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1、大学英语精读 1-6 册课文完整版第一册第一册UNITUNIT1 1Want to know how to improve your grades without having to spend more time studying?Soundstoo good to be true?Well,read on.How to Improve Your Study HabitsPerhaps you are an average student with average intelligence.You do well enough in school,butyou probably think

2、you will never be a top student.This is not necessarily the case,however.Youcan receive better grades if you want to.Yes,even students of average intelligence can be topstudents without additional work.Heres how:1.Plan your time carefully.Make a list of your weekly tasks.Then make a schedule or char

3、tof your time.Fill in committed time such as eating,sleeping,meetings,classes,etc.Then decideon good,regular times for studying.Be sure to set aside enough time to completeyour normalreading and work assignments.Of course,studying shouldnt occupy all of the free time on theschedule.Its important to

4、set aside time for relaxation,hobbies,and entertainment as well.Thisweekly schedule may not solve all of your problems,but it will make you more aware of how youspend your time.Furthermore,it will enable you to plan your activities so that you have adequatetime for both work and play.2.Find a good p

5、lace to study.Choose one place for your study area.It may be a desk or achair at home or in the school library,but it should be comfortable,and it should not havedistractions.When you begin to work,you should be able to concentrate on the subject.3.Skim before you read.This means looking over a pass

6、age quickly before you begin to readit more carefully.As you preview the material,you get some idea of the content and how it isorganized.Later when you begin to read you will recognize less important material and you mayskip some of these portions.Skimming helps double your reading speed and improv

7、es yourcomprehension as well.4.Make good use of your time in class.Listening to what the teacher says in class means lesswork later.Sit where you can see and hear well.Take notes to help you remember what the teachersays.5.Study regularly.Go over your notes as soon as you can after class.Review impo

8、rtantpoints mentioned in class as well as points you remain confused about.Read about these points inyour textbook.If you know what the teacher will discuss the next day,skim and read that materialtoo.This will help you understand the next class.If you review your notes and textbook regularly,the ma

9、terial will become more meaningful and you will remember it longer.Regular review leadsto improved performance on test.6.Develop a good attitude about tests.The purpose of a test is to show what you have learnedabout a subject.The world wont end if you dont pass a test,so dont worry excessively abou

10、t asingle test.Tests provide grades,but they also let you know what you need to spend more timestudying,and they help make your knowledge permanent.There are other techniques that might helpyou with your studying.Only a few have beenmentioned here.You will probably discover many others after you hav

11、e tried these.Talk with yourclassmates about their study techniques.Share with them some of the techniques you have found1大学英语精读 1-6 册课文完整版to be helpful.Improving your study habits will improve your grades.UNITUNIT2 2TEXTAt sixty-five Francis Chichester set out to sail single-handed round the world.

12、This is the story ofthat adventure.Sailing Round the WorldBefore he sailed round the world single-handed,Francis Chichester had already surprised hisfriends several times.He had tried to fly round the world but failed.That was in 1931.The years passed.He gave up flying and began sailing.He enjoyed i

13、t greatly.Chichester wasalready 58 years old when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race.His old dream of goinground the world came back,but this time he would sail.His friends and doctors did not think hecould do it,as he had lung cancer.But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan

14、.In August,1963,at the age of nearly sixty-five,an age when many men retire,he began the greatest voyageof his life.Soon,he was away in this new 16-metre boat,Gipsy Moth.Chichester followed the route of the great nineteenth century clipper ships.But the clippershad had plenty of crew.Chicheater did

15、it all by himself,even after the main steering device hadbeen damaged by gales.Chichester covered 14,100 miles before stopping in Sydney,Australia.This was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed aloneThis was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone.He arriv

16、ed in Australia on 12 December,just 107 days out from England.He received awarm welcome from the Australians and from his family who had flown there to meet him.Onshore,Chichester could not walk without help.Everybody said the same thing:he had doneenough;he must not go any further.But he did not li

17、sten.After resting in Sydney for a few weeks,Chichester set off once more in spite of in spite of his friendsattempts to dissuade him.attempts to dissuade him.The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part,by far the more dangerous part,during which he sailed round the treacherous

18、Cape Horn.On 29 January he left Australia.The mext night,the blackest he had ever known,the seabecame so roughrough that the boat almost turned over.Food,clothes,and broken glass were all mixedtogether.Fortunately,bed and went to sleep.When he woke up,the sea had become calm thenearest person he cou

