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1、In 1812，Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, - his Grand Army into Russia. He was prepared for the - -of the Russian people - their homeland. He was prepared for the - - across Russian soil to Moscow, the capital city. But he was not prepared for the- enemy that met him in Moscow-the-, -, -Rus
2、sian winter.In 1941, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany,- - -against the Soviet Union, as Russia then was called. Hitlers military might was unequaled. His war machine had - - - in most of Europe. Hitler expected a short -but, like Napoleon before him, was - a painful lesson. The Russian winter ag
3、ain - - - - - the Soviet soldiers.Even the- - , which has remained - unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the-of the computer -.The automobile industry-of the twentieth century. There are- 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people. Sales of the automobile industry-
4、 - -a trillion dollars, making it -.The car, and the roads it - -, will be- in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrows “smart cars” will be - “We ll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act,”- Bill Spreitzer,- -of General Motors Corporations ITS program, wh
5、ich is designing the smart car and road of the future,My mentor, Curt Carlson, is the -man in Minnesota, owner of a hotel and travel company with sales - $9 billion. I had to get to a meeting in New York one day, and Curt - offered me a ride in his-. It happened to be a day Minnesota was hit with on
6、e of the worst snowstorms in years, Minneapolis-St.paul International Airport was closed for the first time - -.Then, though the storm continued to- us, the airport opened a runway for small - only. As we were-, Curt tuned to and said -,“Look ,Harvey, no tracks in the snow!”Curt Carlson, 70 years ol
7、d at the time, rich -, could still -about being first.From my-,-. Prepare to win. Never stoping learning. Believe in yourself，even when no one else does. Find a way to make a difference. Then go out and - in the snow.The - fact that America still attracts millions of people is- that it is not - -. P
8、eople arent attracted to-. Signs of decline are sure to be found in a place as complex as America: -, -, -,-, -. But the main - of America, the first and most enduring impression, is -, -, -, - -.It is so hard to think of this nation - - when you know that there are vast regions of the planet which
9、are absolutely-, - of any improvement at all.It is difficult for me to agree with Paul Kennedys thesis in The Rise and Fall of Great Powers that America must-follow- -. Thats the way history used to be-all powerful nations declined and -other empires, But maybe there is another way to look at what i
10、s happening, I have a sense that what is going on here concerns much more than the-of a nation.It may be that the Euro-centered American nation is declining as it gives way to a new Pacific civilization that will include, but not be limited to, America. - -, American may not decline, but instead - -
11、 the Pacific culture to create a kind of vast Pacific -, a mix of Hispanic and Asian cultures - -the most modern communication technologies.For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen. I do not know very much about them. I- - -when people tell me that their first impression of a person ar
12、e always right, I think they must have - - or - -. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.These reflections have - -me because I read in this mornings paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe. He was a merchant and he had been - - in Japan for many years.I
13、 knew him very little , but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise. Unless I had heard the story -, I should never have believed that he -such an action. It was more - because both in - and manner he suggested a very - -. Here if ever was a man - He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very -,
