新视界大学英语综合教程2第一单元答案及译文.pptVIP

Warming up;Warming up;? Don’t believe anything your teacher says. Be prepared to check the facts. ? Read your lecture notes again within 24 days. Otherwise they may not make sense to you anymore. ? If you have any good ideas while you are in the bath, get out and write them down. Otherwise you will forget them. ? It’s important to believe in your own ideas as much as anybody else’s.;Warming up;Warming up;;Warming up;Warming up;Warming up;Warming up;Skimming;;;;;; Think for yourself 1 Thinking for yourself is still a radical act. ; 2 Thinking for yourself is not a popular activity, though it should be. Every step of real progress in our society has come from it. But in most circles, particularly in places that shape our lives – families, schools and most workplaces – thinking for yourself is regarded with suspicion. Some institutions thwart it on purpose. It can be seen as dangerous.;3 I was reminded of this sad fact at a party when a fellow guest asked me the subject of a book I was planning to write. I told him that it was about how people can help each other to think for themselves. “Oh dear,” he said, “I don’t think much of that; I much prefer people do as they’re told.” I later found out that he is the fourth-generation president of one of the largest oil companies.;4 When was the last organizational vision statement you saw that included the words “… to develop ourselves into a model environment in which everyone at every level can think for themselves”? For that matter, when was the last time somebody asked you, “What do you really think, really?” and then waited for you to answer at length?;5 This dearth should not surprise us. Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much less trained, to think for themselves, and their teachers and parents and bosses weren’t either. And neither were theirs. (We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement