大英一各单元summary与英汉互译

第一单元

The writer describes the first few days of university life in the diary with a casual , informal style full of humor and exaggeration. As a fresher, the writer has many probl ems: feeling lonely and l ost, not having a good appetite for the food in the dining hall, feeling not as intelligent and knowledgeable as others; not knowing how to take notes and how to wash clothes. Besid es, her d ormitory looks very small. The tutor seems unfriendly and uncaring. The library rul es are too strict. The writer tries to solve the probl ems: joining many clubs and societies to make more friends, talking to Mum on the phone to get some comfort and advice.

The writer of the text newly arrived in New York as an immigrant. He worked full time with a variety of manual jobs while taking courses at the university. He was faced with many problems. He felt inferior (自卑) to his classmates because he didn’t have a high school diploma and he had a strong Irish accent. He didn’t know how to take notes in the class. He was puzzl ed by what the professor said about the Pilgrims and dared not ask questions in the class. Being lonely and insecure, he was dreaming of a good-l ooking girl who was impressed by what he had read and what he would fall in l ove with him.

第二单元

It was the first time that I had oyster. Before I had it, I thought it was disgusted to eat. And I even missed mother’s cook and fish and fries. But my father encouraged me to swall ow it, which he thought was delicious. In order to earned his love and respect, I did, and that was the last time I had oyster.

The passage tells us the history of chocolates and the progress of making cocoa beans into chocolates. It also tells us the reason we like chocolate so much and according to experiment, which proves that genetic trait makes us prefer to eat things with a sweet taste. But we just like chocolate not other sweet things. Although there are about 300 different chemicals in chocolate, we really d on’t know how all of these affect us.

第三单元

“Thinking for oneself”means consid ering facts and making d ecisions for oneself, instead of d epending on someone else’s judgment or d oing as they are told. Every step of real progress in our society has come from it, yet thinking for ourselves is still a radical act. In most circles, especially in places that shape our lives, thinking for ourselves is regarded with suspicion, and even seen as dangerous. Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much l ess trained to d o it. I was once forced by my advanced algebra mentor to write d own the sum of a number that d oes not exist. Even though scared by such a humiliating experience, I gradually examined and valued the concept of d eveloping our own thinking which has at least been introduced into my academic life. Thinking for oneself is associated with the positive values of being independent, creative and original.

Activist learners generate new ideas and try things out; Reflectors form their own judgments from listening, observing and reflecting; Theorists resort to logical reasoning and assimilating new information into a rational scheme. Pragmatists prefer testing ideas with