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BOOK ONE Unit 1 1. The writer describes the first few days of university life in the diary with a casual , informal style full of humor and exaggeration. As a __fresher______, the writer has many problems: feeling lonely and lost, not having a goodappetite for the food in the dining hall, feeling______ not as intelligent and knowledgeable as others; not knowing how to take notes and how to wash clothes. ___Besides_____ , her dormitory looks very small. The tutor seems unfriendly and uncaring. The __library____ rules are too strict. The writer tries to solve the problems: joining many clubs and societies to __make_____ more friends, talking to Mum on the phone to get some comfort and __advice______. 2.The writer of the text newly arrived in New York as an immigrant. He worked ___full time_ _____ with a variety of manual jobs while taking courses at the university. He was faced with many ____problems______. He felt inferior (自卑) to his classmates because he didn’t have a high __school____ diploma and he had a strong Irish accent. He didn’t know how to __take notes___ ______ in the class. He was puzzled by what the professor said about the Pilgrims and dared not ask questions in the class. Being _lonely_____ and insecure, he was dreaming of a good-looking girl who was impressed by what he had read and what he would fall in _love____ with him. Unit 3 1. “Thinking for oneself” means considering facts and making decisions for oneself, instead of depending on someone else’s judgment or _doing as they are told______________________ . Every step of ___real progress___________ in our society has come from it, yet thinking for ourselves is still a _radical______ act. In most circles, especially in places that __shape our lives______________, thinking for ourselves is regarded with __suspicion__________, and even seen as __dangerous_________. Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much less trained to do it. I was once forced by my advanced algebra mentor