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Key to Homework 2/19/98 (IC W L7):

III Reading

E

1. To ask the student to help find Xi Taifu a son-in-law (i.e., a husband for Xi Taifu's daughter).

2. The student should go himself to the room on the east side of Wang Dao's house to choose one of the students there to be Xi Taifu's son-in-law.

3. The young man was lying on his back on the bed and acted like he hadn't seen Xi's student.

4. Well... probably because he liked the idea of someone who didn't leap up as soon as they heard the name of someone rich, famous, and powerful -- someone who didn't care all that much for names, titles, and fortune.

IV Grammar & Usage