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Unit 2 Tales of True Love

Key to Exercises

Opener

Suggested answers for reference

1. Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, best known for his wit

and great academic knowledge. One of his most famous novels is Fortress

Besieged (《围城》). Yang Jiang was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator.

Her memoir We Three (《我们仨》) recalls memories of her late husband, Qian

Zhongshu, and her daughter, Qian Yuan, who died before her father.

David Beckham is an English former professional footballer, and the first English

player to win league titles in four countries: England, Spain, the United States and

France. David is married to Victoria Beckham, an English businesswoman, fashion

designer, model, and singer. They have four children.

2. Qian and Yang’s romance began when they met at Tsinghua University after Yang

Jiang enrolled in the graduate school in 1932. They married in 1935.

David started dating Victoria in 1997, after she attended a charity football match.

The couple announced their engagement in 1998 and married in 1999.

3. During the Cultural Revolution, like many other prominent intellectuals of the time,

Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang were “sent down”, doing “reform through labor” in

a “cadre school” in Henan from 1969 to 1972.

The challenge David and Victoria have come across is media attention. They are

both famous, so their relationship has attracted a great deal of media attention from

its very beginning.

Reading & Interacting

I. Understanding the Text

1. Text Organization

Dates Senders Information

31 days to D-Day Frank

He was badly homesick and bitter about his

absence while their daughter was growing up.

He comforted Polly over the coming assault by

28 days to D-Day Frank saying that whatever was to happen depended on

God’s will, and he encouraged Polly to trust God.

17 days to D-Day Polly

The yard was fixed up; she missed him badly;

they had been separated for 8 months.

He was glad that Dee was going to her first

10 days to D-Day Frank movie, and he wanted Polly and Dee to fully

enjoy their life during his absence.

9 days to D-Day Polly

She wrote about her loneliness and her

expectation for their reunion after the war.

She wrote about her being sentimental and her

loneliness, as well as her confidence in the future.

1 day to D-Day

Polly

2. Comprehension Check

2.1 Focusing on the main ideas

Frank joined the U.S. Army during World War II, and frequently exchanged

letters with Polly, his wife. Frank, away in England, wrote about his longings for

home and his feelings towards Polly and Dee, their toddler daughter, while Polly

described in detail her life at home and expressed her concern over the war, as

well as the loneliness she endured from the long separation. They wrote about

their love for each other and comforted each other with the expectation for their

reunion in the future. Tragically, however, Frank was killed in the Normandy

landing operation on D-Day.

2.2 Digging into detail

1. He was very bitter that he was not going to be by her side while she grew up.

2. He believed it was God’s will whether he would be one of the assault troops

and whether he would survive the fighting. What he would do was to trust God.