Unit5,SectionA.pptx

Choose to Be Alone on Purpose;Text Structure;A. The Way to Develop This Text;;Comparison in Para. 2;Comparison in Para. 11;;Para.1 Living alone is a ______________ phenomenon in U.S.A. Para.2 People think of living alone as _______________ or _______________ _________________. Paras.3~10 ______, and ___________ prefer living alone for inspiration. Paras.11~13 The life of the solitary people and their need ________. Paras.14~16 The author advises people to ________, _________ and ______________________.;Page 112, Comprehension of the Text;2. Why do poets and philosophers like solitude? (Para. 3);3. What can be learned from Thoreau’s choice of the solitary way of life? (Para. 10);4. How will the temporary absence of friends affect a person? (Para. 11) It depends. “If you live with other people, their temporary absence can be refreshing.” “But when you live alone, the temporary absence of your friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum; they may never come back.”;5. Why is it important for a person living alone to talk to others? (Para. 12);6. Who may the person living in solitude talk to? (Para. 13);7. How is a solitary man advised to enjoy life? (Paras. 14 15) To stay rational, settle down in a comfortable way and find pleasure from the current life, wait for anything happy that may happen.;8. What can be inferred from the passage about the writer’s attitudes toward ordinary people’s condition of living alone? (Paras. 15 16) “since we are here, we may as well accept it and make the best of it.”;Para 1 Here we are, all by ourselves, all 22 million of us by recent count, alone in our rooms, some of us liking it that way and some of us not. Some of us divorced, some widowed, some never yet committed. ;Para 2 Loneliness may be a sort of national disease here, and it’s more embarrassing for us to admit than any other sin. On the other han