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全新版大学英语综合教程第一册
Unit 1 Growing Up
Part I Pre-reading Task
Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following
questions:
1. Do you know who John Lennon was?
2. Have you ever heard the song before?
3. What does Lennon think of growing up? Is it easy or full of adventures?
4. Can you guess what the texts in this unit are going to be about?
The following words in the recording may be new to you:
monster n. 怪物 prayer n. 祈祷
Part II
Text A
When we are writing we are often told to keep our readers in mind, to shape
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what we say to fit their tastes and interests. But there is one reader in particular
who should not be forgotten. Can you guess who? Russell Baker surprised himself
and everyone else when he discovered the answer. WRITING FOR MYSELF
Russell Baker
The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood
in Belleville, but it wasn't until my third year in high school that the possibility took
hold. Until then I'd been bored by everything associated with English courses. I
found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long,
lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.
When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated
another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had a
reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be
very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or
seventy and excessively prim. He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was
primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against
the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight
nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he
seemed a comic antique. I prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a
long time was not disappointed. Late in the year we tackled the informal essay. Mr.
Fleagle distributed a homework sheet offering us a choice of topics. None was
quite so simple-minded as "What I Did on My Summer Vacation," but most
seemed to be almost as dull. I took the list home and did nothing until the night
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