Unit 6

3. What does the sentence. "fewer contacts would be made" mean? The sentence means that since it was a local university, there would be fewer chances to establish a network of interpersonal relationships that could
Language work
1. Languish: vi. lose strength or vigor; suffer hardship and distress Truth may languish, but can never perish.
过去，在伦敦塔里的囚犯受到镣铐、寒冷和阴暗的折磨。 In the Tower of London, prisoners used to languish in chains, cold, and darkness.
2. garner vt. to obtain as a result of effort She garnered large profits from her unique invention. The issuБайду номын сангаас of corruption in sport has garnered attention for a long time.
Structural analysis
Part 1:
Paras.1-6
Part 2: Paras. 7-14
Part 3:
Para. 15
Detailed study
Paras. 1-2 These two paragraphs make up the introductory part in which the author uses an anecdote as a starting point of the essay.
LANGUAGE WORK
1) "a man of the world" (Paragraph 3) --- a man who has lots of experience in coping with certain situations or people. 2) "the most intimate details" (Paragraph 3) --- most personal or confidential details.
QUESTIONS
1. How does the author respond to the man’s story? Why? The author responds to the man‘s story by relating his own experience, his university days, his high school friends and his present career, because this account would hopefully suggest to the man that a second echelon university could equally provide an illuminating and rewarding learning experience, and help to secure a career that turns out quite successful.
QUESTION
1. What does the author experience in hospital? An incident, encounter with a worried father who has college-bound children and whose daughter … 2. What troubles the father in his daughter's college selection? What troubles him is that while the local university proves affordable for the family, he is afraid that education in a less prestigious university might put his daughter on a less advantageous road in the future. This would make him feel guilty.
Unit 6
Matriculation Fixation
China’s 10 top universities
Ivy League university
a group of eight traditional universities in the eastern US with high academic standards and a high social status Harvard University Yale University University of Pennsylvania Princeton University Columbia University Brown University Dartmouth College Cornell University
Paras.3-4
As a response to the man's story, the author tries to give some advice by relating his own experiences, i.e. his high school friends, his university days, and his present career.
Text Explanations
In the essay the author offers his sincere advice to those parents who have college- bound children. He first criticizes some parents who try to select universities for their children. He points out that a good university does not necessarily guarantee a successful career. This is supported by the example of his high school friends. Then he tells those disillusioned parents whose children are unlikely to enter prestigious universities that many people achieve huge success in this society without a degree from a prestigious university. This is supported by his own experience. Finally he reminds those parents that "life doesn't have just one act. There is often Act Two. And Act Five."
2. What does the author mean by "... the sun never set without my thanking God for ... "? The author means that every day he felt grateful to God for what he learnt from his talented and dedicated professors.
Open discussion
How do you understand Matriculation
Fixation？
Why do some people in modern time have
an obsessive interest in attending elite
colleges? Do elite colleges really matter?
elite university vs. non-elite university
It doesn't matter, wherever you are, if you work hard and do something above the other students you'll shine more than others. Graduating from an elite university may not ensure life-long success Perhaps elite universities have a slight advantage due to its name but that’s all. It is nice to be able to say you went to Harvard. It will probably always impress. But that doesn‘t mean that it’s a handicap to go elsewhere. Going to an Ivy League university is likely to get your CV nearer to the top of the pile.
3) I told the man that many of my high school friends had graduated from the second-tier university in question and had gone on to live rich, full lives. ---I told the man that many of my high school friends had graduated from the second-class university his daughter would be attending, and now they are all living full and fruitful lives. in question: being talked about, under discussion. I was out of town on the night in question. I have no idea of the man in question.
How do universities influence our life?
Matriculation: the act or process of
getting enrolled in a college or university as a candidate for a degree Fixation: an abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment to a person or thing；a preoccupation with one subject, issue, etc
2) "bright but not brilliant“ (Paragraph 2) - smart but not outstanding. 3) "with other college-bound children in the family queue" (Paragraph 2) --- with a number of children in a family who are going to go to college one after another in a few years.