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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. Oneof his most
famous novels is
Fortress Besieged
（
《围城》
）
. Yang Jiang was a Chinese
playwright, author,
and translator. Her
memoir WeThree
（
《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 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. Un dersta nding the Text
1. Text Orga ni zati on
Dates
31 days to
D-Day
Sen ders
In
formatio n
He was badly homesick and
bitter about his abse
Frank
nee while their daughter was grow ing
up.
He comforted Polly over the coming
assault by
28 days to
D-Day
saying that whatever was to happen
depended
Frank
on God s wil,
and he encouraged Polly to trust
God.
The yard was fixed up; she missed him
badly;
Polly
they had been
separated for 8 mon ths.
He was glad
that Dee was going to her first
10 days
to
D-Day
Frank
movie, and he wan ted Polly and Dee to
fully
enjoy their life duri ng his abse
nee.
She wrote about her Ioneliness
9 days to D-Day
Polly
and her
17 days to
D-Day
expectati on for their
reunion after the war.
She wrote about
her being sen time ntal and her
1 day
to D-Day
Polly
Ion eli ness, as well as her con fide
nee in the
future.
2.
Comprehe nsion Check
Focus
ing 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 feeli ngs towards
Polly and Dee,
their toddler daughter,
while Polly described in detail her life at
homeand expressed her concern over the
war, as well as the Ioneliness she
endured from the long separation. They
wrote about their love for each other and
comforted each other with the expectati
on for their reunion in the future.
Tragically, however, Frank was killed
in the
Norma ndy landing operatio n on
D-Day.
Digg ing 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 see n
each other for 8 mon ths.
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 Sun day ni ghts.
6. She felt all the
more sen time ntal but at the sametime more con
fide nt in the
future.
Un
dersta nding difficult senten ces
1. B
2. A 3. B 4. B 5. B
II. Focus ing on
Lan guage in Con text
1. Key Words &
Expressi ons
1.
While I was
worki ng in a fast-food
of being able
to own one someday.
restaura nt,
I con sta ntly dreamt
2.
It was com mon for people to keep up
correspondence with frie nds
through
letters before the age of the In ternet.
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 grow ing realization of the importa
nee of recycli ng among the
reside nts
in our n eighborhood.
5. The Japa nese
invasion duri ng World War II met with fierce
resista nee from
the Chin ese people.
6.
It is wonderful to see
flowers bloom in different colours after a
long bleak win ter.
7. The
elderly Iandlady couldn
'
t
endure the behavior of the young man any more:
he tossed trash all over the build ing.
8. It is true that huma n beings have
had war con sta ntly throughout history; n
evertheless huma n civilizati on has
man aged to survive.
9.
An
in creas in gly large nu mber of Chin ese pla n to
spe nd 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
an xious to know how the departme nt
man ager 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 n ever received any
professi onal training previously, but
their performa nee was impressive.
15. It
'
s
amazing that the toddler can
backward.
count up to one hundred and
1. postponed
con ti nu ally
2. of late
3.
long for
4.
for
6. on land
7. Adored
8. by the day
1. The sole
survivor of the crash decli ned to be in terviewed
say ing
he just could not bring himself
to talk about the tragic accident
at
the mome nt.