学 海 无 涯 新标准大学英语综合教程 2 课文总结 U1AR1 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 dont 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 13) 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. U1AR2 Older generations generally have a negative attitude to todays students, the product of postmodern times. Todays students are expected to accomplish anything in an era with extraordinary privileges and opportunities. It would seem they do the opposite. They direct their energy on the Internet communicating ideas and frustrations, instead of trying to assert their identity by revolution. Perhaps when they are not told about what their parents did before, they will be seen writing the revolution in technology. U2AR1 Empathy, once known as motor mimicry, originates from physical imitation of others distress, which then arouses the same feelings in oneself. Children seem to feel other childrens 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 elses 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 others. At the same time, their empathic concern begins to differ from one to another. U2AR2 This is Sandy is an extract from Tone, a story about the life of a deaf girl. She thinks her friends are honorable people who beam with pride when they introduce her to someone new. When people find out she is deaf they are mostly shocked for a moment at first but pretend not to be. Sandy says that the hearing aids she saw in a catalog are great fashion accessories, theyre just like a clip you put onto your ear. Sandy likes to show her hearing aid. She doesnt tie her hair up in a knot but she tucks it behind her ears. Sandys friend Carol introduces her to a boy called Colin at a party. They sit together on a couch and Colin realizes that Sandy can understand what he is saying by reading his lips. Someone turns up the volume of the music and they dance together. Soon they are dating. This is when the real drama begins.,1,学 海 无 涯 U3AR1 Identity theft refers to stealing information about someone that makes it possible to use their bank account or credit card. With an informal and conversational tone the author persuades readers into actions against the threats of identity fraud in our daily life. According to the author we make the thieves job easy by leaving our mails unprotected, using ball pens for checks and forms, throwing documents containing our personal information in the trash, leaving our computer on and so on. So we should look for different ways to protect ourselves and change our mindset. Identity crime is very likely to happen at any time, to any of us. We can take precautions to improve the chances of avoiding this crime, though it will never go away. U3AR2 The writer tries to create a feeling of fear in order to warn readers of the threat involved in the ever-increasing amounts of data on people being collected. With various stylistic devices, the writer leads readers along his thought-path step by step to the point that collecting personal information places people in peril because we dont know who collects it for what purposes. And neither do we know where the information goes and how it is used. According to the writer, identity theft is much feared in society, but there are worse things than that. And the danger is growing though it is vague, not certain. There is no balance yet between the convenience of the world and the peril that we sense in the presence of all that information in the databases which can be employed as a weapon as well as a tool. U5AR1 As an anti-war novel, Catch-22 is well known for its comic tone as against the normal perception of a war novel which tends to be serious, sentimental