Unit 8 Two Truths to Live By,Contents page,Contents,Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement,Objectives,Learning Objectives,Rhetorical skill: parallelism in imperative sentences Key language Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat,And we must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures. - William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Pre-R: Pre-questions-1,人生潮起潮落若能把握机会乘风破浪，必定能马到成功若不能把握机会，人生的航行就只能受限于浅陋和悲苦之中我们正漂流在茫茫大海当浪潮涌来时，我们必须把握住它否则就会使我们的冒险失败 -莎士比亚：裘里斯.凯撒,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Pre-R: Pre-questions-1,Some famous sentences about life 3) 换个角度，没有了苦，我们怎能知道什么是甜？没有了痛苦，我们怎能知道什么是幸福？也就是说，因为苦的存在，才有了甜，有了痛苦烦恼的存在，才有了快乐幸福。当你能飞的时候就不要放弃飞；当你能梦的时候就不要放弃梦；当你能爱的时候就不要放弃爱。 4) The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. - Henry David Thoreau尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。 - 梭罗,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Pre-R: Pre-questions-1,Some famous sentences about life 5) 别让生活的压力挤走快乐：不管昨天发生了什么，不管昨天的自己有多难堪，有多无奈，有多苦涩，都过去了，不会再来，也无法更改。就让昨天把所有的苦、所有的累、所有的痛远远地带走吧，而今天，要收拾心情，重新出发，全新开始！ 6) storms make trees take deeper roots.风暴使树木深深扎根。 7) Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ( O. Goldsmith )我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。（哥德斯密斯）,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Pre-R: Pre-questions-1,Some famous sentences about life 8) 美丽的维纳斯雕像是一件艺术品，代表着缺陷之美，那么有韵味、纯洁，让人陶醉。在我们实际生活中，我们往往追求一种完美，极其苛刻，使自己陷入困境，压得喘不过气来。任何的完美都是相对的，这个世界上根本就没有真正意义上的绝对完美！ 9) 生活岂能百般如意，正因有了遗漏和缺憾，我们才会有所追寻。功成莫自得，或许下一步就是陷阱；败后勿卑微，没有谁一直紧锁冬寒。哪怕再平凡、平常、平庸，都不能让梦想之地荒芜无论是否能够抵达终点，只要不停地走，就算错过春华，亦可收获秋实。,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,G-R: text introduction,This essay discusses one of the paradoxes in life: “to let go” and “to hold fast.” The author tries to explain the importance of cherishing beauty when it is offered and to let it go when it is inevitable. Thus “to let go” is as important as “to hold fast” in our lives.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: CN- rabbis,rabbi (paragraph 1) In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew, meaning My Master which is the way a student would address a master of Torah.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: author bio,Alexander M. Schindler (19252000), Chairman of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (19731996), leader of the Reform Movement of American Judaism for more than two decades and a pivotal figure in 20th century Judaism. Rabbi Schindlers papers contain contemporary perspectives on many, if not most, of the key social and cultural issues facing American Jewry and American society from the 1960s to the 1990s. This text is an excerpt from his speech at the commencement of the University of South Carolina.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: structure,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,Part 1,(Para 1) The author points out that life itself is a paradox,Part 2,(Para 2-9) to hold fast to life: what, when and how,Part 3,(Para 10-12) to let go: how and why,Part 4,(Para 13-15) a solution to the paradox: a wider perspective,Part 5,(Para 16-17) how to make our lives meaningful,DR-p1-text,TWO TRUTHS TO LIVE BY Alexander M. Schindler 1.The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.”,Detailed Reading,DR-p2-3 text,2.Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of the earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. 3.We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.,Detailed Reading,DR-p4-5 text,4.A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and was in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. 5.One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.,Detailed Reading,DR-p6-7 text,6.As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun, and yet how beautiful it was how warming, how sparkling, how brilliant! 7.I looked to see whether anyo