研究生英语作文——my-unit-six.ppt

Unit Six Matriculation Fixation Joe Queenan Warm-up Questions Admission to a top-flight university provides a child with a passport to success. However, many people who have graduated from lesser known colleges, dropped out of college or not even attended college go on to live __________ lives. Introduction to the author humorist critic Author Queenans work is noted for his caustic wit. 1.Which university does the stranger choose for his daughter? How does he feel? 2.What is the author’s attitude toward the problem?  Her degree would put her within striking distance of the yellow brick road, but not physically on the road itself. within distance of: We are within striking distance of completing the dictionary. Hard luck! You came within striking distance of beating the record. Yellow brick road Dorothy “The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick ” The spawn of Satan Babysitter 1 (to Babysitter 2): Oh GOD! The Spawn of Satan has waken up an hour earlier!!  Pressed for biographical data, I explained that I was a freelance writer, ticked off a list of my credentials and said I was pretty happy with the way my career had turned out. press: urge, compel The problems are pressing for solution tick off: put a check mark on or near or next to Tick off the items of the goods one by one and pack them up. If my son were to speak like that to me, I would have to tick him off. Parents often get overly worried about their children going to college. 1. What is the problem with those parents whose minds are overly fixed upon their children going to top colleges? 2. What realities of human nature does the “matriculation fixation” ignore? 1. I mention this incident because it illustrates the neurotic gabbiness that afflicts parents when it comes time to send their children to college. afflict: bring great harm or suffering to sb. damage the country and afflict the masses? ? I wish you wouldn’t afflict