1. Unit 1 College Life 1 Exercises: Content Awareness Part II Answer the following questions. 1.What exam were the students going to take? The students were going to take their last exam at college. 2. How did the students feel about this exam before they took it? They were confident and felt ready for the exam. 3. Did the questions turn out to be easy or difficult? How do you know? They turned out to be difficult, because none of the questions could be answered by students.

2. Unit 1 College Life 2 4. What did the professor say about the result of the exam? Were the students able to pass the course? The professor said the result was what she had expected, but the students would be allowed to pass the course any way. 5.Why did the professor set such a test paper? Because she wanted to make her students realize that even though they had completed four years of college study, there was still much to learn and their education had just begun.

3. Unit 1 College Life 3 Part III Fill in the blanks with words or phrases from the passage. It was the last day of final examinations in a large Eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors huddled, 1___ the exam 2___ begin in a few minutes. On their faces was 3___. This was their last exam before they went on to 4___. Some 5___ jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. With all this assurance of four years of college study, they 6___ conquer the world.

4. Unit 1 College Life 4 The approaching exam, they knew, would be a snap. The professor had said they could 7___ or notes they wanted, requesting 8___ they did not talk to each other during the test. Jubilantly, they 9___ the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. And 10___ as the students noted there were only five essay-type questions.

5. Unit 1 College Life 5 Answers: 1. discussing, 2. due to begin, 3. confidence, 4. commencement and jobs, 5. talked of, 6. felt ready and able to, 7. bring any books, 8. only that, 9. filed into, 10. their smiles broadened

6. Unit 1 College Life 6 Exercises: Language Focus Part IV Fill in the blanks with the words given. approach, confident, conquer, graduate, broaden, impress, senior, shift, survey, obscure 1.To ___ the language barrier, they are working hard at English. 2.The teacher is deeply ___ by the students’ ability to surf the Internet （网上冲浪）. 3.Nowadays many of the ___ are beginning to consider choosing a career. 4.The Spring Festival ___. A lot of people were traveling back home to have a family reunion.

7. Unit 1 College Life 7 5. He looked out of the window, ___ the landscape of the countryside. 6. We are ___ that we can overcome ( 克服 )the difficulties. 7. Tom is the most brilliant （出色的） ___ of his year at Harvard University. 8. He ___ impatiently in his seat during the long speech by the Dean. 9. College has helped Bill to ___ his interests. 10. Words that ___ the truth must be discarded ( 放弃不用 ).

8. Unit 1 College Life 8 Answers: 1. conquer, 2. impressed, 3. seniors, 4. was approaching, 5. surveying, 6. confident, 7. graduate, 8. shifted, 9. broadened, 10. obscure

9. Unit 1 College Life 9 Part V Complete the following sentences. 1. The plane ___ take off at 8:30 a.m. has been delayed because of the thick fog. 2. University students can have various kinds of part-time jobs such as ___ flyers ( 传单 ), working as private tutors or delivering newspapers. 3. The speech is scheduled at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The students are ___ the assembly hall now. 4. They ___ their children the virtue （美德） of always telling the truth. 5. He is ___ a child. He should be allowed to make his own decision.

10. Unit 1 College Life 10 Answers: 1. due to 2. passing out 3. filing into 4. impressed upon 5. no longer

11. Unit 1 College Life 11 Part VI Translation 1. 自从有了移动电话后，他再也没有给朋友写信了。 (no longer) 2. 尽管很忙，他每天至少花两小时上网 (surf the Internet) ，了解这个领域的最新动态。 3. 李教授在毕业典礼上作了一个简短的讲话，他的话 深深铭刻在我的记忆中。 (impress upon) 4. 讲到期末考试，学生们一点儿都不紧张，他们满脸 都是自信。 (confidence) 5. 在 30 分钟内写出一篇约 100 个词的短文，对于他们 班大多数学生来说不过是小菜一碟。 (snap)

12. Unit 1 College Life 12 1. He has no longer written to his friends ever since he got a mobile phone. 2. Even though he is very busy, he spends at least two hours every day surfing the Internet in order to know about the latest developments in this field. 3. Professor Li gave a short speech at the commencement. His words were / What he said was strongly impressed upon my memory. 4. Talking of the final exams, the students were not nervous at all. There was full confidence on every one's face. 5. To write a short passage of about 100 words in 30 minutes would be a snap to most students in their class.

13. Unit 1 College Life 13 Reading B: Warm Up Questions: 1. How do you think you'll feel after four year's college study? 2. How does the author feel about her college life before her graduation? Background information about the text: 1. Levels of Education in the United States and Canada: Education in the United States and Canada is divided into the following levels at the indicated ages : Primary Education: Pre-school ages 2 - 6 Elementary School ages 6 - 12

14. Unit 1 College Life 14 Secondary Education Junior High School ages 12 – 14 High School ages 14 - 18 Post Secondary Education Junior College ages 18 - 20 4 Year College ages 18 - 22 Graduate School ages (MA) 22 - 24 Graduate School ages (PH.D.) 22 - 26/8 Post Graduate after PH.D.

15. Unit 1 College Life 15 2. Grading Systems in the U. S. Most colleges use letter grades like A, B, C, D, F, and some use plus or minus like B- or C+. To compute students' averages they say A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. It takes an average of 2.0 to graduate. Grades of F must be repeated to get credit. Most students take 5 or occasionally 6 courses per semester, and most courses are 3 credits. It usually takes between 120 and 130 credits to graduate. A few colleges use numerical grades instead of letters. If so, most likely A=90, B=80, C=70, D=60, but this may be up to the professor.

16. Unit 1 College Life 16 Reading B: Para 1-2 Para 1 After four years, the time has come. In less than two weeks, I will have graduated. I look back now and I can't believe how fast it all went. I can still remember the first day of classes, looking on the map on the back of the Schedule of Classes and asking where the classroom building was. Now I'm a senior, looking at freshmen with envy. Every day I wish I could freeze time and make the next two weeks go more slowly. I know a lot of people who can't wait to graduate, but for me it's the opposite. I want to turn back time instead and cherish every day of my college experience once again.

17. Unit 1 College Life 17 1. In less than two weeks, I'll have graduated: I'll have graduated within two weeks. 不到两周，我就要毕业了。 This is an example of the use of the future perfect tense. The future perfect tense tells us something that will be past at or before a certain time in the future. e.g. By this time next week, you'll have taken your examination. 到下周这个时候，你就考完了。 I hope that everything I have told you will not have been forgotten by the next lesson. 我希望到下次上课时你们还记得我给你们讲了些什么。

18. Unit 1 College Life 18 2. look back: to review the past; think of what has happened 回顾 Examples: Looking back on the past, I can now see that I wasted so much of my precious time. 回顾过去，我现在才意识到我已浪费了这么多宝贵 的时间。 He looks back at the four years of his college days with satisfaction. 回顾四年大学生活他感到很惬意。

19. Unit 1 College Life 19 3. Every day I wish I could freeze time and make the next two weeks go more slowly. 每天我都祈愿时间会凝滞，接下来的两周过得更慢 一些。 "wish" is followed by a subjunctive clause here. Examples: I wish it were cooler. (It is not cool. It is hot.) 我希望更凉一些。 I wish you had come to the cinema with us last night. ( You didn't.) 你昨晚要和我们一起看电影该多好。

20. Unit 1 College Life 20 Para 2 For me, college has been a great learning experience, and most of the learning process has taken place outside of the classroom. My sophomore year of college was perhaps the most remarkable year of my life. This was the year that I finally convinced my mom that I was going to be OK living on campus, and she finally let me go. This was the year that I made some lifelong friends, and through many triumphs and failures I came to know more about myself. My sophomore year involved experimenting with new things, such as camping in mountains, attempting to present some lousy poems to newspapers and drawing cartoons of my teachers in class.

