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1、Unit 4 Matriculation FixationConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension1. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose.A. To tell his personal experience in college selection procedures.B. To offer his philosophy about college selection and ones future career or success in l

2、ife.C. To describe the importance of parents role in childrens college education.Key: B 2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1). The primary reason for the father to choose a local, second-echelon university for his daughter is based on economic conside

3、rations. T2). The authors success as a freelance writer is largely due to his education in a prestigious university. F3). It is implied, though not stated, that all parents (including the author himself) undergo a critical time when their children are going to college. T4). Ensuring that their child

4、ren enter one of the top universities is the ultimate objective of some parents. T5). The parents who recognize their childrens incapability to make the cut have never expected their children to go to prestigious universities. F6). The campus tour of MIT enabled the author to change his attitude abo

5、ut college selection. F4. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text.1) Such people believe that if a child succeeds in getting admission to a first-rate university, then he or she will be guaranteed successful future.2) Some parents think more of the fame of a university

6、than the university itself. However, their fame has more weight than the institutions themselves.II. Writing StrategiesWritten in a personal and informal style, this essay has a number of subtopics that are carefully introduced. What are these subtopics? The essay begins with the authors unexpected

7、encounter with a stranger in a hospital, and ends with his tour of MIT campus. How do these two incidents help to connect all the subtopics to the theme of the essay?The essay has the following subtopics as main components:1) the authors own situation and experiences in college education and college

8、 selection (Paragraphs 38); 2) his probe into and comments on the two classes of college selection obsessives (Paragraphs 912). The two incidents are respectively related with the first and the second subtopics: the encounter puts the author and the man in a similar situation (both the man and the a

9、uthor have kids who are going to attend college); the campus tour provides support to the authors comments on the matter.The two incidents help to clarify the subtopics by means of full and progressive explanation of the authors attitude towards the matter (the authors college days, his high school

10、chums, examples of failures and successes, etc.)III. Language Work1. Explain the underlined part(s) in each sentence in your own words.1). Money being tight, with other college-bound children in the family queue, the man had persuaded his daughter to accept the second universitys offer. à Not h

11、aving much money; children who are going to college2). Now he was worried that she would one day rue this decisionà regret not having studied in the first-class university3). I . had managed to carve out a nice little niche for myself.à find a job which was very suitable4). Three years lat

12、er my son will follow suit. à go to college too5). Some of those boys and girls most likely to succeed are going to end up on welfare or skid row.à are going to be poor, living on welfare, without a job or a place to live, and often drinking too much alcohol6). A second, far more numerous

13、class of obsessives consists of people who suddenly realize that their Brand X children arent going to make the cut.à measure up to a certain standard7). Seventeen years of unread textbooks, unvisited museums, and untaken AP courses are now finally taking their toll . à having a bad effect

14、 8). During a recent visit to MIT, I watched the first thirty seconds of an admissions office video poking fun at the universitys reputation as a nerd factory.à making jokes about; a place where boring personalities are fostered9). At one juncture, she pointed out a restaurant where students co

15、uld grab a fast, inexpensive meal.à At one point10). .sedulous monitoring of on-campus restaurant prices should be a vital component of the winnowing procedure, particularly vis-a-vis panini.à the process of reducing a large number of universities to a much smaller number; with regard to2.

16、 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.1). The only illumination (illuminate) was from a skylight.2). The golden autumn light provided the inspiration (inspire) for the painting.3). There was a biographical (biography) note about the author on the back of the book.4). She

17、was utterly devastated (devastate) when her husband died.5). Shes neurotic (neurosis) about her weight she weighs herself three times a day.6). Its infuriating (infuriate) when people keep spelling your name wrong, isnt it?7). Hes obsessive (obsess) about punctuality8). Liz has a fixation (fixate) w

18、ith food.9). The medical examination before you start work is obligatory (oblige).10). Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections (interject) from the audience.3. Fill in the blank(s) in each sentence with a phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.in jeopardy | screw

19、up | in question | flat outtick off | take a toll | sotto voce | winnow downdragoon into | follow suit | fork over | stem from1). Ive been dragooned into giving the after-dinner speech.2). I stayed at home on the night in question.3). The lives of thousands of birds are in jeopardy as a result of th

20、e oil spillage.4). When one airline reduces its prices, the rest soon follow suit .5). I screwed up my exams last year.6). The problems of the past few months have taken a toll on her health and there are shadows beneath her eyes.7). Their disagreement stemmed from a misunderstanding.8). The remark

21、was uttered sotto voce.9). We had to fork over ten bucks to park near the stadium.10). Tick off each item on the list as you complete it.11). A list of 12 candidates has been winnowed down to a shortlist of three.12). She told him flat out that she would not go to the show.4. Explain the meaning of

