Tuesdays with Morrie
The Sixth Tuesday We Talk About Emotions
Answer the questions while reading:
1. Who greeted Mitch at the door this time and what did she tell him? Why was Mitch
surprised to see her?
3. Do you have any idea why did Morrie’s wife stare over “my” shoulder for a moment
and gave the faraway look while talking to “me”?
2. What took “me” by surprise? Why was that? Why didn?t Morrie tell Mitch that?
4. What else did Mitch bring to Morrie each time as Morrie?s wife said except food?
5. Did Morrie mean not to experience life when he said “detach from the emotions for a
while”? How do you understand his words “When you learn how to die, you learn how to live”?
6. What were Morrrie?s most fearful moments? What was his reaction to fear?
7. Can you give an example to show if Mitch understand his professor?s words?
8. Why did Mitch break into a sweat on his forehead when Morrie was coughing this time?
9. Why did Morrie want to be a gazelle if there was reincarnation?
Find a proper place for each of the following words:
lilting fret tramp handle jerk surge detach impermanent penetrate vulnerability entail instinctively reincarnation 1. Success ________ hard work.
2. If there was ever a problem she could not _______, her husband put things right. 3. He said he just ______________ grabbed the knife. 4. The patient __________ his head. 5. He felt a _____ of love for the girl.
6. The nails easily _____________ the soft wood.
7. The singer-songwriter began the party with a _________ folk-rock song.
8. In the Tibetan religion, \predecessors.
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9. The world is continuously changing and is ______________. 10. He ____________ the skin from the chicken before he ate it. 11. We went ______________ about the state of Colorado
12. At the same time, they ____ about how the companies are planning for the future. 13. This place has a serious drawback(不足): ________________ to attacks. How well can you do: Fill in the blanks by referring to the relevant parts:
Charlotte
I rang the bell and was _________ not by Connie _____ by Morrie?s wife, Charlotte, who spoke in a ________ voice. I was surprised to see her because she was not often at home when I _______ ____—she ___________ working at MIT, ____ Morrie wished.
Charlotte told me Morrie was having a bit of _____ time that day but he would feel _____ when he knew I was here. She said I brought him a good ______ of ___________. He look forward ____________________. Then he had to _____________ and put the time _______. She gave the ___________ look when she was talking to me. There were more people _________ in and out of the house but Charlotte _________ it with __________.
Detachment
Morrie was really having a harder time than before. He was coughing ______ than _______. After he __________________ his exertion, he continued talking about __________ from the experience. Learn to detach. Don?t ____________ things because everything is _____________. Detachment means you let it _____________ you fully. You ________ yourself into these __________ by allowing yourself to dive in all the way, over you head even to experience them ____________________________. After that, you can detach from the emotions for a moment. This is not just about dying. When you learn how to _____, you learn how to _______. After he recognized the feel of the emotion, Morrie would say,”Okay. This is fear. ___________________ it. _______________.”
I thought about how ________ this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, ______________________________, but we don?t let those tears come because ______________________. We feel a _____ of love for a partner but we don?t say anything because we are ______________________ of what those words _________________ to _______________. Same for loneliness: you __________, let the tears _______, feel it _________-- but ___________ be able to say, “All right, that was my ____________ with loneliness. I?m not afraid of ________________, but I am going to ____ that loneliness _______. ”
Reincarnation
“I?m … okay,” Morrie whispered, ________ a shaky finger. We sat there quietly until his _________ returned to normal. I felt the ____________ on my scalp. He felt cold though it was eighty degrees outside.
Finally, in a ________, Morrie said, “I know how I want to die. I want to die
__________. Peacefully. Not like what just happened. And this is where ____________ comes in. If I die in the middle of a coughing spell like I just had, I need to be able to ________ from the horror, I need to say, ?This is my moment.? ”
If there was _______________ and if I had my choice, I would come back as a ______.” Morrie said.
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