专题：第一时间发布2011年四六级考试答案和解析

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　　Proverbs, sometimes called ‘sayings’ areexamples of folk wisdom.  There are littlelessons which older people of the culture pass down to the younger people toteach them about life. Many proverbs remind people of the values that areimportant in the culture .Values teach people how to act, what is right andwhat is wrong,. Because the values of the each culture are different,understanding the values of another culture helps explain how people think and act.Understanding your own cultural values is important too. if you can accept thatpeople from other cultures  act accordingto their values ,not yours ,getting along with them will be much easier ,Manyproverbs are very old ,so some of the values they teach may not be as importantin the culture as they once were ,For example ,Americans today do not pay muchattention to the proverb “haste makes waste ”，because patience is not importantto them .but if you know about past values ,it helps you to understand thepresent .and many of the older values are still strong today .Benjamin Franklin,a famous American diplomat ,writer and scientist, died at 1790 ,but hisproverb “time is money ”is taken more seriously by Americans of today than everbefore .A study of proverbs from around the world shows that some values areshared by many cultures .In many cases though ,the same idea is expressed differently。

　　Question 33-35 arebased on the passages you have heard

　　33, why areproverbs so important?

　　34,acoording tothe speaker ,what happens to some proverbs with the passage of time ?

　　35,what do welearn from the study of proverbs from around the world ? 

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