英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要(2)

U8 Focus on Global Warming

The text is centered on the problem of global warming. And now global warming is receives worldwide attention because of its possible influence upon the Earth we have living on.

Global warming is perhaps the single largest threat to our planet. The very root of the temperature increase is that human being create much greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. The scientific searches prove that the amount of the first two reaches the highest point in the past 420000 years and they help excessive heat from leaving the Earth.

With the hotter summer and few cool days ,some low-lying nations would be awash in seawater.

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

What is more ,we would likely have more days of perilous air quality and have more risk of developing respiratory problems.

As a result, to slow global warming ,we should cut down the emission of heart-trapping gases.

It require everyone to work together to change the current situation we find ourselves in.

U9 What Is Happiness？

The text tell us what is the idea about“happiness,”and we can find that the idea of happiness to be sure, will not sit still for easy definition.

In the first sentence , the author tell us that happiness is never more than partial and there are no pure states of mankind.

We can find the writer want to let us know whatever else happiness may be, it is neither in having nor in being, but in becoming.

At the last paragraph , Founding Fathers declared, we should do well to remember, was not happiness but the pursuit of happiness market, is the cardinal fact that happiness is in the pursuit itself, in the meaningful pursuit of what is life-engaging and life-revealing,.

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

In a word , in the idea of becoming. A nation is not measured by what it possesses or wants to possess, but by what it wants to become.

U10 The Jeaning of America

Blue jeans, more suitable than the dollar and Cola, have become an American symbol.

In the second, the text introduces us that the Levis Strauss’ life in New York. Levis Strauss, the inventor of blue jeans, was of German origin and immigrated to New York in 1848 to peddle sundries to eke out a marginal living.

In the third part, it describe why the Blue jeans was invented and how the early business of Blue jeans.

In the fourth part , two reason . It tell us that in the 1930s Levis’ s jeans were introduced to the East during the dude ranch craze and in the Second World War blue jeans were declared an essential commodity . In last part , in San Francisco, a museum exhibits the history of blue jeans.

大学英语专业综合教程2课文内容摘要

U11 Open the Door to Forgiveness

The text can be divided into three parts.

As Starting with the second person, the author tell us that for most of us , forgive is unnatural and uneasy , so we dwell on our pains and keep being hurt. The only power that can stop the stream of painful memories is the faculty of forgiving.

How to practice forgiveness.(Two sides)

1 Confront your malice / separate the wrongdoer from the wrong 2 Let go of the past / keep working on it

What we can learn from text :The most important thing is that we are seldom merely sinned against, that is to say, we ourselves contribute to the sins. So try to forgive and by doing so, we can heal the hurt and create a new beginning.