22、the underlined part in each sentence.1). Spending time with ones family is never an unalloyed pleasure.à a one-hundred-percent pleasant experience2). I cant stand his belligerence.à his wish to argue with people all the time3). She gave a bashful smile as he complimented her on her work.&#

23、224; embarrassed 4). When his parents died, he found himself $100,000 better off.à had $100, 000 more than he had in the past5). The CIA was monitoring his phone calls.à secretly listening to6). Northbound traffic is moving very slowly because of the accident.à Traffic which is travel

24、ing north7). She had a look of utter devastation on her face.à extreme shock and sadness8). In his closing remarks, the chairman thanked everyone who had helped.à concluding9). If you have not signed a contract, you are under no obligation to pay them any money.à it is not necessary f

25、or you to10). There was a screech of brakes and the bus shuddered to a halt.à shook violently and stopped5. Correct the errors in the following passage. The passage contains ten errors, one in each indicated line. In each case, only one word is involved.Corrections should be done as follows:Wro

26、ng word: underline the wrong word and write the correct word in the blank.Extra word: delete the extra word with an “×.”Missing word: mark the position of the missing word with a “” and write the missing word in the blank.Ivy Retardation It didnt down on me that there might be a few holes in my

27、 education until I was about 35. Id just bought a house, the pipes needed fixing, and the plumber was standing in my kitchen. There he was, a short, beefy guy with a thick Boston accent, and I suddenly learned that I didnt have the slightest idea what to say to someone like him. So alien was his exp

28、erience to me, so unguessable his value, so mysterious his very language, that I couldnt succeed in engaging him in a few minutes of small talk before he got down to work. Fourteen years of higher education and a handful of Ivy League degrees, and there I was, stiff and stupid, struck dumb by my own

29、 dumbness. “Ivy retardation,” a friend of mine calls this. I could carry out conversations with people from other countries, in other languages, but I couldnt talk to the man who was standing in my own house.Its not surprising that it took me so long to discover the extent of my miseducation, becaus

30、e the latest thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy. The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who dont like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity

31、is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect in class, these schools are largely homogeneous. At the same time, because these schools tend to cultivate liberal attitudes, they leave their students in the paradoxical position of wanting to advocate on behalf of the working class wh

32、ile being unable to hold a simple conversation with anyone in it.The second disadvantage is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth. Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE. You le

33、arn to think for yourself in terms of those numbers. They come to signify not only your fate, but your identity; not only your identity, but your value. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in ones intellect or knowledge. There is something wrong with the smugness and self-congratulation that el

34、ite schools connive at from the moment the fat envelopes come in the mail. From orientation to graduation, the message is clear: You deserve everything your presence here is going to enable you to get. When people say that students at elite schools have a strong sense of entitlement, they mean that

35、those students think they deserve more than other people because their SAT scores are high. But they dont. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people. Their pain does not hurt more. Their souls do not weigh more. If I were religious

36、, I would say, God does not love them more.(1) dawn(2) values(3) minutes(4) on(5) last(6) arent(7) to(8) of(9) something(10) higher6. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.Confucius and Socrates Kong Zi, also called Confucius (551479 B.C.) and Socrates (469399 B.C.) lived

37、 only a hundred years apart, and during their (1) lifetimes there was no contact between China and Greece, but it is interesting to look at how the world that each of these great philosophers came from shaped their ideas, and how these ideas in (2) turn shaped their societies. Both philosophers live

38、d in (3) times of conflict, though there was more warfare in Greece than in (4) China. The Chinese states were very large and feudal, while the (5) Greek city-states were small and urban.The (6) urban environment in which Socrates lived allowed him to be more radical than Kong Zi. (7) Unlike Kong Zi

39、, Socrates was not asked by rulers how to govern effectively. Thus, Socrates was able to be more idealistic, focusing on issues (8) like freedom, and knowledge for its own sake. Kong Zi, on the other hand, advised those in government service, and many of his students went on to (9) government. Kong

40、Zi suggested the Golden Rule as a principle for the (10) conduct of life: “Do not do to others what you would not want others to do to you.” He assumed that all men were equal at (11) birth, though some had more potential than others, and that it was knowledge that set men (12) apart.Socrates (13) f

41、ocused on the individual, and thought that the greatest purpose of man was to seek wisdom. He believed that some people had more (14) potential to develop their reason than others (15) did. Like Kong Zi, he believed that the superior class should rule the (16) inferior classes. For Socrates, the fam

42、ily was (17) of no importance, and the community of (18) little concern. For Kong Zi, however, the family was the center of society, with family relations (19) considered much more important than political relations. (20) Both men are respected much more today than they were in their lifetimes. IV.

43、Translation1. Translate the following sentences into English.1). 他是家里的長子, 所以也是唯一得到過父母全身心照顧的孩子。(undivided attention)à Being the eldest son in the family, he was the only one to have gained the undivided attention of his parents.2). 他不具備干這項工作所需要的技能。(requisite)à He lacked the requisite skills

44、 for the job.3). 在那場危機中, 聯(lián)合國在當?shù)卣团衍娭g進行了斡旋。(mediate)à The United Nations mediated between the local government and the rebels during the crisis.4). 他用杰出的成就為自己在學術界謀得了一個頂尖科學家的席位。(carve out a niche)à He has carved out a niche for himself as a leading researcher in his field of study. 5). 當我告

45、訴別人我有多大歲數(shù)時，每個人都故作驚訝。(feign)à Everyone feigned surprise when I told them how old I was.6). 數(shù)據(jù)被輸入電腦以后，電腦會自動使其生效。(be validated by)à The data is validated automatically by the computer after it has been entered.7). 當成年人做一件事的時候，大多數(shù)小孩子會跟著做， 因為他們并不知道這樣做對不對。(follow suit) à When an adult does

46、something, most small children will follow suit, because they have no sense of right and wrong.8). 這部小說以上世紀為背景，講述了一個因和外國人結婚，父母與之斷絕關系的姑娘的故事。(disown)à Set in the last century, the novel tells a story about a girl who was disowned by her parents when she married a foreigner.9). 我必須面對面地和詹姆斯談談星期四的安排

47、。(vis-à-vis) à Ive got to speak to James vis-à-vis the arrangements for Thursday.10). 此時還說不準她是否能徹底痊愈。(at this juncture)à At this juncture, it is impossible to say whether she will make a full recovery.2. Translate the following passage into English. 對于成千上萬的美國大學生來說，夏季意味著實習(interns

48、hip)的大好時機。他們干著他們將來可能想干的工作。據(jù)專家統(tǒng)計，美國大學生中至少有1/3在畢業(yè)前都曾做過實習工作。這些學生有的為大公司服務，有的在小機構里干活，有的則在美國政府部門做事。 對許多實習生(intern)來說，夏日工作并不掙錢。有的大學生實習是為了獲得他們畢業(yè)后希望從事的工作的經(jīng)驗，有的則是由于還不明確自己畢業(yè)后到底想長久地從事何種工作，便在不同的公司和機構內實習，以確定自己最喜歡的工作是什么。實習工作為什么如此受學生青睞呢？學生們可以借此了解各種工作，他們可以做有趣的工作，可以學習技巧，獲得有價值的經(jīng)驗，還可以接觸到重要人物。因此學生們常把實習描述為千載難逢的機會。參考譯文 Su

49、mmer means internships for thousands of American college students. They work in the kinds of jobs they might want to have some day. Experts say at least one-third of all American college students complete an internship before they graduate. Some students work for large companies. Some work for small

50、 organizations. Some work for the United States government. Many interns do not earn money at their summer jobs. Some college students get an internship to gain experience in the kind of job they want to get after graduation. Others do not yet know what kind of permanent job they want. In this way,

51、they can find out what kind of job they like best. Why are internships so popular? Students can learn about different kinds of jobs. They can do interesting work. They can learn skills and gain valuable experience. And they can meet important people. Therefore students often describe internships as

52、a chance that happens once in a lifetime. V. Oral Activities1. Giving A TalkAs universities in China have expanded enrollment over the past decade or so, an increasing number of high school graduates have the opportunity to go to college. It is only natural that parents want to send their children t

53、o the more renowned universities that they think would ensure a brighter future for their children. On the other hand, however, the disadvantages of such an education climate are obvious.So, is the significance of college education being overestimated or overemphasized? Please give examples of the n

54、egative influences exerted by too much social attention drawn to those top universities and explore the reasons.(For reference) In real life, college education is of great necessity and it marks a new starting point for children, but it never means to be the only way to succeed in life. Therefore, i

55、t is absurdly one-sided to say that a top-flight university can guarantee a life of uninterrupted economic mirth. Negative influences have inevitably surfaced as too much social attention has been paid to those top universities. First of all, it will distort the nature of education which emphasizes

56、all-round development. Normally, parents educational philosophy will also be twisted, as they are not entirely clear what their children really need. Furthermore, secondary education will be badly affected as well, as we can see in China, where many parents only value grades and test scores while ne

57、glecting their childrens moral and physical development.2.Having A DiscussionAs is revealed in the text, some people with brilliant education experiences may fail in their career, while some others with poor academic records may succeed remarkably in their life. Does this puzzle you? Have a discussi

58、on about the real value of college education, and how it can help one go further in his career.(For Reference) Actually, this situation is a total paradox that people are forced perpetually to grapple with without being resolved. However, we can still compose ourselves by explicitly clarifying the real value of college education to help one go further in his career. To some extent, the real value of college education is best illustrated by the four pillars of Welto