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(完整word)视译资料Passage 1Most ironic was the image of government that was born of these experiences. As any scholarly treatise on the subject will tell you， the great advantage bureaucracy is supposed to offer for a complex, modern society like ours is efficient, rational, uniform and courteous treatment for the citizens it deals with。 Yet not only did these qualities not come through to the people I talked with, it was their very opposites that seemed more characteristic。People of all classes the rich man dealing with the Internal Revenue Service as well as the poor woman struggling with the welfare department felt that the treatment they had received had been bungled, not efficient； unpredictable, not rational； discriminatory, not uniform， all too often， insensitive, rather than courteous。 It was as if they had bought a big new car that not only did not run when they wanted it to, but periodically revved itself up and drove all around their yards。Passage 2After I talked for a few minutes with Chou Enlai， and explained who I was， he arranged for me to spend the night in Pai Chiaping，and asked me to come next morning to his headquarters， in a nearby village. I sat down to dinner with a section of the Communications Department,which was stationed here， and I met a dozen young menwho were billeted in Pai Chiaping. Some of them were teachers in the partisan school， one was a radio operator,and some were officers of the Red Army. Our meal consisted of boiled chicken，unleavened wholewheat bread， cabbages， millet, and potatoes,of which I ate heartedly。 But, as usual, there was nothing to drink but hot water and I could not touch it。I am famished with thirst. The food was served delivered is the word by two nonchalant young lads wearing uniforms several sizes too large for them， and peaked Red Caps with long bills that kept flapping down over their eyes。 They looked at me sourly at first， but after a few minutes I managed to provoke a friendly grin from one of them。 emboldened by this success, I called to him as he went past。Passage 3It is often said that Asian Americans are a “model minority”, with parents who work 18 hours a day in the family grocery and children who work with equal amazing perseverance in the classroom。 At a glance, the evidence seems clear: while the first Asians to come to America lived poorly as farmers， miners and railway workers， we now enjoy one of the highest average incomes in the country。 Here at Harvard， 18% of the class of 1996 are Asian Americans, compared to 3 of the total US population。 By focusing on the “positive stereotype”, however， one neglects the other side of our lives. For many of us the second generation there is something uncomfortable about being Asian in America. Although many of us appreciate the great sacrifices our parents have made, their economic success somehow represents for us an unsatisfying legacy. We suffer in particular from an endemic identity crisis。 We have begun to question the accommodationist ways of our forebears， our quietly studious manner, our narrow priorities, and our previous notions of successPassage 4Running the country is all well and good, but Tony Blair still wonders if he could have made it as a rock star. “Ive always wondered， could I have actually done it，” the onetime lead singer of a rock band called the Ugly Rumors， more recently prime minister， told his former bass player in an interview. “I was quite serious about it. It wasnt just a mere dalliance it was a bit more than that for me。” Blair told exbass player Mark Ellen. Experts from the intervieew were printed in The Times。 “With politics, it all clicked into place for me somehow. Whereas with music you had to have a particular set of attributes that I didnt quite have, and it never happened for me even though I was despertately keen to carry on。 Blair， 51, said that he still gets a thrill meeting rock icons of his youth like Paul McCartney or David Bowie. “They say： it must be so interesting what you do， and I say: its not as interesting as what you do.”Passage 5Despite the clearcut technological advantages， the railroad didnt become the primary means of transportation for nearly 20 years after the fist pioneering American railroads were introduced in the early 1830s. Besides the stiff competition of water transportation, an important hindrance to railroad development was public antipathy， which had its roots in ignorance, conservatism， and vested interest。 People thought that speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour would be physically harmful to passengers。 Many honestly believed that the railroad would prove to be impractical and uneconomical and would not provide services as dependent as that of the waterways。 Unsurprisingly, the most vigorous opposition to railroads came from groups whose economic interests suffered from the competition of the new industry。 Millions of dollars had been spent on canals， rivers， highways， and plank roads， and thousands of people depended on the transportation enterprises for their livelihood。Passage 6When Kim Bogue accidentally threw her wallet away with her lunch， she had little hope that shed recover the $900 and bundle of credit cards inside. With a team of coworkers， she twice searched the Santa Ana civic buildings where she works as a janitor, but found nothing. “I was sick all weekend, said Bogue， who was saving the money for a trip to Thailand, her home country。 The same weekend, a homeless man who roams the building also was searching for something. He made his routine visit to the trash bins nearby to look for aluminus cans。 Instead， he found Bogues wallet. That Monday， the man， who declined to be identified, gave the money to Sherry Wesley who works in one of the buildings。 “He came to me with the wad of money and said: This probably belongs to someone that you work with. Can you return it？” Grateful， Bogue gave the man a $100 reward， which he split with Wesley. She gave the money to her church。 While the money would serve as a tempting find, especially for a homeless man, Wesley said the mans action did not surprise her. “I know he has got the biggest heart,” she said。 “Somebody like that who is so down on their luck and willing to help someone out is a rare thing。”Passage 7Three big uncertainties loom over the Rice Department. The first concerns the new secretary herself. For four years， Ms. Rice has been a sounding board, tutor, and weather vane. She will now have to articulate a clearer view of the post-alQaeda world。 For example, she has a lot of expertise in Russia。 But should Americas attitude to Vladimir Putins centralization of power be determined by the need to keep good relations with a partner in the war on terror？ Or should it be influenced more by Mr。 Bushs view that the best way to starve global terrorism is to encourage democracy? The second uncertainty concerns her department. Does she spend time shaping it， replacing the diplomats in charge of the DPRK and the Middle East， while risking the sort of hostility and disruption? The third uncertainty is how much appetite there is on both sides of the Atlantic for real diplomatic engagement。 Even before the election， Mr。 Bush and Ms。 Rice privately indicated that， three years after September 11th， it was time to patch things up in Europe and the Middle East。Passage 7Life for almost everybody is a long competitive struggle where very few can win the race， and those who do not win are unhappy。 When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for subservience in some large organization. If you are an energetic man with a strong view as to the right way of doing the job which you are concerned, you find yourself invariably under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical。 Whenever you have a bright idea the boss puts a stopper on it。 The more energetic you are and more vision you have， the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing things that you feel ought to be done。 When you go home and moan to your wife， she tells you that you are a silly fellow and that if you become the proper sort of yes-man， your income will soon be doubled。 If you try divorce and remarriage it is very unlikely that there will be any change in this respect。 And so you are condemned to great ulcers and premature old age.