2016研究生英语.pptVIP

Part 2 From Competence to Commitment Ernest Leroy Boyer Part Two (para.3—para.14) Questions (para.3) Q12. What does the author want to tell us in this part? Q13. What’s the relationship between paragraph 3 and the previous paragraph? Q14: Who are the citizens the author refers to in paragraph 3? What can we infer from the last two sentences in this paragraph? Q15. Can you give some examples of public issues? What do these examples reflect in these two paragraphs respectively? Words (para. 3) Paraphrase (para.3) 8. Clearly, the college graduate has civic obligations to fulfill. (Para. 3) (Why is it appropriate to hope…?) (Because) it is clear that a college graduate has a debt to pay to the society. 9. There is urgent need in American teaching to help close the dangerous and growing gap between public policy公共决策 and public understanding公众理解. (Para. 3) Immediate action should be taken in American teaching to help narrow the dangerous and increasing gap between public policy and public understanding (because the public cannot understand the meaning of public policy.) 10. The information required to think constructively about the agenda of government seems increasingly beyond our grasp. (Para. 3) The information which is needed in order to think with effectiveness about the agenda of government seems less and less understandable to us people. 11. It is no longer possible, many argue, to resolve complex public issues through citizen participation. (Para. 3) Many people argue that it is impossible to solve complicated public problems through the participation of the general public. Para 45 words 20. Star Wars/Strategic Defense Initiative Ronald Reagan, March 23, 1983 The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), : use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack