大学体验英语第一册Unit 1

Unit One College Life

Learning Objects

1. Listen and Talk about college life

2. Grasp the main idea of the two passages 3. Master the key language points

4. Practice reading skills: reading with a purpose

5. Practice writing skill: forming compound and complex sentence 6. Learn to fill in registration forms and design name cards

Passage A So Much to Learn

I. Pre-reading Tasks

A. Introductory Questions

1. What do you expect to learn at college?

2. What do the students in the passage think they have learned after four years’ college study?

B. Introductory Remarks

When students finish college, they have mastered quite a lot of information, but not as much as they may think they have. Furthermore, they have little experience in using the information. When they move forward to their careers, they will quickly discover how much they still have to learn. College can only set the stage for their future learning. There is no way it can give them all the information they need, because there is too much of it and it is expanding too rapidly. A good teacher like the one in the story should make this clear to the students in a memorable way that can take with them after graduation. This is why graduation is sometimes called “commencement”.

II. While-reading Activities

A. Language Points

1. huddle: v. crowd together, in a group or in a pile

eg. 1) The flood victims huddled together for warmth that night.

2) After supper the people huddled around their fires. 2. due: adj.

(1) expected/scheduled to arrive or be ready; supposed to eg.1) The train from Nanjing is due at 11:00.

2) The next plane to Shanghai is due to take off at 10:00. （2）to be paid or returned

eg.1) The rent is due tomorrow.

2) Your report is due the day after tomorrow.

（3）be due to:

a. owe to

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eg.1) His success is due to his hard work. 2) Respect is due to the teacher.

b. due to: be caused by, because of

eg.1) The accident was due to his careless use of the gun. 2) Her absence was due to the heavy snow.

3. be a snap: be easy

eg. 1) It is easy/a snap/a piece of cake/no sweat. 4.file into: go into one by one

eg. 1) As the audience filed into the stadium, they found the pop group was already there. 2) Before the examination, students filed into the classroom.

c.f. file out of The pupils filed out of the room during the fire drill. 5. pass out: distribute, give out

eg. 1) He is standing in front of the supermarket, passing out flyers/free samples to

customers.

2) Before Christmas, St. Clause passed out Christmas presents to children.

6. survey: v. examine carefully

eg. 1) They have started to survey the country that the new motorway will pass through. 2) You can survey the countryside from the top of the hill. 7. shift:

n. (1) a division of the whole day, the group who work in this period eg. 1) There are three shifts of work in the factory.

2) We can keep the factory going all the time because we have two shifts----a day shift

and a night shift. (2). change

eg. 1) A sudden shift in the wind warned us of the coming winter.

2) A shift opinion on the problem of air pollution arose a heated nation-wide discussion in China.

(3) a better way to do sth., a solution

eg. 1)Well-famed people always use shifts to get some money from the bank. 2) We had no chairs so we have to make shift: we made shift with old boxes. v. move; change

eg. 1) He shifted the heavy bag from his right hand to the left.

2)Would you please lend me a hand to shift this piano?？

3)The center of fashion in the world shifted from Paris to New York.

4)Since the wind has shifted from south to north, it’s somewhat cold today. 8. impress upon: leave one’s impression on sb. make the importance of (sth.) clear to sb.

impress sb. with sth.: feel admiration and respect for sth.

impress sth. on sb: make sb. memorize sth.

eg.1) She’s always trying to impress people with her new clothes.

= She always trying to make/leave an impression on people with her new clothes. 2) She impressed the audience with her skillful performance.

= She made/leave an impression on the audience with her skillful performance. 3) He had the power to impress his beliefs on others.

4) His words are strongly impressed on my memory.

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5) The professor impressed upon his students the importance of learning how to learn at

college.

9. obscure:

v. hide; make difficult to see or understood eg. 1) The moon was obscured by clouds. 2) His fame was obscured by that of his wife. 3) Words that obscure the truth must be discarded.

adj. unimportant, unclear

eg. 1) He studied some of the more obscure Latin poets.

2) Official policy has changed, for reasons that remains obscure.

B. Sentence Explanation

1. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors huddled, discussing the exam due to begin in a few minutes. (para. 1)

A group of engineering seniors huddled on the steps of one building. They were discussing the exam which was going to begin in a few minutes. 2. On their faces was confidence. (para. 1)

This sentence is in an inverted word-order. The natural word- order of the sentence is like this: Confidence was on their faces.

3. Some talked of jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. (para. 2) Some talked about the jobs they already had; others talked about jobs they would get.

4. With all this assurance of four years of college, they felt ready and able to conquer the world. (para. 2)

Four years of study at college had given them the confident belief in their ability and powers. They thought they were ready and able to gain control over whatever they would do after graduating from college.

5. The approaching exam, they knew, would be a snap. (para. 3) They knew the approaching exam would be very easy. 6. The students shifted restlessly in their seats. (para. 6)

The students were feeling very uneasy and they were changing their body positions all the time. 7. I just want to impress upon you that even though you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the subject you don’t know. (para.7)

I just want to make you remember that even if you have finished four years of engineering, there are still many things about the subject you don’t know.

8. The years have obscured the name of this professor, but not the lesson she taught. (para. 8) After all these years, I don’t remember clearly the name of the professor, but I do remember clearly the lesson she taught.

III. After-reading Tasks:

1. Do some exercises after the text. 2. Dictation.

3. Practice making sentences with the important words or expressions.

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Passage B Wish for the Freshman Year

I. Pre-reading Tasks

A. Introductory Questions

1. How do you think you’ll feel after four years of college?

2. How does the author feel about his college life before graduation?

B. Introductory Remarks

College is a safe laboratory in which to experiment with new things. There are no parents

around to control you or make all decisions for you. But most of the decisions you make don’t have as great a risk as they will have after college. Being a student is a real career but only a temporary one. Teachers can give some guidance without being either parents or bosses. Classmates can set either a good or a bad example, and you can learn to tell the difference. What happens outside the classroom is an important part of the college experience. Students should cherish all of this like the student in the story, because they may never have such an opportunity again.

II. While-reading Activities

A. Language Points

1. look back on/upon: review the past, recall

eg.1) Looking back on the past, I can now see that I have wasted so much of my precious

time.

2) He looks back at the four years of college with satisfaction.

3) I’d like to look back on my high school days, which were among the happiest in my life.

2. envy: v. to feel/ have jealousy of

envy of/at/towards: be the object of being jealous of

eg.1) What a grand thing it is to be a musician! How I envy you!

2) All the boys were filled with envy when they saw Tom’s new bicycle. 3) His splendid new car was an object of envy to/towards all his friends. 3. cherish: v. value, pay close attention to sth.

eg. 1) They have cherished the child as one of their own. 2) I cherish a hope that one day we will be reunited. 4. come to: get to, do sth. gradually

eg. 1) He had come to like the city better after living here for three years.

2) I have come to realize that how important it is to learn to use a computer. 3) After that event, I came to realize that I was so selfish.

5. involve: v. 1) mean, include as a necessary part, consist of, require eg.1) Being a sailor involves long periods away from home.

2) Their visit to our college will involve a meeting with our president.

3) To apply for university study involves taking the College Entrance Examination. 2) be involved in: be concerned with, cause to be mixed up

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eg.1) I am unwilling to be involved in their quarrel. 2) Tom was involved in the murder.

6. recapture: v. capture again，experience again

eg.1) The police recaptured the escaped prisoner. 2) The soldiers recaptured the lost territories soon. 7. every time: the moment, once

eg.1) Every time he appeared, I knew that something must have happened. 2) Every time the sun set, the air turned cold.

3) Every time inside her flat, she opened the letter.。 8. feel like sth. /doing sth.: want to do sth. eg. 1) I don’t feel like a walk just now. 2) Do you feel like a game of tennis?

3) I feel like going to bed, for I’m very tired.

9. commitment: n. a promise to follow certain beliefs or certain course of actions, duty eg. 1) He felt that he didn’t have to make such a commitment to Mary. 2) He has made a commitment to pay off all his debts.

B. Sentence Explanation

1. In less than two weeks, I’ll have graduated. (Para 1) I’ll have graduated within two weeks.

2. I can still remember the first day of classes, looking on the map on the back of the Schedule of Classes and asking where the classroom building was. (Para 1)

Being a freshman of the university, the author was not familiar with the school resources. That was why he asked of others the location of the classroom building on the first class day.

3. ... and through many triumphs and failures I came to know more about myself. (Para 2) I had experienced many successes and many failures. It was through these successes and failures that I got to know myself better.

4. As I walk down the familiar routes on campus, I found myself doing a lot of soul-searching and reminiscing. (Para 3)

As I walk on the familiar campus road, I find myself thinking about the passed days I spent at the college.

5. The world is enormous and the possibilities are endless. (Para 3)

The world is so big and who knows what will happen (after graduation).

6. I am getting a queasy feeling deep down every time I think about the fact that I’m going to be graduating. (Para 4)

I feel quite uneasy at the idea that I will graduate from college.

7. It’s too difficult to even contemplate the idea that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not have a class to which I should be going. (Para 4)

It is so difficult for me to understand that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and find there is no class for me to go to.

III. After-reading Tasks

1. Do some exercises after the text. 2. Dictation.

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