The culture of any society is usually thought to be of two kinds: material and nonmaterial. Material culture includes the man-made phenomena which have physical properties such as height, breadth, and weight. A boat, a machine, a house — all these objects are part of the material culture. The nonmaterial culture is that portion of the environment which surrounds man and which has an impact on his behavior. but which lacks these material properties: values, beliefs, traditions, and all the other habits and ideas invented and acquired by man as a member of society.
Contemporary sociological theory tends to assign primary importance to the nonmaterial culture in choosing problems for study. It assumes, for example, that boats, planes, automobiles, and so forth, are not nearly so important as the traditions we have developed which make their manufacture possible — indeed, which prescribe how we are to use them. The emphasis of contemporary sociology is to insist that the material culture would not exist had not the nonmaterial culture first been available to suggest the ideas which are embodied in the inventions of material culture.
In the 21st century, those people with old ideas will ____ (落后于是代).
Nowadays people are so busy with their dally routines that they neglect to ______.
People can use it to measure (测量) things.
PART 2
Describe something you would like to learn.
You should say:
what you would like to learn
how you would learn it
when and where you would learn it
and explain why you would like to learn this.
You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes.
You will have one minute to think about what you're going to say.
You can make some notes to help you if you wish.
第二节书面表达
假定你是李明。你的美国朋友Peter希望暑假来北京做两个月的志愿者工作，顺便旅游。
请你根据以下要点给他写封短信，告诉他来京后的安排。
内容要点：．
1．工作：在打工者子弟小学教英语；
2．时间：周一至周五，每天3小时，教6周；
3．旅游考察：周末游览北京名胜；余下2周去西北地区考察学校。
生词：
1．打工者：migrantworkers
2．志愿者工作：volunteerwork
注意：
1．词数100左右，开头和结尾已为你写好；
2．请直接将书面表达写在答题卡2背面。