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The First McDonald's Restaurant

Even though the first McDonald's restaurant sold only

hamburgers

and

French

fries

,

it

still

became

a

cultural

symbol.

Now, in the

Southern

California city of Downey, people are

trying

to

save

the

first

McDonald's

restaurant

in

ld's, though, says the building should be torn

down.

Built in 1953, the restaurant in Downey, California, is

the oldest of all the

Golden

Arches

in America, and has the

earliest McDonald's building design.

Many

people

have

good

memories

of

that

old

McDonald' people are angry that the building is now in

danger

of being

destroyed

, along with their memories.

McDonald's explains that the building was

damaged

in an

earthquake

, and therefore needs to be torn down. Many people

in the town of Downey don't agree with this line of thinking,

though.

One woman says,

the earthquake as an excuse. It's a big lie.

Another Downey

resident

remarks,

don't

respect

the

public

at

all.

They

haven't

even

tried.

They

could do

some small repairs

and make

it a good

restaurant

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again.

McDonald's managers say the restaurant is losing money

at

that

location

.

There

is

no

room

for

a

drive-thru

window,

or

for

seating

the

earthquake,

they

say

it

was

impossible to managers want to build a copy of this

building at another location instead.

Building

inspectors

, on the other hand, say that the

structure

can

be

repaired,

but

that

it

will

be

expensive.

Many

people say that McDonald's can certainly

afford

to pay that

amount

.Some think that McDonald's real reason for wanting to

close down the restaurant has nothing to do with money.

Modern

McDonald's

restaurants

often

have

a

sign

claiming

that

a

man

named

Ray

Kroc

opened

the

first

McDonald's

restaurant

in Illinois

in 1955.

The

truth, however, is

that Mr. Kroc

actually

learned

the

fast

food

business

from

Dick

and

Mac

McDonald

in

,

Mr.

Kroc

bought

their

, many people in Downey think McDonald's is

trying to change history, though the company

denies

this.

To

local

historians,

this

explanation

makes

total

sense.

One historian said,

did not invent McDonald's. The McDonald brothers did.

These days, a group of historians want the building to

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be added to the National

Register

of Historic Places so that

the

city

of

Downey

will

be

able

to

stop

McDonald's

from

tearing

the

building

down.

The

McDonald's

managers

are

very

angry,

and

have

abandoned

the structure.

Everyone

hopes

that

the

McDonald's

managers

and

the

people of Downey will soon find

peace

. The building is still

there, but

boards

cover the so, people drive by

to remember their McDonald's, taking pictures of a moment in

history before it gets taken away.

第一家麦当劳餐馆

虽说第一家麦当劳餐馆只售汉堡包和薯条，

它还是成为了一种文化象征。

如

今，在加州南部唐尼市，人们正努力保住历史上第一家麦当劳餐馆。 然而，麦当

劳却称这幢房子应该拆掉。

坐落于加州唐尼的这家餐馆建于

1953

年，是美国所有带双拱形金色标志的

建筑中历史最久 的，它的设计也是麦当劳最早的建筑设计。

许多人对那家老餐馆有着美好的回忆。

这些人想到餐馆连同他们美好的回 忆

一起将被摧毁，感到很气愤。

麦当劳方面解释说，

那家老店在一次地震中遭到损坏，

因此必须拆掉。

不过，

唐尼的许多人却不同意这 种说法。

有位女士说：

“我认为这件事太可怕了。他们在利用那次地震作借口。这是

一个极 大的谎言。

另一位唐尼市居 民说：

“我非常难过。他们一点也不尊重公众的意见，甚至

都没 试着这样做。他们可以稍加修理，使它再成为一家好餐馆。

”

麦当劳的经理们说餐馆设在那个位置一直在亏本。那儿 没有地方可以开辟

“免下车外卖窗口”

，里面也没有地方安排座 位。他们说，那次地震后这个餐馆

就没办法修了。不过那些经理们想在其他位置按原餐馆 再仿造一家。

但是房屋检修 人员说该建筑是可以修理的，

不过费用很高。

许多人说这个费< /p>

用麦当劳当然承受得起。有人认为麦当劳想关闭这家餐馆的真正原因与金钱无

关。

现代的麦当 劳餐馆常常有一个牌子，声称有个叫雷·克罗克的男人于

1955

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年在伊利诺伊州创办了 首家麦当劳餐馆。

然而事实是，

克罗克先生的快餐生意实

际上是从唐尼市的迪克·

麦当劳和麦克·

麦当 劳那里学来的。

后来克罗克先生买

下了他们的餐馆。

尽管公司竭力否认，

唐尼镇的许多人还是认 为麦当劳是

想篡改历史。

< /p>

在当地的历史学家看来，这种解释颇有道理。有位历史学家说：

“ 历史不容

篡改。雷·克罗克没有创建麦当劳。创建麦当劳的是麦氏兄弟。

”

这些天来，一群 历史学家希望将该处建筑列入国家历史文物保护单位名册，

这样，

唐尼镇就能使麦当劳免遭拆除。

麦当劳的经理们非常恼火，

因 而将房屋弃

置一旁。

人人都希望麦当劳经理们与唐尼的居民很快达成一致。

房子仍在，

但窗子用

木板封了起来。

即便如此，

人们仍开车前来纪念他们的麦当劳，

想抢在它被拆除

< br>前拍照留念，留下历史上的珍贵一刻。

Our

Changing

Lifestyle:

Trends

and Fads

These

days,

lifestyles

have

a

tendency

to

change

so

fast.

