大学英语新编第一册college life.pptVIP

4. When the going gets tough, the tough have to get down to work…（31--32） ＊第一个tough为difficult, 第二个tough为strong hardworking students 汉译：学习紧张时，本来顽强学习的人也得更加努力学习。 SUMMARY OF ESSAY II The author argues with Jacob Neusner who thinks that “failure leaves no record” and that college is not a preparatory school for life. He lists many facts to support his own idea and to prove that Neusner is wrong. At last，he comes to conclusion that college life is not easy, free, forgiving, comfortable，interesting and unchallenging fun for the students to spend their four laborious years’ studying. KEYS 1. Understanding the Organization of the Text Passage I 1) The message Prof. Neusner passes to the graduates. (para. I) We take no pride in our educational achievement because we have inadequately prepared students for the real world. Reason: At Brown, during the four years, students have formed the belief that failure leaves no record, while in the real world failure marks you. 2) Two different attitudes toward errors. (para. 2) At Brown, students defend their errors by arguing about: A. why their errors were not errors; B. why mediocre work was excellent; C. why they could take pride in their poor presentation. In the real world, graduates had better not defend their errors but learn from them. 3) College is an altogether forgiving world. (para. 3-5) No matter what slight effort students made, they could meet the demand. A. When students broke appointments, professors make new ones. B. When the deadline was missed, professors pretended not to care. C. Boring talks were considered to be important. D. Unlabored writing was commented. E. Dull students were treated as if they were smart. The reason why professors did all this was not that they wanted to be liked by students, but that professors did not want to be bothered and pretense was the easy way out. 4) Prof. Daniels viewpoint. (para. 6) College has deprived students of adequate preparation for the real world. 5) The ending of the