目录

  • 1 Another School Year-What For?
    • 1.1 Objectives
    • 1.2 Background information
    • 1.3 Warming-up
    • 1.4 Text comprehension
    • 1.5 Language learning
    • 1.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 1.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 1.8 Exercises
  • 2 Say Yes
    • 2.1 Objectives
    • 2.2 Background information
    • 2.3 Warming-up
    • 2.4 Text comprehension
    • 2.5 Language learning
    • 2.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 2.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 2.8 Exercises
  • 3 The Rite of Spring
    • 3.1 Objectives
    • 3.2 Background information
    • 3.3 Warming-up
    • 3.4 Text comprehension
    • 3.5 Language learning
    • 3.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 3.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 3.8 Exercises
  • 4 The Man in the Water
    • 4.1 Objectives
    • 4.2 Background information
    • 4.3 Warming-up
    • 4.4 Text comprehension
    • 4.5 Language learning
    • 4.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 4.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 4.8 Exercises
  • 5 Quick Fix Society
    • 5.1 Objectives
    • 5.2 Background information
    • 5.3 Warming-up
    • 5.4 Text comprehension
    • 5.5 Language learning
    • 5.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 5.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 5.8 Exercises
  • 6 Wisdom of Bear Wood
    • 6.1 Objectives
    • 6.2 Background information
    • 6.3 Warming-up
    • 6.4 Text comprehension
    • 6.5 Language learning
    • 6.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 6.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 6.8 Exercises
  • 7 Inter-Lesson (I)
    • 7.1 Group work
    • 7.2 pdf
  • 8 The Man in Asbestos
    • 8.1 Objectives
    • 8.2 Background information
    • 8.3 Warming-up
    • 8.4 Text comprehension
    • 8.5 Language learning
    • 8.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 8.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 8.8 Exercises
  • 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man
    • 9.1 Objectives
    • 9.2 Background information
    • 9.3 Warming-up
    • 9.4 Text comprehension
    • 9.5 Language learning
    • 9.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 9.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 9.8 Exercises
  • 10 Pompeii (for self-learning)
    • 10.1 pdf
    • 10.2 Materials
  • 11 Button, Button
    • 11.1 Objectives
    • 11.2 Background information
    • 11.3 Warming-up
    • 11.4 Text comprehension
    • 11.5 Language learning
    • 11.6 Wriiting skill appreciation
    • 11.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 11.8 Exercises
  • 12 A Fundamental Technique in Handling People
    • 12.1 Objectives
    • 12.2 Background information
    • 12.3 Warming-up
    • 12.4 Text comprehension
    • 12.5 Language learning
    • 12.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 12.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 12.8 Exercises
Text comprehension
  • 1 Structure an...
  • 2 part I
  • 3 part II


I. The writer's encounter with a student and his failure to convince him that a pharmacy major needs to ___________________. (Paras. 1-8)

A. A student came to his office to question the _________ of the course he was teaching. (Para. 1)

B. The writer wanted to tell him that a university offers both __________and ____________. (Para. 2)

C. But he tried to explain the importance of education by describing to the student how _______________________________ after college. (Paras. 3-6)

1. He would sleep for about eight hours. (Paras. 3-4)

2. He would work for another eight hours using what he had learned at college. (Para. 5)

3. He should spend his leisure time improving his mind and developing a taste in __________________________. (Para. 6)

D. The student was not convinced and said he attended college only to _______________. (Paras. 7-8)

II. Fourteen years later, his conviction about the purpose of a university remains the same (Paras. 9-14)

A. A university does not train __________________ but specialists armed with what the best human minds have thought.(Para. 9)

B. At university, students learn what great scholars have discovered in the past. (Para. 10)

C. To be well developed human beings and useful members of society, students should ___________________. (Paras. 12-13)

D. In summary, the purpose of a university is to produce specialists who are also ____________________. (Para. 14)