Unit 2? Text? A
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Reading Comprehension
1.????? because English or history majors are considered less competitive when the job market is shrinking, and they have to study something that can help them more easily locate their future jobs.
2.????? because as the tuition is climbing higher and higher, many students have run away from studying the humanities and toward “hard” skills that they think will lead to employment.
3.????? since more students are now taking job-oriented courses, libraries, where students of liberal arts used to study, are getting less popular than before; in contrast, labs are getting more eye-catching because students of science and engineering do experiments and research there.
4.????? because this inner drive that can be either constructive or destructive is so mysterious and powerful that it has attracted many people to speculate on it. From ancient times, these men and women developed artistic “l(fā)anguages” in the form of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sculpture, landscape and traditions, which from the very foundation of civilization.
5.????? Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write, makes you familiar with the language of emotion and the creative process, and, more importantly, provides you with a wide scope of possibilities that are open to you.
6.????? Because in modern life, an ideal capacity for establishing one’s career is to have both technical knowledge and inner insight, not just one without the other.
7.????? “Well-rounded human beings” are those who have insight and understand the passions, hopes and dreams common to all humanity.
8.????? Since many people who once studied the humanities became famous in their career, the author implies that if students spend more time studying the humanities, they could surely become successful in the future as well.
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Language focus
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1. promotes? 2. accelerate??? 3. mystery????? 4. insight???? 5. boost??? 6. analysis
7. calculate??? 8. barriers??? 9. destruction??? 10. prospect
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Promising????? Bearing??????? Housing????? Objective
Offend??????? Exclude???????? Excess??????? Execute
Intensify????? Identity
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1. excess???? 2. bearing???? 3. objective??????? 4. intensify???????? 5. execute??
6. promising??? 7. exclude????? 8. identity?????? 9 offend?????????? 10. housing
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1-5 CHDJB?????? 6-10? LMGFA
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1. are liable to????????????? 2. in favor of??????????????????? 3. is bound to
4. speculate about?????????? 5. invested…with??????????????? 6. stand up for
7. in the form of??????????? 8. prepared for????????????????? 9. in the company of
10 in succession
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幕課是一種網(wǎng)絡(luò)課程，它旨在通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)實(shí)現(xiàn)廣泛參與和開放接入。幕課是遠(yuǎn)程教育邁出的最新一步，現(xiàn)已在高等教育領(lǐng)域迅速引領(lǐng)潮流。通過這些課程，大學(xué)可以擴(kuò)大影響的范圍，從影響成千上萬住在城里付學(xué)費(fèi)的學(xué)生，擴(kuò)展到惠及全球上百萬的學(xué)生。除了擁有傳統(tǒng)的課程資料，幕課還給使用者提供互動(dòng)論壇，支持學(xué)生和講師之間的交流。幕課能促進(jìn)參與者之間的交流，使得多種觀點(diǎn)、知識(shí)和技能涌現(xiàn)到課堂上來；它鼓勵(lì)人們嘗試之前不可能嘗試的課程，甚至是嘗試新的教育方式；它提供多種學(xué)習(xí)課程資料的方式，鼓勵(lì)多模式學(xué)習(xí)，以各種學(xué)習(xí)風(fēng)格滿足學(xué)習(xí)者的需求；另外，幕課促進(jìn)教學(xué)的改善，使技術(shù)在面對面授課中得以更好地應(yīng)用。
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In recent years, with the development of Internet technology, the construction of digital education resources of our country has made great achievements. Many universities have set up their own digital learning platforms, and digital teaching is playing an increasingly important role in education. Compared with the traditional way of teaching, the digital way has a lot of advantages. On one hand, digital teaching makes global sharing of teaching resources possible; on the other hand, it expands the learner’s study time and space to learn, allowing people to get access to the digital virtual schools through the Internet anytime and anywhere. These advantages make it possible for people to shift from one-time learning to lifelong learning.?
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Unit 2
Section B? What college brings us?
Ex 1
1.????? Main idea: College has never been magical for everyone.
Major detail: More high school graduates don’t fit the pattern of college.
2.????? Main idea：?We need to revise our attitudes and reform the system. Major detail: we only judge things based on our own college experiences.
3.????? Main idea: College education seems to have wasted time and accumulated debt.
?Major detail: Close to 80 percent of new jobs can be performed by someone without a college degree.
Ex.2
1C 2D 3C 4A 5D 6B 7B 8A
Ex.3
1.????? It’s very true because the job market is becoming more competitive.
Yes, without a college degree, one can end up with nothing to do.
Sure, college brings students knowledge and personal growth.
No, it’s not necessary to get a college degree to have a better career.
Disagree, college is too expensive now for students and family to afford.
2.????? More competitive.
More knowledgeable.
More confident.
More opportunities.
3.????? Traditional ideology.
More promising future.
High expectations of their children.
4.????? Worth their money because it’s an investment that will pay off later.
A waste of their money because the tuition is too high.
Not sure if they’ll profit from the large sum they invested.
5.????? Analytical ability.
Critical thing skills.
Broad knowledge.
Ex.4
1.????? enroll? 2 revise?? 3accumulate? 4 accorded? 5 evaluate
6. prime? 7 confirm? 8 shrinking?? 9 sufficient? 10 recruit
Ex.5
1.????? bother to? 2.is available to? 3. been compelled to? 4.described…as
4.????? exposed…to? 6.rather than? 7 have something to do with
8 for its own sake
Ex.6
1.????? A teacher, no matter how knowledgeable he is, cannot teach his students everything they want to know.
2.????? No matter where you travel, you can always find someone to communicate with in English since English is an important language.
3.????? No matter what work a person is doing, if he gives it his best each day, he creates lots of happiness for himself.
Ex.7
1.????? Although the number of applications is small, there is little doubt that the program will help the students who really need financial aid.
2.????? There is no doubt that computer crime is a very serious problem, so people think that all hackers need to be punished for their actions.
3.????? Though the boy worked very hard and finally successfully passed the exam, there is no doubt that overwork and too much worry caused his illness.
Ex.8
1 promising? 2 worsens? 3 shrinking? 4 dominant? 5 land? 6 great
7 well-rounded 8 creative 9 elegant 10 constructive 11 skills 12 make
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