Unit 2 Improving Yourself课文中英对照 清单-2026-2027学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第二册

该高中英语教学资料围绕“完善自我”主题，系统整合社交媒体脱瘾、价值观培养、反思写作三大核心内容。知识清单涵盖记叙文阅读策略（如个人经历叙述分析）、议论文结构（如价值观论证逻辑）、反思性写作技巧（如寓言寓意提炼），形成从认知自我管理到实践价值观输出的学习支架。 资料以真实情境语篇（学生论坛、案例故事、寓言）为载体，通过分析社交媒体依赖现象、理财价值观案例，提升语言能力（语篇理解与表达），培养思维品质（批判性反思与问题解决），强化文化意识（个人责任与社会关怀），反思写作任务助力知识迁移，体现“学用结合”的学科特色学习方法。

Unit 2 Improving Yourself / 完善自我 本单元共收录 3 篇（组）英文语篇。 1. Social Media Detox / 社交媒体脱瘾 Today marks the last day of the Social Media Detox, Brenton High’s fundraising campaign for new sports equipment. At the start of the detox, over 100 students had been persuaded to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. This meant no messaging friends, no posting photos, no blogging – nothing. They had been promised money by family and friends for each day spent without using social media. They were excited. They were nervous. But could they do it? With the detox now finished, they’ve switched on their devices and they’re back online. I bet you’re as eager as I am to find out just how many have been motivated enough to last the full seven days! And what, if anything, has been learnt from the experience? I lasted two days. The detox was more difficult to tolerate than I had expected. I felt like I had lost an arm! Not eating for two days would have been easier! But on reflection, I can see how much of my time had been occupied with checking my phone. I’m now trying to spend less time online and more time picking up my hobbies. I lasted four days. On Monday, my classmate and I spoke about what we did at the weekend – it felt really strange not to already know what he had done. We would usually have posted pictures and updated our profiles. Doing the detox meant we had to talk and explain what we were doing and thinking! It made me realise the value of real contact that I had forgotten. I managed the whole week! At first, I really felt I was missing out. Then, instead of messaging my friend, I went round to her house. Without our phones, we had a proper conversation for over two hours, without being distracted by messages from other people. It felt so good! Then I decided to visit a different friend every day. By the fifth day, I wondered – was I really missing out by not constantly checking my phone to see what everyone else was up to? I did all seven days, too! To be honest, I didn’t find the detox too difficult, but I did give my phone to my dad to avoid giving in! My brother thought I should make full use of the time without my phone, so he took me to check out our local sports centre. An hour’s sport each day left me tired out and wanting to go to bed early. The detox made me healthier! I’m embarrassed to say that I threw in the towel on the first day! I knew there was a party happening that evening, but without access to social media I couldn’t remember where it was! In the end, I turned on my phone to check, but couldn’t resist having a quick look at my social media accounts. What’s worse, I then spent so much time catching up on news, I almost missed the party! The detox raised a total of £1,632.82 for new school sports equipment! Well done, everyone who took part! After reading the posts on this forum, it seems that something other than money has also been raised through the detox. Awareness of just how much we rely on social media can help us step away from it and communicate with each other better. 