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Unit 1 Translation 1.The professor might probably have delivered his lecture to the empty classroom in the absence of his solitary student. 2.The present educational system has been under attack from the public, who have begun to realize the harm the system has done to students. 3.The professor told those seniors that he would take attendance every time because attendance at this course was compulsory. 4.I’d love to go to your housewarming party, but I’m sorry I can’t make it because I’ve got a stack of things to do. 5.Youths who dropped out of middle school can resume their studies at night school or through television and correspondence courses. 6.She didn’t like the famous writer’s lecture, but she stuck it out to get the writer’s autograph after the lecture. 7.I was disappointed at the impersonality of the lecture system, but eventually I grew resigned to the system and waited patiently to become a junior. 8.We have to admit that the lecture system insulates a teacher from students’ naive questions, which could have triggered a line of useful thought. 9.I don’t agree with those critics’ opinions. Your conclusions are far from worthless; they make a good deal of sense to me. 10.For the sake of the students, they should be told on the first class about the objective and content of the course and the requirements to pass the course. 听讲课存在的一个问题是：会听是很难的事。阅读课本中的相同内容是更有效的学习方法，因为学生可以根据其需要慢慢阅读直到他们理解这些内容。 有时甚至仅仅做到专心听讲都很难。人们可以以每分钟400-600个字的速度听，而最富有激情的教授说话的速度也很难达到这个速度的1/3。讲话和理解之间的时间差导致开小差。 很多学生认为多年来看电视已经削弱了他们保持注意力的能力。但是他们真正的问题是专心听课比他们认为的要难得多。 讲课这一方式不会完全从大学消失。一是因为讲课似乎从经济上是必需的，二是讲课起源于悠久的传统，而且人们又把传统本身看得很重。但是，讲课通常出现在学生接受教育生涯的错误的那一端——在大学的第一和第二年，那时他们最需要密切的、甚至是针对个体需要的指导。 如果讲课这一形式局限于三、四年级的学生，则对学生的兴趣和热情的破坏力会比目前的制度小得多，因为三、四年级的学生不太需要学科上的指导与帮助，而且更有能力自己制定学习计划。毕竟，学生在能够从听讲课中学到知识之前必须先要学会去听。 * *