英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

Summary of English Course（基英二）

U1 We Have Been Hit!

Adam Mayblum is an employee of May Davis, a financial services firm whose office was on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center. He used to be very proud of working in the tallest building in the world. And then on that September morning, he left it when the plane hit the building. He remained calm among the confusion, ripping his T-shirt into pieces, soaking the pieces in water and giving them to colleagues to cover their faces. He raced down the stairs with his colleagues including the head trader Harry Ramos and his trading partner Hong Zhu. When they came to the 53th floor, they met a heavyset man whose legs would not move and they tired to help him. Hong decided to be the guinea pig to test the safety of the elevator. When everything was all right, he went back up to collect the others. The elevator took them to the 44th floor and then it stopped working, so they had to take the stairs. When they reached the 36th floor, the heavyset man refused to move on the spite of their encouragement. So Hong left along sorrowfully ,while Ramos refused to leave the man along there. The next day ,Adam Mayblum’s e-mail about his experience was read by someone who knew the wife of the heavyset man. On September 15th ,friends and family had a gathering. All the employees of May Davis survived except Harry Ramos .His wife Micky

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

tried to develop to a pictures of his escape, but it began to fade on the 36th floor.

U2 The Virtues of Growing Older

Our society worships youth.

Advertisements convince us to look younth, and people are working out in gyms to delay the effects of the age.

point of view:

Being young is often pleasant, but being older has many advantages. reason:

When young, you are apt to be obsessed with your appearance. Being older is preferable to being younger in another way.

The greatest benefit of being forty is knowing who I am.

Conclusion:

There is a great deal of happiness to be found as we grow older.

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

U3 My Stroke of luck

My wife and I have been married for 47 years. She keep saving my life and giving me reasons to live. She has a good judgment and intuition . After the plane crashed , she reached me immediately and insisted on moving me to the neighborhood hospital . And her decision was right .She took good care of me, consoled me during my survivor’s anguish, but would not tolerate me feeling sorry for myself. She endured my depression, but did not allow me to complain. As a believer in tough love , she was not about to let me just lie around either. My wife, Anna’s secret is that she learns from life, and move on. Thirty years ago, she got breast cancer. She dealt with it with great courage and optimism and she helped others after she recovered. Her method is to find ways to help others and I have been the biggest beneficiary.

U4 Cultural Encounters

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

Background:

We live in an age of easy access to the rest of the world.

Cheap flights mean that millions of people are able to visit places their parents could only dream about, while the Internet enables us to communicate with the remotest places

Transitional Sentence：English has simply become the language that facilitates communication, and for many people learning English is an essential stepping stone on the road to success

Transitional Sentence： Significantly also, this great global

communications revolution is also linked to the expansion of English, which has now become the leading international language

topic sentence:

Most fundamental is the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of society and one that we overlook at our peril.

Now:

Millions of people are discovering how to bridge cultures, while the English-speaking world becomes ever more complacent and cuts down on foreign language learning programmes in the mistaken belief that it is enough to know English

Future attitudce:

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

World peace in the future depends on intercultural understanding. Those best placed to help that process may not be the ones with the latest

technology and state of the art mobile phones, but those with the skills to understand what lies in, under and beyond the words spoken in many different languages

U5 Fourteen Steps

People says that a cat has nine lives. I tend to believe this true, for I, as a man ,am living my third life now. My first life began when I was born into a large family, I began my second life when I was afflicted with a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves. In spite of my disease , I managed to keep my health and optimism to a degree by climbing 14 steps every day. Those 14 steps were a gauge of my life. As I become older ,I become more disillusioned .

Then on a dark stormy night ,my third life began .I was driving home in the rain ,then my car got a flat tire and I was stuck them on a less-traveled road. I ask for help from a house near the little side road. A little girl

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

came out with her grandpa after I explained my trouble. When I sitting comfortable and dry in the car ,they were repairing my car in the rain. Finally after their work done ,I offered 5-dollar bill, but was rejected. The litter girl told me that his grandpa was blind, which greatly shocked me . I felt ashamed of my behavior. Now, I am trying not only to climb 14steps each day, but to help others in my small way .

U6 Diary of the unknown soldier

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