大学英语教材love

Unit 1 Love NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH #1 After-Class Reading

Page 1 of 15 Unit 1 Love After-Class Reading PASSAGE I A Kiss for Kate Proper Names Chris （男子名）克里斯 Kate （女子名）凯特 Phyllis （女子名）菲莉斯 New Words await* v. wait for something 等待 e.g. He is anxiously awaiting the result of the medical tests. blond adj. （男子）白肤金发碧眼的 bygone adj. 过去的，逝去的 chat* v. talk in a friendly informal way 闲聊，聊天 e.g. She spends hours on the phone chatting with her friends. chin n. 下巴 commodity* n. 1) 商品 e.g. The country's most valuable commodities include diamonds and gold. 2) 有价值的东西 e.g. If you're going into teaching, energy is a necessary commodity. Unit 1 Love NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH #1 After-Class Reading

Page 2 of 15 confidentially adv. 秘密地，悄悄地 conversation* n. informal talk in which people exchange news, feelings, and thoughts （友好、随便的）谈话 e.g. I had an interesting conversation with the person who lives in the flat below us this morning. dependent* adj. needing someone or something 依靠的，依赖的 e.g. All life is dependent on the sun. deprive* v. take something away from someone 剥夺 e.g. He claimed that he had been deprived of his freedom. devotion* n. great love or loyalty 忠诚，热爱 e.g. She will be remembered for her selfless devotion to the cause. dining* n. 就餐 e.g. dining hall 餐厅 dining room 餐室 dining table 餐桌 floodgate n. 泄水闸（门），防洪闸（门） frail adj. thin and weak 虚弱的，柔弱的 function* v. work the way it is supposed to 正常工作，正常生活 e.g. The lungs function to supply the body with oxygen. 肺的作用是为全身提供氧气。 gaze* v. look at someone or something for a long time 注视，凝视 e.g. Every day for a week Tina would sit gazing at the painting. grip* v. hold tightly 紧抓 e.g. The baby gripped my finger with her tiny hand. impulsively adv. acting suddenly, without thinking about it carefully first 冲动地 Unit 1 Love NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH #1 After-Class Reading

大学英语作文之什么是爱 What Is Love

What is love ?A humourous person may say love is photogenic ,it needs

darkness to develop . One who is involved with someone happily may

hold that love is like a rose ,it can intoxicate the whole world .If some are

hurted by love , they may think love is wickedness . And there is a boy

who once told me that love is the mist lingering around the mountain

peak and it only looks beautiful far away . He said that after a devastating

broke-up .

What is love ?Different people hold different opinions based on their own

experiences . I dare say you have already thought about it for many times

like me . Yeah ,not only have i thought about it ,but also I have asked

many friends’ opinions .However , one of them who have being talking

love for several years only gave me a rough answer .As a youngster ,it is

Unit 1 Love of reading

Text A One Writer's Beginnings

1 I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of

day, was there to read in, or to be read to. My mother read to me. She'd read to me in the

big bedroom in the mornings, when we were in her rocker together, which ticked in

rhythm as we rocked, as though we had a cricket accompanying the story. She'd read to

me in the dining room on winter afternoons in front of the coal fire, with our cuckoo

clock ending the story with "Cuckoo", and at night when I'd got in my own bed. I must

have given her no peace. Sometimes she read to me in the kitchen while she sat churning,

and the churning sobbed along with any story. It was my ambition to have her read to me

while I churned; once she granted my wish, but she read off my story before I brought her

Unit 1 Love

A Good Heart to Lean On

Augustus J. Bullock

More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.

[1] When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was

severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm

for balance, people would stare. I would be ashamed of the unwanted attention. If he ever

noticed or was bothered, he never let on.

[2] It was difficult to coordinate our steps—his halting, mine impatient—and because

of that, we didn't say much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You

set the pace. I will try to adjust to you. ”

[3] Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was how he got to work. He

went to work sick, and despite nasty weather. He almost never missed a day, and would

make it to the office even if others could not. It was a matter of pride for him.