今天是布伦顿高中“社交媒体脱瘾”活动的最后一天。这项活动旨在为学校购置新的体育器材筹款。活动开始时，已有一百多名学生被说服，在七天内完全停止使用任何形式的社交媒体。这意味着不能给朋友发消息，不能发布照片，不能写博客——什么都不能做。家人和朋友承诺，学生每坚持一天不用社交媒体，就会为他们捐出一笔钱。学生们既兴奋又紧张。可是，他们真的能坚持下来吗？ 如今，“脱瘾”活动已经结束，学生们重新打开设备，回到了网络世界。我敢说，你们和我一样迫不及待地想知道，究竟有多少人受到足够的激励，坚持了完整的七天！而他们又从这段经历中学到了什么——假如确实有所收获的话？ 我坚持了两天。这次“脱瘾”比我预想的更难忍受，感觉就像失去了一只胳膊！两天不吃东西可能都更容易！不过，回头想想，我看清了自己过去有多少时间都被查看手机占据。现在，我正努力减少上网时间，把更多时间重新投入自己的兴趣爱好。 我坚持了四天。星期一，我和同学谈起各自周末做了什么——居然事先不知道他做过什么，这种感觉很奇怪。平时，我们通常早就上传了照片、更新了个人动态。参加“脱瘾”活动后，我们不得不面对面交谈，解释自己在做什么、想什么！这让我重新认识到自己已经遗忘的真实交流的价值。 我成功坚持了整整一周！起初，我确实觉得自己错过了很多事情。后来，我没有给朋友发信息，而是直接去了她家。没有手机，我们认真交谈了两个多小时，也没有被其他人的消息打扰。那种感觉太好了！于是，我决定每天拜访一位不同的朋友。到了第五天，我开始思考：不再不断查看手机、了解每个人的动态，我真的错过了什么吗？ 我也坚持了整整七天！说实话，我觉得“脱瘾”并没有太难，不过为了避免屈服，我确实把手机交给了爸爸。哥哥认为我应该充分利用没有手机的时间，于是带我去体验了当地的体育中心。每天运动一小时让我筋疲力尽，也让我早早就想上床睡觉。这次活动使我更健康了！ 说来惭愧，我第一天就认输了！我知道那天晚上有一场聚会，可没有社交媒体，我想不起聚会地点。最后，我打开手机查看地址，却没能忍住，又快速浏览了一下自己的社交媒体账号。更糟糕的是，我后来花了太多时间补看新闻，差点错过聚会！ 这次“脱瘾”活动共为学校新的体育器材筹集了1,632.82英镑！所有参与者都做得非常出色！读完论坛上的这些帖子，我发现，活动筹集到的似乎不只有金钱。意识到自己对社交媒体的依赖程度，可以帮助我们暂时离开网络，更好地与彼此交流。 2. Valuable Values / 有价值的价值观 The spending power of young people varies from person to person. Each, however, is faced with the same question: what to do with their money? Some handle this less well than others. Recent headlines have seen more and more teens maxing out their parents’ credit cards on games or other online activities. In contrast to these big spenders, there are also teens that prove age is no barrier to making good use of money. With the help of her grandmother, eight-year-old Khloe Thompson started making “Kare Bags” for the homeless people in her district. Inside the bags are necessities such as toothpaste, soap and socks, bought first with her pocket money and then through crowd funding. These items helped to make the lives of poor and homeless people a little bit easier. On receiving a Kare Bag, one woman said, “You make me feel like a human being.” However people intend to use their money, managing it seems to be unprecedentedly important to younger generations. A 2016 study said 17 states of the US require high school students to take courses in personal finances. For those who have no access to courses, help might be at hand thanks to Jerry Witkovsky and his method of using four jars to teach teenagers how to spend their money wisely. When Jerry’s grandchildren turned 13, his present to each of them was three jars: one for Spending, one for Saving, and another for Giving – he has since added a fourth jar for Investing. It was from then on that his grandchildren started to be in control of what to do with the money they receive: spend, save, invest or give? Jerry’s birthday present to his grandchildren is, however, much more than money and a few jars – he is giving them the opportunity to learn lifelong values. The value taught with the Spending jar is that you are responsible for your own happiness. Money gives you independence and the opportunity to buy something you like. After all, it’s OK to be nice to yourself! While the Spending jar is about the here and now, the Saving jar gives you a vision for the future. This could involve saving for university, but it could