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Text A Secrets of Straight-A Students课文词汇注-Unit 1 college life Unit One: College Life Interpretation of Quotes（引言解释） ⊙ The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Interpretation: We don’t go to school or college to learn, but to seek the way to learn. ⊙ Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — W. B. Yeats Interpretation: Instead of stuffing students with knowledge, real education aims at bringing out what is inside students and cultivating their potential. ⊙ You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. —Galileo Interpretation: Teaching doesn’t really help anyone, but it helps a person find out what he/she is good at. Text A Secrets of Staight-A Students Section A Discovering the Main Ideas Exercise 1. Write down the main idea of the following paragraphs in the space provided. ▆ Answers for reference: 1) Para 2: Top students attain academic excellence by mastering a few basic principles that others can easily learn. 2) Para 3: Top students learn to be organized. 3) Para 4: Top students know how to schedule their time properly. 4) Para 5: Top students are very serious about school and very active in class. 5) Para 6: Students benefit from group study. Exercise 2: Read the following statements and then decide whether each of them is true or false based on the information in the text. Write T for True and F for False in the space provided before each statement. 1) T 2) T 3) F The student does so in order to save time. 4) T 5) F The student who turns in neat work is a step closer to a high score. 6) T 7) F Encouragement rather than pressure from parents helps students a lot. Exercise 3: Summarize the basic principles that top students master and apply in their studying and put them down in the space provided. Basic Principles that Top Students Master and Apply a. set priorities b. study anywhere or everywhere c. study at