Further-Reading-重庆大学出版社.ppt

* What characteristics carrots, eggs and coffee have respectively and in what way they can be related? Why did the young woman’s mother ask her to the kitchen? To make her understand how she should respond to life. 1.Read the passage carefully and complete the blanks with the missing information. The young woman’s trouble __________________________________ __________________________________ _______________________ Things are hard for her and she did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. Her mother’s reaction _________________________________ Her mother’s explanation _________________________________ _________________________________ The lesson learned from the story _________________________________ ________________________ She took her to the kitchen. The objects faced the same test—boiling water—but each reacted differently. Change yourself and the situation when you face troubles. Read the passage again and answer the following questions. 1) Why did the young woman go to her mother? Because she had some difficulties in her life and she did not know how to deal with them. 2) In what way did the young woman try hard to make a better life? 3) How did the mother help her daughter to learn the lesson? And what do you think of the way? She was fighting and struggling. Her mother took her to the kitchen. 4) How would you answer the questions asked by the mother at the very end of the story? I wanted to be coffee. 5) What do you think “carrot”, “egg”, and “coffee” respectively symbolize in the text? The carrot symbolizes people who give up themselves if they face troubles. The egg symbolizes people who change oneself to solve the problem if they face troubles. The coffee symbolizes people who change oneself and even change the situation if they face troubles. easily damaged or broken