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UNIT 11 CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE(一)
1．Shirley Fitzgerald，the city’s official historian，told me that in its rush(匆忙) to modernity
in the 1970s，Sydney swept aside(抛弃) much of its past，including many of its finest buildings.
2．We can’t seem to make up our minds(决定) whether we want a modern city or a traditional
one.
3．We’ve got a foundation built on ancient cultures but with a drive(熟词生义：n.干劲；精力)
and dynamism of a young country.It’s a pretty hard combination to beat.
4．Public health data signals(vt.表明，显示) a genuine crisis in adolescent mental health: rising
rates of anxiety，depression，and hopelessness.
5．The qualities that are key to(对……至关重要) building or breaking friendships are actually
the same as they’ve always been...
6．Historical references(历史参考资料) such as the 9th-century BCE site(n.遗址) of
Shalmaneser Ⅲ and the 8th-century BCE mention(n.提及) in the Iliad indicate(v.表明) the act
of holding hands in a greeting or as a sign of loyalty(忠诚的象征)．
7．The modern handshake as a form of greeting is harder to trace(v.追溯)．
8．A 16th-century German translation of Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel mentioned
handshakes，in addition to(除了) embracing，as a form of(作为……的一种形式) greeting.
9．As children，we tend to(常常，倾向于) share every detail of our lives with our parents，but
as we grow up(长大成人)，we filter out certain(adj.某种) things from them.
