the world is getting smaller and smaller. International community, world village, global integration globalization, world market, etc have become some of the most frequently used words in the English language. What kind of impact will all this have on us? What must we do to adapt ourselves to these changed cond itions? Ask the students to give their opinions Theme of the text: The author's central idea is that, to prepares ourselves for this new world, we must all be re-educated so that we will be able to understand that there are more similarities than differences among peoples. The differences are superficial and insignificant whereas the similarities are essential and fundamental. These similarities enable all of us to be members in this global village and to live happily with mutual respect writing technique: Repetition Normally to make a piece of writing neat, we don' t repeat the main verb or other parts of a sentence. But repetition is a technique frequently used by writers and speakers for emphasis. In Paragraphs 3, 4 and 9 of the text, not only the structure but the key words are repeated while in Paragraph 10, only the structure of "how to do"is repeated eg. 1. And the simplest reality of all was that the human community was one greater than any of its parts, greater than the separateness imposed by the nations greater than the different faiths and loyalties or the depth and color of varying cultures. (para. 4 2. Geography had instructed me in differences of terrain, resources, and productivity. Comparative culture had instructed me in the differences of background and group interests. Anthropology had instructed me in the differences of facial bone structure, skin color and general physical aspect ara Ask the students to pick out all the other repetitions in the text Discussion 1. What's the d ifference between a miseducated and an uneducated person? 2. What is your understand ing of tribalism? Dictation

4 "In June 1983 Cousins told the graduating class of Harvard Medical School that the "conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession." These certainly were the concerns that obsessed him throughout his life, and over the years he battled through his writings and actions to make them matters of more general concern. Driven by the shock and portent of Hiroshima, he worked to combat unchecked nationalism, promote federalism, and build a sense of world citizenship, in the belief that people as a whole might yet construct a new world order of peace and justice. His optimism, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to the preservation of human life were equally unquenchable." Warming-up questions Today everybody agrees that the world is getting smaller and smaller. International community, world village, global integration globalization, world market, etc. have become some of the most frequently used words in the English language. What kind of impact will all this have on us? What must we do to adapt ourselves to these changed conditions? Ask the students to give their opinions. Theme of the Text: The author’s central idea is that , to prepares ourselves for this new world, we must all be re-educated so that we will be able to understand that there are more similarities than differences among peoples. The differences are superficial and insignificant whereas the similarities are essential and fundamental. These similarities enable all of us to be members in this global village and to live happily with mutual respect. Writing technique: Repetition. Normally to make a piece of writing neat, we don’t repeat the main verb or other parts of a sentence. But repetition is a technique frequently used by writers and speakers for emphasis. In Paragraphs 3, 4 and 9 of the text, not only the structure but the key words are repeated while in Paragraph 10 , only the structure of “how to do” is repeated. eg. 1. And the simplest reality of all was that the human community was one --- greater than any of its parts, greater than the separateness imposed by the nations, greater than the different faiths and loyalties or the depth and color of varying cultures.(para.4) 2. Geography had instructed me in differences of terrain, resources, and productivity. Comparative culture had instructed me in the differences of background and group interests. Anthropology had instructed me in the differences of facial bone structure, skin color and general physical aspect. (para.3) Ask the students to pick out all the other repetitions in the text. Discussion 1. What’s the difference between a miseducated and an uneducated person? 2. What is your understanding of tribalism? Dictation

Ask the students to take out a piece of paper and have a dictation of para 4. and then check what they have written by themselves anguage points Word-formation 1.-ship 1)表示“情况”,“状态”,性质”,如 hardship, friendship, sportsmanship运动员的风度,精神 2表示“身分”,“职业”,如 kingship,王权,王位,君主政体; professorship internship实习医生; apprenticeship学徒身份、期限; dictatorship独裁,专政: membership成员资格/身份 3)表示“技巧”,技能”,如 marksmanship枪法; craftsmanship技艺,技能; mIs Misapply, misaim, misinform, misinterprete曲解, misunderstanding, mislead误导 ord usage 1. secure l) free from danger or attack:安全的没有危险或免受攻击的: a secure fortress 2) reliable, dependable可靠的;可依赖的 secure investments可靠的投资 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the words 1)They(compression) two-month's work into one 2)On the top of very high mountains snow throughout the year(persistence 3)The boy tried to the scene it was described. (visual 4)Some people fail to see the fallacy of white (supreme 5)What is the difference between and publicize"?(propaganda 6)A teacher should not show for any one of his pupils(prefer) 7) According to the treaty, some countries can enjoy tariff rates (prefer) Paraphrase 1. The differences were all but wiped out by the similarities The differences became so insignificant compared with the similarities, they were almost completely pushed aside and forgotten all but: almost. nearl This larger unity was the most important central fact of our time-something on which people could build at a time when hope seemed misty, almost unreal What can we build? our hope in the future of the mankind What is this larger unity"? The human community as a whole But to stop there was like clearing the ground without any idea of what was to be built on it nly respect differences but pay no attention to similarities, it will be aimless/unconstructive 3. It was the mark of a rounded man to be well traveled rounded man someone who has received a well-rounded education not one-sided but complete and varie

