新起点大学英语精读教程unit .ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Unit One Marriage Passage A: How to strengthen a marriage Passage B: The Family New Start College English Intensive Reading 3 * I. Background Information The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About love One day Plato asked his teacher Socrates : “what is love? ” Socrates replied by asking him to go out to a wheat-land and keep walking forward without backtrack. On his way he should pick up a best wheat-ear what must be the one good-looking outside as well as plump inside abide by the regulation of the only chance’s picking. * I. Background Information The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About love Plato took it for a very easy thing, he’s sure he can fulfill that big task easy... However, he didn’t return quick until it’s very late. Furthermore, he didn’t bring back anything with him but disappointment. He said: it’s not that easy to find a good-looking one, or he couldn’t be sure if it is the best one. * I. Background Information The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About love He had no choice but to wait and wait with the hope to find a best one. But, finally?it appeared before him that he had already went down the end of the wheat-land. Socrates told him: That’s love. * I. Background Information The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About marriage On another day, Plato asked his teacher: what is marriage? Again, Socrates answered him by asking him to go out to a firry-woodlands and keep walking forward without backtrack. This time he should take back a tree what could be used for Christmas tree as well as the best firry tree. The target had been changed but the regulation was still one: the only chance. * I. Background Information The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About marriage Plato had had last time’s experience, he thought he would finish it very quick this time. Confidently, he went out again. Almost half a day passed, h