新视野英语第二册四单元B2U4 PPT

3) True love is based on the ups and downs of lovers in daily life. Deprived of such rises and falls in everyday life, lovers find no way to know, understand, and respect each other from all sides, thus making it impossible for both to be sure whether they are a good match.
No. The reasons for absence of such love can be deduced as follows: 1) Looks can be deceitful; 2) It takes time for true love to grow; 3) Love is an integration of two minds into one; 4) Such love is like a flash in the pan; …
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Yes. The factors for such love can be analyzed as follows: 1) It is the human nature to love anything beautiful; 2) Physical attraction is the first seed of love; 3) Love in one’s heart is like a hidden fire; 4) Love, whatever form it takes, is usually blind; …
Discussion
Can true love grow between pen pals or net friends who have never met each other? Why?
[For reference] Yes. 1) Love is a product of communication. It is through lines of communication that both sides know each other’s inner world and how much they can have in common. 2) Love feeds on mystery about each other. To any of us, what attracts is just something mysterious about others.
Unit4 A Test of True Love
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Discussion
II. Cultural differences
III. Words and expressions IV. Text
Discussion
Is there any love at first sight? Why?
Cultural differences The History of Valentine’s Day （情人节on Feb. 14）
St. Valentine‘s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges 残余of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint 圣徒Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite仪式，典礼?
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 weaknesses of lovers.
Hale Waihona Puke One legend contends 声称（某物为真）that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius 克劳迪II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed 宣布不合法marriage for young men—his crop of potential soldiers.
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.