新世纪大学英语B2U1习题答案.docVIP

Listen and Respond Task One It’s mainly about three different types of friendship in our life, i.e. friendship for a reason, friendship for a season, and friendship for a lifetime. When people need each other, they become “friendship for a reason.” It means a friend who comes into your life only for a short time. A lifetime friend is a single soul in two bodies. Task Two 1 reason season lifetime 2 figure out 3 meet a need guidance and support 4 an experience of peace 5 trust and understanding lessons accept Task One Discovering the Main Ideas 1. 1 It is because there is a lack of socially acknowledged criteria for what makes a person a friend. 2 They are friendship based on utility, friendship based on pleasure and friendship based on goodness. 3 He emphasizes the element of virtue in friendship. 4 Virtuous friends possess moral excellence and share a commitment to the good. 2. Part Paragraph s Main idea One 1 It’s necessary to review some classical views of friendship in order to acquire a better understanding of it. Two 2-5 According to Aristotle, there are three kinds of friendship, which are respectively based on utility, pleasure and goodness. Friendship based on goodness is perfect and totally different from friendship based on utility or pleasure. Three 6 According to Cicero, true friendship is only possible between good men and it is virtue that creates and preserves true friendship. Four 7 Friendship is permanent between virtuous people who share a commitment to the good or to what is morally right or worthy of praise. Task Two Reading between the Lines Since society lacks socially accepted criteria for what friendship is, a person may be described as a “friend” in one context but may not be suitably called so in another. It is believed that young people tend to regard pleasure as an essential element of friendship and thus base their friendship on pleasure. It is not easy to establish true friendships because they need time and eff