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1、Your College Years Language focusUnit 1Text A Your College YearsLanguage FocusWords used to describe college years: exciting, meaningful, rewarding, independent, self-reliant, mature, self-discipline, a strong sense of responsibility，lonely, depressed, frustrating, scary, at a loss, muddle through t

2、he four yearsDefinition of Terms:developmental changes: the physiological and behavioral changes throughout the life spanadolescence: a period between childhood and adulthood, which is usually fraught with anxiety and conflict. The passage to adulthood is often marked by a number of small changes in

3、 status (the right to vote, to drink liquor, to drive a car, etc.) during or near the end of adolescence.identity crisis: the difficulties, confusions and anxieties that you go through during adolescence when you are not sure what you really are and what your purpose in life isinternalize: a psychol

4、ogical term meaning “to make faith, values, moral, attitudes, behavior, language etc. part of your nature by learning or assimilating them unconsciously”【paragraph 1】it occurs to sb. that/ it dawn on sb. that ; occur1. Has it ever occurred to you thatNote: notice the difference between Chinese and E

5、nglish in expressing 突然想到in Chinese, the subject is usually a personal pronoun, while in English, the idea or thought, or the anticipatory “it” is used.e.g. The thought of giving up never occurred to me. it occurs to sb. to do sth.e.g. I suppose it didnt occur to you to phone the police? It didnt oc

6、cur to her to ask how hed found her.It never seems to occur to my children to contact me.it occurs to sb. (that)e.g. It had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her. It suddenly occurred to her that Joe was afraid of being alone. It never occurred to me that wealth could ruin

7、a persons life. It suddenly occurred to him that he had not touched any meat for months. “Strike” is often used in this patternstrike: if something (thought/idea) strikes you, you think of it, notice it, or realize that it is important, interesting, true etce.g. A rather worrying thought struck me.

8、（想到）The first thing that struck me was the fact that there were no other women present. （留意）it strikes somebody thate.g. It struck her that losing the company might be the least of her worries.It struck her that although she was now rich by her own standard, she was not really happy.2. Has it ever d

9、awned on you thatdawn on sb: if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first timee.g. Then the ghastly truth dawned on me. It dawned on me that Joanna had been right all along.It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me.Little by little it dawned on Archie that his wife was not

10、coming back.It gradually began to dawn on the economists that the problem was not overproduction, but under-consumption. It suddenly dawned on us that high savings rate may not be a good thing. 3. certain developmental changes will occur in your lifeoccur: a. to happene.g. Police said the accident o

11、ccurred about 4.30 pm.The explosion occurred at 5.30 a.m. b. + adverb/preposition to happen or exist in a particular place or situationoccur in/among etce.g. Whooping cough occurs mainly in young children. 小孩常得百日咳。The highest rates of unemployment occur in the inner urban areas. This small tree also

12、 occurs in central and southern India. 生长在【paragraph 2】go through, endeavor, perceive, endowment, chance4. During this time, students are going through an identity crisis and are endeavoring to find out who they are and what their strengths and weakness are. go through: experience, undergo, suffer1)

13、 DIFFICULT/UNPLEASANT SITUATION: to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation, feeling etce.g. When youre going through a crisis, it often helps to talk to someone. Hes going through a divorce at the moment.It is devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery.Doctors have to go thr

14、ough a long period of expensive professional training.2) PROCESS: to experience a particular processe.g. Candidates must go through a process of selection. Caterpillars go through several stages of growth.3) USE to use up money or a supply of somethinge.g. We went through five pints of milk last wee

15、k. Somehow they had gone through the whole bottle of wine. 4) LAW/DEAL/AGREEMENT if a law, agreement, or official decision goes through, it is officially accepted, or approved by the people who have the power or authority to do so.e.g. He accepted the offer and the deal went through. I dont think th

16、is plan will go through the Security Council. (TB)5) SEARCH to search sth. in order to find something in particulare.g. Dave went through his pockets looking for the keys. Customs officers went through all my bags.6) READ/DISCUSS to read or discuss sth. (a list, story, or plan) from beginning to end

17、 in order to make sure it is correcte.g. Well go through the details later on. Do you want me to go through this and check your spellings? We have gone through all these arguments. (TB) go through with sth: to do something you had promised or planned to do, even though it causes problems or you are

18、no longer sure you want to do ite.g. He bravely went through with the wedding ceremony even though he was in a lot of pain.Its too late to back out. We just have to go through with it. (TB)endeavor: v. FORMAL to try very hard to do something:e.g. We have endeavoured to make the vehicle environmental

19、ly friendly. We always endeavor to please our customers.n. C/U FORMAL: an effort to do something, especially something new or difficulte.g. The business was built up largely through the endeavours of his mother. They made every endeavour to find the two boys.Despite our best endeavours , we couldnt

20、start the car.5. Its important to know how people perceive themselvesperceive: vt.1) (often passive) written to understand or think of something or someone in a particular waye.g. School heads perceive their roles in different ways. He perceived himself a loser who could not even support his family.

21、 (TB)perceive something/somebody as somethinge.g. Even as a young woman she had been perceived as a future chief executive.Computers were often perceived as a threat.perceive someone/something to be something: e.g. Often what is perceived to be aggression is simply fear. Children who do badly in sch

22、ool tests often perceive themselves to be failures.a perceived advantage/need/threat (=one that people think is real)e.g. The most important problem is the perceived threat to public health.2) FML to notice, see/observe/discover, or recognize somethinge.g. That morning, he perceived a change in Fran

23、cas mood. Cats are not able to perceive colour.Musicians can perceive very small differences in sounds.perceive thate.g. He perceived that there was no other way out of the crisis. I gradually perceived that culture and language cannot really be separated. (TB: to understand; to grasp) perception pe

24、rceptivee.g. childrens perceptions of the world There is a perception that management only wants to cut costs. The publics perception of him is slowly changing. (the way you think about something and your idea of what it is like) Ross shows unusual perception for a boy of his age. (the natural abili

25、ty to understand or notice things quickly) Children can be amazingly perceptive about adults moods. (able to notice or understand things quickly and easily)6. identity is determined.chance events.Meaning: Who we are is determined by three things: First, our genes, or what our parents have given us,

26、our legacy; second, environment, and third, luck or opportunities.endowment:1) C a natural quality or ability that someone hase.g. the islands natural endowments of white sandy beaches and clean water2) C/U a sum of money given to a college, hospital etc to provide it with an income, or the act of g

27、iving this money 资助，捐助e.g. the endowment of a Professorship at Oxfordendow: vt. 1) to be endowed with: to naturally have a good feature or quality e.g. She is endowed with both brains and beauty.2) to endow sb. with sth.: to make sb. or sth. have a particular quality, or to believe that they have it

28、e.g. Her resistance to the Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.The Generals supporters endow him with an almost godlike status.3) to give a college, hospital etc a large sum of money that provides it with an income chance: adj. not planned or expected; accidentalchance meeting/encounter/e

29、vent etce.g. A chance remark by one of his colleagues got him thinking.A chance encounter at the conference gave him the opportunity to tell the professor about his work. Their friendship was the result of a chance meeting. Wilson hoped his chance discovery would benefit poor families in developing

30、nations.Paragraph 3 independent of VS dependent on ; heighten; pursue7. While students are going through an identity crisis, they are becoming independent from their parents and yet they are still very dependent on them. to be independent of : （注：教参上independent后可接of或from。我参考了朗文、Macmillan和新世纪英语用法大词典以

31、及贺氏英文法全书，independent后边只能接of，表示“独立的；单独的；有主见的；自立的”等意思；而independence后面接的是from，如：gain independence from Britain脱离英国。She shows great independence of mind.她显得很有主见。贺氏英文法全书标注independence from/of（脱离独立）1) not depending on other people for help, advice or moneye.g. His wages enabled him to become economically

32、independent of his family. (having enough money to live without having to ask for help from other people) By this age, the child becomes relatively independent of his mother. (independent: confident and able to do things by yourself in your own way, without needing help or advice from other people)Robert aimed to be independent of his parents by the time he was twen