導語：21世紀大學英語讀寫教程的每個部分通過不同的途徑強化相關知識的學習與掌握，注重學前、學中、學後過程的連貫與互補。下面YJBYS小編分享21世紀大學英語讀寫教程第一冊Unit1的內容講解，歡迎參考!
text a
listening
first listening
before listening to the tape, have a quick look at the following words.
grade
分數
concentrate
全神貫注
schedule
時間表
pressure
壓力
selectively
有選擇地
relevant
有關的
skip over
跳過;略過
approach
方法
second listening
listen to the tape again. then, choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
1. the purpose of this listening passage is ____.
a) to describe college life
b) to give advice for college success
c) to warn against being lazy at college
d) to increase college enrollment(入學人數)
2. according to the listening passage, the most important key to getting good grades at college is _____.
a) asking questions in class
b) doing assignments ahead of time
c) working as hard as you can
d) learning how to study effectively
3. which of the following does the listening not say you should do?
a) organize your time and materials.
b) write down every word the professor says in class.
c) treat studying like business.
d) study together.
pre-reading questions
1. based on the title, guess what the text is about.
2. look at the subheadings, 1-8, in the text. which of these activities do you already do? in which areas do you feel you need improvement?
3. are there any "secrets" to your own success as a student? in other words, do you have any special study techniques which have been very successful for you?
secrets of a students
edwin kiester & sally valentine kiester
alex, now a first-year student in natural sciences at cambridge, played football for his school in manchester and directed the school production of a play — but he left school with five a's. amanda, studying english at bristol university, acted in plays at her school and played tennis regularly. yet she still managed to get four a's.
how do a students like these do it? brains aren't the only answer. the most gifted students do not necessarily perform best in exams. knowing how to make the most of one's abilities counts for much more.
hard work isn't the whole story either. some of these high-achieving students actually put in fewer hours than their lower-scoring classmates. the students at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can easily learn. here, according to education experts and students themselves, are the secrets of a students.
1. concentrate! top students allow no interruptions of their study time. once the books are open, phone calls go unanswered, tv unwatched and newspapers unread. "this doesn't mean ignoring important things in your life," amanda explains. "it means planning your study time so that you can concentrate. if i'm worried about a sick friend, i call her before i start my homework. then when i sit down to study, i can really focus."
2. study anywhere — or everywhere. a university professor in arizona assigned to tutor underachieving college athletes, recalls a runner who exercised daily. he persuaded him to use the time to memorise biology terms. another student stuck a vocabulary list on his bathroom wall and learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth.
3. organize your materials. at school, tom played basketball. "i was too busy to waste time looking for a pencil or a missing notebook. i kept everything just where i could get my hands on it," he says. paul, a student in new mexico, keeps two folders for each subject — one for the day's assignments, the other for homework completed and ready to hand in. a drawer keeps essentials together and cuts down on time-wasting searches.
4. organize your time. when a teacher set a long essay, alex would spend a couple of days reading round the subject and making notes, then he'd do a rough draft and write up the essay. he would aim to finish a couple of days before the assignment was due so that if it took longer than expected, he'd still meet the deadline. amanda stuck to a study schedule that included breaks every two hours. "trying to study when you're overtired isn't smart," she advises. "even a short break to stretch or get some fresh air can work wonders."
5. learn how to read. "i used to spend hours going through irrelevant material," amanda remembers. "but then i got used to reading quickly; if the first sentence of a paragraph wasn't relevant, i'd move on to the next paragraph." "the best course i ever took," says an oklahoma student, "was speed-reading. i not only increased my words per minute but also learned to look at a book's table of contents and pictures first. then, when i began to read, i had a sense of the material and i retained a lot more." to such students, the secret of good reading is to be an active reader — one who keeps asking questions that lead to a full understanding of the material being read.
6. take good notes. "before writing anything, i pide my page into two parts," says amanda, "the left part is about a third of the page wide; the right, two-thirds. i write my notes in the wider part, and put down the main ideas on the left. during revision, this is very useful because you can see immediately why the material is relevant, rather than being worried by a great mass of information." just before the end of lesson bell rings, most students close their books, put away papers, talk to friends and get ready to leave. but a smart student uses those few minutes to write two or three sentences about the lesson's main points, which he scans before the next class.
7. ask questions. "if you ask questions, you know at once whether you have got the point or not," says alex. class participation is a matter of showing intellectual curiosity. in a lecture on economics, for example, curious students would ask how the chinese economy could be both socialist and market-driven, thus interesting themselves not only in whats, but also in whys and hows.
8. study together. the value of working together was shown in an experiment at the university of california at berkeley. a graduate student there who observed a first-year calculus course found that asian-american students discussed homework, tried different approaches and explained their solutions to one another while the others studied alone, spent most of their time reading and rereading the text, and tried the same approach time after time even if it was unsuccessful.
after all, the secrets of a students are not so secret. you can learn and master them and become an a student, too.
new wordsperform
vt. 執行, 完成; 演出, 表演
vi. 演出, 表演; 工作, 表現; 執行, 完成
high-achieving
a. 得高分的
lower-scoring
a. 得分較低的
concentrate
vi. direct all one's attention, etc. towards sth. 全神貫注;集中思想;專注;專心
interruption
n. 打擾; 干擾; 中止; 阻礙
ignore
vt. take no notice of; refuse to pay attention to!! 不理;忽視
focus
v. direct attention, etc. on sth. 集中注意力於某事情
assign
vt. appoint to a job or duty 委派; 指派
underachieving
a. doing less well than was expected, esp. in school work 未能充分發揮學習潛力的;學習成績不良的
athlete
n. a person who is good at or who often does spors 運動員
recall
vt. bring back to the mind; remember 回想(起);記得
memorise, -rize
vt. learn and remember 記住;熟記
missing
a. 缺失的， 找不到的;失蹤的，下落不明的
notebook
n. small book for writing notes in 筆記本;記事本
folder
n. 文件夾
assignment
n. a duty or piece of work that is given to someone (指定的)作業;(分派的)任務
drawer
n. 抽屜
essential
n. (usu. pl.) sth. that is necessary or very important [常用複數] 必需品
a. (to, for) necessary; central 絕對必要的.;非常重要的
essay
n. a short piece of writing giving sb. 's ideas about politics, society, etc. 論說文; 散文
draft
n. the first rough written form of anything or a rough plan 草稿;草案
vt. make a draft of 起草;草擬
due
a. expected or supposed (to happen, arrive, etc.) 到期的;預定應到的
*deadline
n. a date or time before which sth. mush be done or completed 最後期限
schedule
n. a timetable for things to be done 時間表;日程安排表
overtired
a. 過度疲勞的
stretch
vi. 舒展身體，伸懶腰
irrelevant
a. (to) not having any real connection with or relation to sth. else 不相關的;不相干的
relevant
a. directly connected with the subject or problem being discussed or considered 相關的; 相干的
speed-reading
n. 快速閱讀
per
each 每;每一
content
n. 1.(pl.) a list in a book saying what the book contains [複數] 目錄
subject matter, esp. the ideas, of a book, speech, etc. 內容
retain
vt. keep (possession of); avoid losing 保持;保留
revision
n. 複習;修改
scan
vt. look at quickly without careful reading 瀏覽，掃視
participation
n. 參與;參加
participate
vi. (in) to take part or have a share in an activity or event 參與;參加
intellectual
a. of intellect 知識的;智力的
n. 知識分子
