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1、大 英 3 课 文 SummaryUNIT 1catching crabsIn the fallofourfinalyear,ourmood relaxedatmosphere haddisappeared,and peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Meanwhile,at the backofeveryones mind was what we woulddonextaftergraduation.Asforme,Iwantedto travel,andIwantedto be a braced myself for some resi
2、stance 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 cage was full of crabs. One of them was trying to escape,but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled it th
3、e end it gave up lengthy struggle to escapeand started to prevent other crabs from watching crabs,my father told me not to be pulled back by others,and to get to know himself better.are all dyingLifeisneverquiteknow when webecomecoffindwellersor trampledashintherose garden of somelocaltheres no poin
4、t in putting our dreams on the backburneruntil the right time is the time to do what we want to do. Make the best of ourshort stay and fill our life with the riches on offer so that when the reaper arrives,weve achieved much instead ofregrets.UNIT 2Theextractfrom Johnny Panic andthe Bibleof Dreamsby
5、SylviaPlathisa combination ofherreallifeandimaginarylifeinherthereallife,Plathwasawinnerofthe prizefordrawingthebestCivilDefensesigns,livedbyanairportand had an Uncle who bore resemblance to her imagination,the airport was her Mecca andJerusalembecause of her flying fulfilled her dream at the moment
6、.David Stirling,a bookish boy,also worship the recess at school,he and the authorplayedSupermanwiththeirschool-mateswho playedthe routinegames,theyfeltthey wereoutlawsbuthad a sense of windyalsofoundastand-in,SheldonFein,who later inventedtortures.childhoods Historically,childhood has undergone enor
7、mous transformations in terms of childrens responsibilities and parental ,childhood is socially interplayofhistoryandculturalleadstodifferentunderstandingof childhood,consequentlyitisadvisablenotto impose ideasfrom oneculturetounderstandchildhoodinanother culture.UNIT3welistenFor the sake of clarify
8、,we split up the process of listening to music into three hypothetical ,the sensuous is a kind of brainless but attractive state of mindengendered bythemeresoundappealof the,theexpressiveiswhenwebelieveeachpiece of music has a theme,which mirrors a different world of feeling,such asgaiety,themusical
9、 istheabilitytoexperiencedifferentmusicalelements,such as melodies,the rhythms,the harmonies,the tone colors usually listen to musiconall three planes.mystery of Girl with a Pearl EarringThe painting Girl with aPearlEarringisone of DutchpainterJohannesVermeers shows a striking young woman wearing an
10、 exotic costume and a turban,peeringoverher shoulder straight out at the the name implies,it uses a pearl earring for afocalhasbeenreferredtoastheMonaLisaofthenorth,because,likeLeonardoda Vinci s painting,it appears to be a simple likeness of a woman with anenigmaticsmile,yet which contains levels o
11、f meanings and much mystery in the paintingcontributestoitsworldwidepopularityandgeneratesathoroughlyrewardingnovel and a well-composedfilm.UNIT 4in corporate AmericaIn today s American jobsarenotwhattheyusedtolongago,whenafatherwasasked about his job he could answer in terms that a child could come
12、 to grips ,whentheparenttakehisoffspringtohisplaceofbusinessinglassbuildingsthatare really incomprehensivetos more,its safe bet that even grown men havetroublevisualizingwhatothermendoesintheirjobswithhis,itsnot difficulttoimagineapoor childmayanswer”mullingover” afteritbeatsmethe mysteriesofwork,wh
13、en his friends asks him ofhisfathers job.supposedly exciting times are really rather dullLiving in a world of unprecedented/dazzling change,there are never beenanything quite like ,we are just ignorant of/about deeper historical patterns,takeglobalization for example,from historical context point of
14、 view,the world is almost simply do not live in a age of great technological innovation for all our enthusiasm about internet and staggering 90 percent of all web traffic is local,we are always be told theInternet has“opened up”the the Chinese curse runs “May youlivein interesting times ”,it can bri
15、ng chaos and anxiety in the in the wake.UNIT 5at Joanne sWhenayoungblackmanarrivesina crowded andexpensiverestaurant,thehead waiter makes him sit in the least comfortable place,even though a table has beenbookedfor himanda“MsRogers”.When Ms Rogers arrives,the waiter realizes that she is a well-known Senator; and Ms Roger realizes that her friend has been treated badly because of the color ofhiswaiterrealizeshismistaket
