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Unit 1 College Life
Listen and Respond
I
am
now
a
fourth-year
student
at
college,
but
I
can
never
forget
my
freshman
year
here.
In
general,
it is a time filled with anticipation, some
anxiety, and wonderful discoveries.
College is a lot different from high
school. Your freshman experience will definitely
make an
impression
on
you.
So,
what
can
you
expect
as
you
head
off
into
the
wonderful
world
of
higher
education?
The first thing
you'll notice is the workload. It will be heavier
than you ever experienced before.
The
major
challenges
of
college
work
are
the
large
amount
of
reading
and
writing,
and
the
short
deadlines. A related effect that can be
brought on by the workload is doubt, frustration,
and possibly
loneliness. You'll be away
from the comforts and friendships your home
provided for you over the
previous
years.
During the freshman year,
you'll be making a lot of new friends. But you
should continue to be
yourself. Select
your friends with the same care and patience you
have always shown. Believe it or
not,
your college friendships will be among the most
satisfying and long-term of your life. It's always
exciting to discover how wonderfully
diverse college relationships can be.
You'll
also
be
on
your
own
—
you'll
be
your
own
boss
24
hours
a
day,
so
to
speak.
But,
remember, with freedom comes
responsibility. You should always remember that
you are at college
with an anticipated
mission. Don't waste your time on meaningless
things.
During
the
freshman
year,
you
may
even
start
thinking
about
your
future.
Maybe
a
certain
professor is
especially inspiring. Perhaps your school has some
great research going on. If some area
of study attracts you, find out all you
can about it. It might be the beginning of your
lifetime career.
Going to college is
not just to get a degree
—
it
is to find out who you really are and what you are
really made for.
Unit 2
Learning a Language
Hello, I’m Alberto.
I’m a student of English, French, Portuguese and
Italian. I would
also love
to learn Chinese and German in the near
future. My mother tongue is Spanish and I have a
degree in
Political Science. I love to
learn new languages, because I think it broadens
my mind. Even though I
still have some
difficulty with verb tenses, I’m confident that
with time and practice I’ll c
ope with
them.
I
believe
learning
a
new
language
besides
your
mother
tongue
can
be
useful,
especially
in
a
world
where
distances
are
shortened
and
people
from
different
countries
communicate
with
each
other more frequently.
Learning a new language can be a good
experience, but only if you keep in mind that
nothing is
obtained
without
some
effort.
In
my
opinion,
the
best
way
to
learn
a
language
is
to
read
a
lot.
It
doesn’t
matter
what
you
read,
but
that
you
do
it.
Even
if
you
don’t
understand
everything
,
your
reading comprehension skill will
improve remarkably. Also, if possible, watch a lot
of television in
that
language, or listen to CDs. Maybe at first you
won’t understand a word, but later you’d catch on
to the rhythm of the language.
Good dictionaries are
necessary, and books regarding vocabulary can be a
plus. The Internet is
also a useful
tool.
The language you
choose to learn might seem a little difficult at
first, or even totally strange,
but
you’ll get accustomed to it. Remember that the
learn
ing process is long, and that it
never ends.
However, it is also highly
enjoyable.
Unit 2
A Parents and Teenagers
Teenagers and adults have a
difficult time communicating. Teenagers often
think adults don't
understand them.
Adults often think teenagers just don't listen to
anything they say. That creates
conflict. People very often use
However, the problem of communication
between parents and teenagers does not all lie in
the
teenage child and a
parent. Here is one example. Mother says:
teenager replies:
so becomes
a bit unhappy.
didn't say I had to do
it now.
the mother feels that the
teenager should know what she means, but the
teenager just doesn't. This
type of
conversation takes place around our home every
day. They cause some unhappiness but are
totally normal, and can usually be
solved quite soon. It is when this type of
gets involved with the bigger issues of
teenagers that larger problems can be caused. It
is more
difficult to solve these larger
problems and it takes the efforts of both parents
and teenagers to
overcome such
problems.
Unit 3 The
Birthday Heart
One day I
was helping my mom preparing a picnic when my
sisters arrived. They said, “Happy
birthday, Mom!” and gave her some
presents.
I was sad. I had
forgotten it was my mother’s birthday, but I
didn’t want her to know that I had
not
remembered her birthday. I had one dollar in my
piggy bank. With that I was sure that I could get
a present that would show my mother how
much I loved her.
I went to
the store. When I looked around, I suddenly
realized that my dollar wouldn’t buy as
much as I had thought it would. Then I
saw a heart made of plastic. It contained
typewriter correction
paper. I knew
that it would show my mother how much I loved her.
It was ninety-nine cents.
I
took the heart to the cashier and gave her my
dollar. She said that
I didn’t have
enough money
because with tax the heart
cost more than a dollar.
I
didn’t understand sales tax. All I understood was
that I couldn’t give the heart to my mom. I
went to put the heart back and the
cashier asked me if it was my mom’s
birthday.
I nodded. Then she
said that she could help me. She put
some of her own pennies in the cash register with
my dollar and