Unit One Never Say Goodbye
紫光拼音输入法
Learning Objectives书籍封面尺寸
By the end of this unit, you are suppod to
•grasp the author’s purpo of writing and make clear the structure of the whole passage through an intensive reading of Text 1 Never Say Goodbye.
•get a list of new words and structures and u them freely in conversation and writing.
•have your own understanding of one’s attitude towards something sad or mirable
Structural Analysis
The passage can be divided into three parts.
Part One: (Paragraphs 1-4)
The author brings up the problem he was confronted with: it is hard to overcome the sadness as the moment of parting drew near. So he turned to his grandpa for help.
Part Two: (Paragraphs 5-13)
By narrating his sad experience of the loss of his eldest son d uring the war, the grandpa illustrates how one can overcome the sad feeling resulting from the loss of someone dear to him by recalling not the moment of parting but the happy time spent together.
Part Three: (Para. 14-20):
By the way he behaved when confronted with another sad moment--the loss of his grandpa, the author shows us that he came to understand what his grandpa had taught him.
Main Idea of the passage
The text is the author’s recall of his most important and unforgettable experiences that came about when he was between 10 and 12. He had learned from his grandfather the profound meaning of “Never say goodbye”and became firm and strong-willed as a child. The author wants to tell us that we should never give in to sadness, that we should always be firm and strong-willed, and that we should always remember the joyful and happy events of life as well as our cherished friendship.
Text Explanation
Part I
Why was the author ized with the anguish of moving from his home?
Becau it was the only home that he had ever known. His whole life, brief as it was, had been spent in that big old hou, gracefully touched with the laughter and tears of four generation. That was why he was feeling extremely reluctant and bitterly sad to move away from his old home.
What do you know about the author’s home mentioned in the beginning?
龟苗The author’s home was a large old hou, in which four generations and lived in harmony and experienced both happiness and sadness.
confront
1) be faced with and have to deal with
< The actress was confronted by a large group of reporters as she left the stage door.
2)force to deal with or accept the truth of; bring face to face with
< When the police confronted her with the evidence, she confesd she was guilty.
anguish
very great pain and suffering, esp. of the mind
< She was in anguish over her missing child.
The unspeakable anguish wrung her heart.
touched with the laughter and tears of four generations touched with the happiness and bitterness of four generations. Paraphra:
…the hou which had en and/witnesd the joys and sorrows of the four generations of my family.”
Our big old hou was cloly related with the joys and sorrows of
four generations.
touch
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台湾偶像剧have an effect on one’s feelings; to cau one to feel pity, sympathy, etc.
< His sad story so touched us that we nearly cried.
be touched with: have a certain amount of quality
< Her hair is touched with gray.
The boy is touched with genius.
复照青苔上的上一句是什么haven
a place of calm and safety
< the school library is a little haven of peace and quite.
As a tourists’haven, the small is a home away from home. shudder
shake uncontrollable for a moment, esp. from fear, cold, or She shuddered at the sight of the dead body.
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I shudder to think how big the bill will be.
well
(of liquid) flow or start to flow
< Blood welled (out) from the cut.
She was so moved that tears welled (up, forth, out) in her eyes.
电影的类型to ri or surge from an inner source (fig.)
Anger welled up in me.
rest on/upon
1)lean on; to be supported by
< the bridge rests on stone arches.
2)(esp. of a proof, argument, etc.) be bad on; be grounded on; depend on
< Y our argument rests on a statement that cannot be proved. through one’s tears
with tears in one’s eyes; while shedding tears
stare
1)look steadily for a long time, esp. in great surpri or
shock
< He sat staring into space, thinking deeply.
2) be very plain to e; to be obvious
< The lies in the report stared out at us from every paragraph. stare off: stare away; to move one’s eyes from a point nearby to a farther place and fix them on it or look at it steadily
Part II
Why did the author’s grandfather take him to e the robush in the front yard?
Becau the author’s grandfather wanted to tell him a true story related to the robush and hoped to enable him to feel with his heart
