Unit 1Settling down at college around the world适应校园生活——来自世界各地的访谈Tanya Zarutskaya Moscow, Russia塔尼娅•扎茹茨卡娅莫斯科，俄罗斯This time last year I was nervous about my new life.去年的这个时候，我对新生活感到很紧张。

I didn't have any friends, and it was my first time away from home. 我没有朋友，也是第一次离开家。

At first I worked all the time, going to lectures and studying late into the night.一开始，我一天到晚都在忙功课：上课，并且学习到深夜。

But then I realized I was missing out on so many other things at university. 可后来我意识到我错过了大学里许多其他活动。

One day a girl in my hall of residence invited everyone in the dorm to a dinner party.一天，跟我住同一幢宿舍楼的一个女孩儿邀请全楼的人去参加一个晚宴。

I've no idea where she managed to buy the food, or how she had enough money. 我不知道她在哪儿买的那些吃的，也不清楚她怎么会有足够的钱。

And she dressed like a model.而且她穿得像个模特儿。

I don't know why she was bothering with university!我真不知道她干嘛还要费那劲儿上大学！I've got to know lots of interesting people and I now enjoy myself as well as study hard.现在我结识了许多有趣的人，既努力学习，也快乐地生活。

Miguel Fonseca Guadalajara, Mexico米古尔•方斯卡瓜达拉哈拉，墨西哥When I first arrived at university, I tried to make notes about everything the professors said in their lectures.刚上大学的时候，我尽量把教授们在课堂上说的每一句话都记下来。

But I ended up being too busy writing to listen.结果是我光忙着记笔记，都顾不上听讲了。

I'm studying chemistry, and everything seemed more complicated than what we learned at school.我现在学的是化学，现在学的东西似乎都比我们在中学里学的复杂。

But then I realized that here, you have to listen and think more.现在，我已弄清新知识和过去所学知识之间的差别了。

I've now understood the difference between new information and things which I knew already.不过我意识到，在大学里，你应该更多地去听、去思考。

Francine Bonnet Lyon, France弗兰辛•博内里昂，法国When I first arrived, the university seemed very large and unfriendly. 我刚来时，这所大学似乎很大，也很不友好。

I found the freedom and the lack of guidance difficult at first.一开始，我觉得很难适应缺乏指导的自由生活。

At school, I was used to a timetable with homework in the evening.上中学的时候，我已经习惯了晚上做家庭作业。

I also had a lot of trouble managing my allowance.如何使用每月的生活费也让我感到很头疼。

You have to buy food, books, bus fares, clothes and everything, so it's not like the pocket money you had as a kid at home.你得买食品、书、公交车票、衣服等东西，这和小时候在家花零花钱大不一样。

The money arrives all in one go, so I felt pretty rich at the start of term.每学期的钱是一次性汇来的，所以一开始我总觉得手头相当宽裕。

Then I spent too much, and could only afford to eat a sandwich once a day! 然后我就大手大脚地花钱，搞到后来每天只能吃一个三明治！But now I've realized that it's no longer my parents' or teachers' responsibility to look after me.我现在认识到家长或老师不再有照顾我的责任了。

For the first time, it's me who's responsible for my life ... and I don't know what to do!长这么大第一次，我该自己打理自己的生活了……可我却不知道该怎么办！Thinking across cultures跨文化思考This view attracted a lot of criticism.这一观点招致了不少批评。

People said it was too simplistic, it was based on insufficient evidence, and it was biased in favour of English (which seemed to offer the "most efficient" way of presenting an argument).大家认为这种理论过于简单化，论据不足，而且偏袒英语（好像只有英语才能够“最有效地”展开论述似的）。

Russian students, in particular, didn't agree with the idea Kaplan had of them!俄罗斯学生尤其不认同卡普兰对他们的看法。

But Kaplan's work at least reminded us that, to be able to write effectively in English (or any language), it is not enough to master structures at sentence level—we need to work at a higher level of organization, and to understand how rhetorical devices, such as repetition and figurative language, are used.不过，卡普兰的研究成果至少提醒了我们一点：要想熟练地掌握英语（或任何语言）写作的能力，仅仅掌握句子层面的结构是不够的——我们需要在更高层次的组织结构上下工夫，学会运用重复和比喻等修辞手法。

What's more, most of us would probably agree that people from different cultural backgrounds do have different ways of presenting arguments, or telling stories,并且，我们可能大都认同这样一种观点，即来自不同文化背景的人会以各自不同的方式提出论点或者讲故事。

and that, even if these differences are difficult, and perhaps impossible to classify, just being aware that they exist can help us to understand and appreciate each other better.即使我们很难或是根本不可能阐明其差异，但仅仅是意识到这些差异的存在也有助于我们加深对彼此的理解和认同感。

Saying it without words非言语表达Misunderstandings are not restricted to words.误解并不仅限于言语。

It's just as easy to create confusion with body language and gestures which mean one thing in one culture, but something different in another. 由于肢体语言和手势在一种文化中表达一个意思，可在另一种文化中又表达另一个意思，这很容易造成困惑。

For example, new arrivals from the West in China often find it strange when you stare at them, because it makes them feel embarrassed and self-conscious, whereas the Chinese are simply curious.比如说，刚到中国的西方人看见有人盯着他们看，觉得很奇怪，因为这让他们觉得很尴尬、很难为情。

其实，中国人只是好奇而已。

Market trading集市贸易In some markets, the trader will allow you to choose the fruit and vegetables yourself, but others may insist on choosing for you.在有些集市上，卖家允许你自己挑选水果和蔬菜，而在另外一些集市上，卖家可能要坚持替你挑选。