19、ld contact by radio,unless there was a ship nearby,Wild be on an island 885miles away.After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn,Chichester sent the followiing radio message toLondon:I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare.Wild horses could not drag me down toCape Horn and that sinister Souther

20、n Ocean again.Juat before 9 oclock on Sunday evening 28 May,1967,he aeeived back in England,where aquarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him.Queeh Elizabeth II knigthed him withthe very sword that Queen Elizabeth I had sailed round the world for the first time.The wholevoyage from Engl

21、and and back had covered 28,500 miles.It had taken him nine months,ofwhich the sailing time was 226 days.He had done what he wanted to accomplish.2大学英语精读 1-6 册课文完整版Like many other adventurers,Chichester had experienced fear and conquered it.In doing so,he had undoubtedly learnt something about himse

22、lf.Moreover,in themodern age when humanbeings depend so much on machines,he had given men throughout the world new pride.UNIT 3UNIT 3TEXTThey say that blood is thicker than water,that our relatives are more important to us than others.Everyone was so kind to the old lady on her birthday.Surely her d

23、aughter would make an evenbigger effort to please he?The PresentIt was the old ladys birthday.She got up early to be ready for the post.From the second floor flat she could see thepostman when he came down the street,and the little boy from the ground floor brought up herletters on the rare occasion

24、s when anything came.Today she was sure the would be something.Myra wouldnt forget her mothers birthday,even if she seldom wrote at other times.Of course Myra was busy.Her husband had been madeMayor,and Myra herself had got a medal for her work the aged.The old lady was proud of Myra,but Enid was th

25、e daughter she loved.Enid had nevermarried,but had seemed content to live with her mother,and teach in a primary school round thecorner.One evening,however,Enid said,Ive arranged for Mrs.Morrison to look afteryou for afew days,Mother.Tomorrow I have to go into hospital-just a minor operation,Ill soo

26、n be home.In the morning she went,but never came back-she died on the operating table.Myra came tothe funeral,and in her efficient way arranged for Mrs.Morrison to come in and light the fire andgive the old lady her breakfast.Two years ago that was,and since then Myra had been to see her mother thre

27、e times,but herhusband never.The old lady was eight today.She had put on her best dress.Perhaps-perhaps Myra mightcome.After all,eighty was a special birthday,another decade lined or endured just as you chose tolook at it.Even if Myra did not come,she wouldsend a present.send a present.The old lady

28、was sure of that.Twospots of colour brightened her cheeks.She was excited-like a child.She would enjoy her day.Yesterday Mrs.Morrison had given the flat an extra clean,and today she had brought a cardand a bunch of marigolds when she came to do the breakfast.Mrs.Grant downstairs had made acake,and i

29、n the afternoon she was going down there to tea.The little boy,Johnnie,had been upwitha packet of mints,a packet of mints,and said he wouldnt go out to play until the post had come.I guess youll get lots and lots of presents,he said,I did last were when I was six.What would she like?A pair of slippe

30、rs perhaps.Or a new cardigan.A cardigan would be lovely.Blues such a pretty colour.Jim had always liked her in blue.Or a table lamp.Or a book,a travelbook,with pictures,or a little clock,with clear black numbers.So many lovely things.She stood by the window,watching.The postman turned round the corn

31、er on his bicycle.Her3大学英语精读 1-6 册课文完整版heart beat fast.Johnnie had seen him too and ran to the gate.Then clatter,clatter up the stairs.Johnnie knocked at her door.Granny,granny,he shouted,Ive got your post.He gave her four envelopes.Three were unsealed cards from old friends.The fourth wassealed,in

32、Myras writing.The old lady felt a pang of disappointment.No parcel,Johnnie?No,granny.Maybe the parcel was too large to come by letter post.That was it.It would come later byparcel post.She must be patient.Almost reluctantly she tore the envelope open.Folded in the card was a piece of paper.Written o

33、n the card was a message under the printed Happy Birthday-Buy yourself somethingnice with the cheque,Myra and Harold.The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing.Slowly the old lady stoopedto pick it up.Her present,her lovely present.With trembling fingers she tore it into little

