新标准大学英语3unit1课程.pptVIP

Difficult sentences No one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer group pressure… like medals proving their diligence. (Para 1, Line 11 to the end) Difficult sentences 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) Difficult sentences 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) Difficult sentences 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) Difficult sentences 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 Congress one day. (Para 2) Words to note ? Useful expressions 课堂出勤率 同学们之间的竞争压力 谁都不想···那也太丢人了 熬夜熬出了眼袋 脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪 在某人的心里 心怀抱负、成绩拔尖的高材生 为自己下几个阶段的人生做好了规划 attendance at classes peer group pressure No one wanted the humiliation of wear the bags under one’s eyes pale, sleepy faces at the back of one’s mind the high flyers with the top grades have the next stages of one’s life mapped out ? Useful expressions 追随···的人生足迹 做好了遭到反对的心理准备 加入一个暂时报酬高的行业 沿海水域没什么风浪 挤满了 被···拽下来 放弃了漫长的逃亡之战 follow sb’s path through life brace oneself for some resistance to go into a career which pays well just at the moment no surf on the coastal waters brim with be pulled back give up one’s lengthy struggle to escape It is/was not just that… but… It is/was not just that…but… It is/was not just that…but… impressive adj. Complete the sentences with impressive or impressed. I was very ___________ by the efficiency of the staff. There was somethi