1. Given the busy nature of our lives, it’s to be appreciated that we even find the time to indulge in matters of the heart. (Para. 3)
Love is still indispensable to us, even though we are so busy pursuing material things for our everyday life. For this we should feel grateful.
2. The long skirts, the quiet and unpretentious looks, the curled long hair, the calmness, the shy glance — these are all so frequently remindful of a bygone era. (Para. 8)
These often remind us of those days when people of our parents’ generation were courting. It was an era of constraints, restraints, respect, admiration, and plenty of romance. But such an era is gone for ever, for young people today tend to behave differently.
3. There is more of acquiring and less of sharing. (Para.12)
The younger generation is more selfish: they care too much about what they can get instead of what they can share.
4. There’s much more to being someone’s lover than gifting them red roses and fifty-cent cards. (Para. 13)
People in a relationship need to do much more than just sending gifts to their lovers. More importantly, they should devote themselves, heart and soul, to each other.
5. And we should not have become so tired by our frivolous acts that when it comes we aren’t able to receive it with open arms. (Para. 14)
After repeatedly experiencing hasty, casual and insensible relationships, we have become emotionally tired and confused, so when true love comes, we are unable to respond to it with due enthusiasm, passion and devotion.
Checking Your Vocabulary Word Detective
1 Put down the right word from Text B in the space provided according to the given definition. The first letter of each word is already given.
Example: icy: extremely cold; covered with ice 1) engaged: having agreed to marry
2) grief: great sorrow or feelings of suffering 3) manipulate: work with skilful use of the hands 4) agonizing: causing great pain or anxiety 5) maximum: the largest number, amount, etc.
6) fascinate: attract and hold the interest or attention of
7) complaint: a statement of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, pain, etc. 8) grace: a fine and attractive quality in movement or form, esp. when this seems effortless and natural
2 Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from Text B. Both the explanation and the number of the paragraph in which the target
word or phrase appears are given in brackets. Be sure to use the proper form.
Example: To gain more profit, they reduced the costs of the building to the
minimum .
(the smallest amount: Para. 7)
1) “Lip Ice”, a relief for dry lips, is applied to keep lips moist . (slightly wet: Para. 1)
2) Only three people could fit into the lift; it’s really too small. (have sufficient space in: Para. 5)
3) In the course of their investigation, they discovered various forms of political corruption (腐败). (during: Para. 6)
4) Helen was overjoyed to hear that she had got the job. (extremely pleased: Para. 9)
5) I often clip pictures of tourist spots from the magazine Travel Weekly. (cut: Para. 10)
6) Doctors tried in vain to save him; he passed away at dawn. (without a successful result: Para. 12)
7) During the war, they were forced to yield some of their farmland to the local farmers.
(give up one’s control of: Para. 12)
8) The twins resemble each other in appearance but their personalities are quite different.
(look like or be similar to sb. or sth.: Para. 13)
Checking Your Comprehension
1 Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text B.
1) What happened to the writer’s husband?
He was dying in bed of a serious disease.
2) What did her husband’s hands look like?
They were long and large. His fingers were long and square, laced with fine veins all the way to the tips. His nails squared off the ends of his fingers, with clearly defined white edges. He had always taken great care to keep them neat. They were not tough hands; nor soft, either.
3) What could she feel when her husband clasped her hands during the last four years when he was confined to the hospital bed?
She could feel pure and honest expressions of his love.
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