1 Unit 6 Women, Half the Sky
Text A I’m Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
Preview Tasks: Read Text A and answer the following questions:
1. Tell some information on the current situation of women’s liberation and find some examples to
support your idea.
Suggested answers: Women are supporting one another, standing side by side, “toe to toe”, but
they still have a long way to go. They are only in the early stages of their struggle to get what they
want and to get men to change their ideas. They can do scientific miracles, fight for their dreams by
overcoming difficulties with their own hand, even support a family regardless of the husbands.
2. Preview Text A and summarize the main idea, then finish the exercise about the text structure on
page 184 about the structure of the text and summarize the main idea of each part.
Section A Door closer, are you?
关门者，你是吗？
1 下次你要在两个难于取舍的、主要的和次要的选择之间做决定时，不妨问自己这样一个问题：项羽会怎么做？
2 项羽是公元前三世纪中国古代王朝的一位将军。他带领他的部队横渡漳河，突袭进入了敌方的领地。他下令砸锅烧船，令他的部队大为震惊。
3 他解释道，他强加给他们的是战胜对手的必要举措。他所说的无疑十分鼓舞士气，但当他那许多忠诚的士兵眼睁睁地看着他们的船只在火焰中被焚毁时，他们并不赞成他的做法。不过项羽将军的这种砸锅焚船的做法所显示出的天赋，在战场上和现代社会科学研究中都将得到肯定。项羽将军是一个罕见的不墨守成规的人，他是一位经验丰富的领袖，由于他征战无数并达到了成功的顶峰，他深受尊敬。
4 丹· 阿雷利极富启迪性的新书 《可预见的非理性》对项羽作了专题介绍。这本书对看似非理性的人类行为，譬如人类总想留住多项选择机会的倾向，进行了引人入胜的调查。大多数人都不能整理自己的思路来做痛苦的选择，麻省理工学院上阿雷利博士行为经济学这门课的学生也不例外。在调查作决策的一项实验中，几百名学生都不能忍受眼睁睁看着他们的选择机会消失，即使他们很清楚这样做对他们有利。
5 实验是围绕着一个游戏展开的，这个游戏排除了我们通常不肯放手的借口。在现实世界里，我们总会说：“保留我们的选择机会是对的。”想要一个好的例子吗？一个十多岁的女孩被足球、芭蕾舞、钢琴、中文课给累得筋疲力尽，但她的父母不会让她停止任何一项活动，理由是它们有一天可能会派上用场！
6 在这个实验里，学生要玩一个电脑游戏: 在电脑屏幕上会显示三扇门，每扇门后都会提供一些现金。该游戏的规则是每个人都只能点击100次，你点击获取的钱越多，你就玩得越好。学生每点击一次打开一扇门，他们会用掉一个点击数，但却不会得到任何钱。
然而，随后接着在那扇门上的每次点击都会挣得数额不等的钱，三扇门显示的钱总有一扇比另外两扇多。这个游戏规则的重点是虽然每次换门没有金钱回报，可还是会用掉一次点击数。所以，制胜战略是要迅速查看所有的门，然后只点击那扇似乎是钱最多的门。
新起点大学英语综合教程2unit6
Part One Multiple Choice本题共30小题，计45分，每选对一题1.5分
1. He was too__________ in his book to hear the bell. （） [单选题] *
A. devoted
B. absorbing
C. keen
D. absorbed(正确答案)
2. Government officials are trying to seek a__________to the problem of unemployment.（） [单选题] *
A. absolution
B. solution(正确答案)
C. resolution
D. dissolution
3. Our conversation came to __________ end when Harrison burst into the room.（）
[单选题] *
A. a sudden
B. a surprising
C. a surprised
D. an abrupt(正确答案)
4. He was looking forward to putting his ideas into__________.（） [单选题] * A. action(正确答案)
B. behavior
C. activity
D. doing
5. You may have known someone else for ten years and yet he will never be more than a
casual __________.（） [单选题] *
A. friend
B. Colleague
C. acquaintance(正确答案)
D. associate
6. He still played an__________role in running the business even after his retirement.（） [单选题] *
U6 A
To work or not to work - That is the question
打工还是不打工——这是个问题
There are numerous and reliable ways by which one can measure the impact of
employment on student achievement, and we used several in our research. We
compared the grades of students who work a great deal with those who work in
limited amounts or not at all. We also contrasted workers with non-workers, on
different indicators of their commitment to education. Additionally, we followed
students over time as they increased or decreased their work hours, and we
assessed how different patterns of employment altered school performance and
engagement.
要衡量工作经历对学生成就的影响有许多可靠的方法。在我们的研究中，我们采用了几种方法。我们比较了打很多工的学生和打工时间有限或者根本不打工的学生的学习成绩。我们也对比了打工学生和不打工学生在学习投入程度方面的不同指征。另外，我们长期跟踪学生，了解他们在打工时间增加或减少时的表现。而且，我们还评估了不同的打工模式如何改变学习成绩和学习参与度。
We have simplified and classified the data and the results are clear: The stakes
