新标准⼤学英语三summary
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UNIT 1
1.1 catching crabs
In the fall of our final year,our mood changed.Peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Meanwhile, the most important thing for us was what we would do next after graduation. My father wanted me to go to law school,but I wanted to travel,as well as to be a writer.So I have to brace mylf for some resistance to his idea,.
However,he supported but he made me think about it by watching the crabs.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 back.In the end it gave up escaping 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 mylf better.
1.2We are all dying
Life is short.We never quite know when we become coffin dwellers or trampled ash in the ro 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 if you don’t like your job, just turn to another one. Besides, there is no time like prent . We should make best u of our time, so that when the reaper arrives,we’ve achieved much instead of regrets.运营模式
UNIT 2
2.1superman
When the war began, the author was in the fifth grade in the Annie F. It was also the winter that she was a winner of the prize for drawing the best Civil Defen signs,lived by an airport. She thought her Uncle Frank bore remblance to Superman.In her imagination,the airport was her Mecca and Jerusalem becau of her flying dreams.Superman fulfilled her dream at the moment. David Stirling,a bookish boy,also worship Superman.During the recess at school,he and the author played Superman /doc/d9*******.html
pared with their school-mates who played the routine games,they felt they were outlaws but had a n of windy superiority.They also found a stand-in,Sheldon Fein, who later invented tortures.
UNIT 3
3.1how we listen
We all listen to music according to our parate capacities. For the sake of clarify,we split up the process of listening to music into three hypothetical planes.Firstly,the nsuous plane.It is a kind of brainless but attractive state of mind engendered by the sound appeal of the music.The cond plane is the expressive one.It is when we believe each piece of music has a theme,which mirrors a different world of feeling. Thirdly,the musical plane. It is very important for all of us to become more alive to music on its sheerly muscial plane. It is the ability to experience different musical elements,such as melodies,the rhythms,the harmonies,the tone colors etc.We usually listen to music on all three planes.
3.2the mystery of Girl with a Pearl Earring
微信举报The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Du tch 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 the viewer. There were lots of mystery about this painting. As the name
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implies,it us a pearl earring for a focal point.It has been referred to as the Mona Lisa of the north,becau,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. And the painting has been the theme of a novel and a film.
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UNIT 4
4.1work in corporate America
白酒行业In today’s American jobs are not what they ud to be.It is hard to visualize what work is in corporate America. When a father was asked about his job, he could answer in terms that 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 hard to understand. 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 not 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 suppodly exciting times are really rather dull
葡萄汁Living in a world of unprecedented change,there are never been anything quite like it. However,we are just ignorant 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 Chine cur runs “May you live in interesting times”,it can bring chaos and anxiety in the in the wake. Even an Englishman born in 1865 would have en changes the magnitude of which we can hardly imagine.
UNIT 5
5.1dinner at Joanne’s
Josh was meeting Jo Rogers, the nior. And he came to Joanne’s, a famous restaurant which there are always lots of famous people. When he arrives in the crowded and expensive restaurant, the head waiter makes him sit in the least comfortable place,even though a table has been booked for him and a “Ms Rogers”.
When Ms Rogers arrives,the waiter realizes that she is a well-known Senator; and Ms Roger realize
三防s that her friend has been treated badly becau of the color of his skin.The waiter realizes his mistake too,and tries to make up for it,but it’s too l ate.
5.2we they
The writer us stories about doing business to illustrate the differences between an individualist and a collectivist. They have different concepts of the role of personal relationships in business. The Swedes believe the business is done with a company while the Saudis think it should be done with a person they know and trust. Collectivist the individualist are different.
In the most collectivist societies,the families are usually extended families while in the individualist societies,nuclear families are prevalent. People consider themlves as part of a group in the collectivist societies.In contrast, the individualist think of themlves as their personal identity. A practical and psychological dependence relationship develops between the person and the in-group in the collectivist societies. However, rarely do people depend on a group in the individualist societies.
UNIT 6
6.1 Last man down
The text from Last Ma Down offers an eyewitness account of defining historical event of 9/11 attack from the perspective of Richard Picciotto, a firefighter. When the event happened, there wasn’t much time for him to think. The building was shocking and many people was in danger. He fumbled for some fix for the situation. He tried to calm down and to save other people. His story is that of a man, a hero,and a tragic event that inspired the nation. His recount isn’t one of death and destruction, but
a celebration of life and it’s unpredictable nature. And the book he wrote became an immediate best-ller.
6.2 Eleanor Roovelt
The passage offers a hero who contrasts with brave firefighters. This time she is a woman of power and previlege who still wanted to devote herlf to the success she believed in.
Living in a male-dominated world, Eleanor Roovel t showed growing concern for women’s issues, along with tho for labor issues,youth and civil rights issues.
Eleanor created new First Lady profile. She held a press conference for the female only. She was a great supporter for FDR, her wheel-bound husband, who career as the US president offered her opportunity to come into her own.
After FDR’s departure, she still held public posts to u her power to her beliefs.
Anna Eleanor Roovelt never ran on a par with men, she t the place.
7.1
Even the most rational person can be convinced at times that there is a force out there making mishaps occur at the worst possible time. We all like to believe that Murphy’s Law is true. There is a very clo connection between people’s perception of bad luck and interesting coincidences.
A particular event may only be a misfortune becau of the circumstances. When people are in bad luck, they are always glad to look for the examples prove the theory and ignore tho which don’t. Besides, people always have lective memory where an unfair comparison is made between good and bad.
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