新视野 读写教程 第二册第四单元教案

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课程名称：大学英语

教材名称：新视野大学英语读写教程出版单位：外语教学与研究出版社出版时间：2008年3月

主编：郑树棠

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Possible answers to lead-in questions:

Is there any love at first sight? Why?

Yes. The factors for such love can be analyzed as follows: 1) It is the human nature to love anything beautiful. If a charming boy and a striking girl hold no appeal to each other at first sight, there must be something wrong with them. 2) Physical attraction is always the first seed of love. As evidence proves, love finds no way to continue if both sides are in no mood to see each other again. 3) Love in one’s heart is like a hidden fire that will burn no matter whether it is started at first or second sight. 4) Love, mutual or one-sided, long or short, strong or tender, is usually blind. According to Shakespeare, reason and love keep little company together. In that light, love at first sight is bound to last so long as love from both sides remains blind.

No. The reasons for absence of such love can be deduced as follows: 1) Looks can be deceitful. In many cases, a cruel heart, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, is covered with charming looks; so physical attraction at first sight may turn out to be a hideous trap in time. 2) It takes time for true love to grow, just as a tree needs time to bear fruit. Without passage of time or exertion of effort, any form of love, including love at first sight, will stand no chance of eternity. 3) Love is an integration of two minds into one, which can never be done at first sight. 4) Love at first sight is like a flash in the pan, far from able to make its way into the sunset of marital life.

Can true love grow between pen pals or net friends who have never met each other? Why?

Yes. 1) Love is a product of communication. It is through lines of communication that both sides know what insight they can get into each other’s inner world, how much they can have in common, and what their unity will hold for either of them. 2) Love feeds on mystery about each other. To any of us, what attracts is just something mysterious about others. The same holds true for lovers, because correspondence like this is often characteristic of mystery about each other. 3) Love is born of beauty in the distance. As an old Chinese saying goes, distance produces beauty. A case in point is the popular poem—You live at the head of the Yangtze River while I live at its end; I miss you day and night without seeing you ever; but the truth is we drink water from the same river.

No. 1) Love does not grow without contact between two minds. It is well said that sparks of love shine with frequent clashes of two hearts. No collision of their ideas, no birth of true love. 2) True love depends on acceptance of each other’s demerits as well as on hunger for each other’s merits. But such correspondence almost never reflects the