新视野精读第八单元语言点讲解

Text- analysis What Youngsters Expect in Life Para.1Para.1 Back in the good old days of stable economic expansionthe 1950s and 1960sa person could choose to do something new, exciting, and creative in life but could also choose to say, “Thats not for me: I am going to play it safe in life. I am going to stay in my home town and have a nice comfortable career in a salaried job.” That second choice no longer exists for the vast majority of Americans. All of us are going to be creators and pioneers over the next 10 years whether we like it or not, and many of us dont like it. Para.2 Para.2 Just look at what the attitude surveys tell us. In the United States, three-quarters of the adults surveyed by the Harris poll and two- thirds of all high-school seniors surveyed by Scholastic magazine say they believe that the United States will be a worse place 10 years from now than it is today. No wonder young people are disaffected. No wonder they are not motivated to learn. They think the world in which they are going to spend their lives wont be a very satisfactory place. Para. 3 Para. 3 Young men, in particular, are not happy with their prospects for the future. When surveyors ask U.S. female high-school students what they are going to do when they graduate, they list all kinds of roles they want to fill, like doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, civil servants, police and firemen, and fighter pilots. In short, they want to do all the things that men have always done. Moreover, less than 10% of female high-school seniors expect to spend their adult lives solely as mothers and domestic managers, while nearly 90% are committed to having both a career and a marriage based on equality. Para. 4Para. 4 By comparison, nearly half of male high- school students express their preference for a traditional, male-headed, one provider, nuclear family, where the wife stays home as mother and housewife. And when male high-school students are asked what kinds of careers they would like to have, the only two job fields that consistently receive large numbers of responses in open surveys are “professional athlete” and “media personality”. A large proportion of Americas young menone third or moresimply say they dont know what theyre going to do as adults. Para. 5aPara. 5a If these people do not acquire some constructive vision of purpose for themselves, they are likely to be very destructive forces of resistance in society throughout their lives. We already see that. One recent estimate is that one-sixth of all fourteen- to twenty-four-year- olds in Americamostly malesare currently “disaffected and disconnected”. Para. 5bPara. 5b They are not associated with any formal role in society, nor are they in any formal relationship with another person. These are the folks who are joining the gangs in inner cities and swelling the ranks of the rural military gangs. They see no roles for themselves in an Information Age society, and they are angry about their empty future. Para. 6a Para. 6a So this is a very pregnant moment, not only for the future of America, but also for all of the mature industrial economies and, ultimately, for the world at large. It is an uncertain moment, a scary moment. It is the kind of moment in history when, to summarize in the words of Alfred North Whitehead, familiar patterns fade, familiar solutions fail, and familiar options disappear. Para. 6bPara. 6b Of course, the books and periodicals that are warning society about the removal of jobs, “the end of work”, and wage decreases only serve to increase public anxietya slow-motion variation of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Para. 7aPara. 7a These alarming forecasts are largely simple projections of the past two or three decades of workplace trends. However, in the absence of plausible alternative explanations for the gloomy economic news of the past 15-20 years and the gloomier prospects implicit in the projections of those trends, industrial societiesfearful for the future might very well take backward steps. Para. 7bPara. 7b These steps will principally serve the interests of the economically dominant groups who want to protect their assets and resources from the forces of change. Nations that take such steps will lose balance. Social and economic progress will grind to a halt and more and more jobs will be eliminated by the negative side of this transformation. The anger and frustration displayed by people who do not understand what is happening to them will be a terrible and dangerous force in all the major industrial economies. 2.人们惋惜过去的好时光的流逝。 2. People lament the passing of the good old days. 1.我祖母总是谈论她年轻时的好时光。 1. My grandmother always talks about the good old days when she was young. the good old days: 过去的美好时光 单词单词 例句例句 英语多个形容词修饰名词的顺序 口诀法 : “美小圆旧黄，法国木书房” “ “美美” ”代表代表“ “描述或性质类描述或性质类” ”形容词；形容词；“ “小小” ”代表代表“ “大大 小、长短、高低、胖瘦类小、长短、高低、胖瘦类” ” 形容词；形容词；“ “圆圆” ”代表代表“ “ 形状类形状类” ” 形容词；形容词；“ “旧旧” ”代表代表“ “新旧、年龄类新旧、年龄类”