读写教程第四册Unit4课文详解21世纪大学英语.doc

读写教程第四册Unit4课文详解21世纪大学英语.doc读写教程第四册Unit4课文详解21世纪大学英语

读写教程第四册Unit4课文详解（21世纪大学英语）

　　导语：大学的压力不比高考时候的压力少，因为要面对更多的东西，下面是一篇关于大学压力的英语课文，欢迎大家学****br/>
　　College Pressures

　　William Zinsser

　　I am master of Branford College at Yale. I live on the campus and know the students well. We have 485 of them. I listen to their hopes and fears — and also to their stereo music and their
piercing cries in the dead of night "Does anybody care?". They come to me to ask how to get through the rest of their lives.

　　Mainly I try to remind them that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change
whole attitudes and approaches. They don't want to hear such news. They want a map — right now — that they can follow directly to career security, financial security, social security and,
presumably, a prepaid grave.

　　What I wish for all students is some release from the grim grip of the future. I wish them a chance to enjoy each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a tiresome
requirement in preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as educational as victory and is not the end of the world.

　　My wish, of course, is naive. One of the few rights that America does not proclaim is the right to fail. Achievement is the national god, worshipped in our media — the million-dollar athlete,
the wealthy executive — and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

　　I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It's easy to look around for bad guys — to
blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, the students for drivin