Unit 1
Not a year after my mother’s death , the following summer , my father brought me along to pick up（接） a guest（客人） . Her name was Amana . She was coming to visit from out of town（城外） . She was a big , beautiful , middle-aged black woman who was a singer . She had other talents as well . These talents reached beyond compare . Amana had one of the sweetest expressions I had ever seen . I did not know many black people at that age though I had not been raised as a racist in the least . And there were no black kids at the schools I had attended . We picked up at the San Francisco airport . When we reached our car , my dad motioned（向某人示意） for me to get into the backseat .
“Come and sit in the front . There’s plenty of room here , and you may sit right in  the middle,”Amana said . I smiled and without looking my father for approval （赞成）I got in and moved quickly to the middle of the huge white leather seats . “There , that’s better , ” she said as she sat down beside me .
We drove up  to North Beach to a seafood place . The three of us sat there and talked . We
had the most enormous（巨大的）lobster（龙虾）feast（饱尝珍馐）you could ever imagine . There lobsters were so big that just the meat in their claws was enough to make a meal . I was glad that  I was quite hungry when I walked in . Amana too was surprised at the feast . As for my father , he was happy to hear the compliments（赞扬）we were giving him for finding such a place and taking us to dinner ther . It was a dinner I will always remember , because of the wonderful food and Amana , who was as interested in speaking with me as she was in talking with my father . What’s more , my father was in a better mood （心情）than I had seen him in some time .
That night  we drove south , back to Pebble Beach . Amana was going to be our house guest I discovered , much to my excitement . When we arrived home , I helped our guest with her bags and showed her my sister’s old room . It is right next to mine . This was where dad said my she would be staying . The room was once for my sister Sheryn and since she had moved  away it was the one most used for house guests now . Though I usually had more energy than there was time in the day to expend it on（靠近） , I bid my new friend good night and she gave a big hug and kiss.
【翻译】：
我母亲去世后还不到一年，接下来的夏天，我的父亲带我去接客人。她的名字是Amana。她是从外地来做客的。她是一个大的，美丽的，中年黑人妇女，还是一个歌手。她还有其他的才华。这些才华无与伦比。Amana拥有我从未见过的甜蜜表情。我不了解很多那个时候的黑人，至少我没有长成一个种族主义者。我上的学校里面没有黑人的小孩。我们在了旧金山机场接她。当我们到达的时候，,我的爸爸示意我进车后座。
“来，坐在前面。这里有足够的空间，你可以坐在最中间，”Amana说。我笑了笑，没看我父亲，没得到批准我就迅速坐到了中间的巨大的白真皮座椅上。“在这里，这里更好些。”她说，她坐到了我旁边。
我们的车开到北沙滩的海鲜店。我们三个人坐在那里说话。我们有你能想象的到最大的龙虾大餐。这些龙虾是如此庞大,以至于螯上的肉就足以做一顿饭。我很高兴我走进这里的时候饿了。Amana对这个丰盛的晚餐很惊讶。至于我父亲,timeout was reached他很高兴听到我们赞美他到这样的一个地方带我们来晚餐。这是一个我将会永远记住的晚餐，因为美味食物和Amana，她会像与我父亲交流一样很有兴趣的与我说话。更重要的是，我的父亲是比原来那段时间的
心情要好多了。
那天夜里，我们驱车南行，回到卵石滩。发现Amana将是我们家的客人后，我非常兴奋。当我们到家时，我帮助我们的客人拿她的包，给她看我的旧的房间，就在我房间右边。这是爸爸说她将要呆的地方。房间曾经是我Sheryn的，因为她已经离开了，这个房间现在大多数做客房用。虽然今天花了比平常更多的精力，但是我依然对我的新朋友说了晚安，并给了她一个大大的拥抱和亲吻。
Unit 2
Different countries have different cultures, which cause some misunderstanding. Here is just one example of it. In many countries, people will tell you what they think you want to hear, whether or not it is  realistic . To them, this is the polite  thing to do. To Americans, though, it is considered confusing（困惑的）, even dishonest , to avoid telling the true facts. Even when avoiding the truth is done only to be polite, it  makes no difference. In America, this would still be considered the wrong thing to do. It is helpful to remember  that different cultures consider some matters more important than others. For Americans, 
trust  and truth are most important. One of the worst things that can be said about someone in America is that “you cannot trust him.”
Considering  such differences in values（价值观） among the many cultures of the world, we come to know a certain truth. We realize it is natural that misunderstandings will occur “How far is it to the next town?” an American traveler asks a man standing by the edge a road. （站在路边的）In some countries, a man may realize the traveler is tired and eager to reach the next village. Therefore, he will politely say, “Just down the road.” He thinks this is more  encouraging , gentler, and therefore the answer the traveler wants to hear. So the American drives alone for many more hours before he comes to the village. The traveler is angry, feeling  tricked  . He thinks that the man has purposely（故意的） lied to him. The man must have known quite well what the distance was, the American traveler thinks.
If a visitor to the United States asked an American standing at the edge of a road how far the next town was, the American would think it dishonest if he said it was near when he k
new it was actually 24 miles away.  While he, too, would be sympathetic with the tired traveler, he would say, “You have a long way to go yet; it is at least 24 miles more.” The traveler might be disappointed, but he would know what to  suppose .In this case, there would be no misunderstanding.
【翻译】：
不同的国家有不同的文化，这会造成一些误解。这里有一个例子来证明。在许多国家，人们会告诉你他们认为你想听的话，不管这是现实的。对他们来说，这是有礼貌的。然而对美国人来说，他们认为不告诉人真相是让人困惑，甚至是不诚实的。即使避免真相做只是出于礼貌，这毫无区别。在美国，这将仍被认为是最不应该做的事情。这有助于我们记住，在不同的国家，看重的东西是不同的。对于美国人来说,信任与真理是最重要的。在美国，你能够被他们讨论的最糟糕的就是“你不能信任他。”
考虑到世界上许多不同文化价值观之间的这些差异，我们来了解一个特定的真理。我们意识到这是自然的，就不可避免地要产生误解“多远到隔壁的城镇？”一个美国旅行者问一个站在路边上的人。在一些国家，一个人可能意识到的旅行者很累，渴望进入下一个村子。因
此，他将有礼貌地说：“小路的尽头。”他认为这是鼓舞人心的，温柔的，是旅行者希望听到的答案。所以美国人在独自驾驶了更多小时才到了他要来到村里时，旅客在愤怒，觉得被骗了。他认为那人是故意欺骗他。这个人一定知道到底有多远的路程，美国旅行者认为。
如果有人去美国旅游，问一个站在路边的美国人，下一个小镇有多远，美国认为，如果他告诉你距离不远，这是不诚实的，因为他知道这是实际上在24英里以外。而他也将同情疲惫的旅行者，但他会说，“你有一个仍然漫长的路途，这至少还有24英里多。”旅行者或许会感到失望，但他会知道应该要期待的是什么，在这种情况下，就不会有误解。
Unit 3
Business schools are forever fine- tuning（调整） their brands（牌子） . Some emphasize（强调） strategy , others technology or skills
But the new president of Boston College's Carroll School of Management, long known for finance（金融） and accounting, has something else in mind（脑中的想法）. He wants to build Carroll's business school program around concepts that could prove less p
rofitable（有利可图的）  though more enduring（经久不衰的）. Those concepts are  ethics（道德的） and values.

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