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应用型大学英语第二册

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Unit 3

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Our Bathroom Problems

In order to enjoy our privacy, the four of us, senior students in a university, have rented an apartment off campus. In this way, each one of us can have our own room but have to share one bathroom. All of us are very satisfied with that.

Soon, however, a problem has emerged. That is, how to share our bathroom in the morning.

Tom gets up earlier than the rest of us. Of course, he is always the first one to use it. But he has a bad habit of making the bathroom very dirty and untidy. After him, the other three of us have to do the cleaning work before we can use it. John is the slowest in doing everything. Once he enters the bathroom, the rest of us have to wait for a long time. To make things worse, he has a habit of playing computer games over his laptop while he is on the toilet. No matter how hard we rush him or even threaten him outside the bathroom, it does not work. He still holds it as if it is the most comfortable place in the world for him. And none of us can stand it any longer.

Thus, it seems to all of us that it is time for us to work out a bathroom policy so that all of us can live comfortably together in the apartment. Otherwise, more problems will arise sooner or later.

Text A

Bathroom Policy —by Hanno Beck

1 We were four college sophomores. And we were not going to live in a dorm, no sir, we figured that we were smart, mature fellows and so we arranged to rent a house. Each person would have his own private bedroom and we would share the bathroom. Four guys, one bathroom. That sounds reasonable, right?

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2 But let me tell you about Edward. Nobody wanted to use the bathroom after Edward because something would be finished, gone, used up. No toilet paper? No soap? Edward somehow seemed always to be the last person to use these things. It reduced the value of the bathroom for the rest of us, yet we got no compensation. Edward was a taker. That felt unfair.

3 How about Charlie? Well, he had a problem too—shaving. It was always a disappointment to see Charlie walk into the bathroom, because by the time he was done, you would find shaving cream on the mirror, on the sink, on the floor. Lots of shaving cream was all over the place. And if it doesn't get cleaned up, it looks bad and becomes unsanitary. The rest of us picked up after Charlie, but we got no compensation for doing so. Charlie was a polluter. That felt unfair.

4 Andrew was a nice fellow. He was thrifty and neat. But there was a difficulty. Once inside the bathroom, he wouldn't come out! The rest of us would be waiting around to use the bathroom, pleading, urging, and begging. It did no good. Andrew took long stretches of time in the bathroom. That restricted access for the rest of us, and yet we got no compensation. Andrew was a monopolizer. That felt unfair.

5 The fourth person? That was me. I had no bad habits, and treated the bathroom perfectly and with fairness to everyone. Or at least you'll have to believe that, because I am not going to give you the current address of Edward, Charlie or Andrew.

6 The four of us felt unhappy and dissatisfied that year. We had a \we did not find a way to solve it.

7 Now let's talk about you and everyone on Earth. We don't have to share a single bathroom. But we do all share one planet.

8 Our planet's natural resources are a common heritage for all humanity, just as the bathroom was a common resource for the four of us in college.

9 Look what is happening to our planet.

10 We see people or corporations like Edward, taking more than their fair share of oil, fresh water, minerals, without compensating the rest of us.

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11 We see people or corporations like Charlie, polluting the land, water and air with toxic wastes, chemicals, carbons in the atmosphere, making the world less safe, forcing others to clean up, and they are not compensating the rest of us.

12 We see people or corporations like Andrew, monopolizing resources such as land —an urban land speculator who holds an acre out of use, anticipating a price rise, is displacing the rest of us, forcing development out into the countryside. A single acre of downtown land brought into use would save a dozen outside acres from premature sprawl development.

13 Those who take, monopolize, and pollute, are imposing costs on the rest of us and on the economy in general. We are forced to be less efficient, or forced to endure hardships, so that the takers, monopolizers and polluters can benefit. That is not fair.

14 Is there a solution? Of course there is. It's a simple solution. To respect our common interest in our planet's resources, those who take or monopolize or pollute more than their fair share of our planet should compensate those of us who they are taking them from.

