? Always reflect on what you have achieved, which will give you a sense of pride and fulfillment.

3.? I will be a worker, for a worker is someone who has interest in and a strong love for his work, who is more dedicated to and more satisfied with his work than a laborer would be.

? I think it's possible that I will choose to be a laborer someday. It's never the case that we do anything completely in accordance with our own interest. We have to meet the expectations of the ones we love and we have to be the breadwinner for our family. Anyway, we shouldn't ignore the needs and opinions of our family members when we are planning our careers.

Language focus——Words in use

1.gauged 2.dedicate 3.commonplace 4.suffice 5.revenue 6.simultaneous 7.incentive 8.prone 9.innovations 10.fostered

Language focus——Word Building：practice 1

1.realism 2.imperialism 3.commercialism 4.humanism 5.terrorism 6.recruitment 7.resentment 8.enrollment 9.refreshment 10.shipment 11.enforcement

Language focus——Word Building：practice 2

1.refreshment 2.shipment 3.enforcement 4.commercialism 5.realism 6.recruitment 7.enrollment(s) 8.imperialism 9.resentment 10.Terrorism

Language focus——Banked cloze

1.employees 2.notion 3.primary 4.foster 5.reflects 6.motivations 7.monetary 8.aspects 9.gossiping 10.miserable

Language focus——Expressions in use

1.correlate with 2.refrain from 3.count down 4.slaving away 5.coincided with 6.contended with 7.be designated as 8.conformed to

Structure analysis and writing ——Structure writing——Practice

To continue to study or to go to work upon graduation may be one of the most troublesome decisions a young undergraduate has to face. Indeed, how you choose between the two options will have profound impacts on your future life and career.

Firstly, your choice now will have an impact on your planning for the future. When you decide to pursue further study, you will have to invest more time and energy in your academic performance and pay more attention to your research projects. Devoting to study will pave the way for you to become an expert in a domain in the future. But if you choose to work, you should focus on developing your professional skills to prepare yourself for getting better employment opportunities or starting your own business.

Secondly, your choice will also have an impact on your economic conditions. When you are determined to continue your study, you have to pay tuition for your academic pursuit. It might be a heavy burden for students, particularly those from poverty-stricken families. By contrast, if you go to work upon graduation, you will have your own salary and be financially independent. You

can even provide support for your family.

Finally, your choice will, of course, have a great impact on your future job opportunities. Further study will equip you with more knowledge and a higher degree may guarantee you a better job.

However, it is also possible that you have fewer opportunities in several years because of the saturation of the job market. Going to work upon graduation enables you to have a lot of working experience, making you more competitive in the job market. But the possible drawback is that you may be turned down by some companies because many attractive jobs and promotions call for special qualifications usually regarding the employee's academic degree. To sum up, you can hardly tell what results your choice will ultimately yield. You should be clear about all the possible impacts of your choice before you make the final decision.

Reading skills——Practice

1.cause and effect 2.cause and effect 3.time order 4.sequence 5.sequence

Unit 6

Text A

Vocabulary

hum

n.

[sing.] a low continuous noise made by a machine or a lot of people talking 机器的嗡嗡声；（很多人）嗡嗡的说话声

All he heard was the ticking of a clock and the hum of the air-conditioning. 他所听到的都是时钟的嘀嗒声和空调的嗡嗡声。 v.

make musical sounds with your lips closed 哼（曲子）

I've forgotten the words of the song, so I just hum along with the tune. 我忘记了歌词，所

以我只好跟着曲调哼哼。 vi.

make a low continuous sound 发出连续低沉的声音

The bees were humming in the garden. 蜜蜂在花园里嗡嗡地叫。

meadow

n.

[C] a field where grass and wild flowers grow 草地

standpoint

n.

