Summary

The author holds the opinion that the college education system has changed. Instead of conceived with the ideas of wisdom and enlightenment in mind, the present system now simply focuses on academic achievement. And the situation may be caused by three factors: the raising money acquired for higher education, the increasing expectations on the students and the effect to provide higher education to the masses. The purpose that higher education should focus on the true understanding of the knowledge has been taken place by the education system set for the public.

 

第二篇：大学英语阅读与写作three days to see 的Summary

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Three days to see

By Cherry

2013.12.4

As we all know, Helen Keller is a blind and deaf lecture, author and educator. I heard of her story when I was so young. This is the first time I read this English original work. This passage is really great which just a part of the whole book is. It makes me gain many inspirations about our life.

? Learn to appreciate things around you like Helen

Faced to life, ordinary people always take life for granted and also think death keep away from us and often can’t understand the meaning of life, like the doomed hero referred to in Helen’s passage, but Helen always appreciate life and try to make her life meaningful and interesting; Faced to sight and sound, most of people would ignore them because they own them and never lost them, moreover Helen had no sight and sound. As for ordinary people, they should learn to appreciate what they have now including the most common thing.

? Learn to use your eyes by heart

Helen has a good friend who walked for an hour in the wood and Helen asked her how her feeling is. Her friend answered “nothing in particular”. This made her sad. However, if she walk in the wood, she always feels a lot of things though she can’t hear or see, such as silver birch, beautiful flowers, cool water, something of miracle even the song of in the spring and so on. The conclusion we can get is that Helen do not

consider eyes as just a tool but a way to enrich her life. She thinks it really a pity for that ordinary people who have eyes see little beauty in the world. She really wanted to establish a course of “how to use eyes” if she were a president of a university.

? Learn to see my friends by sight or by fingers

If there are three more days to see, naturally, Helen wants to see things she had never seen; and she also wants to see the people who always accompany her especially her dear teacher Mrs. Anne Sullivan. Anne came to her when she was just a little girl. It was Anne who brings knowledge, confidence and strength to Helen and opens the door for her life. As a result, Helen is so close to her teacher, so she can feel Anne’ happiness, sorrow and other emotions by fingers. This is the friend close to her, but for some casual friends, she can’t classify very clearly. Not just for her, even for normal guys, they can’t grasp main qualities of persons. They should learn to observe their friends in subtleties of expression. Everyone has its angle when they watch people by sight. All in all, the power of slight is strong, value it and try your best.

Above all, this passage tells me a lot of principles and truth. Appreciate everyday we live now, feel the essence of life by our own heart and live a meaningful life like Helen Keller.

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