大学英语课本文章背诵 适用于全新版大学英语综合教程 Unit1:Writing for myself Suddenly I wanted to write about that ,about the warmth and good feeling of it, but I wanted to put it down simply for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle.it was a moment I wanted to recapture and hold for myself. I wanted to relive the pleasure of that evening , write it as I wanted, however, would violate all the rules of formal composition I learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade. Never mind, I would write something else for Mr. Fleagle after I had written this thing for myself. When I finished it ,the night was half gone and there was no time left to compose a proper, respectable essay for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morning but to turn in my tale of the Belleville supper. Two days pass before Mr. Fleagle returned the graded papers, and he returned everyone’s but mine. I was preparing myself for a command to report to Mr. Fleagle immediately when I saw he lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class’s attention Unit2(略) Unit3:Public attitude toward science Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred yeas, and it I likely to change in the next hundred. Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age. But as history show, the past was not that wonderful. It is not to bad for a privileged minority, though even they had to do without modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for women. But for the vast majority of the population, life was nasty ,brutish and short. Anyway, even if one wanted to ,no can’t put the clock back to an earlier age. Knowledge and techniques can’t be just forgotten. Nor can one prevent further advances in the future. Even if all government money for research were cut off(and the present government is doing it best), the force of competition would still bring about advances in technology. Moreover, one cannot stop inquiring mind from thinking about basic science ,whether they are paid for it. The only way to prevent further developments would be a global state that suppressed anything new, and human initiative and inventiveness are such that even this wouldn’t succeed. All it would do is slow the rate of change. Unit4:The American Dream After he pass away ,I thought more and more about Tony’s career. He grew in stature in my 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/5dc8dad53b68011ca300a6c30c2259010302f3b0.html