综英五课文理解

Unit 4 The Girl in the Fifth Row

The text is to argue for the urgent need of education on love in general. 1.I entered the classroom with a great deal of anxiety because it was the

first time that I gave lessons to students.

2.No one seemed to be listening to me as I fussed with过分讲究my

notes stammering.结巴

3.My confidence and enthusiasm returned as I began to speak directly to

her.

4.All my students came to visit my office during the semester. Liani

never came to his office for she had committed suicide near downtown Los Angeles.

5.Liani had not felt loved though her parents had been caring for her

tenderly all along.

6.Almost all the books on love found in the library dealt with sex or

romantic love. There was virtually nothing on love in general.

7.The most important reason for the popularity of the course was that

the students and teacher liked to share their reading, ideas, and experience on love in class to assure themselves that love could be learned at any moment of their lives.

8.Liani had passed away before they worked on hot lines.

9.The football player‟s father told the author by phone that he had

experienced one of the happiest moments of his life the night before,

when his son hugged him and said “I love you, Dad.”

10.A nother secret of love is your awareness that you are yourself unique,

that there is only one of you in the world.

Questions

1.What made the author regain confidence after moments of panic in his

first class?

Liani‟s animated生气勃勃，激励, attentive专心，注意的expression and warm smile made the author regain confidence.

2.Why did the author feel he was pulled through by the stunning给人印

象深刻的，富有魅力的young woman?

He felt so because she was radiating流露，显示to the whole class her comforting令人欣慰的，安慰的feeling, which facilitated his lecture.

3.How did the author assess Liani‟s papers and personality?

She wrote her papers with creativity, sensitivity and a delicate sense of humor, and acted with such fine qualities as caring, tenderness温和，亲切, and awareness.

4.What did the author decide to teach a course on love? How did he

conduct the class?

The statement “we are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness”was quoted because it aptly describes the situation the students were in: They sat in the same class but showed no concern for each other, i.e. they were all lonely individuals.

5.Why did the author decide to teach a course on love? How did he

conduct 引导，进行the class?

The author thought he ought to teach students how to live in joy, how to feel loved, and how to have a sense of personal worth and dignity.

So he decided to initiate开始，着手a course on love. The course was named Love Class, in which the author serve as a facilitator,促进者，帮助者and the students and teacher taught one another and learned together sharing their reading, their ideas, and their experience.

6.To what extent was Love Class welcomed?

Love Class was so warmly welcomed that the students brought their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, husbands, wives, and even grandparents to the class, which started at 7 p.m. and often continued until well midnight.

7.What was practiced in the author‟s class so as to learn to love and to

feel loved?

In order to learn to love and to feel loved, they were performing such practices as physical touching—hugging and handshaking, giving love greetings to parents, helping disabled children, visiting the aged in nursing homes, volunteering to work on suicide hot lines, and so on.

8.What did Joel do after taking Love Class?

Joel, one of the students in Love Class, would go to visit a dying old woman in the nursing home every week. The day of his visit was