新标准大学英语3Unit 1课件.docxVIP

Unit 1 阅读1Summarising In the fall of our final year, our mood changed. The relaxed atmosphere had disappeared, and the peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Meanwhile, at the back of everyones mind was what we would do next after graduation. As for me, I wanted to travel, and I wanted to be a writer. I braced myself for some resistance to the idea from my father, who wanted me to go to law school, and follow his path through life. However, he supported what I wanted but he made me think about it by watching the crabs。The cage was full of crabs. One of them was trying to escape, but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled it back In the end it gave up lengthy struggle to escape and started to prevent other crabs from escaping. By watching crabs, my father told me me not to be pulled back by others, and to himself better get to know难句分析1．… and we all started to get our heads down … (Para 1)我们开始埋头学习。2．No one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were once empty after five o’clock in the afternoon were standing room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore the bags under their eyes and their sleepy faces with pride, like medals proving their diligence. (Para 1)我们谁都不想考全班倒数第一，那也太丢人了，因此同学们之间的竞争压力特别大。以前每天下午五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了，现在却要等到天快亮时才会有空座，小伙子们熬夜熬出了眼袋，他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却很自豪，好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学的奖章。3．It wasn’t always the high flyers with … Quite often it was the quieter, less impressive students who had the next stages of their life mapped out. (Para 2, Line 3-7)并不总是那些心怀抱负、成绩拔尖的高材生才清楚自己将来要做什么，常常是那些平日里默默无闻的同学早早为自己下几个阶段的人生做好了规划。4．One had landed a job in his brother’s advertising firm in Madison Avenue, another had got a script under provisional acceptance in Hollywood. (Para 2)有位同学在位于麦迪逊大道他哥哥的广告公司得到了一份工作，另一位同学写的电影脚本已经与好莱坞草签了合约。5．The most ambitious student among us was going to work as a party activist at a local level. We all saw him ending up in the Senate or in Congre