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1、大學英語精讀：第三冊 UNIT 38600字 　　 　　Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: What are the reasons for choosing teaching as a career? Do the rewards teaching outweigh the trying comments? Answering these questions is not a simple task. Lets see what th

2、e author says. 畢業(yè)論文 Why I Teach 論文代寫 Peter G. Beidler 　　Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didnt want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught

3、 to want when they grow up: money and power. 畢業(yè) 　　Certainly I dont teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter, writer. For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. Red

4、-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing. Sweaty-palm, because Im always nervous before I enter the classroom, sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more bor

5、ing than usual. 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share. Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class! 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　Why, then, do I teach? 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　I te

6、ach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research and writing. 　　I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change —— and, more important, my students change. 作文 /zuowen/ 　　

7、I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, Im my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I cant? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all lear

8、n from failures. 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions. 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　I teach becaus

9、e I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called "Self-Reliance in a Technological Society." My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau, and Huxley. They kept diaries. They wrote term papers. 論文代寫 　　But we also set up

10、 a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it. At the end of the semester, we would the house, repaid our loan, paid or taxes, and distributed the profits among the group. 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　So teaching gives me pace, and variety, an

11、d challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning. 畢業(yè) 　　I have left out, however, the most important reasons why I teach. 畢業(yè)論文 　　One is Vicky. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet. She wrote articles an

12、d sent them off to learned journals. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me. But I was there when she finished her dissertation, learned that her articles were accepted, got a job and won a fellowship to Harvard working on a book developing ideas shed first had as my student. 作文 /z

13、uowen/ 　　Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things. 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　There is Jeanne, who left college, but was brought back by her classmates because they wanted her to see the end of th

14、e self-reliance house project. I was here when she came back. I was there when she told me that she later became interested in the urban poor and went on to become a civil rights lawyer. 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　There is Jacqui, a cleaning woman who knows more by intuition than most

15、 of us learn by analysis. Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college. 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe. 　　A "promotio

16、n" out of teaching would give me money and power. But I have money. I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, "What is the point of being rich?" 作文 /zuowen/ 　　And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a

17、pathway. What other power matters? 畢業(yè) 　　But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teachers life and begins to breathe. Perhaps love is t

18、he wrong word: magic might be better. 作文 /zuowen/ 　　I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them. 　　NEW WORDS 畢業(yè) 　　administrative 　　a. of the management of affairs 行政的，管理的 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　admin

19、istration 作文 /zuowen/ 　　n. 管理（部門），行政（機關） 　　puzzle 畢業(yè) 　　vt. fill with doubt and confusion 使迷惑 作文 /zuowen/ 　　step （-） up 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　n. promotion; increase in size, speed, etc. 　　mechanic 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　n. skilled workman, esp. one who uses

20、 or repairs machines and tools 機械工；機修工 論文代寫 　　sweaty 作文 /zuowen/ 　　a. covered with sweat, sweating 　　palm 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　a. 手掌 作文 /zuowen/ 　　profession 　　n. occupation, esp. one requiring special training, such as law, medicine, or teaching 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　

21、　convince 畢業(yè)論文 　　vt. make （sb.） feel certain; cause （sb.） to realize 作文 /zuowen/ 　　compel 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　vt. force （sb. or sth. to do sth.） 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　pace 作文 /zuowen/ 　　n. rate or speed of development, or in walking, etc. 速度；步速 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　calend

22、ar 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　n. 日程表，日歷 畢業(yè)論文 　　opportunity 作文 /zuowen/ 　　n. favourable occasion or chance 　　reflection 　　n. careful thinking; consideration 深思；考慮 畢業(yè)論文 　　reflect vi. 　　stimulate 論文代寫 　　vt. encourage; excite 刺激；激勵 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　

23、　freshman 作文 /zuowen/ 　　n. student in his first year at a college or university 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　failure 畢業(yè) 　　n. a person, attempt, or thing that fails; lack of success 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　ivory 論文代寫 　　n. 象牙 作文 /zuowen/ 　　ivory tower 思想?yún)R報 /si

24、xianghuibao/ 　　n. place or condition of retreat from the world of action into a world of ideas and dreams 象牙塔 畢業(yè) 　　self-reliance 　　n. ability to do things and make decisions by oneself 依靠自己；自力更生 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　reliance 畢業(yè)論文 　　n. trust, confidence; dependence 信賴；信心；依靠

