Unit-3新视野大学英语预备级一第三单元.ppt

Unit 3 Trying to Fit into a New Family Teacher: Gao Wenjie Time: 2015.09 What is a family? F A M I L Y Trying to Fit into a New Family Para. 1 The three children sat in the airplane, watching the clouds clear away as the airplane went higher and higher into the sky. Two years ago, before their parents death, it would have been fun. Now it was nothing more than another time of meeting new relatives, trying to fit into their family life, and then moving on again. It wasnt easy to think of these places as home. Para. 2 Amy Jackson thought about the days when they had a home of their own, when she thought their parents would always be with them. Although their father often spent days traveling round the sheep farm looking at the sheep, grass, and fences, their mother was always there. Para. 3 Then, when Amy was just thirteen, everything changed. Usually her father went alone to the annual farmers meeting in Sydney, but that year their mother went too. They were to celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary. . Para. 4 The day Amy learned of the car accident and her parents death in Sydney, she realized what it really meant to be the eldest in the family. Before, she had rather enjoyed playing mother and helping to look after the younger children, though she did less for Richard than she did for Susie, the baby of the family. Amy had washed her dirty hands, read stories, washed cuts, and wiped away tears for her, always knowing she could stop when she wanted to. Then it was no longer a game now. Para. 5 Susie was too young to realize exactly what had happened, but through watching the other children, she knew it was something terrible. Her cries hurt Amy, and as she tried to comfort Richard and Susie, she realized with a shock that in future she must be both sister and mother. Para. 67 Now, Amy wondered how successful she had been. Would Susie have been so self-willed if their mother had been alive? Amy knew that