新视角研究生英语教程BII-U024FR.pptVIP

* Unit 2: Further Reading Further Reading Reading passage Reading comprehension You Must Go Home Again by Ardis Whitman Unit 2: Further Reading You Must Go Home Again by Ardis Whitman 1 “It is absurd to think that life begins for us at birth,” wrote the Irish novelist Kathleen Coyle. “The pattern is set far back; we merely step into the process.” 2 We have being driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now and the little seaside villages are appearing, one by one. We go down a long hill, lined with dense trees, and then come out in a blaze of sunlight. To our left, a tranquil cove (小海湾) spreads, sparkling, embraced by a semicircle of village houses. “There is my grandmother’s house,” I say, pointing across the cove to a big shabby old house. Unit 2: Further Reading 3 I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage with Lise, my granddaughter, looking for a heritage (传统) for her, retracing treasured memory for me. The deep roots of home have not been easy for Lise to come by. She was one of the mobile children, moved from house to house in childhood. Her parents were divorced when she was a child, and her father, my son, died when she was in her early teens. She has been attending a university in Egypt and is planning to spend her life in the Middle East. But she longs for a sense of home, and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors lived for 200 years. Unit 2: Further Reading 4 Lise pulls off the road abruptly and sits studying the house in silence. “It looks like a place to be happy in,” she says at last, wistfully (渴望地). 5 We sit a while longer and I tell her what it was like here, the memories rushing back, swift as the tide. It was not this village I saw as we talked. It was the village of childhood and a time long ago, when a little girl arrived in summer. We used to come, my mother and father and brother and I, in a chugging (发着嘎嚓声行使) train, windows open, cinders (煤渣) blowing in. Firm