新视野大学英语二第四单元作文范文
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Passage A A Test ofTrue Love Six minutes to six, said the digital clock over the information desk in GrandCentral Station.John Blandford, a tall young armyofficer, focused his eyesight on the clock tonote the exact time. In six minutes he would see the woman who had filled aspecial place in his life for the past thirteen months, a woman he had neverseen, yet whose written words had been with him and had given him strengthwithout fail. Soon after he volunteeredfor military service, he had received a book from this woman.A letter, which wished him courage and safety, came withthe book.He discovered that many of hisfriends, also in the army, had received the identicalbook from the woman, Hollis Meynell. And while they all got strength from it, and appreciatedher support of their cause, John Blandford was the only person to write Ms.Meynell back. On the day of his departure,to a destination overseaswhere he would fight in the war, he received her reply.Aboard the cargoship that was taking him into enemy territory,he stood on the deck and read her letter to himagain and again. For thirteen months, she hadfaithfully written to him. When his letters did not arrive, she wrote anyway,without decrease. During the difficult days of war, her letters nourished him and gave him courage. As long as he received letters from her, he felt asthough he could survive.After a short time, he believedhe loved her, and she loved him. It was as if fate had brought them together. But when he asked her for a photo, she declined his request. She explained her objection:"If your feelings for me have any reality, any honest basis, what I looklike won't matter.Suppose I'm beautiful. I'd alwaysbe bothered by the feeling that you loved me for my beauty, and that kind oflove would disgust me.Suppose I'm plain. Then I'dalways fear you were writing to me only because you were lonely and had no oneelse. Either way, I would forbidmyself from loving you. When you come to New York and you see me, then you can make your decision.Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on afterthat—if that's what we choose。
" One minute to six。 Blandford's heart leaped. A young woman was coming toward him, and he felt a connection with her right away.Her figure was long and thin, her spectacular golden hair lay back in curls from her small ears.Her eyes were blue flowers; her lips had a gentlefirmness. In her fancy green suitshe was like springtime come alive. He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice thatshe wasn't wearing a rose, and as he moved, a small, warm smile formed on herlips. "Going my way, soldier?" she asked. Uncontrollably, he made one stepcloser to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell. She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a womanwell past forty, and a fossil to his youngeyes, her hair sporting patches of gray. She was more than fat; her thick legs shook as theymoved.But she wore a red rose on herbrown coat. The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away andsoon vanished into the fog. Blandford felt as though his heart was being compressed into a small cementball, so strong was his desire to follow the girl, yet so deep was his longingfor the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and brought warmth to his own; and there she stood.Her pale, fat face was gentle and intelligent; he couldsee that now.Her gray eyes had a warm, kindlylook. Blandford resisted theurge to follow the younger woman, though it was not easy to do so. His fingers held the book she had sent to him before hewent off to the war, which was to identify him to Hollis Meynell. This would not be love. However, it would be somethingprecious, something perhaps even less common than love—a friendship for whichhe had been, and would always be, thankful. He held the book out toward thewoman. "I'm John Blandford, andyou—you are Ms. Meynell.I'm so glad you could meet me.May I take you to dinner?"The womansmiled."I don't know what this isall about, son," she answered. "That young lady in the green suit—theone who just went by—begged me to wear this rose on my coat.And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, Ishould tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant near the highway.She said it was some kind of atest."