新视野听说第二册口语示例.docVIP

Unit1 一,Time is Money (1)Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to a young man over 250 years ago. It works both ways: money can buy you time, which is why we pay physicians and pharmaceutical companies after we have heart attacks. We can trade one for the other. But we can buy more money with time than we can buy time with money. The system is asymmetrical. There are people who are worth a billion dollars. No one I know is going to live 300 years unless a major breakthrough in medicine takes place.A German man I know used to sell vacuum cleaners door to door. In Germany, this is still common. He sold the Vorwerk cleaner. He even sold one to my wife, back when Americans could legally buy them. It’s the best vacuum cleaner that my wife has ever seen.The man who trained him in sales once asked a group of trainees if they would pay him the equivalent of $10 if he would show them how to earn 25% more money. They all did. Then he showed them how. Work 25% longer.But 25% more pay is not the heart of the matter. People who start businesses are more likely to get rich than anyone else. I have never known a business owner who worked an eight-hour day. All of them work at least ten hours, and most work on Saturdays. Yet they make far more than 25% more or even 50% more. If their business survives, they move into the top 20% of income earners.It is not the fact that they work longer that makes the big difference. It is that they decide to meet the demand of consumers in a unique way – a way worth the consumers’ money. To do this, they must work long hours, because the consumers are demanding. The consumer says, Work harder. I’ll pay you a lot more if you do. So, the business owner does. (2) We often hear the sayingTime is money.But I think time is much more precious than money.Because If we lost time, we can’t find it.But We can try to woke harder to get more money.No matter whatever you do ,you can not get lost time back. Time flies.time and tides wait for no men.You c