Book IIAnother School Year — What for 现代大学英语课件.ppt

Book II Lesson 1 Another School Year — What for? * Pre-class Work II purpose; training; professional had just started teaching; he had to study literature; specialize in pharmacy be respected; useful; make a living and support your wife and rear your children; philosophy, history, literature, art music a new species of mechanized savage; push-button Neanderthals; human beings 5. we can start from what the past learned for us 6. peculiar accomplishment; the mind and experience 7. human experience or wisdom 8. humorous and sarcastic II. Pre-class Work IV 1. the failure to persuade the student to change his mind 2. I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City. 3. part of the student body: one of the students the student body: all the students of the univ. 4. Though I was a new teacher, I knew I could tell him what a univ. was for, but I didn’t. 6. but it would also be a proof that he had learned/absorbed some profound ideas of the past 7. the first “it” is an introductory/anticipatory “it”; the second “it” refers to “whether I told him all this”. I didn’t actually say all this to him, because I didn’t think he would stay at college very long, so it wouldn’t be important whether or not he knew what univ. education was for. 8. happy hours seems to pass a bit more quickly, while suffering days just the opposite 9. You have to take responsibility for the work you do. If you’re a pharmacist, you should make sure that aspirin is not mixed with poisonous chemicals. As an engineer, you shouldn’t get things out of control. If you become a lawyer, you should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you lack adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client. 10. I hope your income will always be enough. 11. the great democrat