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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 Yang’s romance began when they met at Tsinghua Universi

ty 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

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Dates

31 days to D-Day

Senders

Frank

Information

He was badly homesick and bitter about his

absence while their daughter was growing up.

He comforted Polly over the coming assault by

saying that whatever was to happen depended on

God’s w

ill, and he encouraged Polly to trust God.

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

movie, and he wanted Polly and Dee to fully

enjoy their life during his absence.

She wrote about her loneliness and her

expectation for their reunion after the war.

She wrote about her being sentimental and her

loneliness, as well as her confidence in the future.

28 days to D-Day

Frank

17 days to D-Day

Polly

10 days to D-Day

Frank

9 days to D-Day

1 day to D-Day

Polly

Polly

2. Comprehension Check

2.1 Focusing on the main ideas

Frank joined the U.S. 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.

2.2 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.

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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.

2.3 Understanding difficult sentences

1. B 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. B

II. Focusing on Language in Context

1. Key Words & Expressions

1.1

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 land

lady 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.

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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.

1.2

1. postponed 2. of late 3. long for 4. continually

sated for

1.3

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.

8. I can still recall how my heart was filled with joy and pride when I received the

diploma from the principal.

2. Usage

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6. on land

7. Adored 8. by the day