综英课文释义.docx

Unit 11.inherited from parents), shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.Who we are is determined by three things: First, our genes, or what our parents have given us, our legacy; second, environment; and third, luck or opportunities.2. college education.Actually, if the students choose to go to college to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.3.College students need to stand back and see where they are in the independence/dependence struggle.(In the face of the arrays of challenges,) it is necessary for college students to avoid getting too emotionally involved in the struggle and try to get a clear idea of their situation.4. . Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.Perhaps nothing can make a student experience such a big emotional change except his/her relationships with his/helover.Unit 21.I realized that while my satisfaction in the sheer act of reading had not abated in the least, the world was often as hostile, or as blind, to that joy as had been my girlfriends.I realized that while my joy in reading had notweakened a bit, the world was just as blind or hostile to my joy as my girlfriends had been.2. turning away from human contact is suspect, especially one that interferes with the go-out-and-get-going ethos America is a nation that highly values sociability and community, and believes that being alone will naturally lead to being a loner, and being a loner is sure to end up being a loser. Therefore if someone separates himself or herself from other people, people have a good reason to suspect him or her, especially if it prevents that person from going out and starting to get things done, which is the most important part of the American character.3. Reading for pleasure, spurred on by some inter