QUICK FIX SOCIETY

By Janet Mendell Goldstein

Fast roads in the U.S.

• Highways: connect cities• Superhighways: a road with six or more lanes• Interstate highways: connect cities in different states• Freeways: roads within a city• Expressways: fast roads in or near cities• Turnpike: pay money before you use it.

Pennsylvania Dutch town

• Lancaster County, PA, the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is located in south central Pennsylvania 1 1/2 hours west of Philadelphia. Most of the Amish Country attractions are in Lancaster County, and almost all of the local Amish people live here as well.

location

Pennsylvania Dutch town

• Amish The Amish are a religious group who live in settlements in 22 states and Ontario, Canada. The oldest group of Old Order Amish, about 16-18,000 people live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Amish stress humility, family and community, and separation from the world.

People

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• The Amish was part of the early Anabaptist movement in Europe, which took place at the time of the Reformation. The Anabaptists believed that only adults who had confessed their faith should be baptized （洗礼） , and that they should remain separate from the larger society. They also believe in non-resistance and basic Bible doctrines.

Amish’s beliefs

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• These people as a whole are not as materialistic as modern society today. They do not use electricity or modern conveniences

• Amish men have beards, but not mustaches

• Most Amish are trilingual:dialect of German, High German and English

• Old Order children attend one-room schools through the eighth grade .

Amish’s life style

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• They are a private people who believe God has kept them together. They are a strong example of a community that supports and cares for its members. They are a people apart; they are also a people together.

Amish’s life style

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“Sunday Antiques Capital of the United States". Over 3000 antique dealers gather here to display and sell their merchandise.

Antique shopping

Outlet shopping

•Here, you'll find over 240 factory outlet stores featuring name brands and quality merchandise prices at reduced prices.

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• Scenery

Armish oldest meeting house

Hand-made quilts

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Scenery

Covered bridge

They ride their horse and buggy （轻便马车） and have a slower-paced lifestyle.

Cliff’s Notes

• Cliff’s notes is a series of reference book written to help undergraduate students to understand and appreciate important literary works.

• With such notes, students don’t have to read the work itself and be able to write papers and take exams.

Iceberg Principle

•    After the publication of his last major work, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway explained his "iceberg" theory of fiction writing

"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.  The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.   The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Structure

• Introduction

(para.1-3)

• Body

(para.4-6)

• Conclusion

(para.7-8)

Her ride on fast roads and her return trip of a country road

Now instead of later

Faster instead of slower

Superficially instead of thoroughlySlow down and rediscover life

Language point• Contract, condense, compress• To contract is to draw together, especially by an inter

nal force, with a resultant reduction in size, extent, or volume:

• 通过收紧使…尺寸缩小；收缩

• Condense refers to a reduction in volume and an increase in compactness: 浓缩，凝缩；缩短，摘要

• Compress applies to increased compactness brought about by pressing or squeezing; the term implies reduction in volume and change of form or shape: 压缩（以便置于较小空间）

Language point

• Contract, condense, compress

• The pupil of the eye dilates and _______in response to light

• She sat on the lid of the suitcase to _______ the clothes.

• The chairman_______all the suggestions put forward into a single plan of action.

Language point

• Contract, condense, compress

• The pupil of the eye dilates （扩大） and contracts in response to light.

• She sat on the lid of the suitcase to compress the clothes.

• The chairman condensed all the suggestions put forward into a single plan of action.

Language point

defer postpone delay• defer implies the an intentional delaying

I deferred paying the bills• postpone implies an intentional deferring,

commonly until a definite time.We postponed the match from March 5th to March 19th.

• delay cause to be behind schedule.The bus was delayed by a cloudburst.

Language point

defer postpone delay

• We would like to ______ your appointment until Saturday.

• We will______ a discussion of the program until more members are present.

• A criminal court jury ______ a verdict all afternoon.