15 You will find this idea and others like it, in the economic program of the Green Party of Ontario Canada and many other Green parties around the world.

16 If you've ever experienced a crisis similar to mine at college, you know how important it can be to have a good bathroom policy. Or a good planet policy.

洗手间使用规则 ——汉诺·贝克

1 我们四个都上大二了，我们没打算住在宿舍，从来没想过。我们自以为自己既聪明又成熟，因此合计着租个房住。每个人都有自己单独的卧室，大家合用一个洗手间。四个小伙子，一个洗手间。听起来很合理，对不？

2 但还是先看看爱德华吧。爱德华一用完洗手间就没人想用了，因为总有东西会被用完、用光、用尽。没卫生纸了？没肥皂了？说来也奇怪，爱德华好像总是最后一个用完这些东西的人。因此对我们其他人而言，洗手间的作用就大打折扣了，然而我们并未因此得到补偿。东西都让爱德华用了，我们感到忿忿不平。

3 查理呢？哎，他刮胡子时也有一个毛病。一看到查理走进洗手间我们就沮丧，因为他一用完洗手间，镜子上、池子里、地板上到处都是剃须膏。整个洗手间剃须膏随处可见。如果不好好打扫，就会不堪入目，变得很脏。我们其他人只好在查理用完洗手间后彻底收拾一番，但干这些什么补偿也得不到。可环境都是查理污染的，我们心里有气。

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4 安德鲁还不错，既节俭又干净。但也有麻烦。他一走进洗手间就不愿出来。我们其他人要用洗手间只能在外面干等，不停地呼喊、催促、哀求，但无济于事。安德鲁长时间占用洗手间，影响了我们其他人的使用，然而我们得不到任何补偿。安德鲁太霸道，我们感到没有公理可言。

5 那第四个人呢？那就是我。我没有什么不良恶习，对洗手间很爱护，对每个人也很公平。反正，你不得不这样认为，因为我不会告诉你他们三个中任何一个人目前的住址。 6 那一年我们四个郁郁寡欢、满腹牢骚。我们在“洗手间使用规则”上存在分歧，却没有找到解决的办法。

7 现在该轮到谈论你和地球上的其他人了。诚然，我们所有的人不必共用一个洗手间，但我们确实共享一个地球。

8 正如洗手间是我们四个大学生的公共资源一样，对于全人类来说，地球上的自然资源是共同财富。

9 来瞧瞧地球所受到的待遇吧。

10 我们看到诸如爱德华之类的人或公司过度使用石油、淡水和矿产资源，却不对我们其他人做出任何补偿。

11 我们看到像查理一样的人或公司将有毒废物、化学物质、碳排放到空气中，污染了土地、水和空气，造成世界生存危机，迫使其他人去清除污染，但他们却并未对我们其他人做出任何补偿。

12 我们看到像安德鲁一样的人或公司垄断了诸如土地之类的资源——大都市的一个土地投机商，占着一英亩地不用，期待地产涨价，把我们其他人赶走，把开发引向农村。市中心一英亩得到合理的开发，就可以避免郊区十多英亩地被过早草率地开发。

13 那些占有者、垄断者和污染者正将他们的成本强加到我们其他人身上，强加到整个经济上。我们被迫降低效率或忍受艰辛，这样那些占有者、垄断者和污染者能够受益。我们对此气愤不已。

14 这个问题可以解决吗？当然可以。很简单。为了尊重我们在地球资源方面的共同利益，那些占有过多、垄断成性或污染地球的人应该赔偿那些受其害的人。

15 在加拿大安大略绿党和世界上许多其他绿党的经济计划中你会发现这种观念以及许多类似的观念。

16 如果你曾经有过类似我大学时代的危机的话，你肯定知道制定一个好的洗手间使用规则或制定一项好的地球资源使用规则是何等重要。

Text B:

TENANCY AGREEMENT

1. Landlord ( hereinafter referred to as Party A): Tenant (hereinafter referred to as Party B):

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