5 Ask the students to take out a piece of paper and have a dictation of para 4.and then check what they have written by themselves. Language Points Word-formation 1.-ship 1）表示“情况”, “状态”, “性质”, 如:hardship, friendship，sportsmanship 运动员的风度，精神 2)表示“身分”, “职业”,如:kingship，王权，王位，君主政体；professorship; internship 实习医生；apprenticeship 学徒身份、期限; dictatorship 独裁，专政；membership 成员资格/身份 3) 表示“技巧”, “技能”, 如:marksmanship 枪法；craftsmanship 技艺，技能； 2.misMisapply, misaim, misinform, misinterprete 曲解, misunderstanding, mislead 误导 Word usage 1. secure a. v. 1)free from danger or attack:安全的没有危险或免受攻击的： a secure fortress. 2) reliable, dependable 可靠的；可依赖的： secure investments.可靠的投资 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the words: 1) They ___ (compression) two-month’s work into one. 2) On the top of very high mountains snow ___ throughout the year. (persistence) 3) The boy tried to ___ the scene it was described. (visual) 4) Some people fail to see the fallacy of “white ___” . (supreme) 5) What is the difference between “____” and “publicize”? (propaganda) 6)A teacher should not show ___ for any one of his pupils. (prefer) 7) According to the treaty, some countries can enjoy ___ tariff rates. (prefer) Paraphrase 1. The differences were all but wiped out by the similarities. The differences became so insignificant compared with the similarities, they were almost completely pushed aside and forgotten. all but: almost, nearly 2. This larger unity was the most important central fact of our time – something on which people could build at a time when hope seemed misty, almost unreal. What can we build? our hope in the future of the mankind What is “this larger unity”? The human community as a whole But to stop there was like clearing the ground without any idea of what was to be built on it. If we only respect differences but pay no attention to similarities, it will be aimless/unconstructive. 3. It was the mark of a rounded man to be well traveled. rounded man: someone who has received a well-rounded education. Not one-sided, but complete and varied

For tribalism had persisted from earliest times, though it had taken refined forms Tribalism: nationalism if also a enlarged form of it部落主义民族主义 The universe itself does not hold life cheaply. Life is a rare occurrence 4. The earth is the only place where life can be found, so the universe seems to favor life more/take life seriously. And the respect of life is the very basis on which we must build the future world community Leadership on this higher level does not require mountains of gold or thundering propaganda This higher level: spiritual/moral level Leadership on the spiritual/moral level is not based on money or propaganda In-class vocabulary exercises 1. Obviously, the Chairman's remarks at the conference were and not planned b Simultane 2. For the success of the project, the company should the most of the opportunities at hand. a obtain c. catch 3. Failure to follow the club rules him from the volley ball team a disfavored b dispelled c disqualified d. dismissed 4. The discovery of new oil-fields in various parts of the country filled the government with ho a. eternal b infinite d everlasting 5. At first the company refused to purchase the equipment, but this decision was revised. a subsequently b successively c Predominantly d preliminarily 6. The local police are authorized to anyone s movements as they think of it a pause b halt c repel ep 7. The local authorities realized the need to make for elderly people in their housing programs a preparation b requirement c specification d provision 8. Twelve is to three four is to one b as c. that 9. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age her seemed to change. a affair b luck c event d chance Discussion Discuss how the author bases his arguments (1) We need to respect all human beings because human life is such a rare occurrence (2) Globalization makes us all part of the whole (3) Today we have many serious problems that depend on our global perspective for solution Assignment: Written work The writer believes that the similarities between nations outweigh the differences. Describe his argument in 120-130 words Finish the exercises in the textbook

6 For tribalism had persisted from earliest times, though it had taken refined forms Tribalism: nationalism if also a enlarged form of it.部落主义民族主义 The universe itself does not hold life cheaply. Life is a rare occurrence… 4. The earth is the only place where life can be found, so the universe seems to favor life more/take life seriously. And the respect of life is the very basis on which we must build the future world community. Leadership on this higher level does not require mountains of gold or thundering propaganda. This higher level: spiritual/moral level Leadership on the spiritual/moral level is not based on money or propaganda. In-class vocabulary exercises 1.Obviously, the Chairman’s remarks at the conference were ___ and not planned. a. substantial b. spontaneous c. Simultaneous d. synthetic 2.For the success of the project, the company should ___ the most of the opportunities at hand. a. obtain b. grasp c. catch d. make 3. Failure to follow the club rules ___ him from the volleyball team. a. disfavored b. dispelled c. disqualified d. dismissed 4. The discovery of new oil-fields in various parts of the country filled the government with ____ hope. a. eternal b. infinite c. ceaseless d. everlasting 5. At first the company refused to purchase the equipment, but this decision was ____ revised. a. subsequently b. successively c. Predominantly d. preliminarily 6. The local police are authorized to ___ anyone’s movements as they think of it. a. pause b. halt c. repel d. keep 7. The local authorities realized the need to make ___ for elderly people in their housing programs. a. preparation b. requirement c. specification d. provision 8. Twelve is to three __ four is to one. a. what b. as c. that d. like 9. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age her ___ seemed to change. a. affair b. luck c. event d. chance Discussion Discuss how the author bases his arguments: (1) We need to respect all human beings because human life is such a rare occurrence. (2) Globalization makes us all part of the whole. (3) Today we have many serious problems that depend on our global perspective for solution. Please elaborate on each point. Assignment: Written work: The writer believes that the similarities between nations outweigh the differences. Describe his argument in 120-130 words. Finish the exercises in the textbook