It

is

more

than just clothing and hairstyles that are in style one year and out of

date the next; it's a whole way of living.

One year, people wear hats and blue jeans; they drink white wine

and eat at Japanese restaurants; for exercise they run several miles a

next

year,

however,

everything

has

changed:women

wear

long

skirts;

people

drink

expensive

water

from

France,

and

eat

at

Italian

restaurants;

everyone seems to be exercising at health

clubs

.

Almost nothing in modern life gets away from the influence of

fashion:

food,

music,

exercise,

books,

languages,

movies,

furniture

,

and

even names go in

and out

of interests that people follow can

change very quickly.

In the

United States,

even

people

can be

Americans

enjoy

following

the

lives

of

famous

people:

actors

,

sports

heroes

,

well- known artists,

politicians

, and the Americans also pay a

lot of attention to people who have no special ability at all. In 1981,

for example, an unknown elderly woman

appeared

in a TV

advertisement

in

which

she

looked

at

a

very

small

hamburger

and

complained

loudly,

the

?

magazines

< br> and newspapers, and on TV was immediately popular.

She was

fame

does not last people

are famous for a very short time

—

they are fads.

What

causes

such

fads

to

come

and

go?

Although

clothing

designers

influence fads in fashion because they want to make money, this

desire

for money doesn't explain fads in other

areas

, such as language. For

example,

why

have

teenagers

in

the

past

twenty- five

years

used

—

at

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different times

—

the words

groovy

or

awesome

in conversation instead of

simply

saying

wonderful

?

According

to

an

expert

in

popular

culture,

people

who follow fads are not

foolish

or

vain

; they simply want to be part of

something new and

creative

.

Fads are not limited to the United States, however.

Fads are

common

in

any

country

that

has

a

strong

economy

(e.g.

Britain,

Japan,

and

Germany).However,

in

the

United

States,

there

is

an

additional

reason

for

fads: most Americans seem to feel

that something

is wrong if

there isn't

frequent

change in their lives.

It's

sometimes

difficult

to

see

the

difference

between

a

fad

and

a

trend.A

fad

lasts

a

very

short

time

and

is

not

very

important.

A

social

trend, however,

survives

a long time and becomes a true part of modern

use of personal computers, for example, is a trend; a fad,

on the other hand, could be the use of certain types of computer games.

Who knows what changes in lifestyle will happen next?

我们不断变化的生活方式：潮流和时尚

如今，生活方式有种迅速变化的趋势。迅速变化的不仅仅只是 一年流行而第

二年就过时的服饰和发型，而是整个生活方式。

曾几何时，人们戴帽子，穿牛仔裤，喝白葡萄酒，到日 本餐馆就餐，每天跑

几英里健身。但到了第二年，所有这一切都变了：妇女们穿长裙，人 们喝昂贵的

法国进口水，到意大利餐馆就餐，似乎每个人都在健身俱乐部里锻炼身体。< /p>

现代生活中几乎没有什么能逃 过时尚的影响：食品、音乐、运动、书籍、语

言、电影、家具，甚至名字都会经历时髦或 者过时的过程。人们追随的兴趣爱好

会很快地改变。

在美国，

甚至人也可以变得时 尚或者过时。

美国人喜欢追随名人的生活方式：

演员、体育明星 、著名艺人、政治家等。但是美国人也十分注意一点特殊才能都

没有的人。比如，

1981

年，一位名不见经传的老妇人出现在一个电视广告里，她

看着一只很小的汉堡包，大声抱怨道：

“牛肉呢？”

这三个字使她成了名。一时

之间，她在杂志、报纸和 电视上频频亮相，一下子大受欢迎，成了时尚。但是，

这种名声并不持久。

这种人只是在很短的一段时间里为众人所知——他们只是时

尚。

是什么使这种时尚来得快也去得快？尽管 时装设计师影响时装潮流为的是

赚钱，但这种赚钱的欲望并不能解释其他方面的时尚，例 如语言。比如，为什么

青少年在过去

25

年里的不同时代中，

谈话时使用

“

g roovy

（

帅呆了）

”