21. Unit 1 College Life 21 4.... and through many triumphs and failures I came to know more about myself: I had experienced many successes and many failures. It was through these successes and failures that I got to know myself better. 历经多次的成功与失败使我对自己有了更多的了解。 come to: to learn to, to grow to 熟知，了解，学会，开始 e.g. He had come to like the city better after living there for three years. 住了三年后，他更加 喜欢那座城市了。 I have come to realize how important it is to learn to use a computer. 我逐渐意识到学会用电脑 是多么重要 。

22. Unit 1 College Life 22 5.involve: to have as a part or result 涉及，牵涉 Examples: Taking the job would involve living abroad. 做这项工作就得住在国外。 Listening to radio programs is a good pastime, because it involves the listener's imagination. 听广播节目是一种很好的消遣，因为它可以激发听 众的想像力。

23. Unit 1 College Life 23 Reading B: Para 3-6 Para 3 As I walk down the familiar routes on campus, I find myself doing a lot of soul- searching and reminiscing. I find myself wanting to start all over again and recapture the fun and excitement of my college days. I have been panicking at the idea of graduating. I have been going to school for as long as I can remember, and I feel like there is so much more that I want to learn, but instead I have to graduate. The world is enormous and the possibilities are endless. For the past four years I have been surrounded with a safety net. The student status has been a somewhat comforting feeling, giving me an escape from the realities of the world outside.

24. Unit 1 College Life 24 6. As I walk down the familiar routes on campus, I find myself doing a lot of soul-searching and reminiscing. As I walk on the familiar campus road, I find myself thinking about the passed days I spent at the college. 走在校园熟悉的路上，不知不觉中就陷入了深深的 反思和对往昔的回忆中。 soul-searching: a deep examination of one's mind and conscience 反思 Example: After many hours of soul-searching, he decided to admit his guilt. 反思了好多小时后，他决定承 认自己的罪行。

25. Unit 1 College Life 25 reminisce: to talk or think about past experiences, esp. pleasant ones 回忆 Example: The two friends were reminiscing about their youth. 两位朋友在一起回忆起他们的青年时代。 find oneself: discover 发现 Example: He finds himself not understanding why everybody was laughing. 他不明白为什么人人都在笑。

26. Unit 1 College Life 26 7. recapture: to capture again; to get into one‘s power again ； cause to be experienced again 重新获得；再现，使再次经历、体验或产生（往日 的情感等） Examples: The police recaptured the escaped prisoner. 警察再次抓获了那个逃犯。 During the party with some young people, the parents found themselves recapturing the joys of their youth. 和青年人开晚会，父母重温了他们年轻时的欢乐。

27. Unit 1 College Life 27 8. I have been panicking at the idea of graduating: When thinking about my coming graduation, I can‘t help feeling quite uneasy. 一想到毕业心里 就一阵阵恐慌。 at the idea of: at the thought of 一想起 … 就 e.g. Having never lived away from her parents, Jane began to panic at the idea of living on campus on her own. 珍妮从没离开过父母，她一想 到要独自住在校园就开始发慌。 Smiles broadened my mother's face. She just couldn't help it at the idea of the family reunion. 一想到全家人能欢聚一堂，母亲就笑逐颜开。

28. Unit 1 College Life 28 9. The world is enormous and the possibilities are endless: The world is so big and who knows what will happen (after graduation). 世界如此之大，可能发生的事情太多太多。 We can see from the sentence that the author is reluctant to leave school with which he is familiar and at which he feels safe.

29. Unit 1 College Life 29 Para 4 With less than two weeks left of school, I'm getting a queasy feeling deep down every time I think about the fact that I'm going to be graduating. For as long as I can remember, I have been a student. I feel like I'm living in denial about graduating. Every time I get asked about what I'm going to do after college I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs. I don't know what I want to do with the rest of my life. It's too difficult to even contemplate the idea that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not have a class to which I should be going.

