【正文】 at Asian parents spend more time helping their children with homework or writing to their teachers than American parents do. Intensive Study 18 And, third, our schools could be reanized in simple but effective ways, says Stevenson. Nearly 90 percent of Chinese youngsters say they actually enjoy school, and 60 percent can‘t wait for school vacations to end. This is a vastly more positive attitude than youngsters in the US express. One reason may be that students in China and Japan typically have a break after each class, helping them to relax and to increase their attention spans. Intensive Study ―I don‘t think Asians are any smarter,‖ says Don Lee, an AsianAmerican student at Berkeley. ―There are brilliant Americans in my chemistry class. But the Asian students work harder. I see a lot of wasted potential among the Americans.‖ (975 Words) Intensive Study passage n. — (cost of a ticket for) a journey by ship or plane from one place to another . ? He is too poor to afford a passage home. ? Oliver has booked a passage to New York. safety n. — a place where one is safe from a particular danger . ? The firefighters were busy helping survivors to safety. ? They ran to safety, away from the fire. make it (to somewhere) — succeed in getting somewhere usu. in time to do sth., or in doing sth.,or getting sth. wanted . ? Despite the heavy rain, she made it to the airport just in time to catch her plane. ? After failing three times in the exams, Jack feels he will never make it in puter. Translate 你能準(zhǔn)時來參加會議嗎？ Key Will you be able to make it to the meeting on time? cope with — manage successfully。Unit 2 Text A Why They Excel 21st Century College English: Book 2 Unit 2: Text A ? Leadin Activities ? Text Organization ? Reading and Writing Skills ? Language Points ? Guided Practice ? Assignment Leadin Activities Warmup Questions 1. What do you know about some successful Chinese Americans in the United States? Name some of them. 2. Do you know why they are so successful? Give your reasons. 3. What are prestigious universities in the USA? Name some of them. Text Organization The Structure of Text A A phenomenon drawn from a story Why Asian Americans doing so well?(1 experiment and 3 factors) What can we learn from them?(3 remendations) Para. 14 Para. 514 Para. 1519 1. A useful structure for an argumentary writing: phenomenon causes suggestions. 2. Transitions for parison and contrast。 Writing Skills Why They Excel by Fox Butterfield Intensive Study Text A: Why They Excel by Fox Butterfield 1 KimChi Trinh was just nine when her father used his savings to buy a passage for her on a fishing boat that would carry her from Vietnam. It was a heartbreaking and costly sacrifice for the family, placing KimChi on the small boat, among strangers, in hopes that she would eventually reach the United States, where she would get a good education and enjoy a better life. Intensive Study 2 It was a hard journey for the little girl, and full of risks. Long before the boat reached safety, the supplies of food and water ran out. When KimChi finally made it to the US, she had to cope with a succession of three foster families. But when she graduated from San Diego‘s Patrick Henry High School in 1988, she had straight A‘s and scholarship offers from some of the most prestigious universities in the country. 3 ―I have to do well,‖ says the 19yearold, now a secondyear student at Cornell University. ―I owe it to my parents in Vietnam.‖ Intensive Study 4 KimChi is part of a wave of bright, highlymotivated AsianAmericans who are suddenly surging into our best colleges. Although AsianAmericans make up only percent of the nation‘ population, they constitute percent of the undergraduates at Harvard, 18 percent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and percent at the University of California at Berkeley. 5 Why are AsianAmericans doing so well? Are they grinds, as some stereotypes suggest? Do they have higher IQs? Or can we learn a lesson from them about values we have long treasured but may have misplaced – like hard work, the family and education? Intensive Study 6 Not all Asians are doing equally well。 Key His rival labeled him a cream puff. . immigration laws against Asians Asians? overseas migration has been limited by both natural and artificial factors. The Chinese, earliest to arrive, and the Japanese were long victims of racial discrimination. They suffered from the discriminatory laws that limited and excluded the Asian immigrants from the United States. The Chinese Exclusive Act in 1882 suspended Chinese immigrati