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初升高英语阅读讲练结合专题3-4

Topic 3:Love

Pre-reading

1. Read the title of the reading passage below and guess which type of love the writer is going to talk about.

2. What is love? What's your understanding of “Love is just a thread”？Share your opinion with your

classmates before reading the following passage.

Reading

Love is just a thread

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying

to earn money to cover living expense. They don't act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on

TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too luxurious for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on

Valentine's Day is even more out of the question. Besides, my father has a bad temper. When he's very tired

from hard work, it is easy for him to lose his temper.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat down beside her and looked at her.

“Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.

“What?” she replied, still doing her work.

“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.

My mother stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn't answer

immediately. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt.

I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was greatly embarrassed and didn't know what to do.

But at last I heard my mother say gently, “Susan, look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of

time it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, then love should be a

thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really there. Love is inside.”

I listened carefully but I couldn't understand her until the next spring when my father suddenly got sick

seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital,

they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness.

After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother would help my father walk slowly

on the country road, along which there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees. The sun gently

shone through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world.

The doctor had said my father would recover in two months. But after two months he still couldn't walk

by himself. All of us were worried about him.

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初升高英语阅读讲练结合专题3-4

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don't worry about me. ” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I

like this kind of life. ” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that

love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

Comprehending

I. Read the following sentences and tell whether they are true or false according to the passage.

's parents often send flowers to each other on Valentine's Day. ( )

mother didn't reply immediately because Susan's words had hurt her. ( )

3. Susan couldn't understand her mother's words immediately. ( )

4. The next spring both of her parents got seriously ill. ( )

5. Susan's father was still seriously ill two months later after he left hospital. ( )

II. Scan the passage and fill in the blanks.

Susan used to think love meant________________，but___________________ taught her that love is

______________________________________.

III. Read the passage again carefully and find the right answers to the following questions.

1. Why does Susan doubt whether there is love between her parents?

made Susan worried and embarrassed?

3. What does her mother think love is?

happened to her father the next spring?

5. Is there love between the writer's parents? How do you know it? Try to find some evidence in the story.

Language in use

I. Find the words or phrases in the text that have the following meanings.

1. the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something ______________

2. at once ______________

3. feeling shy, ashamed, or guilty about something ______________

4. become healthy again ______________

5. a person's brother or sister ______________

6. that is to say; namely ______________

7. fall ill ______________

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