25、 　　technological 畢業(yè) 　　a. of or related to technology 技術的 論文代寫 　　corporation 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　n. （AmE） 有限公司 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　run-down 　　a. old and broken or in bad condition 　　renovate 作文 /zuowen/ 　　vt. restore （old buildings, oil paintings, etc.） to a former

26、, better state 修復，修整 論文代寫 　　semester 　　n. （AmE） either of the two periods into which a school year is divided; term 學期 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　repay 畢業(yè)論文 　　vt. pay back （money, etc.） 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　loan 論文代寫 　　n. sth. lent, esp. a sum of money 借出的東西；貸款 思想?yún)R報 /sixiangh

27、uibao/ 　　distribute 畢業(yè)論文 　　vt. divide among several or many; give or send out 分發(fā)；分送 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　distribution n. 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　variety 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　n. difference in quality, type or character; a number of or a collect

28、ion of different things 變化，多樣化；種種 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　challenge 論文代寫 　　n. the quality of demanding competitive action, interest, or though 挑戰(zhàn) 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　doctoral 畢業(yè)論文 　　a. having to do with the university degree of doctor 博士的 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　energetic

29、 　　a. vigorous 精力充沛 畢業(yè)論文 　　dissertation 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　n. （學位）論文 　　poet 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　n. one who writes poetry 　　learned 作文 /zuowen/ 　　a. showing or requiring much knowledge 博學的 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　journal 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　n. ma

30、gazine or daily newspaper 雜志；日報 　　occasional 　　a. happening from time to time, not regular 偶爾的，間或的 畢業(yè) 　　nudge 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　n. （fig.） words, actions or feeling that stimulate 啟示 論文代寫 　　vt. push or touch slightly, esp. with the elbow to attract attention; （

31、fig.） stimulate 　　fellowship 畢業(yè) 　　n. position or a sum of money granted to a person for advanced study or research 研究員職位；研究員薪金 作文 /zuowen/ 　　switch 　　vt. change or shift; turn 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　urban 論文代寫 　　a. of a town or city 作文 /zuowen/ 　　civil rights 畢業(yè)論

32、文 　　n. the rights of a citizen without regard to his race, religion, sex, etc. 公民權 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　lawyer 論文代寫 　　n. person who practises law 律師 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　intuition 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　n. （power of） the immediate understanding of truths, events, facts without re

33、asoning 直覺 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　analysis 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　n. the separation of a substance into parts for careful examination and study 分析 　　creation 總結大全 /html/zongjie/ 　　n. act of creating; sth. created 創(chuàng)造（物） 作文 /zuowen/ 　　clay 　　n. 粘士 　　point 　　n. ma

34、in idea or purpose 要點；意義，目的 論文代寫 　　pathway 畢業(yè)論文 　　n. path 畢業(yè) 　　rare 畢業(yè)論文 　　a. unusually good; distinctive 稀有的；杰出的 畢業(yè)論文 　　magic 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　n. mysterious charm; strange influence or power; art of obtaining mysterious results by tricks 魔力；魔術 作文 /zuowen/ 　　PH

35、RASES & EXPRESSIONS 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　stay up 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　not go to bed until after the usual time 不睡覺，熬夜 畢業(yè) 　　take notes 畢業(yè)論文 　　記筆記 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　build on 論文代寫 　　base on; use as a base for further development 　　ke

36、ep a diary 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　記日記 畢業(yè)論文 　　leave out 　　fail to mention or include; omit 畢業(yè) 　　send off 作文 /zuowen/ 　　post; dispatch 作文 /zuowen/ 　　work at/ on 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　give ones attention to doing or trying to do 開題報告 /html/l

37、unwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　catch ones breath 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　rest and get back ones normal breath, as after running; stop breathing for a moment from surprise, fear, shock, etc. 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　PROPER NAMES 論文代寫 　　Emerson 畢業(yè) 　　愛默生（姓氏及男子名） 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　Thoreau 簡歷大全 /html/jianli/ 　　梭洛（姓氏） 畢業(yè)論文 　　Huxley 　　赫胥黎（姓氏） 　　Vicky 　　維基（女子名，Victoria 的昵稱） 畢業(yè) 　　Harvard 作文 /zuowen/ 　　哈佛（美國大學名） 思想?yún)R報 /sixianghuibao/ 　　Jeanne 開題報告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ 　　珍妮（女子名） 論文代寫 　　Jacqui 　　杰基（女子名，Jacqueline的昵稱）