研究生英语口语交流课程学习材料 (1)
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II. Useful sentences in speaking
1.
It‘s up to
you.
由你决定。
2. I envy
you.
我羡慕你。
3. How can
I get in touch with you?
How can I contact/reach you?
我怎么和你联系？
4. Where can I wash my hands?
请问卫生间在哪？
5. Where
are you headed?
你要去哪？
6. I wasn‘t born y
esterday.
我又不是三岁小孩。
7. What
do you do for relaxation?
你做什么消遣？
8.
It‘s a small
world.
这世界真小。
9.
It‘s my treat
this time.
这次我请客。
10. When
is the most convenient time for you?
你何时最方便？
III.
Group discussion
Topic 1: Physical
Attractiveness
It has
become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The popular
television series Friends played
on
anorexic chic in an ad which was soon pulled.
In some ways, we all have distorted
views of what is beautiful. And the repeated
exposure to a particular image teaches
you to like that particular image. And we have
become so used to seeing extremely thin
women that we have learned to think that this is
what is beautiful.
The
mystique of thin began with the arrival of the
British model Twiggy in the late
1960s.
Standing five feet six inches tall, she weighed
only 91 pounds and was dubbed
Britain‘s
top mini model. Since then, fashion models have
become increasingly thinner,
with body
weights nearly 25 percent less than the average
American woman who weighs
140 pounds.
I think there are two primary things
going on right now with the cultural availability
of
eating disorders. First, the whole
society is involved in the perfection game,
alright, that we
all can fix our
bodies, make our bodies over. And then, I think,
among young women, they
are
increasingly tuned in to a celebrity culture where
the models‘ and actresses‘ bodies are
considerably thinner than they have
ever been in the past. This is very seductive and
hard
for young girls to resist. This is
not about illness. This is about idealized beauty
and
perfection of a certain type.
These plus-size models are boldly
challenging contemporary ideals of beauty. Ranging
from size 12 to 18 they are much more
in tune with the average American woman. Now a
plus-size icon, Kate Dillon started out
as a skinny model.
I think it happens
to everybody at some point where you feel one way
about yourself.
And that your initial,
your intuition about who you are is that you‘re a
good person, that
you‘re beautiful,
that you‘re strong, that you‘re capable. And then
at some point it‘s met
with an outside
force that‘s telling you, ―no, you‘re none of
those things.‖
I remember
getting ready for my first day of Junior High. And
I was sitting at my
mirror, putting on
my electric blue mascara and my frosted pink
lipstick. And I was
thinking I was
like, ―yeah, I‘m fine. I‘m looking good.‖ You
know? And when I got to
school, it was
just, they were just horrible to me, telling me I
was fat. And whether it was in
PE or
coming home on the bus every day,
they‘d stand up, and they would jump up
and
down, and they would chant,
―overweight Kate, overweight Kate‖. And I remember
just
like, you know, I‘m like sitting
in the front seat. I would always wear these
massive
sweaters, and I was sitting in
the front seat, and just like trying so hard not
to cry, because I
was so embarrassed
and horrified.
Topic 2:
Inner Beauty
I believe in mystery.
I believe in family.
I believe in being who I
am.
I believe in the power
of failure.
And I believe
normal life is extraordinary.
This I believe. I‘m Jay Allison for
This I Believe. Our essay this week comes from our
collaboration with USA Weekend from
their call-out to readers to submit statements of
their
core beliefs.
Lisa
Sandin lives in Big Rabbits Michigan where she is
raising her kids. And when she
read
about our project, she immediately began to write
of her belief that started to develop
the day she was born. Here‘s Lisa Sandi
with her essay for This I Believe.
I believe I am not my body.
Everyday we see images of perfect bodies we can
never
have. And we become convinced our
bodies are who we are. Passing through puberty
into
adulthood and now into middle age,
I
‘
ve wasted a lot of time
lamenting the size of my hips,
the gray
in my hair and the lines in my face. Finally as I
approach my fifties, I believe my
parents were right all along. I am not
my body.
I was born in 1959
at the tail-end of the baby boom. Unfortunately, I
arrived without all
my body parts fully
intact. My left arm is a short stub with a small
hand and three fingers
reminiscent of a
thalidomide defect. To my good fortune, I had
superb parents. They were
fighters who
struck ―I can‘t‖ from my vocabulary and replace it
with ―I will find a way‖.
They believed
the development of the mind, heart and soul
determined who you are and
who you will
become. My body was not to be used as an excuse.
Instead, it was a catalyst.
My body was
not neglected though. It endured surgery; it was
dragged to physical
therapy and to
swimming and finally to Yoga. But it was not the
focus of my life. I was
taught to
respect my body but to remember it was only a
vehicle that carried the important
things, my brain and soul. Moreover, I
was taught that the bodies come in all shapes,
colors
and sizes and that everyone was
struggling in some way with their physical
inadequacies.
