新标准大学英语综合教程2课文总结
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t are the most important issues for students today? Is the university campus really such a different place compared to what it was 40 years ago?
For the students in the 1960s, going to college was the most exciting and stimulating experience of their life. They took part in protests and launched strikes against the establishment with their new and passionate commitment to freedom and justice. Going to college also meant their first taste of real freedom. They could discuss the meaning of life, read their first forbidden book and e their first Indie film.
In contrast, the students today don’t have the passion for college life that they ud to. Today, college is en as a kind of small town from which people are keen to escape. Instead of the heady atmosphere of freedom which students in the 1960s discovered, students today are much more rious. College has become a means to an end, an oppo
rtunity to improve their 13) prospects of being competitive in the employment market, and not an end in itlf.
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spite of all this, the role of the university is the same as it always has been. It is the place where students have the opportunity to learn to think for themlves.
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Older generations generally have a negative attitude to today’s students, the product of postmodern times. Today’s students are expected to accomplish anything in an era with extraordinary privileges and opportunities. It would em they do the opposite. They direct their energy on the Internet communicating ideas and frustrations, instead of trying to asrt their identity by revolution. Perhaps when they are not told about what their parents did before, they will be en writing the revolution in technology.
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Empathy, once known as motor mimicry, originates from physical imitation of others’ distr
ess, which then arous the same feelings in onelf. Children em to feel other children’s pain and discomfort from the day they are born--much earlier than they realize they exist as individuals. By one year old, they start to learn the miry is someone el’s but still em confud about what to do. At around two and a half years, children may grow out of motor mimicry when they are able to differentiate their own feelings from others’ feelings, so they are able to u other means to comfort others. At the same time, their empathic concern begins to differ from one to another.
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This is Sandy is an extract from Tone, a story about the life of a deaf girl. She thinks her friends are honorable people who beam with pride when they introduce her to someone new. When people find out she is deaf they are mostly shocked for a moment at first but pretend not to be. Sandy says that the hearing aids she saw in a catalog are great fashion accessories, they’re just like a clip you put onto your ear. Sandy likes to show her hearing aid. She doesn’t tie her hair up in a knot but she tucks it behind her ears. Sandy’s
friend Carol introduces her to a boy called Colin at a party. They sit together on a couch and Colin realizes that Sandy can understand what he is saying by reading his lips. Someone turns up the volume of the music and they dance together. Soon they are dating. This is when the real drama begins.
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Identity theft refers to stealing information about someone that makes it possible to u their bank account or credit card. With an informal and conversational tone the author persuades readers into actions against the threats 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 in the trash, leaving our computer on and so on. So we should look for different ways to protect ourlves and change our mindt.
Identity 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 go away.
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The writer tries to create a feeling of fear in order to warn readers of the threat involved in the ever-increasing amounts of data on people being collected. With various sty做梦梦到车祸
listic devices, the writer leads readers along his thought-path step by step to the point that collecting personal information places people in peril becau we don’t know who collects it for what purpos. And neither do we know where the information goes and how it is ud. According to the writer, identity theft is much feared in society, but there are wor things than that. And the danger is growing though it is vague, not certain. There is no balance yet between the convenience of the world and the peril that we n in the prence of all that information in the databas which can be employed as a weapon as well as a tool.
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As an anti-war novel, Catch-22 is well known for its comic tone as against the normal perception of a war novel which tends to be rious, ntimental and involve bloodshed. I
ts main character is Yossarian. Unlike the war heroes who would die for their home country, Yossarian aims to survive the war and go back home.
To achieve this goal, he has to pretend to be insane. If he were crazy, he could be grounded. So he had to ask Doc Daneeka first. But once he asked Doc Daneeka, it meant he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Normally, he was sane if he didn’t fly more missions while he would be crazy if he flew more missions. Anyway, he would be plunged into a tricky situation – a Catch-22 situation.
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To escape from Nazi percution of the Jews, Anne and her family members emigrated from Germany to Holland. However, in 1940 the Germans invaded, and occupied Holland. So quickly did the percution of the Dutch Jews begin there that the Franks and another Jew family, the Van Pels went into hiding in the cret annexes. For the next two years, eight people of the two families were confined to just six small rooms and could never go outside.
