大学英语二(综合教程)第五单元
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大学体验英语二（综合教程）
Unit
5
Ways to
Success
Listen and Talk
Lead in
Success
can be reached in different ways by people in
different careers.
Bill
Gates
began
at
age
13
to
computers.
His
vision
for
personal
computing
has
been
central
to the success of Microsoft Corporation, the
company he
his childhood
friend in 1975.
The former CEO
of General Electric, Jack Welch, is a business
legend. A famous quote by Mr.
Welch
is,
before
you
have
to.
He
believes
in
leading
by
example
and
3.
____his
employees to do
their best everyday.
Michael Jordan
said,
to ever play team sports. His
great smile, athletic , and pleasant personality
have made him one
of the most famous
the world. Michael Jordan
spent a lot of time playing basketball as a child
but in senior middle school he was
taken off the team. Instead of , he worked through
adversity
and became the greatest
basketball player yet.
Celine
Dion
came
from
in
a
rural
French
Canadian
town
in
Canada.
The
youngest
of
fourteen
children,
her
voice
is
internationally
known
on
such
soundtracks
as
Beauty
and
the
Beast and Titanic.
Ronaldo is Brazil's
greatest
soccer since Pele.
He began his professional
the season 90-91,
playing
for the Social Ramos Club. FIFA (Federation
Internationale de Football Association) voted
him best player of the year in both
1996 and
2002,he won the
Golden Shoe Award of the FIFA
World Cup
with 8 goals scored.
Key:1.
program; 2. founded; 3. encourages; 4. failure; 5.
achievements
6. athletes;
7. giving up; 8. humble; 9. talent; 10.
career
Passage
A: My Advice to Students: Education
Counts
the
following questions with the information from the
passage.
1. Why
do many students write to Bill Gates every
year
They want to get his
advice about education.
do some parents write to
Bill Gates
They want to get
guidance for their children.
3. What does Bill Gates
think of dropping out of school
He discourages it.
university did
Bill Gates go to Did he graduate with a
degree
He went to Harvard
but he dropped out in his junior year.
5. Many students choose to
work for a while before going to a university.
What do you think of
this
If you fall into an obsessive pattern
in high school, you are unlikely to change when
you go to
college, and you may not get
grades good enough to go to a good
college.
3.
Choose
the
best
answer
to
each
question
based
on
the
information
you
obtain
from
the
passage.
1. What does Gates mean by
A) Education
teaches us how to count numbers.
B) Education is important
to everyone.
C)
One learns by getting an education.
D) Education is the only
way to success.
2. From the passage we know that
__________.
A)
many people are interested in the success story of
Gates
B) Gates
dropped out of college because he didn't do
well
C) the
smart part-time programmer dropped out of
school
D) Gates
is going back to Harvard to get a degree
3. Gates tells
us that __________.
A) Microsoft Corp. has some successful
high school dropouts
B) Microsoft Corp. doesn't care much
about school education and diplomas
C) he encouraged the bright
part-time programmer to drop out of
school
D) it is
easier to get a job with a college diploma than
without one
4.
According to Gates, __________.
A) one learns better in a
library
B) one
learns better by self-study
C) one learns better by going to
school
D) it's
bad to have many interests
5. It can be inferred from the passage
that __________.
A) good universities usually get smart
and capable students
B) one gets specialized knowledge from
graduate school
C) one learns broadly at both high
school and college
D) it's fine to become deeply
interested in one specific area
Anwser:
1. B; 2. A; 3. D; 4. C; 5.
A
4. Fill in the blanks with
the words given below. Change the form where
necessary.
1. The economy
in that country ____ deeper and deeper into
crisis.
2. My father was a
historian and his ____ was the history of Germany.
3. They decided to close
the museum ____ and simply because it cost too
much to run.
4.
The
local
government
has
decided
on
new
measures
to
____
car
use
in
favour
of
public
transportation.
5. It's pretty ____ that they'll turn
up now-it's nearly ten o'clock.
6. The interchange of ideas aids an
understanding of group ____ .
7. She says it's a good film and
recommends it to all her friends, though she
hasn't ____ seen it.
8.
Stop shouting and let's discuss this ____
reasonably.
9. People now
____ that green issues are important to our
future.
10. Kathy and Eric
run this small hotel as an
the
atmosphere of warmth and hospitality
there
Anwser:
1. was sinking
2. specialty
3. purely
4. discourage
5.
unlikely
6. dynamics
7. actually
8. reasonably
9. have perceived 10. extended
5. Complete the following sentences
with phrases or expressions from the
passage.
____ politics while she was still a
college student, and was elected to the lower
parliament at
the age of 40.
2. Alone in London, without
friends, work, or money, Shelley ____ despair.
3. There was an attempt to
____ more men for the police force, but not many
did.
4. The idea sounds
fine, but we still need to _____
it ____ in practice.
5. She started working on an
engineering degree but _____ college after only a
year.
Anwser:1. took a deep interest in; 2.
fell into; 3. sign up; 4. try (it) out; 5. dropped
out of
a
dictionary for the usage of the following words
and make a sentence with each of them.
1. Rebecca was, without question, the
most skilled technician on the team.
company declares that their product
3. Your teacher can give you advice on
choosing a career and writing a job application.
situation made it more
difficult for management to encourage workers to
work harder.
books have sold in the thousands, but
from a literary point of view
they
aren’t really very good.
2. to embrace
graced
the following sentences
into English.