新标准大学英二Summary课文概括II级口语试题PartI.doc

Book 2 Retelling the passage Part I Please retell Unit 1 AR1 “College just isnt special any more” within 1 minute. What are the most important issues for students today? Is the university campus really such a different place compared to what it was 40 years ago? For the students in the 1960s, going to college was the most exciting and stimulating experience of their life. They took part in protests and launched strikes against the establishment with their new and passionate commitment to freedom and justice. Going to college also meant their first taste of real freedom. They could discuss the meaning of life, read their first forbidden book and see their first indie film. In contrast, the students today don’t have the passion for college life that they used to. Today, college is seen as a kind of small town from which people are keen to escape. Instead of the heady atmosphere of freedom which students in the 1960s discovered, students today are much more serious. College has become a means to an end, an opportunity to improve their prospects of being competitive in the employment market, and not an end in itself. But in spite of all this, the role of the university is the same as it always has been. It is the place where students have the opportunity to learn to think for themselves. Part I Please retell Unit 2 AR1 “How empathy unfolds” within 1 minute. Empathy, once known as motor mimicry, originates from physical imitatiion of others’distress, which then arouses the same feelings in oneself. Children seem to feel other children’s pain and discomfort from the day they are born--much earlier than they realize they exist as individuals. By one year old, they start to learn the misery is someone else’s but still seem confused about what to do. At around two and a half years, children may grow out of motor mimicry when they are able to differentiate their own feelings from others’ feelings, so they are able to use other means to comfort o