【第一期阅读小分队（已结束）】【每日阅读练习贴——速度+越障】【一楼汇总】（另附CD首发花儿阅读教材PDF）

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-16 00:03:44

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我都是晚上来~``  每次都看到两篇，感觉好有压力哦~    O(∩_∩)O~ 今天有跑出去玩了，晚上熬夜把任务做完~<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 ccmoom (2011/7/15 23:08:09)</div> 
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 同感，感觉每天的阅读尤其是越障很有压力感啊。。

若雪 · 发表于 2011-7-16 00:19:28

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1--7 速度 1--4   60以内 5  差一行   越障尼玛的手贱stop 点成了reset  时间没记住。。。 算了反正读过了。。。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 MarsTOF (2011/7/15 22:39:27)</div> 
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 噗。。MARS好有幽默感~~~~~

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-16 08:28:41

【速度2-8】 53s 2 1 4 57s 【越障2-7】7:51 说了美国政府联席会议讨论债务的问题。 一、各方的不同意见 共和党认为...，Cantor认为债务太多了一直升。奥巴马认为应该控制在17trillion。民主党又说没有那么多，作出解释。 二、奥巴马认为不能因为要填补债务而增加国民税收。 三、各方意见不和，奥巴马愤怒离开会议，有的人说他发火了，有的人说他只是说够了就走了。奥巴马认为如果各方都在为自身利益说话，会议不会有结果。 四、各方都应该互让一步，不然讨论就无法进行。 --------------------------------------------------------------- 今天这篇有点难，不了解美国政治党派那些东西，所以有点不知所云的感觉~

clumsy123 · 发表于 2011-7-16 13:07:35

速度1-4 计时1 60s 计时2 60s 计时3 差一行 计时4 60s 计时5 58s 今天快了不少，哈哈，不过理解还要跟上~ 囧，后来才看到这几篇都比较短。。。 越障1-4  8min38s 文章大概的讲的是ACT一种治疗方法对于解决歧视、嗑药、人们心里问题的一些作用。。。。我发现我瞬间遗忘到了一定的境界了。。 1、讲了得AIDS的家庭的小孩更容易患上心理问题。。。还有关于歧视神马的。。（忘了） 2、然后介绍了什么心里灵活性和AE，说了AE有什么不好的地方。。。 3、再介绍有关那个心理灵活性的治疗方法--ACT（貌似是这个名字），说了这种方法有什么作用，先说对心理问题解决的帮助，然后是歧视、嗑药，还有就是人们在处理一些消极想法的时候能够有什么好的作用。。。 我再去看一遍= =

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-16 23:16:01

【速度2-9】 0 1 57s 3 3 ------------------- 越障真的很重头戏啊，哈哈，困了，明早起来再看，现在不能active thinking了=^=

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-16 23:35:42

【速度2-10】 计时1 Coming Out in China: The True Cost of Being Gay in BeijingAfter he left Tianjin last year, Zhang Xiaobai realized that homosexuals are not "rare birds." When he was still in primary school, Zhang (not his real name) found that he was attracted to boys. Particularly after each physical-education class, when he looked at the sweat-soaked back of a boy he liked, he felt dazed. The feeling got stronger when he entered high school and fell secretly amorous of a tall and strong classmate. He was always eager to approach him and became fascinated with the occasional moment of physical contact. That was in the mid-1990s, when the term homosexuality was far from ordinary in Chinese people's life. Zhang couldn't find anyone similar to him, and he thought he was strange. He couldn't tell his parents, sure that they wouldn't be able to understand. "I was trying to hide it from everybody. Nobody told me this is normal," Zhang recalls. "I felt like I was sick." After graduating from university, family and friends were enthusiastic to fix him up with a girl. He didn't know how to refuse and finally yielded to the pressure, marrying a girl his parents liked. He was hounded by feelings of guilt and inadequacy. "But if I can't possibly love her, I can at least try my best to be a good husband," he says he told himself. So as not to disappoint his parents, Zhang and his wife had a son right after being married. Each Valentine's Day and on their wedding anniversary, Zhang would buy his wife flowers and gifts, trying to compensate materially for his missing heart. （字数 264） 计时2 Life went by. Nothing changed for more than 10 years. And then he started logging into the online world where gay Chinese interact. In some chat forums, people wanted to meet him, but he never accepted the invitation. In 2009 Zhang took a work trip to Beijing. One night, after leaving a bar, he saw another bar at the other side of the road. He has seen the name so many times in a forum, a "shrine" for homosexuals, like Dongdan Park, said to be the biggest gathering place in the world for gays. He knew there were similar places back in Tianjin but thought it was too risky that he might bump into acquaintances in those spots. The next day, he went to the bar without letting his colleague know. The atmosphere was relaxed. Like at other bars, there were people trying to strike up conversation and flirting. For the first time in his 30 years of life, he was not denying his identity. He talked to all kinds of people from different professions. There were company employees, lawyers and a lot of media people. In comparison with the digital world, the live encounter with other gays was a shock to him. When he finished his mission and went back to Tianjin, he was determined to leave his job. He told his family he wanted to look for advancement in Beijing. Nobody understood why. He just told them, "I'm already 30-something. It will be too late if I don't think for myself." First Love His wife stayed in Tianjin. They had gradually grown apart. She no longer demanded that he always come home. He made new acquaintances, and then found his lover, a designer in his 30s. （字数 288） 计时3 This was the first love of his life. Like other couples, they went to films and chose which restaurants to go to after work. Though they kept separate places, Zhang was stable in his relations. He felt that he had found a new direction for his life. For the first time, he didn't feel so bad being gay. His friends and colleagues accepted him. He was finally completely relaxed. It went on in this way for about a year, until 2010. He felt he was no longer able to leave his boyfriend and went home to Tianjin less frequently. He decided it was time to tell his family. "I knew I had to be courageous," he says. "It was too difficult for me to continue with two emotions at the same time. I was prepared to break up with my family." After New Year's Day this year, Zhang invited his wife, his parents and his parents-in-law to dinner. He announced the truth near the end of the meal. The fathers didn't quite believe him, and everybody at the table was startled. Then his mother, who has a hypertension problem, fainted. His wife smacked his face and left. He later cried and knelt in front of his father beside the hospital bed of his mother, asking for forgiveness. "It was really like a second-rate TV drama," he says. "The whole family was crying. I had never imagined that it would ever happen to me." （字数 243） 计时4 Zhang's wife divorced him without hesitation and won full custody of their son. Relatives scolded him, saying he was irresponsible. He tries to compensate everybody with money.He gave his house to his ex-wife and pays to support his parents, the cost of coming out. Zhang's parents are still in a cold war with him: his mother won't speak to him. He worries that his son will suffer from being laughed at when his friends find out that his father is gay. Nevertheless, Zhang does not think his life is a tragedy and is relieved that at least now he is living according to his true identity. Every time he hears that some "comrade" plans to get married, he always tells them of his own experience: "Don't try to solve the problem by getting married. It will only hurt more people." From TIME: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2082914,00.html For some teens, a busy life takes fun out of high school For years the University of California, Los Angeles, has done a national survey of first-year college students. Some of the questions in the Freshman Survey relate to emotional health and stress. Last year, 29 percent said they often felt "overwhelmed" by all they had to do in their last year of high school. That was two percentage points higher than the year before. There was a big difference between men and women. Almost 40 percent of women reported feeling that level of stress, compared to just 18 percent of men. Deborah Stipek is dean of the School of Education at Stanford University in California. She says a lot of students are under too much pressure from parents and schools. （字数 259） 计时5 DEBORAH STIPEK: "They are not enjoying what can be the incredible satisfaction of learning and developing understandings and skills. Leaning can be an adventure. But instead of an adventure, it's really about the test, it's about the college application."

rofessor Stipek recently wrote about this issue in the journal Science. She used the example of her own daughter in high school. Her daughter has taken advancement placement, or AP, courses in French to earn credit toward college. She told her mother she would be happy to never speak French again. DEBORAH STIPEK: "I think that revealed the real basic problem, which is the AP courses that she was taking in French were not about learning French, not about being able to communicate with a different culture, or to travel, or to have a skill that could be useful in life. It was about getting a score on an AP test that would help her get into the college of her choice."

rofessor Stipek says high schools should listen to their students. DEBORAH STIPEK: "One of the things that schools are doing that we're working with is doing yearly surveys of students to find out what their sources of stress and anxiety [are], and get their ideas on what the school can do, what kinds of policies can be supportive of them. And this has been actually amazing, because we've gone into schools where they say 'This isn't a problem.' And then they do a survey of the students, and they are just blown away by what they get back from the students when the students are actually asked." In 2009, a documentary film looked at the pressure on many students to succeed in school and in lives busy with activities and homework. The film is called "Race to Nowhere." （字数 299） --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 自由阅读 STUDENTS: "If you were dedicating your whole life to your grades, you have to be smart. And you have to be involved in the arts. I have soccer practice every day. Plus the homework on top of that. Produce, produce, produce. It's impossible. I couldn't cope." Deborak Stipek says the film shows that many students today are not experiencing the joys of learning. DEBORAK STIPEK: "I was interviewed in it, as many others were, and I think the most compelling interviews were of the students. These are students who felt under enormous pressure to perform, and I want to underscore the word 'perform,' as opposed to 'learn.'" She says the hardest lesson for society may be that young people will grow up lacking interest in learning. From VOA: http://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/For-Some-Teens-a-Busy-Life-Takes-Fun-Out-of-High-School-42425.html

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-16 23:41:30

【越障2-9】 The lessons of philanthropy Giving for results There is more to philanthropy—much more—than just giving money away WHETHER America’s famed philanthropic tradition is all it is cracked up to be will become much clearer during the next few years. Superficially, that tradition has emerged from the global financial crisis in remarkably good shape. In the past year some 69 of America’s billionaires and billionaire families have promised to give away at least half of their fortunes by signing the Giving Pledge championed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of the world’s richest men. Among them is 27-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, a founder of Facebook, proof that America’s giving gene has passed to the next generation. The question is, will all that giving, by the billionaires and the thousands more Americans with far smaller amounts of money, actually do any good? There is rather a depressing history of well-intentioned donations often doing nothing to alleviate society’s problems, and sometimes even making matters worse. As Mr Buffett has said many times, “making money is far easier than giving it away effectively.” Moreover, the need to give effectively, to maximise the bang for every charitable buck, is about to become even greater, as many of the organisations that receive their funds from private philanthropy or the public sector begin to feel the effects of America’s fiscal problems. Spending cuts will cause a crisis in the social sector that “will have an impact on almost every non-profit [organisation] in America, whether or not it receives government funds,” writes Mario Morino, a veteran philanthropist, in “Leap of Reason”, one of three new books that address the same thorny question of how to not merely give, but to give well. As evinced by his subtitle, “Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity”, Mr Morino focuses on delivering results, as do the other authors, with their emphasis on smart giving and changing the world. The books draw examples from the many years the authors have spent promoting better philanthropy, and are all worth reading. Only Mr Morino is actually in the process of giving away a fortune he earned for himself, which makes him less prone to wrapping his iron fist in a velvet glove than the other authors, who are all professional philanthrocrats of different kinds. Joel Fleishman raised a fortune for Duke University and ran the American arm of the Atlantic Philanthropies; Thomas Tierney gave up his role as boss of Bain to found Bridgespan, a consulting firm for non-profits; the three authors of “Do More Than Give” work for FSG, another consultancy. For Mr Buffett, the main reason why giving is harder to do than making money is that in business “you go after the low-hanging fruit”, whereas in philanthropy you are trying to tackle problems that are inherently difficult, such as how to educate demotivated urban kids or end rural poverty. But all three books make the case that the ineffectiveness of much philanthropy is actually the fault of the philanthropist. They applaud the motives for giving, but all make the point that people too often let their philanthropy be guided by their hearts alone. “Deciding what you will do to make change happen is a choice that requires both your head and your heart”, write Messrs Fleishman and Tierney in the best chapter in “Give Smart”, entitled “What Am I Accountable For?” The biggest problem for philanthropists, they argue, may be that “they are essentially accountable to no one but themselves.” To avoid being tempted into a self-deluded belief in their own success, philanthropists should create systems that force them to hear what may at times be unpleasant truths about the ineffectiveness of their work, and to be constantly challenged to improve. Of the six practices of effective philanthropists described in “Do More Than Give”, two stand out as being unusual. To achieve real change—what the authors, Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania and Mark Kramer, call “catalytic philanthropy”—the best course may be to engage in political advocacy to change government policy, they argue. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing this a lot more than most, on issues ranging from education reform to international aid. But the advice also works at a local level, as the book illustrates through the story of how the Tow Foundation improved juvenile justice policy in Connecticut. Their second sound piece of advice is that philanthropists should work together more often. This seems obvious, but as the authors rightly ask, “Why don’t more foundations actively collaborate with their peers?” For Mr Morino, a pioneer of “venture philanthropy”, in which the donor works closely to build up the non-profits he supports, one of the key lessons is for philanthropists and non-profits to be clear about the outcomes they are trying to achieve— and to measure properly the progress they are making towards those goals. He is the first to admit that measuring the right thing is not easy, and he has wasted money by measuring the wrong things. Yet far too many philanthropists and non-profits shy away from setting goals and measuring progress. As a result they condemn themselves to ineffectiveness. This must change if philanthropy and the non-profit sector it helps to fund is to achieve the “quantum leap” in effectiveness that he believes is an urgent priority. As he says, “the time to dramatically improve our collective impact is now, when we are needed most.” From The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/18679019

