大厦英文新标准大学英语4课文summary

2021年1月20日发(作者：名书)


Unit1 reading2

if you ask me
This
is
an
informal
and
personalized
account
of
an
economic
graduate
who
gets
a
job
in
a
pub
for
a
year
and
then
has
an
opportunity to be successful (a lucky break). Since her family can’t
support
her
to
further
study,
she
has
to
work.
She
has
financial
problems and feels lonely. She tells her troubles to Tony, a regular
customer of the pub, who talks to some friends and gets her a loan
to set up a business. With this help she has her master’s degree and
her
own
company.
however,
unluckliy,Tony
is
disabled
after
an
accident and needs the repayment of the loan to adapt his house
for
his
disability.
She
pay
back
Tony
’
s
help,
and
Tony
thinks
that
investing in people gives the best return you can ever hope for.
Unit2

reading1
Reading is a life-changing activity. It helps us enter a new world
and liberate us from the real world we come from; it stimulates our
emotions
and
allows
us
enjoy
and
celebrate
the
variety
and
difference
from
books;
it
aids
us
to
get
out
of
confusion
in
a
material world and to discover the real meaning of the life. Simply
put, books are supremely influential in the way we live.



Homerun
book
might
be
the
answer
for
the
book
that
everyone should read. It describes the first reading experience that
induces such pleasure and satisfaction that you cannot put it down
and it may range from the classics to the most recent. Everyone is
looking for their own homerun

books. And what is yours?

Unit2

reading2
Henry Miller depicts the struggle he made to obtain books when
he was young, and then introduces the reason that makes a book
live---that
is,
the
enthusiastic
recommendation
of
one
reader
to
another. In his eyes, books are one of the few things men cherished
deeply,
but
if
you
lend
it
to
others,
it
makes
friends
for
you.
He
continues
to
suggest
that
the
vast
majority
of
books
repeat
what
others say, so read as little as possible. He then advices such a way
to
test
his
suggestion---that
is,
leave
a
book
alone,
but
think
as
intensely as possible and if you decide to read, observe with what
extraordinary acumen you read it and realize that very little of the
books is really new to you.
Unit3

reading1
Between
1960
and
2010,
there
are
two
constant
factors:the
ubiquitous jeans and the rise and fall of hemlines for women
’
s skirts
and dresses.
Jeans
were
invented
by
Levi
Strauss
in
the
mid-19
th

century
in
America. But it soon became popular among young people. In late
1950s,
it
export
to
Europe
and
Asia.
The
most
important
development in fashion in the1960s was the miniskirt invented by
Mary, Quant.
Hemlines were related to the economy. Whenever the economic
outlook
is
unsettled,
both
men
and
women
tend
to
wear
more
conservative clothes. And as the economy situation changed, time
saw a number of different styles. Sometimes the hemline can even
predicted a change in the mood of the stock market long before it
actually happens. And it was proved in the economic crisis in 2008.
During the whole period, fashion styles have ranged widely. But
the constant factors over this period are denim and hemlines.
Unit3

reading2
Sea
glass
is
popular
among
the
jewellery
collectors
for
several
reasons. First, the creation of sea glass is a form of recycling , where
nature compensates for
man’s folly. Second, with human recycling
rather
than
hurling
it
into
the
sea,
sea
glass
becomes
rarer
than
diamonds,
its
supply
is
in
decline
while
its
demand
is
on
the
rise.
This leads to its boom in the market.

Third,
its
eco-credentials
lend
sea
glass
further
appeal,
as
gold
extraction
damages
the
environment
and
diamond
industry
has
a
poor
human
rights
record.
So
the
designers
would
like
to
put
sea
glass to use.




Gina
Cowen
became
a
sea
glass
jeweller
after
her
stints
in
journalism
and
music
management
in
her
20s
and
30s.
While
sea
glass is disappearing, she is still on the hunt.


Gina Cowen’s collection started in her walk along a
shingle beach
near Capetown, South Africa, where she was born. She has several
hunting
grounds,
South
Africa,
Fiji,
Majorca
in
Spain,
and
the
UK.
But her favourite one is Seaham Beach in the UK.



Her
designs
were
sold
at
Liberty,
London,
but
mostly
she
sells
her jewellery to private customers.
With the decline of sea glass in supply, there has arisen problem
of
reviving
old
habits
of
dumping
glass
into
the
sea.
Gina
Cowen
refuses to condone it and she even rejects the idea of polishing new
glass to make it look old, as there is a story behind sea glass.




So
follow
Cowen’s
example
and
search
for
glowing
pebbles
before they vanish.

Unit4

reading1
Today, we are caught in the credit crunch because banks set traps
which appeal to our vanity and greed and sometimes to our basic
need for survival.

The
banks
give
a
false
sense
of
superiority
to
people
with
exclusive
gold
credit
cards
in
hard.
They
target
people
who
are
prone to impulse-buying, and potentially bad credit risks, tempted
to
spend
more
than
they
have,
and
liable
to
fall
behind
with