Section A：
Slavery Gave Me Nothing to Lose
I remember the very day that I became black. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a black town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando, Florida. The native whites rode dusty horses, and the northern tourists traveled down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped chewing sugar cane when they passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The bold would come outside to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village.
The front deck might seem a frightening place for the rest of the town, but it was a front row seat for me. My favorite place was on top of the gatepost. Not only did I enjoy the show, but I didn't mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in passing. I'd wave at them and when they returned my wave, I would say a few words of greeting. Usually the automobile or the horse paused at this, and after a strange exchange of greetings, I would probably "go a piece of the way" with them, as we say in farthest Florida, and follow them down the road a bit. If one of my family happened to come to the front of the house in time to see me, of course the conversation would be rudely broken off.
During this period, white people differed from black to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me "speak pieces" and sing and wanted to see me dance, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing these things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop. Only they didn't know it. The colored people gave no coins. They disapproved of any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their Zora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotels, to the country — everybody's Zora.
1、the people or things that combine to form a single group or whole 组成;构造;结构
2、very bright 灿烂的;明亮的
3、shining in the dark 发光的;夜明的
4、happening too soon or before the usual time 过早的;提早的
5、see or hear sth., esp. sth. that far away or not very clear 看到;听到;辨认出
这一年的大学英语学*生涯，让我感慨颇多!回想起，那个时候上课的情况，一切是那么的`清晰，仿佛就像是发生在昨天一样。
通过这两年在大学的英语学*，我对于目前的大学英语教学方面有以下的看法：虽然在教学内容较单一的情况下，但在英语教学方式方面相对来说，教学形式还是较丰富多彩的，具体地说： 在大学英语课堂教学中，老师采用了有趣生动的教学内容呈现形式，如：游戏化地教学活动、小组讨论、课堂辩论、学生上讲台、看音像资料等来传授教学内容。
