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1、学 海 无 涯 大英 3 课文 Summary UNIT 1 1 1 catching crabs In the fall of our final year our mood changed The relaxed atmosphere had disappeared and peer group pressure to work hard was strong Meanwhile at the back of everyone s mind was what we would do next after graduation As for me I wanted to travel and
2、 I wanted to be a writer I braced myself for some resistance to the idea from my father who wanted me to go to law school and follow his path through life However he supported what I wanted but he made me think about it by watching the crabs The cage was full of crabs One of them was trying to escap
3、e but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled it back In the end it gave up lengthy struggle to escape and started to prevent other crabs from escaping By watching crabs my father told me not to be pulled back by others and to get to know himself better 1 2We are all dying Life is short
4、We never quite know when we become coffin dwellers or trampled ash in the rose garden of some local ceremony So there s no point in putting our dreams on the back burner until the right time arrives Now is the time to do what we want to do Make the best of our short stay and fill our life with the r
5、iches on offer so that when the reaper arrives we ve achieved much instead of regrets UNIT 2 2 1superman The extract from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath is a combination of her real life and imaginary life in her childhood In the real life Plath was a winner of the prize for dr
6、awing the best Civil Defense signs lived by an airport and had an Uncle who bore resemblance to Superman In her imagination the airport was her Mecca and Jerusalem because of her flying dreams Superman fulfilled her dream at the moment David Stirling a bookish boy also worship Superman During the re
7、cess at school he and the author played Superman games Compared with their school mates who played the routine games they felt they were outlaws but had a sense of windy superiority They also found a stand in Sheldon Fein who later invented tortures 2 2cultual childhoods Historically childhood has u
8、ndergone enormous transformations in terms of children s responsibilities and parental expectations Culturally childhood is socially constructed The interplay of history and cultural leads to different understanding of childhood consequently it is advisable not to impose ideas from one culture to un
9、derstand childhood in another culture UNIT 3 3 1how we listen For the sake of clarify we split up the process of listening to music into three hypothetical planes Firstly the sensuous plane It is a kind of brainless but attractive state of mind engendered 学 海 无 涯 by the mere sound appeal of the musi
10、c Secondly the expressive plane It is when we believe each piece of music has a theme which mirrors a different world of feeling such as gaiety sadness Thirdly the musical plane It is the ability to experience different musical elements such as melodies the rhythms the harmonies the tone colors etc
11、We usually listen to music on all three planes 3 2the mystery of Girl with a Pearl Earring The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer s masterworks It shows a striking young woman wearing an exotic costume and a turban peering over her shoulder straight out at th
12、e viewer As the name implies it uses a pearl earring for a focal point It has been referred to as the Mona Lisa of the north because like Leonardo da Vinci s painting it appears to be a simple likeness of a woman with an enigmatic smile yet which contains levels of meanings and questions So much mys
13、tery in the painting contributes to its worldwide popularity and generates a thoroughly rewarding novel and a well composed film UNIT 4 4 1work in corporate America In today s American jobs are not what they used to be Not long ago when a father was asked about his job he could answer in terms that
14、a child could come to grips with Nowadays when the parent take his offspring to his place of business in glass buildings that are really incomprehensive to children What s more it s safe bet that even grown men have trouble visualizing what other men does in their jobs with his day Therefore it s no
15、t difficult to imagine a poor child may answer mulling over after it beats me the mysteries of work when his friends asks him of his father s job 4 2our supposedly exciting times are really rather dull Living in a world of unprecedented dazzling change there are never been anything quite like it How
16、ever we are just ignorant of about deeper historical patterns take globalization for example from historical context point of view the world is almost meaningless We simply do not live in a age of great technological innovation for all our enthusiasm about internet and iPod With staggering 90 percent of all web traffic is local we are always be told the Internet has opened up the world As the Chinese curse runs May you live in interesting times it can bring chaos and anxiety in the in the wake U