或者

“

awesome

（太 棒了）

”这样的词，而不只说“

wonderful

”了呢？据一位流行文

化专家说，

追随时尚的人并不是愚蠢或爱慕虚荣；

他们只是想成为富有创造性的

新事物的一部分。

不过，时尚并不只是美国才有。任何经济强国（如英国、日本、德国）都有

时尚。但是，在美国，时尚发生另有原因：大多数美国人似乎觉得，如果他们的

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生活没有发生频繁的变化，那一定有什么地方不对劲了。

有时候很难区别时尚和潮流。

时尚持续时间很短，

也不太重要。

但是一种社

< br>会潮流能长时间存在，

并且真正成为现代文化的一部分。

比如说，

使用个人电脑

是一种潮流，而使用某种电脑游戏只可能 成为一种时尚。

谁知道今后的生活方式又会发生什么样的变化呢？

My First Job

My first real long-term job, though, was at a local

diner

called Mel's

Place.

I

worked

there

for

seven

years

and

learned

so

many

lessons,

especially from a

fellow

waitress. Helen was in her 60s, had red hair,

and

tons

of self- respect

—

something I was really

lacking

.I looked up to

Helen because she was doing what she loved

—

serving

people

—

and nobody

did it better. She made everyone smile and feel good, customers and

fellow- workers

alike

.

I also learned how important it is to take

pride

in life's little

achievements

:

when

I

helped

out

in

the

kitchen,

for

example,

nothing

made

me feel better than preparing the eggs and serving them just the way the

customers wanted.

Being

a

waitress

really

changed

my

life.

One

of

my

regular

customers,

Fred Hasbrook, a

salesman

, always ate the same thing every day. As soon

as I saw him walking towards the diner, I would put his order in without

him even needing to ask.

Thanks to the

confidence

I picked up from Helen, I dreamed of

having

my

own

restaurant

one

day.

Unfortunately,

when

I

called

my

parents

to ask them to

lend

me the money, they said,

The

next

day,

Fred

saw

me

and

asked,

wrong,

Sunshine

?

You're

not smiling today.

I could do so much more if somebody would just have

faith

in me.

He

walked

over

to

some

of

the

other

regulars

at

the

diner,

and

then

gave me $$50,000 the very next day

—

along with a note that I still have.

It reads,

it come true.

I quickly went to a bank, where the money was

invested

for me. In

the

meantime

, I continued working at the diner, making plans for the

restaurant I would one day , the money was not invested well,

and I lost it all.

At that time, I found myself thinking about what it would be like

to

be

a

stockbroker

,

and

decided

to

apply

for

a

job

at

the

bank.

Even

though

I

had

no

experience,

I

was

hired

and

ended

up

doing

quite

well.

Eventually

,

I

even

paid

Fred

and

my

customers

back

the

$$50,000,

plus

14-percent

annual

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years later, I was able to open my own firm.

Recently, I received a thank-you note from Fred that will

forever

be

printed

on

my

heart.

He

had

been

sick, and

wrote

that

the

money

I

sent

him

had

helped

to

cover

his

mounting

medical

bills

.His

letter

read,

so glad I invested in you.

I'm so glad I had that first job.

我的第一份工作

< br>我第一份真正长久的工作其实是在本地的一个叫“梅尔之家”的小餐馆当服

务员。

我在那儿干了七年，

学到很多东西，

尤 其是从一位女服务员海伦那里学到

了很多。海伦六十多岁，红头发，自尊心很强——这是 我当时真正缺乏的东西。

我敬佩海伦，因为她在做她所热爱的事——接待顾客——而且没 人比她做得更

好。她使每一个人，无论是顾客还是同事，都面带笑意，心情愉快。

我还学到了重要的一点，那就是为 生活中取得的小小成就感到自豪。比如，

我在厨房里帮忙的时候，

没有什么比完全按照顾客希望的方式做好鸡蛋、

给他们

端上更 让我感到高兴的了。

当女服 务员确实改变了我的一生。我的一个常客，弗雷德·哈斯布鲁克，是

个推销员，

他每天总是吃同样的东西。

我一看到他朝小餐馆走来，

< br>就会把他想点

的东西准备好，他甚至都不需要开口。

因为从海伦那里学到了自信，

我梦想着有一天能拥有自己的餐馆。

可惜，

当

< br>我打电话向我父母借钱时，他们说：

“我们实在没钱。

”

第二天，弗雷德见了我，问 道：

“出什么事了，阳光女孩？今天没见你笑。

”

我把我的梦想告诉了他，说：

“弗雷德，我知道，只要有人相信我，我还能做 很

多事情。

”

他向小餐馆的其他几个常客走去，

第二天就交给我

50,000

美元，

还有一张我

至今还保留着的纸条，上面写着：

“拥有梦想的好 人应该有机会让梦想成真。

”

我很快去了一家银行，

这家银行替我拿这笔钱做投资。