beginning to end. Instead, we buy a Cd called"Greatest Moments of the Classics and enjoy 100 musical classics, in excerpts, including the 26 seconds for the famous"da-da-da- DUM opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Ludwig Van Beethoven(1770-1872)is one of the greatest composers in the world who composed nine symphonies and numerous other famous works during his lifetime. His Fifth Symphony(命运交响助 was produced at the height of hi creative career provably around 1816 .6. Our magazine articles come to us pre-digested in Reader s Digest. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever.(para) pre-digest: this coined word is used ironically here to indicate that what Is presented to us is, to a certain extent, the condensers view) Reader's Digest: a popular magazine containing short articles and stories USA Today: a newspaper that gathers daily news from America's best-selling newspaper hanks to: (here used ironically) used to say that sth happened because of sb /sth We read magazine articles that have been condensed by editors. So what we read is not the writers view but actually the condensers understand ing of what is said in the original articles. 27. Even our personal relationships have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with something called quality time", which, more often than not, is no time at all. (para) devote sth. to: to give an amount of time, attention, etcto e.g. No matter how busy he is, he devotes an hour a day to read ing juality time: time spent with sb. (e.g. one's children) when one is relaxed and has got nothing to do. This is supposed to be good for parents and children Even our personal relationships are affected. Instead of spend ing much of our time with our loved ones, we now talk about giving them full attention in the limited time after work but usually we have no time to do that at all 28. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle pay ing attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface.(para) When we rush through books, music, news items and relationship, we are paying attention to the surface to everything and will never get into the heart of anything 29. When did it all begin, this urge to do it now, to get it over with, to skim the surface of life?(para7) lse; strong desire get it over with: (spoken)to get it done9 beginning to end. Instead, we buy a CD called “Greatest Moments of the Classics” and enjoy 100 musical classics, in excerpts, including the 26 seconds for the famous “da-da-da-DUM” opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1872) is one of the greatest composers in the world who composed nine symphonies and numerous other famous works during his lifetime. His Fifth Symphony (命运交响曲) was produced at the height of his creative career provably around 1816. 26. Our magazine articles come to us pre-digested in Reader’s Digest. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever. (para6) pre-digest: this coined word is used ironically here to indicate that what is presented to us is, to a certain extent, the condenser’s view) Reader’s Digest: a popular magazine containing short articles and stories USA Today: a newspaper that gathers daily news from America's best-selling newspaper thanks to: (here used ironically) used to say that sth. happened because of sb./ sth. We read magazine articles that have been condensed by editors. (So what we read is not the writer’s view but actually the condenser’s understanding of what is said in the original articles.) 27. Even our personal relationships have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with something called “quality time”, which, more often than not, is no time at all. (para6) devote sth. to: to give an amount of time, attention, etc. to e.g. No matter how busy he is, he devotes an hour a day to reading. quality time: time spent with sb. (e.g. one’s children) when one is relaxed and has got nothing to do. This is supposed to be good for parents and children. Even our personal relationships are affected. Instead of spending much of our time with our loved ones, we now talk about giving them full attention in the limited time after work. But usually we have no time to do that at all. 28. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle-paying attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface. (para6) When we rush through books, music, news items and relationship, we are paying attention to the surface to everything and will never get into the heart of anything. 29. When did it all begin, this urge to do it now, to get it over with, to skim the surface of life? (para7) urge: impulse; strong desire get it over with: (spoken) to get it done