【正文】 or a line or two. My father, ever considerate（體貼的） , said, “See, you can sing, darling. That was good.” Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 2 I have often remembered how warm, happy and loved I felt growing up. It took me years, though, to learn that the love in our family didn’t just happen. In fact, love never just happens—not even to people who seem as naturally loving as my mother and father. But, I would hedge to bet, there is a framework you must live within to let this gift that has no rivals mature（自然成熟） . 句型 Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 3a First, love needs time. Perhaps people can recognize in a moment the possibility for love, and make grand declarations(鄭重宣布 ) such as “I love you” within weeks of having met, but this love is parable to the beginning of a long road up a mountain with many ups and downs. Mature love is like a living anism（生物體） . It parallels the life of an oak tree, growing slowly from a seed in the mud to a slender trunk with barely any leaves and finally into its sheltering glory. Chinese Para. 3b We cannot manipulate or speed up the amount of years it needs to grow, but must instead, with wit and patience, appreciate one another’s differences and share one another’s joys and pains over time. So it is sad when divorces are caused by small provocations（挑釁） , when parents and children give up on one another, when friendships fall apart at the first injury, when we give up on love. 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Chinese 句型 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 4a Too often we say “farewell” to someone we have loved without due（應(yīng)得的） thought and end up paying an emotional toll（代價(jià)） that is quite costly. I once knew a father and son who, saddled with their respective troubles in life, had drawn so far apart over the years that they found little to say to each other. And, without each other, their lives had bee hollow. The son, just out of college, had planned to spend the summer traveling in an old yellow lorry on the twolane（車道） highways 句型 Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 4b that connected the country together before freeways. One day, when he was nearly ready to leave, he spotted (found) his father approaching on a busy street and was struck by a singular loneliness in that long familiar face. He invited him to stop for a beer. Then on impulse, he said, “Dad, e along. Let’s spend a summer together.” Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 5 At great risk to the family business, the father, a furniture salesman, went along with his son. Together they camped, climbed mountains, sat by the sea and explored city streets and sleepy villages. “I learned more about being a father in the last two months than in all my son’s 21 years,” the father told me shortly after their trip. Everyone’s life should have room for loves worth risking sizable pieces of time we think we can’t spare. Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 6 We should not mislead ourselves into thinking that the ones we love must be like us. The key is to recognize and appreciate our differences. Those differences provide the mystery and wonder of human relationships. Para. 7 Love needs another, hardertofind quality as well, the ability to let go. Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 8 In the early years of my marriage, I had faulty notions that my husband should want to be with me all the time. On our first visit to his family’s house, I discovered that the men did things together and the women did the same. My fatherinlaw stole my place next to my husband in the front seat of the car, and the two of them often went out together, leaving me with the women. Chinese 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 閱讀理解 Para. 9 I plained and made my husband miserable, caught as he was between the people he loved. My motherinlaw said wisely, “Being with his father is one part of his life。 10 Return to Para. 10 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 課文閱讀 7. The sentence “we can truly send the spirits of those we love as well as our own soaring upwards” (Para. 11) means “we can truly make ourselves and our beloved ________”. A. feel very happy B. feel very sad C. fly high D. acceptable to each other Refer to Para. 11 自測 技巧 Back 詞匯學(xué)習(xí) 問題預(yù)覽 隨 筆 課文閱讀 8. According to the writer, which of the following is not a necessary part in the framework for love? A. Time. B. The ability to let go. C. A declaration of “I love you”. D. Effective munication. Refer to Paras. 3, 7, 11 Return to Para. 11 Test Yourself Compound Dictation InDepth Reading 課文 技巧 Compound Dictation 課文 技巧 Back You will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered S9 to S11 you are required to fill i