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Background Information
• 2. at-risk school children: If the children are endangered as from exposure to disease or from a lack of parental or familial guidance and proper health care, they are considered as at-risk school children. • at risk处于危险之中
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• myriad[’miriəd]:adj. innumerable无数的 / n. a large indefinite number无数, 极大数量 • Examples: • There are myriad flies in the sky. • 天空中有无数的苍蝇。 • The sky glittered with a myriad of stars. • 空中群星闪烁。 • plague vt. 使染瘟疫 / n. 瘟疫 • Examples: • Please eye and plague heart. • 只图眼前快活，不顾事后烦恼。 • A plague visited the village. • 瘟疫降临到了这个村庄。 • Plague often follows flood. • 水灾以后接着而来的常常是瘟疫。
Background Information
• 1. Service Learning: Service-learning is an educational strategy that turns the community into a classroom and the classroom into a gateway to real life experiences. Service-learning helps schools achieve high civic and character standards for all students. When servicelearning is effectively integrated into their academic program, young people make real world connections between their studies and solving community problems. • The impact of service-learning is far-reaching. Involving young people in service-learning activities is increasingly seen by educators and community leaders as a powerful strategy for simultaneously improving educational performance, supporting school improvement, and contributing to community renewal. • Students who participate in service-learning have been shown to have increases in grades, in attendance, and in positive attitudes toward school.
Introduction
• The writer explains what service-learning is, which does not only enrich traditional course content but also improves the quality of the service. In order to make it clear that service experiences can affect students, the writer uses some verifiable facts and valid information to support his point of view. And he draws the conclusion that the effects of service experiences can be found in three areas respectively, that is the area of civic responsibility, academic development and life skills. • The writer employs comparison, contrast analogy, especially some statistical results in supporting and developing his ideas, which makes his points convincing.
Paragraph 2
• 2. exhibit, show, display, expose, demonstrate (Para. 2): These verbs mean to present something to view. • Exhibit implies open presentation that invites inspection. • Examples: • She exhibited her paintings at our school. • The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming articles of trade. • Show is the most general. It means to cause or allow something to be seen. • Examples: • The jeweler showed the necklace to the customer. • She hated to show her feelings.
Language Points Paragraph 1
• 1. confront, face (Para. 1): Both mean to come face to face with. Confront means to bring face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility. It is a formal word. • Examples: • She confronted the vital question of being bankrupt. • The prisoner was confronted with his accusers. • Face means to look forward or stand looking at. It is stronger than confront. • Examples: • Let's face the facts instead of evading them. • An unskilled youth faces a difficult life.
Unit 6 How Service Experiences Affect Students
新世纪研究生公共英语教材 Reading B （Student’s Book B）
Introduction
• How Service Experiences Affect Students is a piece of exposition or expository writing. The word "exposition" quite literally means "to put forth, expound". The purpose or intention of the writer of exposition is to inform or explain. He appeals to a reader's understanding with verifiable facts and valid information, explaining and interpreting that material so that the reader will accept his point of view or explanation. Thus he must organize and develop his thought objectively and present it with honesty and completeness so that the reader will have confidence in what he is saying. The methods usually employed in supporting and developing the thesis are: comparison, contrast, analogy, identification, illustration, etc. The writer may use any one of these methods or any combination of these methods.
Introduction
• The object of this essay is to explain and persuade people to believe that service experiences are able to affect students in many respects such as civic responsibility, academic development and life skills. This essay is well organized. At the very beginning, the writer puts forth what the urgent calls are to higher education, to draw the readers' attention. He then uses a question to stress that higher education should do something to improve its education quality so that students' citizenship can be promoted, and the myriad problems plaguing society can also be addressed more. Then he points out that "service-learning" is a simple but extremely powerful pedagogical tool, and that service-learning is not the same as "volunteer" work.