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现代大学英语Book3Unit1YourCollegeYear（sByBobHarter）

Haveyoueverconsideredthechangesthataretakingplaceandwilltakeplacinyourlifeasacollegestudent?Hasiteveroccurredtoyouthatyourprofessorsotherschoolpersonnelhavecertaingoalsforyourgrowthandmaturityduringyourcollegeyears?Hasiteverdawnedonyouthatcertaindevelopmentalchangeswill

occurinyourlifeasyoumovefromadolescencetoyoungadulthood?Thoughcollegestudentsseldomthinkaboutthem,keychangeswillprobablyhappentothemduringtheircollegeyears.

你可曾考虑过作为一个大学生你生活中正在发生和即将发生的变化？你可曾想到过大学时代教授们以及其他教职工为了你的成长和发展制定了目标？你可曾注意过你在从青少年渐渐成人的过程中会发生某些变化？尽管大学生很少想这些，但是在大学生时代很可能会发生一些主要的变化。

Duringthistime,studentsaregoingthroughanidentitycrisisandare

endeavoringtofindoutwhotheyareandwhattheirstrengthasndweaknessesare.

Theyhave,ofcourse,plentyofboth.Itisimportanttoknowhowpeopleperceive

themselvesaswellashowotherpeopleperceivethem.AccordingtoPiersandLandau,inanarticlediscussingthetheoriesofErikH.EricksoninInternationalEncyclopeofSocialSciences(1979),identityisdeterminedbygeneticendowment(whatis

inheritefdromparents)s,hapedbyenvironment,andinfluencedbychanceevents.

Peopleareinfluencedbytheirenvironmentand,inturn,influencetheirenvironmentHowpeopleseethemselvesinbothrolesisunquestionablyapartoftheiridentity.

在这段时期，学生们正经受自我认同危机，他们努力要了解自己的身份，掌握自身的优缺点。当然，优缺点他们兼而有之，且两者都为数不少。重要的是人们如何看待自己，其他人又如何看待他们。皮尔斯和兰多曾在一篇文章中探讨了爱立信在《国际社会百科全书》中有关理论，根据他们的观点，性格特征是由先天基因（即父母的遗传物质）所决定，由外部环境而形成，并受偶然事件的影响的。人们受环境的影响，反过来也影响他们的环境。人们如何看待自己扮演的这两个角色无疑正是他们性格特征的部分表现。

Whilestudentsaregoingthroughanidentitycrisist,heyarebecomingindependentfromtheirparentyse,tareprobablystillverydepeonndetnhtem.This

independence/dependencestruggleisverymuchapartofthelateradolescencestagInfact,itmay beheightenedbytheirchoicetopursueacollegeeducation.

Immediatelyaftergraduatingfromhighschool,somegradua