Infomercials have
convinced me this must be true although through
adolescence I found it
difficult to
believe the cheerleading squad had any self-
doubts.
In my alternatively
formed bodies, I have learned lessons about
patience, determination,
frustration
and success. This body can‘t play the piano or
climb rock walls. But it taught all
the
neighborhood kids to eat with their feet, a skill
it learned in the children‘s hospital.
Eventually I learned to tie shoes,
crossed the stage to pick up a college diploma,
backpacked through Europe and changed
my baby‘s diapers. Some people think I am my
body and treat me with prejudice or
pity. Some are just curious. It took years but I
have
learned to ignore the stares and
just smile back. My body has taught me to respect
my
fellow humans, even the thin able-
bodied beautiful ones. I am my words, my ideas and
my
actions. I am filled with love,
humor, ambition and intelligence. This I believe.
I am your
fellow human being and, like
you, I am so much more than a body.
Exercise: Discuss the
following questions.
1. Describe a
stereotypical beautiful person in your culture. In
what ways do you think
different
cultures can affect people
‘
s
understanding of beauty?
2.
Is it better to be physically attractive or
intelligent? Is it better to be physically
attractive
or wealthy? Does beauty
affect one's success in life?
3. What
personality trait is the most important for inner
beauty? How do you define beauty,
using
your own words?
Unit 2
Biodiversity
II. Useful sentences in
speaking
1. Take your time.
慢慢来，别着急。
2.
I‘m crazy
about Bruce Lee/ rock music.
我迷死
李小龙
/
摇滚乐
了。
3. How do I
address you?
我怎么称呼你？
4. What
was your name again?
请再说一遍名字好吗？
5.
Would you care for a cup of coffee?
要杯咖啡吗？
6.
So far so
good.
到目前为止都好。
7. It
drives me crazy.
它让我疯了。
8.
She never
showed up.
她一直没有出现。
9.
That‘s not
like him.
那不像是他的风格。
10.
I
couldn‘t get through.
电话打不通。
III. Group
discussion
Topic 1: Endangered Species
Climate change is normally
bad news for endangered species, but in the case
of
Australia‘s Grey Nurse Shark, some
scientists suggest it might actually help their
fight for
survival.
The Grey
Nurse Shark is one of Australia‘s most critically
endangered species.
A
survey
in 2002 estimated there were fewer than 500 in the
critically endangered population
living
off the country's east coast. On the west coast,
they are vulnerable but not yet
endangered. Australia‘s two Grey Nurse
Shark populations have been isolate
d
from each
other for more than 100,000
years. Until now the waters separating the two
populations
have been too cold for the
sharks to come into contact with each other. But
as temperatures
rise due to global
warming, warmer waters could result in the sharks
inhabiting the same
areas. If the shark
populations unite, the extinction risk may be
reduced.
Topic 2:
Conservation of Biodiversity
The 22
researchers that created the survey are hoping it
will help with the
conservation of more
than 2,300 species of plants and animals that are
found only in
Madagascar.
Only 587,000 square kilometers in size,
Madagascar is considered one of the most
significant of the so-
called
biodiversity ―hot spots,‖ threatened areas of the
world that are
among the most
biologically rich.
―We had a lot of
species and we wanted to use the data at the
finest scale that we
possibly could, at
the most precise scale and the most detailed
scale,‖ she said. ―And that
means that
the computational problem becomes very large. And
that why one of the big
advances was
the availability of a new piece of software that
allowed us to tackle so many
species
over such a large area and with so much detail or
at such a fine resolution.‖
Topic 3: Health
Accountant
Sydney Brookman loves two things,
working, which he‘s been doing
since 1937.
―I don‘t wanna
retire; I wanna keep working as long as I can
live.‖
And telling
jokes. ―I
can rattle off 100 jokes, 50 I can tell, just by
memory.‖
He is 97 years
old.
―And I feel fine. Physically I
feel great. M
y sexual demands may
be a little less, but I can‘t help
that.‖
He is a youngster
compared to Rhea Tauber, a former school teacher.
She writes a
weekly column for her
local paper and is working on her autobiography.
She recently
turned 100.
―They held a big
party for
me on my 100 birthday and everybody in the whole
county
came down. Because they‘ve never
heard of anybody who is 100 years old still
working.‖
For the last 35
years, she‘s been living on her own and said she‘s
happy that way. It
keeps her on her
toes.
―When I was 100 years
old, they said, ‗You shouldn‘t be living alone.
You get all
steps to climb up.‘ But
that‘s good for me. It‘s my exercise: up and down
the steps.‖
At a time when
the American life expectancy is 78 years, there is
no obvious reason
why Rhea and Sydney
should still be alive, much less thriving.
Sydney‘s eating habits
would make a
nutritionist weep.
