文档介绍：现代大学英语精读Unit
What is the main idea of para1?
Many key changes happen to college students during their college years.
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What can you learn from para1?
Three expressions of “Have you thought about…？”
Have you ever considered…?
Has it ever occurred to you…?
Has it ever dawned on you…?
Can you make some sentences by making use of the latter two expressions?
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During this time, students are going through an identity crisis and are endeavoring to find out who they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are.
It refers to the difficulties, confusions and anxieties that you go through during adolescence when you are not sure who you really are and what your purpose in life is.
experiencing; undergoing; suffering
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… identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents), shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.
Who we are is determined by three things: first, our genes, or what our parents have given us; second, environment; third, luck or opportunities.
accidental
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What factors may influence identity?
Identity may be influenced by genes, environment and opportunities.
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What’s the main idea of para3?
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It may be heightened by their choice to pursue a college education.
independence/dependence struggle
become stronger or intensified
If they choose to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.
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para3
What’s the main idea of para3?
The independence/dependence struggle
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four aspects to psychological separation (para 4)
1. Functional independence.
2. Attitudinal independence.
3. Emotional independence.
4. Freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.”
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