对这种形式的教学，我觉得很不错! 与我们高中枯燥的英语课堂相比，这种利用各种喜闻乐见的活动教学方式，让教学内容的呈现方式更乐意被我们接受，提高了我们对教学内容的接受程度。 当然，采用何种教学形式，取决于学生的年龄、性格特征、班级规模、班风等实际因素。显然采用了合适的教学形式能较大地激发学生学*。
另外，另一种值得一提的教学安排就是英语PPT展示。 对于英语的PPT展示的教学安排，很多人不支持，觉得没意义，不如不用上课更好。
但我个人觉得，它是利远大于弊的。 因为这种教学安排给了我们很多的学*空间，让教学的互动性与学生的自主学*的激情给充分调动起来，同时也是一个很好的考验个人的自我约束的意识。可能部分的同学还停留在老师一个人在讲课，学生在下面听的中学教学模式中，很难理解这其中的意义。因此，有一部分同学在机房学*时，因自身的自律意识不强而做一些与学*无关的事情，如：看视频，聊QQ，发邮件等。从另一角度来说，这也是对学生的自我管理与约束方面的考验的*台，在这*台上，学生将能逐渐摆脱掉依赖老师与家长的监督来学*的不良学**惯，提高自己的自我约束能力与增强自己的学*意识。只是，在这转变过程当中，老师等要学会引导这些学生，这样这种教学方式将会真正达到提高学生的自主学*能力的目的。
1.对外交流需要英语
随着世界经济的发展，国际问交流越来越频繁，*人出国和外国人来*正逐步成为*常事。随着*经济与世界经济的接轨，这种交往还会急剧增加。国际交往中使用得最多的是英语，飞速发展的国际交往与比较低的.外语水*之间的矛盾日益突出。正是在这种形势的推动下，人们正在以极大的热情学*英语。
2.不出国也需要英话
随着*年来世界范围的信息高速公路的高速发展，世界进入了信息社会和网络世界(1997年世界经济论坛会议语)，地球显得越来越小，国内和国外的界限变得不大清楚了。从一定意义上讲，可以说国内就是国外。例如随着Internet网上多媒体(文字、声音和图像)的World Wide Web的出现，各种虚拟(virtu al)事物层出不穷。
3.不搞高科技也需要英语
一学期来，本人认真备课、上课、听课、评课，及时批改作业、讲评作业，做好课后辅导工作，广泛涉猎各种知识，形成比较完整的知识结构，严格要求学生，尊重学生，发扬教学民主，使学生学有所得，从而不断提高自己的教学水*和思想觉悟，并顺利完成教育教学任务。 下面是本人的教学经验及体会：
1.要提高教学质量，关键是上好课。为了上好课，我做了下面的工作：
(1)课前准备：备好课。
①认真钻研教材，对教材的基本思想、基本概念，每句话、每个字都弄清楚，了解教材的结构，重点与难点，掌握知识的逻辑，能运用自如，知道应补充哪些资料，怎样才能教好。②了解学生原有的知识技能的质量，他们的兴趣、需要、方法、*惯，学*新知识可能会有哪些困难，采取相应的预防措施。③考虑教法，解决如何把已掌握的教材传授给学生，包括如何组织教材、如何安排每节课的活动。
(2)课堂上的情况。
在大学的生活里，对于非英语专业的学生来说，英语的学*强度并不高，课程安排少，老师几乎不加以辅导，更别说*题作业了，许多同学都深感到学*英语的茫然和无所适从，而且大学里还需要通过英语四级考试，这对许多学生来说无疑是一个挑战，有的同学学*英语仅仅靠手头的4 、6级词汇，可是却没有什么显著地效果，尤其是许多同学背词汇根本坚持不下去。大学生该怎样学英语提高自己的学*效率呢？
下面详细讲解大学生学*英语的方法。
首先，大学英语学*不像中学时期有外在“压迫”的条件，线话英语的老师建议考生必须先改变态度，认清情况，主动求学。每次上课前可预*课文，通读若干遍，直到基本了解文章大意为止。随时标出新单词，找一本可靠的英汉双解词典，仔细查阅生词和短语，做笔记。查阅时注意尽量先看词典对该词的英文解释，再看例句，遇到动词或动词短语尤其要注意。笔记不仅包括释义，例句和搭配也很重要。这一步耗时越长，效果越显着。
其次，上课应当及时补充笔记，学*中心思想，了解行文结构，欣赏文体风格。接下来，再朗读文章若干遍，然后整理笔记，主动记忆典型例句。当然，这并不是说大学英语的学*仅限于书本内容，我们可进行拓展性学*，上网搜索相关主题的英语文章，广泛阅读。主题相关，则单词多相*，重复几率高，多读几遍，既长见识，又熟单词，更增信心。如感兴趣，还可自行编辑专题，效果亦佳。
最后大学英语课本是为应付考试的直接有效途径，但要全面提升听、说、读、写能力，还远远不够，就要行灵活变通、寓学于乐的学*方式，全面跟英语亲密接触。听力，以教程为本，需要精听，即听到完全理解无障碍为止，听五十遍也在所不惜。听英文歌曲、听俗语、听*惯用语都可。也可边看英文影视剧，听其中的场景对话，同时还能了解异国文化。说的方式则很多，不仅限与参加学校的英语角，即使是自言自语、高声朗诵、角色扮演等，还可多参加公众英语演讲等活动。泛读对于提高考生的英语能力是非常重要的，要提高阅读能力就必须经常读一些文章，阅读时要注意方法，有意识地提高阅读速度，阅读材料可以是书本的经典美文，也可是英语报刊杂志，甚至英语原版名著。
Dear mom and Dad
hello! Im your baby girl. Today I want to talk to you about snacks.
Mom and Dad, you know what? Every day when I go to school, I see many students eating junk food with relish. Garbage can be seen everywhere on campus.