also mean saving for that special something you’ve seen in the stores – it’s up to you. The Investing jar not only represents a vision for the future, but gives the opportunity to build for the future. Although this could likewise involve putting aside money for your university education, it also means investing in yourself. The Giving jar is all about kindness and helping. Whether you want to help out a friend, give money to an animal charity or to children in another country, it’s your money to give to whatever cause you believe in. The wider aim of the jars is to encourage teenagers to think more objectively about money and the things that it can do, so that they grow up understanding, if you like, the value of the valuable. In this way, they will be better equipped in their adult lives to make informed choices about how they use the money they have. Indeed, the small change inside their jars could mean a big change in how they manage their money. 年轻人的消费能力因人而异，但每个人都面临同一个问题：该怎样使用自己的钱？有些人处理得不够好。近期的新闻报道显示，越来越多的青少年在游戏或其他网络活动中刷爆了父母的信用卡。 与这些挥金如土的人不同，也有一些青少年证明，善用金钱并不受年龄限制。在祖母的帮助下，八岁的克洛伊·汤普森开始为所在地区的无家可归者制作“关爱包”。包里装着牙膏、肥皂和袜子等生活必需品，最初由她用零花钱购买，后来则通过众筹筹集。这些物品让贫困者和无家可归者的生活稍微轻松了一些。一位女士收到“关爱包”后说：“你让我感到自己是一个有尊严的人。” 无论人们打算如何使用金钱，理财对年轻一代而言似乎比以往任何时候都更加重要。2016年的一项研究指出，美国有17个州要求高中生学习个人理财课程。对于无法参加这类课程的人来说，杰里·维特科夫斯基利用四个罐子教青少年合理花钱的方法，或许能够提供帮助。 杰里的孙辈年满13岁时，他送给每个人三个罐子：一个用于消费，一个用于储蓄，另一个用于给予——后来他又增加了第四个用于投资的罐子。从那时起，孙辈们开始自主决定如何处理收到的钱：花掉、存下、投资，还是赠予他人？然而，杰里送给孙辈的生日礼物远不只是金钱和几个罐子——他是在给他们一个学习终身价值观的机会。 “消费罐”所传递的价值观是：你要为自己的幸福负责。金钱给予你独立性，也让你有机会购买自己喜欢的东西。毕竟，善待自己并没有错！ “消费罐”关注的是此时此刻，而“储蓄罐”则让你对未来形成愿景。你可以为上大学存钱，也可以为商店里那件令你心动的特殊物品储蓄——决定权在你。 “投资罐”不仅代表对未来的设想，还为建设未来提供机会。它同样可以意味着为大学教育预留资金，但也意味着投资自己。 “给予罐”的核心是善意与帮助。无论你想帮助朋友、向动物慈善机构捐款，还是帮助另一个国家的儿童，这都是你的钱，你可以把它交给自己认同的任何事业。 设置这些罐子的更广泛目标，是鼓励青少年更加客观地思考金钱及其作用，使他们在成长过程中理解——不妨这样说——“有价值之物的价值”。这样一来，他们成年后就能更充分地做好准备，对如何使用自己的钱作出理性的、知情的选择。事实上，罐子里的零钱，或许会给他们管理金钱的方式带来巨大的改变。 3. Writing a Reflection: The Nails in the Fence / 反思写作：篱笆上的钉子 There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day, the boy hammered so many nails into the fence that his father had to give him a whole new bag. Over the next few weeks, as he learnt to control his anger, he hammered fewer and fewer nails into the fence each day. He had learnt that it was easier to hold his temper than to hammer nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper all day, not even once. He told his father, who said that now the boy should pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed by and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son and led him to the fence. He said, “You’ve done well, son, but look at all the holes in the fence! That fence will never be the same. When you say something in anger, it leaves a hole in someone’s heart, just like your nails have left holes in the fence. It doesn’t matter how many times you say sorry. The hole is still there.” 从前有一个脾气很坏的小男孩。父亲给了他一袋钉子，告诉他：每次发脾气时，都必须在篱笆背面钉上一颗钉子。 第一天，男孩在篱笆上钉了太多钉子，父亲不得不又给他整整一袋。接下来的几个星期里，随着他逐渐学会控制怒气，每天钉进篱笆的钉子越来越少。他发现，克制脾气比把钉子锤进篱笆容易得多。终于有一天，他一整天一次脾气也没有发。他把这件事告诉父亲，父亲说，从现在起，每当他成功控制一天脾气，就应该拔掉一颗钉子。 日子一天天过去，男孩终于告诉父亲，所有钉子都拔完了。父亲带着儿子来到篱笆前，说：“你做得很好，孩子，可看看篱笆上的这些洞！这道篱笆再也不会和从前一样。当你在愤怒中说出伤人的话时，它会在别人心里留下一个洞，就像你的钉子在篱笆上留下洞一样。无论你说多少次对不起，那个洞仍然存在。” 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $