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1、Book 2 Retelling the passagePart I Please retell Unit 1 AR1 College just isnt special any more within 1 minute. In 1960s ,going to college was the most exciting and stimulating experience of your life. Many campus were well-known for its student demonstrations and strikes, and its atmosphere of poli
2、tical radicalism. In addition,going to college meant your first taste of real freedom and the meaning of life。 However，students today are much more serious.College has become a means to an end, an opportunity to increase ones chances on the employment market.Students leaving university in the 21st c
3、entury simply cannot afford to set up their own home because they rely on their parents too much .Part I Please retell Unit 2 AR1 War within 1 minute.Older generations generally have a negative attitude to todays students are expected to accomplish anything in an era with extraordinary privileges an
4、d opportunities. It would seem they do the opposite. They direct their energy on the Internet communicating ideas and frustrations ,instead of trying to assert their identity by revolution. Perhaps when they are not told about what their parents did before, they will be seen writing the revolution i
5、n technology.Part I Please retell Unit 2 AR2 How empathy unfolds within 1 minute.Empathy stemmed from a sort of physical imitation of the distress of another, which then evokes the same feelings in oneself.The roots of empathy can be traced to infancy.Virtually from the day they are born infants are
6、 upset when they hear another infant crying. By one year or so, they start to realize the misery is not their own. Motor mimicry fades from toddlers repertoire at around two and a half years,and they are better able to comfort others。Part I Please retell Unit 3 AR1 Blowing the whistle on soccer with
7、in 1 minute.It is time to blow the whistle on the so-called beautiful game - soccer. For one thing, it is a game of chance. Goals are the best illustration of the chance nature of this game. Ninety percent of goal shots failed. The scoring system is another evidence. For another, soccer is a sport i
8、n which strategies and regulations are so obscure. No universal interpretation can be found for offside rules. Besides, with only one referee on the field, most of the infractions are committed when he isnt looking. Part I Please retell Unit 3 AR2 My dream comes true within 1 minute. When the writer
9、 stood at the stadium，she was excited. Because she was so close to her childhood dream. She tried to concentrate on the crowd and felt uni-fined with them. She kept telling herself:”two minutes,one more lap towards being the Olympic champion”. As She crossed the line she was sure that shed just made
10、 it.It was the moment that will stay with her for the rest of her life.Part I Please retell Unit 4 AR1 After twenty years within 1 minute.After Twenty Years, a _short story written by O. Henry, is famous for the twist ending. At 10 p.m. the patrolmanon on the beat moved up the avenue and met Bob, wh
11、o was waiting for his old friend, Jimmy, twenty years ago in the doorway of a darkened hardware store. They talked a while and the patrolman went on along his beat. Twenty minutes later, “Jimmy” turned up with coat collars high. Bob boasted his life in the West, while “Jimmy” listened with interest.
12、 In the brilliant light of a drugstore, they gazed at each others face simultaneously, and Bob recognized it was not Jimmy at all. Bob was the “Silky Bob”, wanted by the police in Chicago and he was arrested by “Jimmy”, a policeman in plain clothes. The patrolman left a note to Bob and said he was J
13、immy and he cannot arrest his friend by himself.Part I Please retell Unit4 AR2 Stolen identity within 1 minute.Identity thief refers to stealing information about someone that makes it possible to use their bank account or credit card. With an informal and conversational tone the author persuades re
14、aders into actions against the threat of identity fraud in our daily life. According to the author, we make the thieves job easy by leaving our mails unprotected, using ball pens for checks and forms, throwing documents containing our personal information, leaving our computer on and so on.Identity
15、crime is very likely to happen at any time to any of us. We can take precautions to improve the chances of avoiding this crime, though it will never g away.Part I Please retell Unit 5 AR1 Leisure in-activitiesor how to relax and do nothing within 1 minute.Part I Please retell Unit 5 AR2 Painting as
16、a pastime within 1 minute.In the book Painting as a pasttime, Churchill argues, very successfully, that every thinking person should have two or three life long hobbies. He has a strong opinion that when the human mind is focused on the hobby, then the parts of the mind that run the persons enterprise can actually be under _recuperation_ and repair Churchill contends that, to a public man, the cultivation of a hobby is a policyo
