New Start College English Intensive Reading 3
Unit One Marriage
Passage A: How to strengthen a marriage Passage B: The Family
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The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About love
One day Plato asked his teacher Socrates : “what is love? ” Socrates replied by asking him to go out to a wheat-land and keep walking forward without backtrack. On his way he should pick up a best wheat-ear what must be the one good-looking outside as well as plump inside abide by the regulation of the only chance's picking.
it appeared
before him that he had already went down the
end of the wheat-land.
Socrates told him: That's love.
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The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About marriage
found my energy is not that enough and the time left me
very little.
Socrates told him: This is marriage.
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II. Brainstorming
Meaning Guess Guess the real meanings of husband,
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Plato had had last time's experience, he thought he would finish it very quick this time. Confidently, he went out again. Almost half a day passed, he come back with completely exhaustion. The firry tree in his hand looked like straight and green, but, its leafage was not very nice.
answered: I didn't know if this is the best one, I took it
home because it cost me lots of time, and I really felt
exhausted after this long-
time's search, furthermore, I
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The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates
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Socrates asked him: Is this one the best firry tree? Plato
On another day, Plato asked his teacher: what is marriage? Again, Socrates answered him by asking him to go out to a firry-woodlands and keep walking forward without backtrack. This time he should take back a tree what could be used for Christmas tree as well as the best firry tree. The target had been changed but the regulation was still one: the only chance.
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The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates About love
Plato took it for a very easy thing, he's sure he can fulfill that big task easy... However, he didn't return quick until it's very late. Furthermore, he didn't bring back anything with him but disappointment. He said: it's not that easy to find a good-looking one, or he couldn't be sure if it is the best one.
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The illustration of love and marriage by Socrates
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He had no choice but to wait and wait with the
hope to find a best one. But, finally