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Unit 2 Tales of True Love
Key to
Exercises
Opener
Suggested answers for
reference
1. Qian Zhongshu
was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, best
known for his wit
and great academic
knowledge. One of his most famous novels is
Fortress Besieged
《
(
围城》
). Yang Jiang was a
Chinese playwright, author, and translator. Her
memoir
We Three
(
《我们仨》
) recalls memories of
her late husband, Qian Zhongshu, and
her daughter, Qian Yuan, who died
before her father.
David
Beckham
is
an
English
former
professional
footballer,
and
the
first
English
player to win league
titles in four countries: England, Spain, the
United States and
France. David is
married to Victoria Beckham, an English
businesswoman, fashion
designer, model,
and singer. They have four children.
2. Qian and Ya
ng’s romance
began when they met at Tsinghua University after
Yang
Jiang enrolled in the graduate
school in 1932. They married in 1935.
David started dating Victoria in 1997,
after she attended a charity football match.
The couple announced their engagement
in 1998 and married in 1999.
3. During the Cultural Revolution, like
many other prominent intellectuals of the time,
Qian Zhongshu
and Yang Jiang
were “sent down”, doing “reform through labor” in
a “cadre school” in Henan
from
1969 to 1972.
The
challenge David
and
Victoria have
come
across
is
media attention. They
are
both
famous,
so
their
relationship
has
attracted
a
great
deal
of
media
attention
from its very beginning.
Reading &
Interacting
I. Understanding
the Text
1. Text
Organization
Dates
Senders
Information
31
days to D-Day
Frank
He
was
badly
homesick
and
bitter
about
his
absence while their daughter was
growing up.
He
comforted
Polly
over
the
coming
assault
by
28
days to D-Day
Frank
saying
that
whatever
was
to
happen
depended
on
God’s
will,
and
he
encouraged
Polly
to
trust
God.
17 days to
D-Day
Polly
The
yard
was
fixed
up;
she
missed
him
badly;
they had been separated for 8
months.
He
was
glad
that
Dee
was
going
to
her
first
10 days
to D-Day
Frank
movie,
and
he
wanted
Polly
and
Dee
to
fully
enjoy their life during his
absence.
9 days to
D-Day
Polly
She
wrote
about
her
loneliness
and
her
expectation for their reunion after the
war.
She wrote about her
being sentimental and her
1 day to
D-Day
Polly
loneliness,
as
well
as
her
confidence
in
the
future.
2. Comprehension Check
Focusing on the main
ideas
Frank
joined
the .
Army
during
World
War
II,
and
frequently
exchanged
letters with
Polly, his wife. Frank, away in England, wrote
about his
longings for
home
and his feelings towards Polly and Dee, their
toddler daughter, while Polly
described
in detail her life at home and expressed her
concern over the war, as
well as the
loneliness she endured from the long
separation. They wrote about
their love for each other and comforted
each other with the expectation for their
reunion
in
the
future.
Tragically,
however,
Frank
was
killed
in
the
Normandy
landing operation on D-Day.
Digging into
detail
1. He was very bitter that
he was not going to be by her side while she grew
up.
2. He believed it
was God’s will whether he would be one
of the assault troops
and
whether
he
would
survive
the
fighting.
What
he
would
do
was
to
trust
God.
3. They had
not seen each other for 8 months.
4. Polly would take her daughter Dee to
see her first movie.
5.
Polly imagined she and Frank would listen to their
favorite music together on
Sunday
nights.
6. She felt all the
more sentimental but at the same time more
confident in the
future.
Understanding difficult
sentences
1. B
2.
A
3. B
4. B
5. B
II. Focusing on Language in
Context
1. Key Words &
Expressions
1. While I was
working in a fast-food restaurant, I constantly
dreamt of being able
to own one
someday.
2.
It
was
common
for
people
to
keep
up
correspondence
with
friends
through
letters before the
age of the Internet.
3. In
modern Chinese society, women, to a large extent,
are no longer dominated
by men either
in family life or in the workplace.
4. There is now a growing realization
of the importance of recycling among the
residents in our
neighborhood.
5. The
Japanese invasion during World War II met with
fierce resistance from the
Chinese
people.
6.
It
is
wonderful
to
see
flowers
bloom
in
different
colours
after
a
long
bleak
winter.
7. The
elderly landlady couldn’t
endure the
behavior of the young man any more:
he
tossed trash all over the building.
8.
It
is
true
that
human
beings
have
had
war
constantly
throughout
history;
nevertheless human civilization has
managed to survive.
9. An
increasingly large number of Chinese plan to spend
their time travelling to
different
countries and seeing more of the world when they
retire.
10. Last week I
submitted my first project proposal and I was very
anxious to know
how the department
manager would react to it.
11. We all sympathize with those who
lost loved ones in the disaster.
12. The general decided to launch an
assault on the enemy at midnight.
13. At that time, most stores in that
region allowed shoppers to
exchange
goods
and services at a mutually agreed
price.
14.
The
kids
never
received
any
professional
training
previously,
but
their
performance was
impressive.
15. It’s amazing
that the toddler can
count up to one
hundred and backward.
1.
postponed
2. of late
3. long for
4.
continually
for
1. The sole survivor of the crash
declined to be interviewed saying he just could
not bring himself to talk about the
tragic accident at the moment.
2. I thought the party I was invited to
was a quiet and private one, but as it turned
out, I was overwhelmed by the crowds
and noise.
3.
Like
many of her
generation, the
lady
suffered/underwent
a
lot of hardships
throughout
her life.
4. The local
government was forced /had to bow to public
pressure and cancelled
the nuclear
power program.
5. Different
teachers play different roles in the growth of a
student.
6. The team is
carrying out research to find out the impact on
children of
long
separation
from their parents.
7.
Mary
immediately
felt
uneasy
when
she
found
her
cousin
John
was
gazing
upon her.
6. on land
7. Adored
8. by the day
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