1. Unit 4, Section A New Horizon College English 2
A Test of True Love
Unit 4, Section A
New Horizon College English 2

2. What is love? 1 [U] warm liking or affection; affectionate devotion
Definition of "Love" n.
1 [U] warm liking or affection;
affectionate devotion
喜爱，热爱，钟爱
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e.g. a mother's love for her children
love of (one's) country
She has a great love for animals.
Oxford, 4th edition: 883

3. What is love? n. 2 [U] sexual affection or passion 恋爱，爱情
Definition of "Love" n.
2 [U] sexual affection or passion
恋爱，爱情
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e.g. marry for love
He shows little love towards her.
Oxford, 4th edition: 883

4. What is love? 3 [C] person who is loved, sweetheart 恋人，情人，爱人 n.
Definition of "Love" n.
3 [C] person who is loved, sweetheart
恋人，情人，爱人
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e.g. one of my former loves
Take care, my love.
Oxford, 4th edition: 883

5. Chinese Sayings about Love
执子之手，与子偕老。──《诗经 · 击鼓》
在天愿作比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝。
──白居易《长恨歌》
衣带渐宽终不悔，为伊消得人憔悴。
──柳 永《蝶恋花》
众里寻他千百度，蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处。
──辛弃疾《青玉案》

6. English Sayings about Love
Love me,
love my dog. 2
Every man is a poet
when he is in love. 1
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. 3

7. Are they true loves?

8. True love because of
money ?
beauty ?
social status ?
pure love ?

9. A Test of True Love
When?
Where?
Who?
What?

10. Text Study 1. How did John get connected with the woman?
2. How was John’s first response to the woman different from that of his friends?
3. What had the woman done in the past thirteen months?
4. When he asked her for a photo, what did she do?Why?
5. Did Hollis Meynell come to the station as they had arranged?
6. Why did Hollis Meynell want to test John Blandford?

11. Part A: Question Answering
Text Study—Understanding
Part A: Question Answering
(Para. 2)
1. How did John get connected with the woman?
[Tips]
volunteered for military service …
received a book …
2. How was John’s first response to the woman different from that of his friends?
[Tips]
the only person to write back …

12. had faithfully written without decrease …
Text Study—Understanding
(Para. 3)
3. What had the woman, Hollis Meynell, done in the past thirteen months?
[Tips]
had faithfully written without decrease …
4. How did he feel as long as he received her letters?
[Tips]
as though, survive

13. 5. When he asked her for a photo, what did she do? Why ?
Text Study—Understanding
(Para. 4)
5. When he asked her for a photo, what did she do? Why ?
[Tips]
decline request
Suppose she is beautiful ...
Suppose she is plain ...

14. 6. Did Hollis Meynell come to the station as they had arranged?
Text Study—Understanding
(Para. 6-7)
6. Did Hollis Meynell come to the station as they had arranged?
[Tips]
Yes, but she ...

15. Description of a Person
Text Study—Understanding
Description of a Person
— Find out how Ms. Meynell looks like ...
Figure
long & thin
Hair
golden & in curls
blue flowers
Eyes
Lips
a gentle firmness
Suit
green

16. Part B: Description of a Person
Text Study—Understanding
Part B: Description of a Person
— Find out how the stand-in looks like ...
Figure
more than fat
Hair
gray
fossil; gray
Eyes
Face
pale, fat
Suit
brown

17. sport：穿着……，留着（发型） e.g. He sported a collarless jacket. 他穿着一件无领夹克。
He was heavily-built and sported a red moustache.
他身材魁梧，留着红胡须。

18. 7. Why did Hollis Meynell want to test John Blandford?
Text Study—Understanding
(Para. 14)
7. Why did Hollis Meynell want to test John Blandford?
[Tips]
love one just for her beauty, age or ...

19. Text Study—Summary
III. Summary
John Blandford __________ for military service 13 month ago. Soon he received a book from Hollis Meynell, a woman who sent everyone in the military service a book, strength and her support for their cause. He wrote back, and thus went into _________ with her. For thirteen months, she wrote and gave him courage to ______. After a short time, he believed that they loved each other and that ____ had brought them together
volunteered
connection
survive
fate
(to be continued)

20. out to be a ___ of Hollis Meynell, and he passed it.0000000000000000
Text Study—Summary
But , she _______ his request of her photo. Now the soldier was back in New York, waiting to meet her in person at the _________ desk in Grand Central Station, and a young girl in good figure was coming in his direction, but ______ a red rose as they planned. When he invited the fat woman with the rose to dinner, it turned
out to be a ___ of Hollis Meynell, and he
passed it
declined
information
without
test

21. Thank you!