Language point

Guarantee (be guaranteed to)• The government guaranteed to free the captives.• The rain guarantees a good crop this year.• I guarantee that you'll like this book.• Many shopkeepers guarantee satisfaction to

customers.• The new television had a guarantee with it.

Language point

Slide, slip, glide• slide 所表示的“滑动”含有这样几层意思：光滑

的面接触，通常为加速运动。用于比喻时，表示不自主地陷入某种习惯等

• slip 所表示的“滑”与 slide 相比，接触面更滑，但不象 slide 那样持续地滑动，而是突然的或短暂的滑动，如滑倒。

• glide 可以像 slide 那样持续地滑，但不一定像 slide 那样以面接触进行滑动。鸟在天空中翱翔，小船在水面荡漾，都可以用 glide 表示 , 运动看似毫不费力

Language point

Slide, slip, glide

• The ship _____down into the water

• A submarine _____ silently through the water 。

• He _____ on a patch of ice and sprained his ankle.

Language point

Can’t wait to do sth.

• When I arrived at the railway station, I couldn't wait to see my parents.

Stuff…with

• His head is stuffed with silly notions

• stuff a bag with things

Language point

Put away• We put a little of each paycheck away

“for a rainy day”.• Put away all your books on the desk.

The guest might come any time.• Please put all negative thoughts away.• The boy put away the dinner in just a

few minutes.

Language point

to save up for• They are saving up for a vacation.to help out: help sb. in a difficult situation.• Who is helping out in the garden this afternoo

n?• I’ve often helped Bob out when he has been a

bit short of money.to save sb. the trouble of doing sth.• Fast-food restaurant are popular because they

save people the trouble of cooking.

Language point

• off the rack/off the peg: ready made• on the rack: under great press

• not agree with sb.: to be suitable, appropriate, pleasing, or healthful:

Spicy food does not agree with me.• More often than not

Nancy comes over on Saturday more often than not.

Language point

to get over with 一劳永逸地做完 ( 不愉快但不得不做的事 ), 把 ... 做完了事

• He looked upon the marriage ceremony as a mere formality---- something to be got over with as quickly as possible.

• Let’s get the goodbyes over with and go!to go back to• Let’s go back to what the chairman said before.

( 回过来谈）• The valentines’day goes back to Roman times.

（可追溯到）

Language point

For four hours, our only real amusement consisted

of counting exit signs and wondering what it would

feel like to hold still again. (para.1)

The 4-hour drive on fast roads was tedious; the only fun we had was to count the exit signs we were passing and to figure out how we’d feel if we stopped again.

Language point

• We toured a Civil War battle field and stood on he little hill hat fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt.

• We visited a Civil War battlefild and stood on the little hill. one hundred and twenty-five years ago, on a hot July afternoon, 15,000 soldiers fighting for slavery, while trying to occupy the hill, had no idea that they would fail and that half of them would be killed in the battle.

Language point

• If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside cabin, we saved up for it, and the banks helped us out by providing special Christmas Club and Vacation Club accounts.

• If we wanted to buy some new furniture or spend a week at a lakeside, we could open special accounts at the banks to save money for it.

Language point

• And if we are in a hurry to lose weight, we try the latest miracle diet, guaranteed to take away ten pounds in ten days… unless we’re rich enough to afford liposuction.

• If we want to lose weight quickly, we try the most recent miracle diet which is said to be effective and is sure to make us lose a pound per day. If we are rich enough to pay for the operation, we can have our unneeded fat removed from our bodies.

Language point

• Even out 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.

• 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.

Language point

• As we ruches 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 lied just below the surface.

• When we rush through books, music, news and relationship, we are paying attention to the surface and will never get into the heart of anything.

Writing skills

Writing skills

• Comparison-contrast

• Examples

• Rhetorical Questions

• Repetition of structure and words

Language style

• Informal essay

Discussion

• If you agree that people are getting too impatient and too obsessed with he quick fix for everything, what examples would you give to illustrate you point.

• If you disagree with the author and think that people’s desire for speed is basically good, how would you defend your position.

• What is your favorite life style?

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