英语1-6单元summary
UNIT 1
Active Reading 1
开除英语The passage is mostly about the comparison between the collage in 1960s and now.
First,the collage in 1960s was well-known for its student demonstrations and strikes, and also its atmosphere of political radicalism.It wasn't just the activism that characterized student life in the 1960s.Real freedom is another important factors for that their life.
Well,let’s come back to college life nowadays.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. The gap between childhood and college has shrunk, and so has the gap between college and the real world.
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So,the author finally rai that he wishes that "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!" could be also true for college students now. UNIT 2
Active Reading 1
arrangedEmpathy, originally known as motor mimicry, stemmed from physical imitation of others’ plight, which then evokes the same feelings in onelf. Children em to feel sympathetic distress from infancy—much earlier than they realize they exist apart from other people
By one year old, they start to learn the pain is someone el’s but still em confud about what to do. At around two and a half years, motor mimicry fades from toddlers’ repertoire when they are able to distinguish their own feelings from others’ feelings, so they are able to u other mea ns to comfort others. At the same time, their nsitive to other’s emotional upts begins to diverge from one to another.
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《This is Sandy》the passage 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 mo哈佛大学申请条件
ment at first but pretend not to be. Sandy says that the hearing aids she saw in a catalog are great fashion acc essories, 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.This is when the real drama begins.
UNIT 3
Active Reading 1口才练习
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 differe
nt 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 stylistic 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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UNIT 4
Active Reading 1buddy
What exactly is news? The objective importance and the historical, international significance of an event is not enough. It is the odd, unexpected and human nature that made news like 9/11 memorable and newsworthy. So is immediacy which refers to the nearness of the event in time.
When it comes to immediacy, tho media like TV, radio and Internet have an enormous advantage over the press. However, no matter what form it may take, all the media more or less covertly, influence the public. That is the so- called power of the media.does是什么意思
In the new millennium, maybe the press or TV are not going to disappear overnight, but the power of the media may be eroded or at least devolved to ordinary people.
Active Reading 2
All over the English-speaking world, newspaper circulation has been confronted with a long-term trend of decline. The decline comes much from the challenge of internet and the negative environmental impact of newspaper industry. The challenge of internet mainly focus on its attraction to readers and minute-by-minute ads monitoring syste m. But maybe the newspaper won’t die without struggle. Besides its convenience over laptop, the demand for local news and the exploitation of lifestyle journalism will create new revenue streams. And more interestingly, the ritual of reading the newspaper has become a hard habit to break. UNIT 5
