书名：常春藤英语（精编版·七级）（常春藤英语系列）
定价：49.0
ISBN：9787300282886
作者：聂成军
版次：1
出版时间：2020-07

内容提要：
本书根据《常春藤英语 七级（一~四）》四本书进行修订，从中选取难度相对较低的文本，并增加重新收集和加工的新文本。每篇文章的前面设有导读，后面有品读助手和参考译文。其中品读助手包括背景知识、难句解析。难句解析部分解析细致到位，能帮助学生理解文章中的长难句和语法现象，从而加深对整篇文章的理解。 每篇文章独立成篇，互不影响，语言流畅，通俗易懂；每篇文章后面都设计了一定数量的阅读理解考察题，以检查读者的阅读能力和对文章的理解水平。 通过阅读本书，读者还会学到相关的英语知识，巩固和扩大词汇量，培养英语语感和阅读习惯，提升人文素养。本书旨在扩大读者视野，丰富英语知识，全面提高英语阅读能力。

作者简介：
聂成军，中国民主促进会会员，*深英语教研专家。现任北京市海淀区教师进修学校中学英语教研员、高中英语教研室主任，北京市中学英语学科教学带头人，北京师范大学英语教学方向专业硕士研究生导师, 中央民族大学专业硕士研究生导师，临沂大学外国语学院兼职教授，中国基础教育质量评价与提升协同创新中心&席命题专家；曾任北京市高考试题评价专家组成员、主笔高考英语试题评价报告，北京市高中英语会考试题评价专家组组长。 主持中国教育学会外语教学专业委员会“十三五”规划课题“指向核心素养的中学英语泛读教学实践研究”（2016.11—）。
代表作：《当代基础英语教育教学与研究例论》（中国人民大学出版社，2018.05）

目录：
Lesson 1 Failure Is Important for Success

Lesson 2 The Scientific Reason You Crave Junk Food after Poor Night's Sleep

Lesson 3 The Art of Living

Lesson 4 Children Are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Changes

Lesson 5 The Way to Be Happy

Lesson 6 More Than One Way to the Square

Lesson 7 The Best Advice I Ever Had

Lesson 8 Tough Teen to Tennis Queen

Lesson 9 The Little Match Girl

Lesson 10 All These Things Are to Be Answered for

Lesson 11 The Gifts

Lesson 12 The Emperor's New Clothes

Lesson 13 Chief Seattle's Statement

Lesson 14 Asian-Americans

Lesson 15 The Legend of Johnny Appleseed

Lesson 16 The Ugly Duckling (Excerpt)

Lesson 17 The Great Silent Majority

Lesson 18 Three Days to See (Excerpt)

Lesson 19 The Old Man and the Sea (excerpt)

Lesson 20 The Gentleman in White

Lesson 21 Differences Between British and American Cultures

Lesson 22 Louis Agassiz: Science Teacher

Lesson 23 Fairy-Tale Gods

Lesson 24 Twins, Genes, and Environment

Lesson 25 Most Popular Characters

Lesson 26 Rescue at Sea

Lesson 27 Strategies to Learn Foreign Languages

Lesson 28 Disaster on a Mountain

Lesson 29 A Seven Dollar Dream

Lesson 30 A Boy With A Mission

Lesson 31 The Norwood Mystery I

Lesson 32 The Norwood Mystery II

Lesson 33 The Sky Is Their Limit

Lesson 34 The Wallet of Love

Lesson 35 Scenes in the Tropics

Lesson 36 Hurricane Katrina

Lesson 37 Madonna I

Lesson 38 Madonna II

Lesson 39 Black Beauty

Lesson 40 The Last Stop

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When you graduate, what words are you expecting from your parents? Wish you all the best or… Now let's read what John Robert, a father from America, said to his son at his graduation ceremony.

Lesson 1 Failure Is Important for Success
by John Roberts
Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I'll tell you why.
From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice.
I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.
Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don't take friends for granted.
I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.
I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.
Whether I wish these things or not, they're going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.
Now commencement speakers are also expected to give some advice. They give grand advice, and they give some useful tips .The most common grand advice they give is for you to be yourself. It is an odd piece of advice to give people dressed identically, but you should—you should be yourself. But you should understand what that means. Unless you are perfect, it does not mean you don’t make any changes.
In a certain sense, you should not be yourself. You should try to become something better. People say “be yourself ” because they want you to resist the impulse to conform to what others want you to be. But you can't be yourself if you don't learn who you are, and you can’t learn who you are unless you think about it.
The Greek philosopher Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
And while “just do it” might be a good motto for some things, it’s not a good motto when it’s trying to figure out how to live your life that is before you. And one important clue to living a good life is to try not to live the good life. The best way to lose the values that are central to who you are is frankly not to think about them at all.

Exercises
I. Vocabulary Acquisition
Find the word or phrase that means the following in the passage.
1 to offer or give (Para. 1)
2 a person that you are playing or fighting against in a game or competition, argument, etc (Para. 6)
3 an important moral, social or political idea that a book, speech, etc. is trying to communicate (Para. 8)
4 in some way (Para. 10)
5 to think about (Para. 12)