30. Unit 1 College Life 30 10. I am getting a queasy feeling deep down every time I think about the fact that I'm going to be graduating: I am getting an uneasy feeling whenever I think about the fact that I'm about to graduate. 每每想到就要毕业，我就打心眼儿里感到不安。 "Every time" is used here to introduce an adverbial clause of time. Apart from "every time" noun phrases like "the moment", "next time" etc. can also be used to introduce adverbial clauses of time. e.g. Every time I catch a cold, I have a pain in my back. 每次一受凉，我就背痛。

31. Unit 1 College Life 31 Stormy applause broke forth the moment the pop star appeared on the stage. 流行歌星一上台，就爆发出一阵雷鸣般的掌声。 feel like: (informal) to have a wish for; want. 想要 Examples: Do you feel like a cup of coffee? 你想要一杯咖啡吗？ It is such a fine day. I feel like going out for a picnic. 天气这么好，我真想出去野餐。

32. Unit 1 College Life 32 c.f. feel: to give or produce the stated sensation 好像 e.g. “What is this in my pocket? It feels like a nut.” “ 我口袋里是什么？好像是栗子。 ” The following two sentences from the passage also belong to this category. e.g. I feel like there is so much more that I want to learn, but instead I have to graduate. 我觉得还有很多东西想学，可是却不得不毕业了。 I feel like I am living in denial about graduating. 我觉得自己是在回避毕业。

33. Unit 1 College Life 33 11. It‘s too difficult to even contemplate the idea that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not have a class to which I should be going. It is so difficult for me to understand that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and find there is no class for me to go to. 甚至不敢想像早上醒来没有课上会是什么样的情形。 contemplate: to think (about) deeply and thoughtfully 深思 e.g. The doctor contemplated the difficult operation he had to perform. 医生反复思忖那个 难做的手术。

34. Unit 1 College Life 34 Para 5 On a recent interview, I was asked, "Is this the profession you want for the rest of your life?" I was amused and almost laughed at the question, but I gave an honest answer. I don't know what the future holds. During the last four years I have changed my mind so many times, the idea of a lifetime commitment to a certain job seems like torture.

35. Unit 1 College Life 35 12.... the idea of a lifetime commitment to a certain job seems like torture. 一辈子就干一行的想法简直就是一种折磨。 commitment: a responsibility or promise to follow certain beliefs or a certain course of action 责任 e. g. Come and look round our shop without a commitment to buy anything. 请来我们商店看看，不一定要买什么东西。 I don't want to get married because I don't want any commitments. 因为不愿承担任何责任，所以我不想结婚。

36. Unit 1 College Life 36 Para 6 Walking on campus in the middle of the night I realize how much I will miss my college days. Every little thing seems so much more beautiful. And every little thing makes me realize how wonderful and special my college experience has been. I will cherish these days forever as I reluctantly close the doors on my college life.

37. Unit 1 College Life 37 13. cherish: to care for tenderly; love; to keep a feeling deeply and firmly in mind 珍惜，珍爱 Examples: The old man cherished the girl as if she were his daughter. 老人十分疼爱这个女孩，好像她是自己的亲闺女。 The child has been away for more than three years and his parents always cherish the hope that he will come back soon. 虽然孩子离家已三年多了，父母亲总是抱着他会很 快回来的希望。

38. Unit 1 College Life 38 Exercises: Content Awareness Part 11 Choose the best answer to each question based on the information from the passage. 1. Why was the author less eager to graduate than his classmates? A) He wished he could learn more in the next two weeks. B) He valued his college life and wished it would not have to end. C) He didn't want to find a job after graduation. D) He didn't envy the freshmen who could enjoy their college life.

39. Unit 1 College Life 39 2. Which of the following is not true according to paragraph 2? A) The author finally convinced his mom that he was going to be OK living on campus. B) The author made some lifelong friends that year. C) The author came to know more about himself through many triumphs and failures. D) The author attempted to contribute some cartoons of his teachers to newspapers.

40. Unit 1 College Life 40 3. What was he thinking about while he was taking a walk on campus? A) His first day on campus. B) His lifelong friends. C) The four years of his college life. D) The excitement of becoming a college student.

41. Unit 1 College Life 41 4. Which of the following is true, according to paragraph 4? A) The author was very excited that he will graduate within 2 weeks. B) The author was reluctant to say good-bye to the college life. C) The author was sure to find a lifelong job. D) The author was ready to face the approaching challenge after graduation.

42. Unit 1 College Life 42 5. What is the main idea of the passage? A) The author cherishes college life and is thus reluctant to graduate. B) The author is extremely eager to graduate. C) The author feels slightly sorry to leave the college. D) The author feels ready for his future career.

43. Unit 1 College Life 43 Part 12 Fill in the blanks. In less than two weeks, I will 1___from the university. As a senior, I have been 2___at the idea of graduating. Looking back, I can’t believe how fast time went. For me, college has been a great 3___experience, especially my 4___year, which was perhaps the most remarkable year of my college life. I 5___there is so much more that I want to learn, but instead I have to graduate. 6___down the familiar routes on campus, I find myself wanting to start all over

44. Unit 1 College Life 44 again and relive the fun and excitement of my college days. I don’t know what I want to do in the future, and the idea of a lifetime 7___to a certain job seems like 8___. Now that graduation seems inevitable ( 不可避免的 ), I’m faced to make a decision. Anyway I will 9___my college days forever as I 10___close the doors on my college life.

45. Unit 1 College Life 45 Answers: 1 have graduated 2 panicking 3 learning 4 sophomore 5 feel like 6 Walking 7 commitment 8 torture 9 cherish 10 reluctantly

46. Unit 1 College Life 46 Exercises: Language Focus Part 13 Fill in blanks with words given below. convince envy amuse involve failure panic permanent remarkable surround reality 1 We were greatly ___ to hear about his sitting on the wet paint. 2 His father was quite stubborn and it was almost impossible to ___ him of his mistakes. 3 The part-time job ___ working at night. 4 He moves from job to job, so he never has a ___ address. 5 He is always ___ at the sound of fire alarms.

47. Unit 1 College Life 47 6 The professor was highly respected for his ___ achievements in civil engineering ( 土木工程 ). 7 It was the old lady's eightieth birthday, and she was sitting in a chair ___ with her children and grandchildren. 8 How I ___ you! I wish I could write as beautifully as you do. 9 She had many ___ before finding the right method. 10 He gives the impression of being generous, but in ___ he is a very selfish man.

48. Unit 1 College Life 48 Answers: 1. amused 2. convince 3. involves 4. permanent 5. panicking 6. remarkable, 7. surrounded 8. envy 9. failures 10. reality

49. Unit 1 College Life 49 Part 14 Complete the following sentences. 1 At the commencement ceremony, he was awarded ( 授予 ) a Bachelor's Degree ( 学士学位 ). On his way back to the dormitory, he ___on his college days with mixed feelings. 2 ___ the coming National Holiday, I can't concentrate on ( 集中注意力 ) my study. 3 It is such a fine day that I ___ going swimming in the river.

50. Unit 1 College Life 50 4 He didn't know anything about the Internet a month ago, but today, he has ___ realize what an important role the Internet is playing. 5 At college, students can ___ and declare another major if they find out they don't like the one they have declared before. Answers: 1. looked back 2. At the idea of 3. feel like 4. come to 5. change their minds

51. Unit 1 College Life 51 Part 15 Translate the following sentences. 1 我发觉自己对英语口语有着浓厚的兴趣。 (find... doing) 2. 驱车行驶在高速公路上，我意识到近几年来，中国 的公路系统发生了巨大的变化。 (realize; enormous) 3. 我简直不敢相信他这么快就学会了操作计算机。 (can hardly believe; work) 4. 三年的时光已经过去，这一刻终于来临了：不到两 周我就要回国了。 (in less than) 5. 许多我认识的人都迫不及待地想要出国，而我却宁 愿和家人一起呆在国内。 (can't wait)

52. Unit 1 College Life 52 1 I've found myself having great interest in spoken English. 2 Driving on the highway, I realized that enormous changes had taken place in China's highway system in recent years. 3 I can hardly believe that he has learned how to work a computer so quickly / in such a short time. 4 Three years has passed, and the final moment has come. In less than two weeks, I will go back to my country. 5 I know a lot of people who can't wait to go abroad, but I prefer to stay with my family in my own country.