Unit 1
汽车驾驶教程Text A An impressive English lesson
一堂难忘的英语课
1 If I am the only parent who still corrects his child's English, then perhaps my son is right. To him, I am a tedious oddity: a father he is obliged to listen to and a man absorbed in the rules of grammar, which my son seems allergic to.
如果我是唯一一个还在纠正小孩英语的家长，那么我儿子也许是对的。对他而言，我是一个乏味的怪物：一个他不得不听其教诲的父亲，一个还沉湎于语法规则的人，对此我儿子似乎颇为反感。
2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students, fresh from an excursion to Europe.
"How was it?" I asked, full of earnest anticipation.
我觉得我是在最近偶遇我以前的一位学生时，才开始对这个问题认真起来的。这个学生刚从欧洲旅游回来。我满怀着诚挚期待问她： “欧洲之行如何？ ”
3 She nodded three or four times, searched the heavens for the right words, and then exclaimed, "It was, like, whoa!"
她点了三四下头，绞尽脑汁，苦苦寻恰当的词语，然后惊呼： “真是，哇！ ”
4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement.
My student's "whoa!" was exceeded only by my head-shaking distress.
没了。所有希腊文明和罗马建筑的辉煌居然囊括于一个浓缩的、不完整的语句之中！我的学生以叹，我只能以摇头表达比之更强烈的忧虑。
“哇！ ”来表示她的惊
5 There are many different stories about the downturn in the proper use of English. Surely students should be able to distinguish between their/there/they're or the distinctive difference between complimentary and complementary. They unfairly bear the bulk of the criticism for these knowledge deficits because there is a sense that they should know better.
6 Students are not dumb, but they are being misled everywhere they look and listen. For example, signs in grocery stores point them to the stationary, even though the actual statio
nery items — pads, albums and notebooks — are not nailed down. Friends and loved ones often proclaim they've just ate when, in fact, they've just eaten. Therefore, it doesn't make any sense to criticize our students.
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