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General Assembly联合国大会 permanent adj．永久的，持久的 permanent address固定地址 permanent tooth成人齿 a permanent Job 固定职业 a permanent commitee常设委员会 Security Council n.联合国安全理事会 troop n．军队 Passage 7
Plastic
We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles!
Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We call it a produced or manufactured material. Plastic was first made in the 1860s from plants, such as wood and cotton. That plastic was soft and burned easily. The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plastic starts out as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.
Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have been developed. Some are hard and strong. Some are soft and bendable. Some are clear. Some are many-colored. There is a plastic for almost every need. Scientists continue to experiment with plastics. They hope to find even ways to use them! (160 words) Useful Words and Expressions: Shampoo n．洗发精，洗发香波，洗发 manufacture vt．制造，加工 manufacture an excuse胡乱编个理由 half manufactured半成品（的）
a thing of home [foreign] manufacture本国[外国]制品 Plastic is an important manufacture.塑料是种重要产品。 bendable可弯曲的
experiment with用……做实验 Passage 8
Display of Goods
Are supermarkets designed to persuade us to buy more? Fresh fruit and vegetables are displayed near supermarket entrances. This gives the impression that only healthy food is sold in the shop. Basic foods that everyone buys, like sugar and tea, are not put near each other. They are kept in different
aisles so customers are taken past other attractive foods before they find what they want. In this way, shoppers are encouraged to buy products that they do not really need. Sweets are often placed at children's eye level at the checkout. While parents are waiting to pay, children reach for the sweets and put them in the trolley.
More is bought from a fifteen-foot display of one type of product than from a ten-foot one. Customers also buy more when shelves are full than when they are half empty. They do not like to buy from shelves with few products on them because they feel there is something wrong with those products that are there. (166 words)
Useful Words and Expressions: aisle n．走廊，过道
roll them in the aisle ［口」使（观众）捧腹大笑 knock them in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑 lay them in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑 rock them in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑 have them rolling in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑 trolley n．手推车
checkout（超级市场等的）收款台
Passage 9
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. His号father owned a factory that made electrical devices. His mother enjoyed music and books. His parents were Jewish but they did not observe many of the religion's rules. Albert was a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to talk and had difficulty learning to read. When Albert was five years old, his father gave him a compass. The child was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same direction-to the north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused the needle to move. Their answers about magnetism and gravity were difficult for the boy to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time thinking about them. He said later that he felt something hidden had to be behind things. (143 words)
Useful Words and Expressions: device n．装置，设备
leave to (one's) own devices听任某人自行其是，允许某人按自己的意愿做事
She left the child to her own devices for an hour in the afternoon.她允许孩子在下午有一个小时的自由支配时间。