Unit 1
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pre-reading Task Text A
Language Sense Enhancement Language Focus Text B
Comprehensive Language Practice Listening Task Video Clip Text New Words Comprehension Text Organization Language Sense Enhancement Vocabulary Confusable Words Usage Comprehensive Exercises Text New Words Comprehension Check Translation Language Practice Summary of Text B Dictation Speaking Practice: Group Discussion Practical Writing: Write Notices Glossary
Here is a story told by an American mother about her son's way of learning. Let's listen to what she has to say.
Complete the following statements according to what you have heard.
The following words in the recording may be new to you:
tricycle n. 三轮脚踏车 ham radio 业余无线电台 plea n. 请求 differential equations 微分方程 fellowship n. 奖学金 jet n. 喷气式飞机 rocket n. 火箭 impose ... on 将…强加于 ample a. 充足的 1. The Chinese child was Answer: much more advanced 2. The mother tried to . (1) Answer: apply some academic pressure (2) Answer: gave in to his pleas / gave up
3. She compares her son's love for subjects like differential equations and physics to the way Answer: a duck takes to water 4. Her son is not good at (1) Answer: memorizing (stuff) (2) Answer: thinking
5. In conclusion she advises that we should give our children
. Answer: ample space to grow
, but good at . . to her son, but quickly than her son. Script
Talking about teaching in the USA and China, I have a personal story to tell. When my older son was five years old, he had a little friend from China. The Chinese child, the son of university professors, was much more advanced than our son. The child could read and write much better than our \
to ride his tricycle in circles. After a while the Chinese child found other playmates. Worried, I tried to apply the academic pressure to my son, but quickly gave in to his pleas, \
Well, my son played through grade school and high school. He played at \school and got average grades. However, once he started college, everything changed. Our son took to subjects like differential equations and physics like a duck to water. He graduated from the University of California and won a full fellowship to Stanford, where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Today he designs radios for government jets and rockets. Yes, my son is a rocket scientist! When I asked him recently why he showed so little interest in school, this is what he told me, \good at.\
The story of my son is an individual case. It does not in itself prove which approach of teaching is better. But as parents, we can not impose a pattern of learning on our children. The best we can do is, perhaps, provide ample space for them to grow.
Howard Gardner, a professor of education at Harvard University, reflects on a visit to China and gives his thoughts on different approaches to learning in China and the West.
哈佛大学教育学教授霍华德·加德纳回忆其中国之行，阐述他对中西方不同的学习方式的看法。
Learning, Chinese-StyleHoward Gardner
R T 1. For a month in the spring of 1987, my wife Ellen and I lived in the bustling eastern Chinese city of Nanjing with our 18-month-old son Benjamin while studying arts education in Chinese kindergartens and elementary schools. But one of the most telling lessons Ellen and I got in the difference between Chinese and American ideas of education came not in the classroom but in the lobby of the Jinling Hotel where we stayed in Nanjing.
中国式的学习风格 霍华德·加德纳
1987年春，我和妻子埃伦带着我们18个月的儿子本杰明在繁忙的中国东部城市南京住了一个月，同时考察中国幼儿园和小学的艺术教育情况。然而，我和埃伦获得的有关中美教育观念差异的最难忘的体验并非来自课堂，而是来自我们在南京期间寓居的金陵饭店的大堂。 2. The key to our room was attached to a large plastic block with the room
number on it. When leaving the hotel, a guest was encouraged to turn in the key, either by handing it to an attendant or by dropping it through a slot into a box. Because the key slot was narrow, the key had to be positioned carefully to fit into it.
我们的房门钥匙系在一块标有房间号的大塑料板上。酒店鼓励客人外出时留下钥匙，可以交给服务员，也可以从一个槽口塞入钥匙箱。由于口子狭小，你得留神将钥匙放准位置才塞得进去。
T 3. Benjamin loved to carry the key around, shaking it vigorously. He also liked to try to place it into the slot. Because of his tender age and incomplete understanding of the need to position the key just so, he would usually fail. Benjamin was not bothered in the least. He probably got as much pleasure out of the sounds the key made as he did those few times when the key actually found its way into the slot.
本杰明爱拿着钥匙走来走去，边走边用力摇晃着。他还喜欢试着把钥匙往槽口里塞。由于他还年幼，不太明白得把钥匙放准位置才成，因此总塞不进去。本杰明一点也不在意。他从钥匙声响中得到的乐趣大概跟他偶尔把钥匙成功地塞进槽口而获得的乐趣一样多。
R T 4. Now both Ellen and I were perfectly happy to allow Benjamin to bang the key near the key slot. His exploratory behavior seemed harmless enough. But I soon observed an interesting phenomenon. Any Chinese staff member nearby would come over to watch Benjamin and, noting his lack of initial success, attempt to assist. He or she would hold onto Benjamin's hand and, gently but firmly, guide it directly toward the slot, reposition it as necessary, and help him
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