Vail is reporting very good conditions with nine inches of new snow.
This has been the weekend guide. Thank you for listening.
Exercise 2 Item Program Ticket/Admission Sports 1. Two basketball games; Tickets 2. Skiing at available Steamboat Springs, Aspen and Vail Music 3. A concert given 4. Mostly $10 by Walter Murphy tickets but a and the Big Apple very few $5 Band seats still on sale Museum 5. Exhibits of Exhibits famous rock and 8. Free mineral collection; 6 / 68
6. Exhibits of early people; 7. A special exhibit of American Indian pottery and sand painting
Unit 2 Celebrities Part A Exercise 1
Jackie Chan Born in 1954. At the age he was sent to the Chinese Opera of 7 Research Institute. At the age he became a movie stuntman, of 17 performing very exciting and often dangerous acts for actors in movies. His big came in 1978, when he made the breakthroumovie Snake in Eagle’s Shadow, gh in which he combined comedy and dangerous stunts. 7 / 68
Exercise 2
1. public figures 2. chief 3. is admired for doing something
4. noble or brave 5. is admired for the
accomplishment 6. enduring efforts 7. great courage 8. confidence in oneself 9. fills people’s minds with respect
10. entertainment or business circles, may sometimes inspire envy
Part B Conversation 1
Exercise 1 1. d 2. a 3. d 4. b
The Person I Admire Most
M: Can you think of a person you admire? W: A person I admire? Hmn. Yes, I think the person I admire most is Steven Hawking.
M: Isn’t he the professor at Cambridge with motor neurone disease?
W: That’s right. He’s spent most of his life fighting the disease. He found
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out that he’d got it when he was a student. He was at the time only about 20.
M: Goodness. What did he do then?
W: Well, he stopped wasting time. And he started applying himself to his
studies. He knew that he risked dying young, but he became a leading cosmologist.
M: Where have I heard of him? I know nothing about cosmology.
W: He wrote a book about it for the average person. In fact I remember seeing it on your bookshelves.
M: Oh, right. “A Brief History of Time”, is that it?
W: Yes, it was a real bestseller, mostly to people who put it on their bookshelves and didn’t read it. M: Yeah. How old is he now?
W: He’s in his sixties; I think He’s succeeded in living far longer than anyone expected him to.
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M: But what kind of life can you have with a disease like that?
W: He’s managed to lead a fairly normal life. He has married twice and
has three children and a grandchild now. I think he needs to use a computer for
almost everything now, you know, eating, speaking, writing
M: Mmm. It’s very sad, isn’t it?
W: Well, in a way. He considers himself lucky. You see, despite his
disability, he is recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time.
Exercise 2 1. …a professor… 2. …fighting motor neurone disease
3. …he was about 20 4. …A Brief History of Time….average person…bestseller
5. …twice…three…grandchild 6. …a computer….eating, speaking, writing…
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