[C] a way of considering sth. 立足点；立场；观点

As his daughter, I have to put aside my own emotions and look at the problem from my father's standpoint. 作为女儿，我不得不抛开自己的情绪，从我父亲的角度来看问题。

gigantic

a.

extremely large 巨大的；庞大的

The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a gigantic whale. 一头巨大的鲸鱼骨架占据了博物馆的底层。

radiate

vi.

if things radiate from a central point, they spread out in different directions from that point 从中心向四周散开；从中心辐射状发出

Most of Britain's motorways radiate from London to its surrounding suburbs. 英国的大多数高速公路从伦敦向周围郊区延伸。 v.

1 produce heat, light, or energy 辐射；发射

In the winter, the thick walls absorbed the sun's warmth during the day and radiated the heat at night. 冬天，厚厚的墙壁白天吸收太阳的热量，晚上释放出热量。

2 show a particular feeling or attitude in your expression or behavior 流露，显示（感情或态度）

Despite the pressure he perceived from the large audience looking only at him, he

radiated confidence and energy; he was ready to sing for them now. 尽管他感受到了被众多观众注目的压力，但他仍散发出自信和活力；他现在已经准备好为大家演唱了。

claw

vi.

(~ at) try to take hold of sth. with your hands （用手）抓住

Her two-year-old son was clawing at her skirt. 她两岁的儿子紧紧地抓着她的裙子。 v.

attack sb. or try to cut or tear sth. using your fingernails （用指甲）抓，掐

The animal trainer was seriously hurt when one of the lions clawed his back. 驯兽员伤得很严重，背部被一只狮子抓伤了。 n.

[C, usu. pl.] the sharp curved part at the end of some animals' toes, e.g. a cat （猫等动物的）爪，脚爪

These lobsters were so big that just the meat in their claws was enough to make a meal. 龙虾很大，光是钳子里的肉就足够美餐一顿。

tug

v.

pull sb. or sth. by making a short strong movement 猛拉；使劲拉；用力拖

The two boys tugged at one another, and fought over who would get to ride the bicycle first in the street. 两个男孩互相拉扯着，争抢谁先骑车上街。 n.

[C] a short strong pull 猛拉；拖；拽

With a couple of tugs, Jack pulled in the net, which was full of large fish. 杰克用力拉了几下，把网收了起来，里面全是大鱼。

evacuate

v.

leave a building or other place because it is not safe 撤离，撤出（某危险建筑物或地方） The college chemistry lab was on fire, and the campus police told everyone to evacuate the building as quickly as possible. 大学化学实验室着火了，校警让所有人尽快从大厦中撤离。

convict

n.

[C] sb. who is in prison because they have committed a crime 已决犯；（服刑中的）囚犯 The police are trying their very best to hunt down and catch the escaped convict. 警方正在尽他们所能搜寻、抓捕在逃囚犯。 vt.

prove in a court of law that sb. is guilty of a crime （在法庭上）证明…有罪，宣判…有罪 If convicted of the charge, he would face a prison sentence of six years. 一旦控告成立，他将会面临六年的牢狱之灾。

tangle

n. [C]

1 the untidy shape that things make when they are twisted round each other or round sth. else 纠结的一团；乱糟糟的一堆

It took the mother a very long time to comb through her small daughter's hair, which had got into an almost hopeless tangle. 妈妈花了很长的时间才把小女儿乱糟糟地缠成一团的头发梳理好。

2 a situation that is difficult to deal with because things are not organized properly 混乱 The small export company had to employ a lawyer to straighten their legal tangles which developed from their lack of knowledge about international trade laws. 这家小型出口公司得雇一位律师，来把由于自身缺乏国际贸易法知识所引发的法律纠纷理出头绪。 v.

(also ~ up) become twisted together, or make sth. become twisted together, in an untidy mass （使）缠结在一起；（使）乱成一团

My new long skirt got tangled up in the wheel of my bike. 我的新长裙缠进了自行车轮子里。

innumerable

a.

(fml.) too many to be counted 数不清的；无数的