1. 学习目标
In this unit, you will
● learn different kinds of colleges, universities and majors;
● discuss the similarities and differences of college life between your expectation and reality;
● work in groups and discuss how should students be tested;
● think of some interesting comedies and present them to the whole class.

2. 语言精要

重点单词 (25)：
adequate, crucial, deadline, deserve, ease, formulate, presentation, quote, semester, tolerant, triple, campus, discard, horror, pop, sidewalk, trace, weep, attain, enroll, privilege, residence, shelter, sin, sufficient

重点词组 （10）
by no means, drop out, go through, look back on, on one's own, take a close look, head for, in session, lock up, chase away

重点句型
● Because I was not mature enough to accept the responsibility for my own future and because I abused my privilege of independence, I failed my first year of university.
● Few professors actually care whether or not they are liked by peer-paralyzed adolescents, fools so shallow as to imagine professors care not about education but about popularity.

重点语法
● as if / as though
(e.g. Para. 4, Essay I —— Worse still, when you were boring, we acted as if you were saying something important. When you were garrulous and talked to hear yourselves talk, we listened as if it mattered. When you tossed on our desks writing upon which you had not labored, we read it and even responded, as though you earned a response. … When you were predictable, unimaginative and routine, we listened as if you were smart.)

3．课文主题
Essay I
At the beginning, the author states directly that the teachers take no pride in their educational achievement since they have taught their students a world that does not exist at all. Then he puts forward the idea that college is an altogether forgiving world by saying that students are treated patiently and kindly by their teachers even though their work are not worthy of being praise. At last, the author regards that teachers have nothing to take pride in their teaching career and the students should not deal with their co-workers and bosses in the way just like that of dealing with the teachers at college.
Essay II
The author argues with Jacob Neusner who thinks that “failure leaves no record” and that college is not a preparatory school for life. He lists many facts to support his own idea and to prove that Neusner is wrong. At last he comes to conclusion that college life is not easy, free, forgiving, comfortable, interesting and unchallenging fun for the students to spend their four years' srudying.

4. 佳句背诵
● Just as Adam was cast out of Eden, I was kicked out of university; but while his transgression was eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, my sin was ignoring the tree.
● Now, I understand the two factors that contributed to my downfall: the lack of a career foal and premature independence.
● Had I been more motivated, I might have passed those courses, but I just wasn't ready for university.
● The college years, for many of us, are when we start to be independent, make crucial decisions on our own, and become responsible for them. We meet people from different parts of the world that broaden our view of the world itself and help us understand each other better.
● The most miserable moments of a college student's life come during final exam week during the winter.

5．专家建议 —— 体会一下演说辞的风采
本单元的In-Class Reading是两篇演说辞，并且针锋相对，后者对前者提出的观点进行反驳。
前一篇演说的第一句话便指出“我们这些教师对我们的教育成果一点都不感到自豪。我们培养你们去适应一个根本不存在的世界，事实上也不可能存在。”“失败不会留下任何痕迹。”然后举例说明大学期间老师对学生的纵容导致了学生“轻轻松松都会得。最后说“由于大学成了一个充满各种乐趣的地方：安逸、自由、包容、方便、舒适、有趣、轻松，它没有对你们尽到责任。”