全新版大学进阶英语第二册第二单元答案

Unit 2 Tales of True Love

Key to Exercises

Opener

Suggested an swers for refere nee

1. Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, best known for his wit and

great academic kno wledge. One of his most famous no vels is Fortress

Besieged（《围城》）.Yang Jia ng was a Chin ese playwright, author, and tran slator.

Her memoir We Three （《我们仨》）recalls memories of her late husba nd, Qia n

Zhon gshu, 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 coun tries: En gla nd, Spai n, the Un ited States and

Fran ce. David is married to Victoria Beckham, an En glish bus in esswoma n,

fashi on desig ner, model, and sin ger. They have four childre n.

2. Qian and Yang ' s romanee began when they met at Tsinghua University after

Yang Jia ng en rolled 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 announ ced their en gageme nt in 1998 and married in 1999.

3. During the Cultural Revolution, like many other prominent intellectuals of the time,

Qian Zhon gshu and Yang Jia ng were “ sent dow n ” , doing “ reform through labor ” i

a “ cadre school ” in Henan 1969fromto 1972.

The challenge David and Victoria have come across is media attention. They are

both famous, so their relati on ship has attracted a great deal of media atte nti on

from its very beg inning.

Read ing & In teract ing I. Un dersta nding the Text

2. Comprehe nsion Check

2.1 Focus ing on the main ideas

Frank joined the U.S. Army duri ng World War II, and freque ntly excha nged letters with Polly, his wife. Frank, away in En gla nd, wrote about his Ion gings for home and his feeli ngs 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 Ion eli ness—she en dured from the long separati on. —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 operati on on D-Day.・

2.2 Diggi ng 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.