34、 bits.NEW WORDSUNIT 4UNIT 4TEXTMany people in the United States spend most of their free time watching television.Certainly,there are many worthwhile programs on television,including news,educational programs forchildren,programs on current social problems,plays,movies,concerts,and so on.Nevertheles

35、s,perhaps people should not be spending so much of their time in front of the TV.Mr Mayerimagines what we might do if we were forced to find other activities.Turning off TV:a Quiet HourI would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening,right after the earlyevening news,all televis

36、ion broadcasting in the United States be prohibited by law.Let us take a serious,reasonable look at what the results be if such a proposal were accepted.Families might use the time for a real family hour.Without th e distraction of TV,they might sitaround together after dinner and actually talk to o

37、ne another.It is well known that many of ourproblems-everything,in fact,from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms ofmental illness-are caused at least in part by failure to communicate.We do not tell each otherwhat is disturbing us.The result is emotional difficulty of one kind

38、or another.By using the quietfamily hour to discuss our problems,we might get to know each other better,and to like eachother better.On evenings when such talk is unnecessary,families could rediscover more active pastimes.Freed from TV,forced to find their own activities,they might take a ride toget

39、her to watch thesunset.Or they might take a walk together(remember feet?)and see the neighborhood with fresh,4大学英语精读 1-6 册课文完整版new eyes.With free time and no TV,children and adults might rediscover reading.There is moreentertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programming.Educators

40、report thatthe generation growing up with television can barely write an English sentence,even at the collegelevel.Writing is often learned from reading.A more literate new generation could be a product ofthe quiet hour.A different form of reading might also be done,as it was in the past:reading alo

41、ud.Fewpastimes bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or fatherread a good story.The quiet hour could become the story hour.When the quiet hour ends,the TVnetworks might even be forced to come up with better shows in order to get us back from ournewly discovered

42、 activities.At first glance,the idea of an hour without TV seemsradical.What will parents do withoutthe electronic baby-sitter?How will we spend the time?But it is not radical at all.It has been onlytwenty-five years since television came to control American free time.Those of us thirty-five andolde

43、r can remember childhoods without television,spent partly with radio-which at leastinvolved the listeners imagination-but also with reading,learning,talking,playing games,inventing new activities.It wasnt that difficult.Honest.The truth is we had a ball.UNITUNIT5 5TEXTA miserable and merry Christmas

44、?How could it be?A Miserable,Merry ChristmasChristmas was coming.I wanted a pony.To make sure thatmy parents understood,I declaredthat I wanted noting else.Nothing but a pony?my father asked.Nothing,I said.Not even a pair of high boots?That was hard.I did want boots,butI stuck to the pony.No,not eve

45、n boots.Nor candy?There ought to be something to fill your stocking with,and Santa Claus cant puta pony into a stocking,That was true,and he couldnt lead a pony down the chimney either.But no.All I want is apony,I said.If I cant have a pony,give me nothing,nothing.On Christmas Eve I hung up my stock

46、ing along with my sisters.The next morning my sisters and I woke up at six.Then we raced downstairs to the fireplace.And there they were,the gifts,all sorts of wonderful things,mixed-up piles of presents.Only mystocking was empty;it hung limp;not a thing in it;and under and around it-nothing.My sist

47、ershad knelt down,each by her pile of gifts;they were crying with delight,till they looked up andsaw me standing there looking so miserable.They came over to me and felt my stocking:nothing.I dont remember whether I cried at that moment,but my sisters did.They ran with me back5大学英语精读 1-6 册课文完整版to my

48、 bed,and there we all cried till I became indignant.That helped some.I got up,dressed,anddriving my sisters away,I went out alone into the stable,and there,all by myself,I wept.Mymother came out to me and she tried to comfort me.But I wanted no comfort.She left me andwent on into the house with shar

49、p words for my father.My sisters came to me,and I was rude.I ran away from them.I went around to the front ofthe house,sat down on the steps,and,the crying over,I ached.I was wronged,I was hurt.And myfather must have been hurt,too,a little.I saw him looking out of the window.He was watchingme or som

50、ething for an hour or two,drawing back the curtain so little lest I catch him,but I sawhis face,and I think I can see now the anxiety upon on it,the worried impatience.After an hour or two,I caught sight of a man riding a pony down the street,a pony and abrand-new saddle;the most beautiful saddle I