Unit 4
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Introduction (Para. 1)
Career planning does not necessarily follow routine or logical steps.
Students’ weaknesses in career planning
(Para. 2)
Serious flaws in the ways of decision making (Para. 3-5) A. Complacency — ignoring challenging information B. Defensive avoidance — resorting to wishful thinking or daydreaming. C. Hypervigilance — searching frantically for career possibilities and seizing on hastily invented solutions
Keys to career planning (Para. 6-11) A. Study oneself B. Write one’s career goals down. C. Review one’s plans and progress periodically with another person. D. If one person chooses a career that does not fit him, he can start over.
Changes in careers (Para. 12-13) A. Few changes involve downward movement; most involve getting ahead.
B. Job changes and career shifts occur at all ages.
Conclusion (Para. 14-15)
Although there is no sure way to make career plans work out, there are things that anyone can do now to shape one’s career possibilities.
Career planning includes gathering information about ourselves and about occupations, estimating the probable outcomes of various courses of action, and finally, choosing alternatives that we find attractive and feasible. (Line 5) 译 文
本句中三个动名词短语: gathering…, estimating…, choosing… 都作动词 includes 的宾语,说明“职业规划” 要涉及的三种行为。这三个连续的动名词短语使 句子意义表达更充分连贯。include 后接 v.-ing 形式。最后一个动词短语中,关系代词 that 引 导定语从句修饰 alternatives。
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The solutions include working with foreign flower growers instead of fighting them, having a few distribution centers to sell imported roses, widening their business area and being a representative for overseas flower producers. 解决办法包括与海外花卉种植商合作,而 不是要与他们竞争;设臵几个批发中心来 销售进口玫瑰;扩大他们的经营领域同时 兼做海外花卉生产者的代理商。 A teacher’s priorities include exciting students’ interests and stimulating their creativity. 教师首先要考虑的事情之一是唤起学生的兴趣,激发他 们的创造性。
Career planning includes gathering information about ourselves and about occupations, estimating the probable outcomes of various courses of action, and finally, choosing alternatives that we find attractive and feasible. (Line 5)
进行择业规划,要收集有关我们自身以及职
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业的信息资料,估计采取各种举动可能出现的结 果,最后做出我们认为有吸引力并且可行的选择。
They cite evidence that (1) most students choose from among a very narrow group of occupations; (2) as many as 40 to 60 percent choose professional occupations, …to express any choice of occupation. (Para.2 L2) 译 文
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句子的主要结构为