精品文档---下载后可任意编辑英语复习资料背诵段落Unit 2 Passage A5,7第 5 段:The restaurant was in a French seaside resort, and the waiter had already brought an enormous portion of seafood, crabs, prawns, lobsters and all sorts of shellfish clinging onto each other, as well as a bottle of white wine in a bucket of ice. My mother was busy shopping, and my father had decided to take me, his ten-year-old son, to lunch, and to mark an important event in my life, as important to my father as coming of age: my first oyster. 第 7 段:Outside the skies were grey and a strong wind was blowing off the sea. It looked as gloomy as I felt. There was no hope left, the only feeling was hunger, and the only emotion was the fear of lost innocence as I realized there could be no escape from my first oyster. Unit 3 Passage A1,2,5第 1 段:Thinking for yourself is still a radical act. 第 2 段:Thinking for yourself is not a popular activity, though it should step of real progress in our society has come from it. But in most circles, particularly in places that shape our lives – families,schools and most workplaces – thinking for yourself is regarded with suspicion. Some institutions thwart it on purpose. It can 1精品文档---下载后可任意编辑be seen as dangerous.第 5 段 : This dearth should not surprise us. Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much less trained, to think for themselves, and their teachers and parents and bosses weren't either. And neither were theirs. (We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement.) Unit 5 Passage A1,8第 1 段:It isn't very often that the media lead with t...