新标准大学英语综合教程2课文总结

1、新标准大学英语综合教程2课文总结U1AR1What 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 p

2、rotests 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 see their first Indie film.In contrast, t

3、he students today dont have the passion for college life that they used to. Today, college is seen 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 serious. College has become

4、 a means to an end, an opportunity to improve their 13) prospects of being competitive in the employment market, and not an end in itself. But in 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

5、 themselves.U1AR2Older generations generally have a negative attitude to todays students, the product of postmodern times. Todays students are expected to accomplish anything in an era with extraordinary privileges and opportunities. It would seem they do the opposite. They direct their energy on th

6、e Internet communicating ideas and frustrations, instead of trying to assert their identity by revolution. Perhaps when they are not told about what their parents did before, they will be seen writing the revolution in technology.U2AR1Empathy, once known as motor mimicry, originates from physical im

7、itation of others distress, which then arouses the same feelings in oneself. Children seem to feel other childrens 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 misery is someone elses but still seem

8、confused 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 use other means to comfort others. At the same time, their empathic concern begins to differ from one to

9、another. U2AR2This 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. Sa

10、ndy says that the hearing aids she saw in a catalog are great fashion accessories, theyre just like a clip you put onto your ear. Sandy likes to show her hearing aid. She doesnt tie her hair up in a knot but she tucks it behind her ears. Sandys friend Carol introduces her to a boy called Colin at a

11、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.U3AR1Identity theft refers to stealing information about

12、someone that makes it possible to use 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,

13、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 ourselves and change our mindset. Identity crime is very likely to happen at any time, to any of us. We can ta

14、ke precautions to improve the chances of avoiding this crime, though it will never go away.U3AR2The 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 le

15、ads readers along his thought-path step by step to the point that collecting personal information places people in peril because we dont know who collects it for what purposes. And neither do we know where the information goes and how it is used. According to the writer, identity theft is much feare

16、d in society, but there are worse 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 sense in the presence of all that information in the databases which can be employed as a weapon as well a

17、s a tool. U5AR1As 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 serious, sentimental and involve bloodshed. Its main character is Yossarian. Unlike the war heroes who would die for their home country, Yossarian aims to

18、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 did

19、nt 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. U5AR2To escape from Nazi persecution of the Jews, Anne and her family members emigrated from Germany to Holland. However, in 1940 the Germans invaded, and

20、occupied Holland. So quickly did the persecution of the Dutch Jews begin there that the Franks and another Jew family, the Van Pels went into hiding in the secret annexes. For the next two years, eight people of the two families were confined to just six small rooms and could never go outside. Under

21、 such harsh circumstances, Anne continued to write her diary, which she started a few weeks before they moved to the hiding. Her diary was the account of the day-to-day activity in the annex the suffering, but her dreams and aspirations were still there. The diary voiced a declaration of her princip

22、les and of the right to human dignity so profoundly that it was viewed as the voice of Holocaust. In August 1944, the hiding place was stormed, and Nazi officers arrested everyone. They were taken to concentration camps. Out of the eight people in hiding, Otto Frank was the only survivors, and when

23、he found his daughters diary after the war, he arranged for its publication in recognition of her courage. Annes writing would be a support and comfort to the world after her death.U7AR1On a cold, windy morning, I was hanging up the laundry in the backyard, while Hogahn was playing a two-foot oak br

24、anch that had fallen into his loving possession. Focused on capturing the sheet which was trying to sail off over the pond to join the sky so that it draped evenly over the line, I distractedly picked up the stick and tossed it down the hill toward the fence that separated the yard from the water. B

25、ut the stick went further than I expected and fell into the pond. So did Hogahn, who raced to catch the stick. I was penetratingly aware of the dangers of drowning in the icy pond, but I still walked into it to save the dog. After I carried him out of the water and rubbed him with a towel, Hogahn we

26、nt over and examined my wet clothes on the floor. He was pleased that we had shared a dramatic experience together.U7AR2Animals used to be compared to machines programmed to react to stimuli. They were not considered capable of feeling or thinking and certainly not of understanding abstract concepts

27、. However, new studies have shown that intelligence is not limited to us human beings as well as species with whom we have a common ancestor. Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror and birds can understand many concepts. Scientists now believe that intelligence evolves to suit the environmen

28、t in the same way that bodies do. As a result, they suggest that we should reconsider the way we treat animals.U8AR1In the book Painting as a Pastime, Churchill argues, very successfully, that every thinking person should have two or three life long hobbies. He has a strong opinion that when the human mind is focused on the hobby, then the parts of the mind that run the persons enterprise can actually be under recuperation and repair. Churchill contends that, to a public man, the cultivation of a hobby is a policy of first importance. He suggests tha