↓↓↓ 大英3课文Summary UNIT 1 catching crabs In the fall of our final year,our mood relaxed atmosphere had disappeared, and peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Meanwhile,at the back of everyone’s mind was what we would do next after graduation. As for me,I wanted to travel,and I wanted to be a braced myself for some resistance to the idea from my father,who wanted me to go to law school,and follow his path through life. However,he supported what I wanted but he made me think about it by watching the cage was full of crabs. One of them was trying to escape,but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled it the end it gave up lengthy struggle to escape and started to prevent other crabs from watching crabs,my father told me not to be pulled back by others,and to get to know himself better. are all dying Life is never quite know when we become coffin dwellers or trampled ash in the rose garden of some local there’s no point in putting our dreams on the back burner until the right time is the time to do what we want to do. Make the best of our short stay and fill our life with the riches on offer so that when the reaper arrives,we’ve achieved much instead of regrets. UNIT 2 The extract from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath is a combination of her real life and imaginary life in her the real life,Plath was a winner of the prize for drawing the best Civil Defense signs,lived by an airport and had an Uncle who bore resemblance to her imagination,the airport was her Mecca and Jerusalem because of her flying fulfilled her dream at the moment. David Stirling,a bookish boy,also worship the recess at school,he and the author played Superman with their school-mates who played the routine games,they felt they were outlaws but had a sense of windy also found a stand-in,Sheldon Fein, who later invented tortures. childhoods Historically,childhood has undergone enormous transformations in terms of children’s responsibilities and parental ,childhood is socially interplay of history and cultural leads to different understanding of childhood,consequently it is advisable not to impose ideas from one culture to understand childhood in another culture. UNIT 3 we listen For the sake of clarify,we split up the process of listening to music into three hypothetical ,the sensuous is a kind of brainless but attractive state of mind engendered by the mere sound appeal of the ,the expressive is when we believe each piece of music has a theme,which mirrors a different world of feeling,such as gaiety,,the musical is the ability to experience different musical elements,such as melodies,the rhythms,the harmonies,the tone colors usually listen to music on all three planes. mystery of Girl with a Pearl Earring The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s shows a striking young woman wearing an exotic costume and a turban,peering over her shoulder straight out at the the name implies,it uses a pearl earring for a focal has been referred to as the Mona Lisa of the north,because,like Leonardo da Vinci’s painting,it appears to be a simple likeness of a woman with an enigmatic smile,yet which contains levels of meanings and much mystery in the painting contributes to its worldwide popularity and generates a thoroughly rewarding novel and a well-composed film. UNIT 4 in corporate America In today’s American jobs are not what they used to long ago,when a father was asked about his job he could answer in terms that a child could come to grips ,when the parent take his offspring to his place of business in glass buildings that are really incomprehensive to ’s more,it’s safe bet that even grown men have trouble visualizing what other men does in their jobs with his ,it’s not difficult to imagine a poor child may answer”mulling over” after it beats me the mysteries of work,when his friends asks him of his father’s job. supposedly exciting times are really rather dull Living in a world of unprecedented/dazzling change,there are never been anything quite like ,we are just ignorant of/about deeper historical patterns,take globalization for example,from historical context point of view,the world is almost simply do not live in a age of great technological innovation for all our enthusiasm about internet and staggering 90 percent of all web traffic is local,we are always be told the Internet has “opened up”the the Chinese curse runs “May you live in interesting times”,it can bring chaos and anxiety in the in the wake. UNIT 5 at Joanne’s When a young black man arrives in a crowded and expensive restaurant,the head waiter makes him sit in the least comfortable place,even though a table has been booked for him and a “Ms Rogers”. When Ms Rogers arrives,the waiter realizes that she is a well-known Senator; and Ms Roger realizes that her friend has been treated badly because of the color of his waiter realizes his mistake too,and tries to make up for it,but it’s too late. they The writer uses stories about doing business between Swedes and Saudis to illustrate the differences between an individualist and a collectivist approach to business. They have different concepts of the role of personal relationships in business. The Swedes believe the business is done with a company while the Saudis think it should 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/880573b749d7c1c708a1284ac850ad02df800762.html