新发展研究生英语2 第二单元

• 6.Your college roommate becomes your best pal at least partly due to proximity. (Para.5): Because you and your roommate live in the same room, both of you have more chances to intereact. The nearness in space partly contributes to the result that your college roommate can become your best friend.
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• 1. Nothing was really wrong—my family and I were healthy, my career was busy and successul—I was just feeling vaguely down and in need of a friend who could raise my spirits, someone who would meet me for coffee and let me rant until the clouds lifted. (Para.1): I was in a low mood without any specific reasons: both my family life and my career are O.K. I just want to have a friend who can help me feel better, with whom I can enjoy a cup of coffee and talk freely as I wish so as to feel relieved.
9.One woman I met at a friend’s shower didnpt keep up our connection, eve though we’d licked instantly. But because there have been times when I’ve failed to follow through with women I’ve liked verymuch, I knew that her busyness was the likely explanation. (Para.7): I met one woman at a friend’s shower and we liked and understood each other immediately, however, we did not have frequent contact. I will not attribute the lack of connection to my personal reasons because I had the similar experience before: I failed to maintain friendship with women I liked. So I would like to think that busy schedule was the possible reason. Follow through: do what needs to be done to complete sth. or make it successful The committee decided that all the members should follow through the passed plan without deviation.
8. If someone didn’t take me up on my offer, so what: I wasn’t in junior high, when I might have been rejected for having the wrong clothes or hair. At my age I have amassed enough self-esteem to realize that I have plenty to offer. (Para.7): If my offer of being friends is rejected by someone, I will not be uneasy. I have passed the immature period as in junior high school when some unimportant elements, such as wrong clothes or hair, are taken into consideration at the time friendship is forged. In midlife my accumulated self-esteem allows me to understand that I have many atractive personal qualities to find friends. take up: beome interested in (a particular activity or subject) and spend time doing (it) Okay. You want to take up the subject of the friendship, don’t you?
• 11. Happily, as awkward as making new friends can be, self-esteem issues do not factor in—or if they do, you can easily put them into perspective. (Para.9): Although the process of making new friends can be an embarrassing one, it is relieved to realize that self-esteem is not one of the causes for the embarrassment. If it really becomes a problem during the process, we should consider it rathionally. • Factor in/into: include sth. as a relevant element when making a calculation or decision. • I know it is not the cheapest on the market. But if you take the quality factor into consideration, you will find your company will benefit in the long term. • Put into perspective: consider rationally • Put problems in perspective: sometimes we worry about things that never happen.
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• 4. So I resolved to acquire new friends—women like me who had kids and enjoyed rolling their eyes at the world a little bit just as I did. (Para.4): So I made up my mind to make more new friends. I am looking for women who are the same type as me: women with children and still interested in the outside world. • 5.The downside, of course, was that I felt pretty intimidateed. (Para.4): The disadvantage of making new friends in midlife was that I was rather frightened.
• 10. “In high school I chose friends based on their popularity and how being part of their circle might reflect on me. Now it’s our shared values and activities that count.” (Para.8): “In high school I would like to choose those who were popular among students as my friends and those by joining them I might enjoy the influence of the circle. However, now the shared values and activities are the key factors when I choose a friend.
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Information Related to the Text
• 1.True Friendship
• 2.Midlife Crisis
Language Points
• 1. Nothing was really wrong—my family and I were healthy, my career was busy and successul—I was just feeling vaguely down and in need of a friend who could raise my spirits, someone who would meet me for coffee and let me rant until the clouds lifted. (Para.1): I was in a low mood without any specific reasons: both my family life and my career are O.K. I just want to have a friend who can help me feel better, with whom I can enjoy a cup of coffee and talk freely as I wish so as to feel relieved.
7. “There are many people I’m comfortable around, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call them friends. Comfort isn’t enough to sustain a real friendship,” Danzig says. (Para.5): “Though I may feel comfortable to be together with some people, I don't think I will consider comfort so important as to call them my friends because for a real friendship there are more vital factors besides comfort.” Danzig says. Go so far as to: behave in a way that seems surprising She wouldn’t go so far as to refuse to attend school
Unit 2
Friendship Text The Art of Friendship
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Stephanie Dolgoff: currently editor-at-large at Parenting. Before that, she was a contributing editor at Real Simple, health director and features director at SELF magazine, and prior to that, executive editor and senior contributing editor at Glamour.