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-17 01:50:13

【速度2-9】 54s 56s 49s 汗。。看太赶了。。 1行，74s 一句话琢磨数量关系琢磨了好几s。。- - 90s，术语不少啊。。 【越障】好长啊~明天补看了。。。。

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-17 01:51:18

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我来也~~~~~~~~~~~·每天必须坚持。。。 1-4 1行 65s 2行 75s 3行 80s 53s 55s 看了一下和抓抓还是有很大的差距~感觉是每天读第一篇的时候会慢一些，慢慢慢慢就快点~~~坚持啊坚持~~~~.... <div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 裤裤melo (2011/7/15 22:37:40)</div> 
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 加油加油~~每天都会进步的~我也不稳定..T T而且理解力还不够...磨练磨练·~~

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-17 04:08:16

[速度2-10] 1。58s 2。1.5行 3。51s 4。60s 5。1行 自由阅读： 37s [越障2-9] 读了两遍，第一遍睡着了，纳闷为什么喝了红牛还想睡?会不会是中午吃得太多了？ 1。美国的慈善事业是否可以延续到年轻一代呢？美国的慈善事业向来是被重视的，通过去年的沃伦巴菲特，比尔盖茨和facebook的创始人马克的慈善捐款证明美国的慈善事业却是有代代相传的。2。但是其中美国的慈善事业实际上存在很多弊病，而这些弊病主要体现在慈善家比国内不能将捐款有效的投入使用，巴菲特曾讲过挣钱容易但给予难。并且，由于美国政府正在削减开支，由此一些非营利性机构开始担心他们是否还有资格接收慈善捐款。其中有三本书被推荐，内容是围绕慈善机构的设立和捐款的有效使用为主题的。 3。其中M.M的一本书有提到如何更加合理的给予慈善捐款并改变世界的观点，其中业已一些例证来说明一些慈善事业家可以真正的将慈善资金有效合理的利用起来。作为MM本人来讲，由于他正在将自己的财产捐助出去，所以在这方面他的言辞并没有像其他两个专业慈善家那么激烈。之后又举了三个例子来说明。 4。巴菲特曾讲过做生意容易，因为我们只是在摘取果实，但是给予却不容易，因为我们要确保所给予的有效利用性。我们可以帮助市郊以外的孩子教育学习方面，这样就可以达到很好的效果。同时作者也首先肯定了慈善家的善举但是并不推崇他们缺乏思考和明确目标的行为。 5。以比尔盖茨基金为例，它很好的帮助了市郊的学生学习以及促进了当地的发展。但是这只是地区性而已，为什么慈善机构不能够联合起来呢？ 6。一个慈善机构的发言人指出由于一些慈善家没有明确的目标和不敢冒险的缺陷，慈善事业得不到良好的发展。而很多时候慈善事业的有效性和慈善家的错误决定有关，而他就有过这样的经历。所以他建议如果想要改变这种情况，慈善家和非营利性企业必须联手来促进积极的影响，这样才能使慈善机构更好的利用起来。 任务完成，嘎嘎嘎。。瞅两眼新闻。。在纠结，晚上到底要不要去赴朋友的约（最近被骂是geek了）

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