大学英语3 期中考试答案

Unit 1 Education: A Transformation of the Soul

1On my first day of high school, my teacher showed the class a Power Point presentation entitled The Value of Education. The first slide read simply this: “Education = $”. I felt uncomfortable, not knowing exactly why.

2 Education, throughout my high school experience, continued to be described to me like this: college means a diploma. A diploma means a better job. A better job means more money. More money means a good life. But I wondered who had decided the criteria for a “better” job and a “good” life. It all seemed so mathematical. Education was presented to me as an equation equaling a person I had not chosen to be.

重点单词的句子翻译：

1.她读了一首题为《想起你》的诗。(entitle)

2.他给这本书取名为《野性的爱》。(entitle)

3.教育的关键在于激励和享受，而不是一所学校或一个大学文凭。(diploma)

4.那青年用了3 年的时间取得研究生文凭。(diploma)

5.我自己成功的标准是能够努力工作和快乐生活。(criteria)

3 I went on to college, of course, as everyone told me to do. College is how you become an earner, they told me. My major that first semester was International Relations. I liked the woman I envisioned myself as in this field – a diplomat, a savvy citizen of the world. But gradually I began to realize that this person was not someone I bore any resemblance to. She was, rather, a clone of the well-educated, well-moneyed ideal my teacher had presented to me years ago. This woman had earning potential; she was smart and worldly. But she was not someone I would become. She had nothing I really wanted.

重点单词的句子翻译：

1.我不敢想象他能做出这种可怕的事。(envision)

2.憧憬你理想的一天：囊括所有细节，从日出到日落。(envision)

3.每个公民都可以要求受到法律的保护。(citizen)

4.作为一个世界公民，他必须努力做到行事诚实正直。(citizen)

5.你所说的与事实相去甚远。(resemblance)

6. 她长得不像她母亲。(resemblance)

4 My moment of clarity soon came. I was watching a film with my family and laughing at all the historical errors in it, but I suddenly realized that there was something I did love, something I had brushed aside in my mind for years because it did not fit with the marketable, diploma-holding job applicant I had always assumed I should become.

5I am, as it so happens, the daughter of passionate history buffs. My family never took vacations; we took field trips. I had not yet learned to walk when I first visited Abraham Lincoln’s house in Springfield, Illinois. Since then I have seen the homes of countless dead presidents. I have wandered through more museums than I can remember.

6These memories are priceless to me; no matter how much I teased my parents about the fact that we never went to Disney World, I would not have changed our trips for anything in the world. I knew what education was, in my childhood, before someone damaged it with images of dollar signs. Education was how I had adventures. Education was my family’s escape.