Today, the teacher told us about the harm of eating snacks. I heard that there was another child who liked snacks very much. One day, her father found that she was getting thinner and thinner, so he took her to the hospital for examination. The doctor cant find out whats wrong. As a result, when the child came home with diarrhea, he pulled out a parasite of about one meter. Her father quickly took her to the hospital for examination, only to find out that there are still many worms in her stomach, which need to be operated immediately. Not only that, eating snacks is not good for the stomach, but also affects brain development.
So I want to put forward a suggestion to my parents: please dont give me any more pocket money, or save it to buy stationery for me. I also asked my mother to make more new patterns when cooking. Ill have a full stomach at home, so I wont buy snacks any more.
Sam Walton
A whole lot has changed about the retailing business in the forty-seven years we've been in it—including some of my theories. We've changed our minds about some significant things along the way and adopted some new principles — particularly about the concept of partnership in a corporation. But most of the values and the rules and the techniques we've relied on have stayed the same the whole way. Some of them are such simple commonsense old favorites that they hardly seem worth mentioning.
This isn't the first time that I've been asked to come up with a list of rules for success, but it is the first time I've actually sat down and done it. I'm glad 1 did because it's been a revealing exercise for me. I do seem to have a couple of dozen things that I've singled out at one time or another as the "key" to the whole thing. One I don't even have on my list is "work hard." If you don't know that already, or you're not willing to do it, you probably won't be going far enough to need my list anyway. And another I didn't include on the list is the idea of building a team. If you want to build an enterprise of any size at all, it almost goes without saying that you absolutely must create a team of people who work together and give real meaning to that overused word "teamwork." To me, that's more the goal of the whole thing, rather than some way to get there.
I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high. I can certainly tell you that the folks at Wal-Mart have always had goals in front of them. In fact, we have sometimes built real scoreboards on the stage at Saturday morning meetings.
One more thing. If you're really looking for my advice here, trying to get something serious out of this exercise I put myself through, remember: these rules are not in any way intended to be the Ten Commandments of Business. They are some rules that worked for me. But I always prided myself on breaking everybody else's rules, and I always favored the mavericks who challenged my rules. I may have fought them all the way, but I respected them, and, in the end, I listened to them a lot more closely than I did the pack who always agreed with everything I said. So pay special attention to Rule 10, and if you interpret it in the right spirit — as it applies to you — it could mean sim*: Break All the Rules.
partnership
n. the state of being a partner or partners, esp. in a business; a group of two or more people working, playing, etc. together as partners; a business with two or more owners 合伙(关系);伙伴(关系);合伙企业
common sense
n. practical good sense gained from experience of life, not by special study 常识;(由实际生活经验得来的)判断力
commonsense
我进入大学已经有一年了，现在已是进入大二的学*阶段。我对大学的英语学*有不同的体会，在对比初高中的对英语的学*之后，我觉得大学的英语有很大的不一样。如今就我大一一年的英语学*谈谈我的心得体会。
第一
一个是大学英语主要是靠自己去学*，而不是靠老师，老师主要是去引导我们，而不是什么都会带着我们。在英语课上，老师已经不会像高中那样细细的讲解每一个知识点，而是讲重点，这样的话，我们在上课之前就必须要做好预*，不然上课就听不懂老师讲的内容，再有就是老师上课是全英文的，虽然有时候会因为学生的原因而降低要求，进行双语教学，但是大部分的时间里也是以英语为主，所以对此进入大学的英语课堂，就一定要先做好英语的预*准备，不然将无法进入课堂学*。
第二
一个是大学我们学英语要重视口语，大学毕业之后是要进入社会的，那么对于英语的要求，肯定是口语要重要一些，初高中我们学英语主要是用于考试，所以口语不是很重视，主要是笔试，但是大学就不一样了，老师上课讲的是英语，那么我们在回答问题的时候也是英语，所以口语就很重要了。因此在进入大学后，对于英语口语的学*，我们可以跟同学一起合作，在课下的时候自己去写一些对话，然后两个人或者几个人一起配合练*，当练*的多了，自然就熟能生巧了，就能把口语给练*好，在与别人进行英语对话时，就不会没有语言去组织了。
