(课时作业)必修第一册 Unit 1 A new start-2023版新高考英语【红对勾】大一轮复习讲与练全新方案(外研版)

A new start 答案 P571 (2022·吉林省普通中学高三调研) Last year, I went through every high school senior􀆳s nightmare: I was refused from all the col- leges I applied to. It􀆳s not that I was a bad student. I had a narrow vision, applying only to some key schools. So when I got refused, I got into a panic. I thought there was only one path to success, and I wasn􀆳t on it. While all my friends were picking out twin extra-long sheets, I was left wondering what kind of future I could have. When my panic faded, I signed in the com- munity college. I wasn􀆳t excited. I thought com- munity college classrooms with incompetent teachers that taught their students to sleep. I was so wrong. My art history professor was so poetic, and her lectures felt spoken word. My classmates were intelligent and came from all walks of life— still figuring things out like me. I decided to give myself a year of experi- ment. Aside from general education, I took a range of classes. I know it seems like a random kind of classes, but it allowed me to know what I like and don􀆳t like. I used to have this idea that I had to rush in order to achieve a certain level of success by a certain age, but a year of community college has taught me to slow down, and to rec- ognize that things take time to adjust. I still hope to transfer to a four-year university next year, but I􀆳ll be going about it as a more mature person. Being around students from all walks of life has made me realize that I􀆳m no