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Unit4

Davos is a small Alpine city in eastern Switzerland which began making itself known in the 1990s for hosting the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of politicians, financiers and academics. Each year, those taking part spend five days there networking and discussing a variety of issues such as the global supply of oil, world economic growth and environmental problems.

Davos Men share the belief that globalization is both welcome and unstoppable. They would like to see national boundaries vanish so as to facilitate their global operations. Some people say that this international perspective is a minority elitist position not shared by the majority of people. Others, however, argue that endorsing a global outlook does not mean sweeping aside one’s patriotic feelings or erasing one’s national identity. The question, perhap is whether it is possible to strike a balance between bing global and being local.

Unit5

You see that young man swimming out at sea He’s trying to swim out the beacon and back. He must be insane to have committed himself to such a thing, the current is far too strong. I met him on the beach before he set out. I don’t mind telling you that I was taken aback when he told me what he was going to do. I am a swimmer myself, but I wouldn’t attempt it. And he didn’t look in good condition at all. Far from it. He may have had a good constitution once, but he had clearly let himself go all to pieces. However, it seems like he had no choice. He told me that he had gone broke, not a penny left, and that old Burton would only find him a vacancy in his him if he did the swim. That was another surprise. Burton seems such a mild mannered man, kind to everybody. Perhaps he thought the young man would not have the courage, that he would funk it. Then, again, perhaps Burton knew he was sending the young man to his death, but was too cold-blood to care. It only goes to show how deceptive appearances can be.

Unit6

Can you switch off from the cares of life and relax Many people today cannot. They feel instead that they are obliged to be on the go all the time. The pace of life seems to grow ever faster. As a result, feelings of stress are common as people struggle to cope with what they see as a shortage of time. Such widespread feelings are in part caused by the large quantity of information that comes pouring in on us. ”all men,” said Aristotle , “by nature desire to know.” But it is no longer possible, as it was in the past, for an individual to master the whole range of human knowledge. Instead, any individual, no matter how smart he is, can only command a fraction of the total knowledge available. It may be argued that it is futile to even attempt to do so. We should learn to set more realistic goals for ourselves if we are to hope to escape from the tyranny of time.