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Unit4 Never too old to learn
Extended Reading My university life
2. What is your target university Please describe it from the following aspects.
1. How do you feel about
graduating from high school and
entering into university Are you
more excited or anxious Why
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1. How do you feel about graduating from high school and entering into university Are you more excited or anxious Why
I feel both excited and anxious about graduating from high school and entering into university later. On the one hand, I expect new and interesting things to happen in adulthood. On the other hand, being an adult means I have to take more responsibility for myself and be ready to face all kinds of challenges in my studies and in life. However, I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
2. What is your target university
Please describe it from the following aspects.
Aspects Details
Basic information (name and location)
Typical attractions (facilities, famous alumni, distinguished majors)
Read the journal entry and fill in the mind map.
Read for structure
graduation
University life
The first day
on campus
The first assignment
Group
projects
My favourite professor
Read for details
Read the first two paragraphs and then answer the following questions
What was the author’s feeling upon arriving at university on the very first day
First, the author was worried and stressed, because she could feel her hands sweating slightly and she had to hold on tight to her suitcase. She was not sure whether she was able to be fit in with the university. Then, the author felt relieved because of the lively scene laying before her. She took up her courage to get her university life started.
Read for deatails
Read Paragraphs 3–5 in detail to find out the author’s changes and
complete the following table.
Aspects Before After
Assignments was not sure how to begin the first paragraph (1) ________________ left it to the last minute did not make a good essay headed straight for the library
created an online followed by a draft
(2) __________________________
made a much better essay
Projects made a (3) _______ effort much more (4) ___________ and productive
kept putting it off
did careful editing and polishing
solo
stimulating
What writing technique does the author use in giving the topic
sentences in Paragraphs 2–5
In these paragraphs, the author uses the writing technique called
parallelism. A parallelism is a figure of speech that uses similar
structures in separate sentences to express related ideas. In this way, the
sentences are emphasized and forceful. In parallel structure, it is
necessary to balance word for word, phrase for phrase, clause for
clause and sentence for sentence. In other words, the general rhetorical
principle of parallelism is: similar ideas are expressed by similar
grammatical forms.
Appreciation
Language points
1. Four years had disappeared in a flash 四年时间一晃而过。
in / like a flash: very quickly and suddenly 一会儿，马上
e.g. Just wait here. I’ll be back in a flash.
The idea came to me in a flash.
搭配：flash of inspiration / brilliance / insight / anger
灵感/才华/直觉/怒气等的闪现
a flash in the pan 昙花一现
e.g. His new novel proves he isn’t just a flash in the pan.
他的新小说证明他并不是个昙花一现的作家。
2. I took a few seconds to compose myself and to take in the scene that was laid out before me.
我花了几秒钟时间让自己镇定下来，观察这眼前的景象。
compose yourself: to try hard to become calm after feeling very angry, upset, or excited (生气、烦躁或激动后)极力使自己平静下来
e.g. Ten men compose the committee.
Mozart composed his last opera shortly before he died.
I’m composing a formal reply to the letter.
【归纳】compose v.
1) to combine together to form a whole 组成
2) to write music 作曲
3) to write a letter, poem etc, thinking very carefully about it as you write it (郑重地) 写 (信、诗作等)
composer n. 作曲家
composition n. 作品；作文；成分
【语境应用】根据括号内的汉语提示补全下面句子。
1) She began to ________________________ (创作歌曲) at an early age.
2) The audience who ________________________________ (主要由年轻人组成) crowded the concert hall.
3) _____________________________________ (给当地政府写封信) stating your views on an issue of your choice.
4) Please ________________________ (镇静); there’s no need to get excited!
compose songs
was composed mostly of young people
Compose a letter to your local government
compose yourself
3. Little did I know that I was about to experience the best four years of my life.
否定副词位于句首，句子使用部分倒装
e.g. Seldom has there been such a happy meeting.
Scarcely had he gone out when it began to rain.
Hardly had she arrived when it began to snow.
Rarely do local matches live up to expectations.
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