Unit 4
Matriculation Fixation
Consolidation Activities
I. Text Comprehension
1. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpo.
A. To tell his personal experience in college lection procedures.
B. To offer his philosophy about college lection and one’s future career or success in life.
C. To describe the importance of parents’ role in children’s college education.
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Key: [ B ]
2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or fal.
1). The primary reason for the father to choo a local, cond-echelon university for his daughter is bad on economic considerations. [T]
2). The author’s success as a freelance writer is largely due to his education in a prestigious university. [F]
3). It is implied, though not stated, that all parents (including the author himlf) undergo a critical time when their children are going to college. [T]
4). Ensuring that their children enter one of the top universities is the ultimate objective of some parents. [T]
5). The parents who recognize their children’s incapability to make the cut have never expected their children to go to prestigious universities. [F]
6). The campus tour of MIT enabled the author to change his attitude about college lection. [F]
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4. Explain in your own words the following ntences 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 than the university itlf. However, their fame has more weight than the institutions themlves.
II. Writing Strategies
Written in a personal and informal style, this essay has a number of subtopics that are carefully introduced. What are the subtopics The essay begins with the author’s unexpected encounter with a stranger in a hospital, and ends with his tour of MIT campus. How do the 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 author’s own situation and experiences in college education and college lection (Paragraphs 3–8);
2) his probe into and comments on the two class of college lection obssives (Paragraphs 9–12).
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The two incidents are respectively related with the first and the cond subtopics: the encounter puts the author and the man in a similar situation (both the man and the author have kids who are going to attend college); the campus tour provides support to the author’s comments on the matter.迷宫英语
The two incidents help to clarify the subtopics by means of full and progressive explanation of the author’s attitude towards the matter (the author’s college days, his high school chums, examples of failures and success, etc.)
III. Language Work
1. Explain the underlined part(s) in each ntence 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 cond university’s offer.
Not having much money; children who are going to college
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2). Now he was worried that she would one day rue this decision
regret not having studied in the first-class university
3). I ... had managed to carve out a nice little niche for mylf看字开头的成语苏州博物馆地址.
find a job which was very suitable
4). Three years later my son will 3次方的完全平方公式follow suit.
go to college too
政论片5). Some of tho boys and girls most likely to succeed are going to end up on welfare or skid row.
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are going to be poor, living on welfare, without a job or a place to live, and often drinking too much alcohol乌龟价格
6). A cond, far more numerous class of obssives consists of people who suddenly realize that their Brand X children aren’t going to make the cut.
measure up to a certain standard
7). Seventeen years of unread textbooks, unvisited muums, and untaken AP cours are now finally taking their toll ...
having a bad effect
8). During a recent visit to MIT, I watched the first thirty conds of an admissions office vi
deo poking fun at the university’s reputation as a nerd factory.
making jokes about; a place where boring personalities are fostered
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9). At one juncture, she pointed out a restaurant where students could grab a fast, inexpensive meal.
At one point
10). ...dulous monitoring of on-campus restaurant prices should be a vital component of the winnowing procedure, particularly vis-a-vis panini.
the process of reducing a large number of universities to a much smaller number; with regard to
2. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
