【精选】新发展研究生英语2 第二单元.pptVIP

Unit 2 FriendshipText The Art of Friendship;About the Author;Information Related to the Text;Language Points;1. Nothing was really wrong—my family and I were healthy, my career was busy and successul—I was just feeling vaguely down and in need of a friend who could raise my spirits, someone who would meet me for coffee and let me rant until the clouds lifted. (Para.1): I was in a low mood without any specific reasons: both my family life and my career are O.K. I just want to have a friend who can help me feel better, with whom I can enjoy a cup of coffee and talk freely as I wish so as to feel relieved. ;4. So I resolved to acquire new friends—women like me who had kids and enjoyed rolling their eyes at the world a little bit just as I did. (Para.4): So I made up my mind to make more new friends. I am looking for women who are the same type as me: women with children and still interested in the outside world. 5.The downside, of course, was that I felt pretty intimidateed. (Para.4): The disadvantage of making new friends in midlife was that I was rather frightened. ;6.Your college roommate becomes your best pal at least partly due to proximity. (Para.5): Because you and your roommate live in the same room, both of you have more chances to intereact. The nearness in space partly contributes to the result that your college roommate can become your best friend. ;7. “There are many people I’m comfortable around, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call them friends. Comfort isn’t enough to sustain a real friendship,” Danzig says. (Para.5): “Though I may feel comfortable to be together with some people, I dont think I will consider comfort so important as to call them my friends because for a real friendship there are more vital factors besides comfort.” Danzig says. Go so far as to: behave in a way that seems surprising She wouldn’t go so far as to refuse to attend school;8. If someone didn’t take me up on my offer, so what: I wasn’t in junior high, when I might have been