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Passages of Human Growth (1) 人生之旅 (盖儿 . 希伊) Introduction to the topic Gail Sheehy thoroughly probes into the process of human life growing from the teenage period to the elderly period, which is referred to as “passages of human growth”. In Text A, the focus is on the teenage and the twenties periods. According to the author, during each of these passages, how we feel about our way of living will undergo subtle changes in four areas of perception (感知). One is the interior sense of self in relation to others. A second is the proportion (均衡) of safeness to danger we feel in our lives. A third is our perception of time___ do we have plenty of it or are we beginning to feel that time is running out? Last, there will be some shift at the gut (勇气)level in our sense of aliveness or stagnation. (我们活波的或停滞的理性勇气的转移). The teenage period is characterized with young people striving to be independent of their family, but still feeling a bit uncertain about themselves. The author describes this period as Pulling Up Roots(自力之年) years and it is a stormy passages. The next period is called The Trying Twenties(迷茫求索的二十几岁), during which the focus shifts from the interior turmoil (混乱) of late adolescence to the externals. The strong feature of this period is that young people begin to think seriously about starting their life and work. They begin to choose and make decisions, but still not rational enough, and quite often with illusions (缺乏理性抱有幻想). The gist of the article Part one ( paragraphs 1to 4 ) deals with the idea that a person’s life at any given time incorporates both external and internal aspects, of which the writer is mainly concerned about the latter, because the inner realm is where the crucial shifts in bedrock begin to throw a person off balance, signaling the necessity to change and move on to a new footing in the next stag of development. Language Points Para. 1 Incorporate v. intr －to unite (one thing) with something else already in existence合并;把（一物）合并到已存在的