大英三summary.docx

UNIT?11.1?catching?crabsIn?the?fall?of?our?final?year,our?mood?changed.The?relaxed?atmosphere?had?disappeared,?and?peer?group?pressure?to?work?hard?was?strong.?Meanwhile,at?the?back?of?everyone’s?mind?was?what?we?would?do?next?after?graduation.?As?for?me,I?wanted?to?travel,and?I?wanted?to?be?a?writer.I?braced?myself?for?some?resistance?to?the?idea?from?my?father,who?wanted?me?to?go?to?law?school,and?follow?his?path?through?life.However,he?supported?what?I?wanted?but?he?made?me?think?about?it?by?watching?the?crabs.The?cage?was?full?of?crabs.?One?of?them?was?trying?to?escape,but?each?time?it?reached?the?top?the?other?crabs?pulled?it?back.In?the?end?it?gave?up?lengthy?struggle?to?escape?and?started?to?prevent?other?crabs?from?escaping.By?watching?crabs,my?father?told?me?not?to?be?pulled?back?by?others,and?to?get?to?know?himself?better.1.2We?are?all?dyingLife?is?short.We?never?quite?know?when?we?become?coffin?dwellers?or?trampled?ash?in?the?rose?garden?of?some?local?ceremony.So?there’s?no?point?in?putting?our?dreams?on?the?back?burner?until?the?right?time?arrives.Now?is?the?time?to?do?what?we?want?to?do.?Make?the?best?of?our?short?stay?and?fill?our?life?with?the?riches?on?offer?so?that?when?the?reaper?arrives,we’ve?achieved?much?instead?of?regrets.UNIT?22.1supermanThe?extract?from?Johnny?Panic?and?the?Bible?of?Dreams?by?Sylvia?Plath?is?a?combination?of?her?real?life?and?imaginary?life?in?her?childhood.In?the?real?life,Plath?was?a?winner?of?the?prize?for?drawing?the?best?Civil?Defense?signs,lived?by?an?airport?and?had?an?Uncle?who?bore?resemblance?to?Superman.In?her?imagination,the?airport?was?her?Mecca?and?Jerusalem?because?of?her?flying?dreams.Superman?fulfilled?her?dream?at?the?moment.David?Stirling,a?bookish?boy,also?worship?Superman.During?the?recess?at?school,he?and?the?author?played?Superman?games.Compared?with?their?school-mates?who?played?the?routine?games,they?felt?they?were?outlaws?but?had?a?sense?of?windy?superiority.They?also?found?a?stand-in,Sheldon?Fein,?w