《Lesson 57 Words Gavin》.pdf

Lesson 57 Back in the old country 重返故里 By Gavin 我的课程通知交流YY群： 新三招老师、助教、接待应聘 9293585 考核YY群号8317264 新三学生交流YY群6302477 Lesson 57 Outline Listening A quick look at ： Words pronunciation Focus: vocabulary Reading practice 新三招老师、助教、接待应聘考核YY群号8317264 新三学生交流YY群6302477 Lesson 57 Lesson 57 Back in the old country 重返故里 I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was 18 years ago. When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound. So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve. He did not marry again and I was brought up without a womans care; but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me. He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay. His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land. But he wanted to see the old folk again and to visit my mothers grave. 新三招老师、助教、接待应聘考核YY群号8317264 新三学生交流YY群6302477 Lesson 57 He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own. I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive