自考综合英语一课文全国高等教育自学考试指定教材综合英语一(上下) 主编徐克荣外语教学与研究出版社上册Lesson OneThe Time MessageElwood N. ChapmanLearning Guide新的学习任务开始之际，千头万绪，最重要的是安排好时间，做时间的主人。
本文作者提出了7点具体建议，或许对你有所启迪。
1 Time is tricky. It is difficult to control and easy to waste. When you look ahead, you think you have more time than you need. For example, at the beginning of a semester, you may feel that you have plenty of time on your hands. But toward the end of the term you may suddenly find that time is running out. You don't have enough time to cover all your duties, so you get worried. What is the answer,Control～2 Time is dangerous. If you don't control it, it will control you.If you don't make it work for you, it will work against you. So you must become the master of time, not its servant. As a first-year college student, time management will be your number one problem.3 Time is valuable. Wasting time is a bad habit. It is like a drug. The more time you waste, the easier it is to go on wasting time. If you seriously wish to get the most out of college, you must put the time message into practice.Message 1. Control time from the beginning.4 Time is today, not tomorrow or next week. Start your plan at the beginning of the term.Message 2. Get the notebook habit.5 Go and buy a notebook today. Use it to plan your study time each day. Once a weekly study plan is prepared, follow the same pattern every week with small changes. Sunday is a good day to make the plan for the following week.Message 3. Be realistic.6 Often you know from experience how long it takes you to write a short essay, to study for a quiz, or to review for a final exam. When you plan time for these things, be realistic. Allow for unexpected things. Otherwise your entire plan may be upset.Message 4. Plan at least one hour for each hour in class.7 How much study time you plan for each classroom hour depends on four things: (1) your ability, (2) the difficulty of the class, (3) the grades you hope to achieve, and (4) how well you use your study time. One thing, however, is certain: you should plan at least one hour of study for each classroom hour. In many cases, two or three hours will be required.Message 5. Keep your plan flexible.8 It is important that you re-plan your time on a weekly basis so that you can make certain changes when necessary. For example, before mid-term or final exams, you will want to give more time to reviewing. A good plan must be a little flexible so that special projects can be done well.Message 6. Study for some time each class day.9 Some solid work each day is better than many study hours one day and nothing the next. When you work out your schedule, try to include at least two study hours each day. This will not only keep the study habit alive but also keep you up to date on your class assignments.Message 7. Free on Saturday -- study on Sunday.10 It is good to stop all study activities for one full day. Many students choose Saturday for sports or social activities. Sunday, on the other hand, seems to be the best study day for many students. It is a good day to catch up on back reading and other assignments.Lesson TwoHans Christian Andersen's Own Fairy Tale (I)Donald and Louise PeattieLearning Guide也许你不是出生于名门望族或书香门第，也许你生来并不聪慧，但只要你刻苦努力、坚持不懈、发挥自己的专长，在适合你的领域一定会成功。
闻名遐尔的丹麦作家安徒生的故事——这只从鸭圈里飞出来的天鹅本身的经历可能会对你有所启发。
11 Once upon a time there was a poor boy who lived in Denmark. His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again.2 One day the boy went to ask a favor of the Prince of Denmark. When the Prince asked him what he wanted, the boy said, “I want to write plays in poetry and to act at the Royal Theater.” The Prince looked at the boy, at his big hands and feet, at his big nose and large serious eyes, and gave a sensible answer. “It is one thing to act in plays, another to write them. I tell you this for your own good; learn a useful trade like shoemaking.”3 So the boy, who was not sensible at all, went home. There he took what little money he had, said good-bye to his mother and his stepfather and started out to seek his fortune. He was sure that some day the name Hans Christian Andersen would be known all over Denmark.4 To believe such a story one would have to believe in fairy tales! Hans Christian knew many such tales. He had heard some of them from his father, who had worked hard at his trade, but liked to read better than to make shoes. In the evenings, he had read aloud from The Arabian Nights. His wife understood very little of the book, but the boy, pretending to sleep, understood every word.5 By day, Hans Christian went to a house where old women worked as weavers. There he listened to the tales that the women told as theyworked at their weaving. In those days, there were almost as many talesin Denmark as there were people to tell them.6 Among the tales told in the town of Odense, where Andersen wasborn in 1805, was one about a fairy who brought death to those who danced with her. To this tale, Hans Christian later added a story from his own life.7 Once, when his father was still alive, a young lady ordered a pair of red shoes. When she refused to pay for them, unhappiness filled the poor shoemaker's house. From that small tragedy and the story of the dancing fairy, the shoemaker's son years later wrote the story that millions of people now know as The Red Shoes. The genius of Andersen is that he put so much of everyday life into the wonder of his fairy tales.8 When Hans Christian's mother was a little girl, she was sent outon the streets to beg. She did not want to beg, so she sat out of sight under one of the city bridges. She warmed her cold feet in her hands,for she had no shoes. She was afraid to go home. Years later, her son,in his pity for her and his anger at the world, wrote the angry story She's No Good and the famous tale The Little Match Girl.9 Through his genius, he changed every early experience, even his father's death, into a fairy tale. One cold day the boy had stoodlooking at the white patterns formed on the window by the frost. His father showed him a white, 'woman-like figure among the frost patterns. “That is the Snow Queen,” saidthe shoemaker. “Soon she will be coming for me.” A few monthslater he was dead. And years later, Andersen turned that sad experience into a fairy tale, The Snow Queen.10 After the Prince told him to learn a trade, Hans Christian went to Copenhagen. He was just fourteen years old at the time.11 When he arrived in the city, he went to see as many important people as he could find —dancers, writers and theater people of Copenhagen. But none of them lent a helping hand to the boy with the big hands, the big feet and the big nose. Finally, he had just seven pennies left.12 The boy had a beautiful high, clear voice. One day a music teacher heard him singing and decided to help him. He collected money from his friends and gave it to the boy so that he could buy food and clothing while he studied singing.13 Hans Christian was happier than he had ever been in his life. But soon his boy's voice broke. The beautiful high voice was gone forever.14 The boy soon found new friends who admired his genius. There was even a princess who gave him a little money from time to time for food and clothes. But Hans Christian bought little food and no clothes. Instead, he bought books and went to the theater.Lesson ThreeHans Christian Andersen's Own Fairy Tale (?)Donald and Louise PeattieLearning Guide这只鸭圈里飞出的天鹅所讲的故事老少皆宜，虽然故事使用的是孩子们能听懂的语言、孩子们喜闻乐见的情节，但却又包含生活真谛、寓意深长。