新标准大学英语三summary.doc

大英 3 summaryUNITl1.1 catchi ng crabsIn the fall of our final year;our mood changed.Peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Mean while, the most importa nt thing for us was what we would do n ext after graduati on. My father wan ted me to go to law school,but I wan ted to travel,as well as to be a writer.So I have to brace myself for some resista nee to his idea,.However,he supported but he made me think about it by watching the crabs.The cage was full of crabs. One of them was trying to escape,but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled it back」n the end it gave up escaping and started to prevent other crabs from escaping.By watchi ng crabs, my father told me not to be pulled back by others,a nd to get to know myself better.1.2We are all dyingLife is short.We never quite know when we become coffin dwellers or trampled ash in the rose garden of some local ceremony.So there's no point in putting our dreams on the back burner until the right time arrives.Now is the time to do what we want to do. Make the best of our short stay . And if you don't like your job, just turn to another one. Besides, there is no time like present . We should make best use of our time, so that when the reaper arrives,we've achieved much in stead of regrets.UNIT 22.1superma nWhe n the war bega n, the author was in the fifth grade in the Annie F. It was also the win ter that she was a winner of the prize for drawing the best Civil Defense signs,lived by an airport. She thought her Uncle Frank bore resemblanee to Superman.ln her imagination,the airport was her Mecca and Jerusalem because of her flying dreams.Superman fulfilled her dream at the moment. David Stirling,a bookish boy,also worship Superman.During the recess at school,he and the author played Superman games.Compared with their school-mates who played the routine games,they felt they were outlaws but had a sense of windy superiority.They also found a stand-in ,Sheld on Fein, who later inven ted tortures.UNIT 33.1how we listenWe all listen to music according to our separate capacities. For the sake of clarify,we split up the process of listening to music into three hypothetical planes.Firstly,the sensuous plane」t is a kind of brainless but attractive state of mind engen de red by the sound appeal of the music.The second plane is the expressive one」t is when we believe each piece of music has a theme,which mirrors a different world of feeling. Thirdly,the musical plane. It is very important for all of us to become more alive to music on its sheerly muscial plane. It is the ability to experienee different musical eleme nts,such as melodies,the rhythms,the harm on ies,the tone colors etc.We usually liste n to music on all three planes.3.2the mystery of Girl with a Pearl EarringThe painting Girl with a Pearl Earri ng is one of Dutch pain ter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks」t shows a striking young woman wearing an exotic costume and a turban,peering over her shoulder straight out at the viewer. There were lots of mystery about this painting. As the name implies,it uses a pearl earring for a focal point」t has been referred to as the Mona Lisa of the north,because,like Leonardo da Vinci's painting,it appears to be a simple likeness of a woman with an enigmatic smile,yet which contains levels of meanings and questions. And the painting has been the theme of a novel and a film.UNIT44.1work in corporate AmericaIn today's American jobs are not what they used to be. It is hard to visualize what work is in corporate America. When a father was asked about his job, he could answer in terms that a child could come to grips with.Nowadays,whe n the pare nt take his offspri ng to his place of busi ness in glass buildings that are really hard to understand. What's more, it's safe bet that even grown men have trouble visualizing what other men does in their jobs with his day. Therefore,it's not difficult to imagine a poor child may answer^mulling over" after it beats me the mysteries of work,when his friends asks him of his father's job.4.2our supposedly exciting times are really rather dullLiving in a world of unprecedented change’there are never been anything quite like it. However, we are just ign ora nt about deeper historical patterns, take globalizati on for example,from historical con text point of view,the world is almost meanin gless.We simply do not live in a age of great tech no logical inno vati on for all our en thusiasm about in ter net and iPod.With staggeri ng 90 perce nt of all web traffic is local,we are always be told the In ter net has "ope ned up〃the world.As the Chinese curse runs "May you live in interesting times,?,it can bring chaos and anxiety in the in the wake. Even an Englishman born in 1865 would have seen changes the magnitude of which we can hardly imagine.UNIT 55.1di nner at Joa nne'sJosh was meeti ng Jo Rogers, the senior. And he came to Joa nn e's, a famous restaura nt which there are always lots of famo。