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What Would You Want Most on a Desert Island? 待在荒岛上，你最想要什么？ This month’s survey shows people worldwide have a natural understanding of what they would need most if left alone on a desert island: another person. And one they know well. Respondents in all 16 countries surveyed said their spouse or partner would betheir first choice to have with them. Perhaps this makes sense: An MP3 playercant help you find drinking water, your dog cant help you start a fire and who knows if George Clooney or Penelope Cruz has taken courses in wilderness survival training? Let’s just hope the SOS sign you two build gets spotted sooner rather than later! 本月的调查显示，全世界的人们都天然理解，如果独自留在荒岛上，他们最需要的是什么：另一个人，而且是个熟人。接受调查的16个国家的调查对象均表示，他们的配偶或伴侣将会是他们最想要在身旁的第一选择。或许这有道理：一个MP3播放器无法帮你找到饮用水，你的狗没办法帮你点火，谁知道乔治·克鲁尼和佩内洛普·克鲁兹有没有接受过野外生存训练呢？我们只能希望你们两个做的SOS求救信号能够尽早被人见到。 "My husband, of course! George Clooney wouldn't think I'm as pretty as my husband does!" “当然是我丈夫！乔治·克鲁尼不会像我丈夫那样认为我漂亮！” Roseane, 42, Brazil（巴西） “My MP3 player. I would not want my loved ones, including my pet, to be left alone like this." “我的MP3播放器。我不想让我所爱的人，包括我的宠物，像这样被单独留下。” Co-Co, 28, China（中国） "My partner should be there to listen to me complain about the fact that we are left alone on an island—probably due to some error he made." “我的伴侣应该在那里听我抱怨，我们被单独留在一个岛上——可能是因为他犯了一些错误。” Julia, 25, Jordan （约旦） Spouse/Partner 配偶/伴侣 82% of the South African women surveyed would most want their husband/partner with them, while just 45%of the Indian women surveyed agreed. 82%的南非女性调查对象最想要自己的丈夫/伴侣在自己身边，而印度女性只有45%。 Clooney/Cruz 27% of Russian men surveyedwould want a celebrity along. Only 2% of the Mexican men agreed. Less than 18% of women worldwide chose this option. 克鲁尼/克鲁兹 27%的俄罗斯男性调查对象表示他们想要一个名人陪伴自己，而墨西哥男性只有2%。全球选择这个选项的女性不到18%。 MP3 Player MP3播放器 This was second choice overall, particularly among Malaysian men, with 32% saying they’d most want an MP3 player with their favorite songs. Just 5% of Australian and American men agreed. 这是总体上第二多人选的选项，尤其是马来西亚男性中有32%的人最想要充满自己喜欢音乐的MP3播放器，而澳大利亚和美国男性只有5%。 Dog 狗 In France, 28% of respondents older than 45 would most want to be left alone with their dog, while not a single Russian or Malaysian in that age group surveyed would most want Fido along. 在法国，大于45岁的调查对象中有28%希望自己和他们的狗留下，而俄罗斯或马来西亚同一年龄段中却没有人最想要狗的陪伴。
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D Franz Kafka wrote that "a book must be the ax (斧子) for the frozen sea inside us. " I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation. We’d just finished John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. "Are you crying?" one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. "I am," I told her, "and the funny thing is I've read it many times. " But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I've taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel's terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运). For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school--one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan's upper classes—into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional "cultural capital" could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D.'s. Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn't always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, "it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness. " I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth's soliloquies (独白)read as raps (说唱) , but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck's writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that "all these people hate each other, and they're all white. " His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes. Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich (充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.是这篇吗？
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