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1. What do you think Danny’s personality is like?

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2. Why did Danny believe he would be perfect for the part of Bugsy?

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3. Danny’s uncle advised him never to take on a bully ten times his size for the sake of a fudge bar. Do you agree with him? What would you do, if you were in Danny’s shoes?

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4. What is the effect of Personality Potion? Do you believe such things exist in our real life?

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5. What do you think helped Danny win the part Bugsy in the play?

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6. Share an experience that you want to do something but you feel too nervous or unconfident to try it.

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第二篇：英语读书笔记8

原文

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.

Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.

Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts. 、

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In the passage author talk about the social change, and put forward the point of view. In author`s opinion social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kind of people ,and it is also likely to occur in the material aspect of the culture, in the end of the passage the author puts forward that social changes is easier if it is gradual.

The structure of the article clearly the logic is accurate, we can easily understand the views and ideas.

After reading the passage, I learn more about the knowledge of the social change and think more about the social change,.

A part of social change can promote social development, to summarize the regular of social change canhelp people clear understanding the social, and promote social development.