大学英语 3 第二版 summaryU1 Active reading（1） In the fall of our final year, our mood changed. The relaxed atmosphere had disappeared, and the peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Meanwhile, at the back of everyone's mind was what we would do next after graduation. As for me, I wanted to travel, and I wanted to be a writer. I braced myself for some resistance to the idea from my father, who wanted me to go to law school, and follow his path through life. However, he supported what I wanted but he made me think about it by watching the crabs. The cage was full of crabs. One of them was trying to escape, but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled it back. In the end it gave up lengthy struggle to escape and started to prevent other crabs from escaping. By watching crabs, my father told me not to be pulled back by others, and to get to know oneself better. U1 Active reading（2） Life is short. We never quite know when we become 1) coffin dwellers or 2) trampled ash in the rose garden of some local cemetery. So there ’sno point in putting our dreams 3) on the back burner until 4) the right time arrives. Now is the time to do what we want to do. 5) Make the best of our short stay and 6) fill our life with the riches on offer so that when the reaper arrives, we’ve achieved much instead of 7) regrets. U2 Active reading（1）The author ’s family never believed in Santa myth, as her parents could not afford expensive gifts. In her mother ’s view, the children have been brainwashed into believing the silly myth. So their family celebrated Christmas about a week after Dec. 25 and the kids got their gifts from after-Christmas sale. On that ye...
