研究生英语 前4单元练习答案研究生英语 前4单元练习答案.doc

研究生英语1-4单元练习答案（部分） Unit 1 Comprehension l. The essay mainly discusses the purpose of education. The college education at its best should move the student from competence to commitment. 2. Part 2 (para. 3 to para. 14): The college graduate has civic obligations to fulfill” and “To fulfill this urgent obligation, the perspective needed is not only national, but global.’ ‘ Part 3 (para. 15 to para. 17): Education for what purpose? Competence to what end? Part 4 (para. 18 to para. 23): The undergraduate experience at its best will move the student from competence to commitment. But our abiding hope is with determination and effort the undergraduate college can make a difference in the intellectual and personal lives of its graduates, in the social and civic responsibilities they are willing to assume, and ultimately in their world perspective. 3. Because they are devoting their energies only to what seems most real to them. They don’t know how to devote themselves to the society, to other people. They don’t know where they should put their faith in this uncertain age. 4. An uncertain age means a period of time which is changeable and in which the future is unknown. A hard-edged, competitive age means a period of time in which people or organizations try very hard to be more successful than others. (Open) 5. Because they feel a serious conflict between giving or giving up for others (service) and trying to satisfy their own needs and desires. 6. Because the author thinks man can pay attention to the society only when he is committed, and he can find his own values only when he surpasses himself. So the measurement of the willingness of graduates to be socially and civically engaged will lead to the ideal undergraduate education which reflects itself in loyalties that transcend self. Boyer implies that man can only find himself when he focuses on something beyond self. It is through being committed to others, society, etc. that true success is recognized and atta