课前欣赏 Unit 8 Section A There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job 1. What is the meaning of life ? 2. How can we realize the life value? It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young. Reading a survey report on first-year college students, I recalled the regret, “If only I knew then what I know now.” There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job 翻译 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job Para. 3 The survey revealed what I had already suspected from informal polls of students both in Macon and at the Robins Resident Center: if it (whatever it may be) won’pute and you can’t drink it, smoke it or spend it, then “it” holds little value. 翻译 Para. 4 According to the survey based on responses from over 188,000 students, today’s college beginners are “more consumeristic and less idealistic” than at any time in the seventeen years of the poll. Para. 5 Not surprising in these hard times, the students’ major objective “is to be financially well off. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life.” Accordingly, today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting. There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job 翻译 Para. 6 Interest in teaching, social service and the humanities is at a low, along with ethnic and women’s studies. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering puter science is way up. Para. 7 That’s no surprise either. A friend of mine (a sales representative for a pany) was making twice the salary of college instructors during her first year on the job—even before pleted her two-year associate degree. There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job 翻译 Para. 8 “I’ll tell them what they can do with their (music, history, literature, etc.),” she was fond of saying. And that was four years ago; I tremble to think what she’s earning now. Para. 9 Frankly, I’m proud of the young lady (not her attitude but her ess). But why can’t we have it both wa
