It may be audacious even to attempt a definition of his greatness but it is not so difficult to describe the gifts that enabled him to create imaginative visions of pathos and mirth that, whether read or witnessed in the theatre, fill the mind and linger there he is a writer of great intellectual rapidity

Part I Listening comprehension(20) Directions: This part is to test your listening ability. There are two sections here Section A Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations. There are 10-recorded conversation on it. After each conversation, there is a recorded question. The conversations and dialogues will be spoken only once. When you hear a question

Objectives Students will be able to: 1. understand the main idea (Bill Porter the salesman will never give in) and structure of the text (4 parts, 2 flashbacks); 2. appreciate the characteristics of journalistic writing; 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;

I. Preparation Warm-up Activities 1. Pair Work: Talk with your neighbor about someone you love most. Words you may refer to: considerate patient a great helper generous housework hard-working point out one's mistakes a good cook encouraging tender honest gentle respectable easy to get along with a good listener kind caring

Ⅱ. Listening skills W: How much money is the rent for an apartment in this neighborhood M: Your rent should be about a quarter of that Q How much should be the woman's rent be? 2. M: I paid $3, 500 for this digital camera. It was on sale at a 30$ discount w: Its a real bargain

Grammar is the structural system of a language. The grammar of English is organized into five ranks: the sentence, the clause, the phrase, the word and the morpheme. Each rank is composed of one or more than one grammatical unit of the immediate lower unit. A full sentence can generally be segmented rank by rank down to its smallest constituents---the morphemes

Ⅱ. Listening skills 1-12-a3-f4b5-c6-d7-h 9 III. Listening In Task 1: The Influence of Advertising Richard: Dad. I a pair of new shoes for an important basketball game. My old ones look

Related Information 1. 1. Opinion polls A survey of porential voters to determine their mood and attempt to determine the outcome of the election. Opinion polls started to play a part in American polities in the 1930s when the Gallup poll predicted the election of President Roosevelt in 1936

Ⅱ. Listening skills M: The police gave a few tickets out last week along Highway 15 w: In fact, quite a few tickets were given on that road Q: What does the woman mean? 2. M: Who do you think is the smartest student in the class? w: Mary is second to none Q: What does the woman say about Mary 3. W: What are you so happy about?

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still hay a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in American dream. I have dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of