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The war had begun，and George had joined the air force.He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school，where they taught pilots to fly’.
There，the first thing that new students had to do was to be taken up in a plane by an experienced pi lot，to give them some ideas what it felt like.Even those who had traveled as passengers in commercial （商业的）airline planes before found it strange to be in the cockpit （驾驶舱）of a small fighter plane，and most of the students felt nervous.
The officer who had to take the students up for their first flight allowed them to fly the plane for a few seconds if’they wanted to and if they were not too frightened to try，but be was always ready to take over as soon as the plane started to do dangerous things.
George was one of those who took over the controls of the plane when he went up in it for the first time，and after the officer had taken them [Yom him again.George thought that he had better ask a few questions to show how interested he was and how much he wanted to learn to fly.There were a number of instruments （仪表）in front of him，so he chose one and asked the officer what it was.The officer looked at him strangely for a moment and then answered，’That is the clock.’

Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society.It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques，those conventions and values，which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.
The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies than our own.For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own，though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks，and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization.To the anthropologist，our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem，and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other.He is interested in human behavior，not as it is shaped by one tradition，our own，but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever.He is interested in a wide range of custom that is found in various cultures，and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiate，the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any people function in the lives of the individuals.
Now customs has been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment.The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation，but custom，we have a way of thinking，is behavior.at its most commonplace.As a matter of fact，it is the other way round.Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior.more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions.Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter.The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays inexperience and belief，and the very great varieties it may manifest.