《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题(学生版).doc

北京城市学院 201-2015学年第一学期 《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题 （学生版）  Unit 1 Education: A Transformation of the Soul 1 On my first day of high school, my teacher showed the class a Power Point presentation entitled The Value of Education. The first slide read simply this: “Education = $”. I felt uncomfortable, not knowing exactly why. 2 Education, throughout my high school experience, continued to be described to me like this: college means a diploma. A diploma means a better job. A better job means more money. More money means a good life. But I wondered who had decided the criteria for a “better” job and a “good” life. It all seemed so mathematical. Education was presented to me as an equation equaling a person I had not chosen to be. 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 她读了一首题为《想起你》的诗。(entitle) 2. 他给这本书取名为《野性的爱》。(entitle) 3. 教育的关键在于激励和享受，而不是一所学校或一个大学文凭。(diploma) 4. 那青年用了3 年的时间取得研究生文凭。(diploma) 5. 我自己成功的标准是能够努力工作和快乐生活。(criteria) 3 I went on to college, of course, as everyone told me to do. College is how you become an earner, they told me. My major that first semester was International Relations. I liked the woman I envisioned myself as in this field – a diplomat, a savvy citizen of the world. But gradually I began to realize that this person was not someone I bore any resemblance to. She was, rather, a clone of the well-educated, well-moneyed ideal my teacher had presented to me years ago. This woman had earning potential; she was smart and worldly. But she was not someone I would become. She had nothing I really wanted. 4 My moment of clarity soon came. I was watching a film with my family and laughing at all the historical errors in it, but I suddenly realized that there was something I did love, something I had brushed aside in my mind for years because it did not fit with the marketable, diploma-holding job applicant I had always assumed I should become. 5 I am, as it so happens, the daughter of passionate history buffs. My family never took vacations; we took field trips. I had not yet lear