新编大学英语综合教程1-unit4(3)

swimming in a pool while college students are adrift in a sea.

Good study skills are a must in college. We’re entitled to much more free time but we should learn to use it in a reasonable way. In college most classes meet only once or twice a week. We have to work hard to keep up with the course work. We have to learn to take notes from texts and lectures because college teachers, unlike high school teachers, seldom provide notes for us. And we should also take an active part in

discussions in class.

We probably have fewer tests in college, usually with mid-term and final exams only.

The college often helps with our needs for assistance—student loans, scholarships,

special student aid funds, etc. There are also work-study programs that are available to satisfy students’ different needs for financial aid.

College students can take some part-time jobs. In this way they can earn some money to support themselves. At the same time, they get some useful experience and learn to

get along with different kinds of people.

We are free to organize extracurricular activities in college. For example, in our spare time we may hold a party, a sports meet, an English speech contest, or we may go to the movies on weekends or go for a picnic on a spring day. In short, college life is very exciting and in most cases you’re the decision-makers.

4 Fighting Against Freshman Loneliness

Sample

Ways to fight against loneliness on campus:

make more friends; have a good sleep; surf the Internet;

have a tour around the city where your university is located; go to a movie; play sports;

phone your family or friends;

write letters to friends or send them e-mails; read a novel or listen to music; talk to someone you know;

visit some relatives or acquaintances who are in the same city;

stroll around the supermarket or department store even if you aren’t going to buy anything; be friendly with your classmates / roommates and spend some out-of-school time with them; consult your counselor;

attend an association / club or be a member of the Student Union. keep yourself busy;

Part Four Writing and Translation 2. Translation Practice

“我要告诉任何一个想回到学校的人，事情不像你想的那么难，”卡伦 · 乔纳特斯说。去年，她47岁，取得了工商管理学士学位，与她女儿一起毕业。她说：“我认识到，没有学位我在事业上难以

升职。”现在是恩迪科特学院的一名行政助理，并且正在攻读组织管理硕士学位。

一代人之前，像乔纳特斯这般年龄的人在大学里是罕见的。如今，美国教育部估计，大约有600万年龄在25岁或25岁以上的人正在美国的高校学习，大专院校中涌现出300 多个成人教育中心。

3 Writing

Sample 1

College life is wonderful and rewarding. You suddenly find yourself in a place with so

many new things awaiting you. When you go to the classes, you are amazed to find that the world the teachers bring to you is different from the one you are familiar with. Wherever you go, you will meet new friends, who are always ready to help you and

discuss questions with you. What’s more, you usually don’t have to take as many tests as you did in high school, enjoying more free time of your own. The extracurricular activities are so varied and colorful that you sometimes simply do not know which to choose. And there are abundant opportunities for you to get to know about society, for example, part-time jobs and volunteer work in the neighborhood.

Sample 2

College life is busy and tiring. People often say college is like a heaven, but to me college is

just like a hell. It is even worse than my high school. We have to take many more courses, and do much more homework. And the teachers are never available to help us out when we need them. Besides study, we have to do the laundry, shopping and cleaning all by ourselves. Students in college are all smart. Competition here is much fiercer. You can never expect to be the best. The worst thing is that in college you may not have a clear goal. In high school, the college entrance exam was what we were working for. But here, there’s too much for us to read and know, and sometimes we feel at a loss as to what to do and how to do it. College life seems to be something out of our control.