―I love
fried chicken. I love fried fish. I hate
ve
g
etables. I violate every
dietary law.‖
And Rhea is referred to
by her own doctors
as ―the miracle
lady‖. ―They can‘t figure out
why. I
love the way I do, enjoy life the way I do, go
about, and travel.‖
Exercise: Discuss the following
questions.
1.
Are
there any advantages that global warming can bring
about to endangered species?
2.
Some people
think that human needs for farmland, housing, and
industry are more
important than saving
land for endangered animals. Do you agree or
disagree with this
point of view? Why
or why not?
3.
Far too little has been done to prevent
animals and plants from dying out. People today
have noticed this problem, but few
actions are taken, why do you think people do
little
about it? What do you suggest to
solve this problem?
4.
What are the tips for longevity?
5.
Describe a
health problem that you know. You should say: what
this problem is; what
causes of the
problem; how it affects people's health; and
explain how to solve this
health
problem.
IV
.
Class survey (Group Work)
Each group
take a small survey to find out your classmates‘
opinion about reasons to
preserve
biodiv
ersity. Please interview at least
15 classmates. Here‘s how:
1.
Make a list of reasons
to preserve biodiversity. Here are 7 reasons for
you:
(1) To protect possible medicine
sources, for example, for cancer or AIDS
treatment.
(2) To protect world food security
against the risk of disease or pests.
(3)
To provide a wider variety of food
species for people‘s diet and health.
(4) To keep the
climate in balance.
(5) To provide a variety of
species that can cope with new climate conditions
in the
future.
(6) To respect nature.
(7) To preserve
plant and animal species for their own sake.
2.
Interview
your classmates by asking them to choose 3 most
important reasons.
3.
Count their choices, and take notes on
their reasons behind their choices.
4.
Report and discuss your
survey results in your presentation. Please
include 5 parts: the
purpose of the
survey, method (how you conducted the survey),
results (remember to
use the
statistics), discussion (how do you analyze your
results) and conclusion.
5.
Please present your results with a well-made PPT
file. Your presentation in all will be
within 20 minutes.
For example:
You
can record the results of your survey like this.
Top 3 reasons
Numbers
Classmates‘
Comments
5
To provide a variety of
species that can
14
cope
with new climate conditions in the
future.
To provide a wider
variety of food
species for people‘s
diet and health.
12
3
Because global warming
is becoming a serious
problem nowadays.
…
Because the
biodiversity
in our diet is getting
smaller.
…
Unit 3 Cloning
II. Useful sentences in speaking
1. I got sick and tired of hotels.
我讨厌旅馆。
2. Be my
guest.
请便
/
别客气。
3.
Can you keep
an eye on my bag?
帮我看管一下包好吗？
4.
Let‘s keep in
touch.
让我们保持联系。
5.
Let‘s call it
a day.
我们今天到此为止。
6.
I
couldn‘t help it.
我没办法。
7.
Something‘s
come up.
有点事。
8.
Let‘s get to
the point.
让我们来谈要点。
9.
Keep that in
mind.
记住那件事。
10.
That was a
close call.
太危险了。
/
千钧一发。
Exercise:
Make short conversations with the above useful
sentences.
III.
Group discussion
Topic 1: History of
Cloning
This is the VOA English
Agriculture Report.
The United States
government has decided that food from cloned
cattle, pigs and goats
is safe to eat.
The Food and Drug Administration also says it
found no risks in meat and
milk from
offspring born to them.
A clone is a
genetic copy of an animal prized for its quality.
A laboratory process
develops a cell
from the animal into an embryo. The embryo is put
into a female animal
which, if all goes
well, gives birth to the clone.
The
F.D.A. looked at studies for several years before
it announced its decision in a final
report this month. The United States
Department of Agriculture supported the findings.
But
it says time is needed to smooth
the way for marketing meat and milk from clones.
So, for
now, the industry is being
asked to continue a voluntary ban on such
products.
The idea of eating cloned
animals rates low with the American public.
Several major
food companies say they
have no immediate plans to get involved.
The Food and Drug Administration will
not require any product to be identified as
coming from clones or their offspring.
A producer would need approval to label a product
―clone
-
free‖. The
agency says that could be misleading because the
food is no different
from other food.
But activists argue that the F.D.A.
based its decision on incomplete research into
possible risks. The Center for Food
Safety criticized the use of studies supplied by
cloning
companies.
Animal
rights activists point out that cloning attempts
often fail. They say cloning is cruel
and can lead to suffering in clones
born with abnormalities.
Congress has
been trying to get the F.D.A. to do more studies.
But the agency noted
that experts in
New Zealand and the European Union have come to
the same findings about
the safety of
food from clones. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
say they want to study the
issue
further before taking action.
Products
from cloning may not be widely available for
several years. Currently the
United
States has about six hundred animal clones.
Clones are costly, which is why most
are used for breeding. The Agriculture
Department says few clones will ever
become food. Their traditionally bred offspring
would enter the food supply instead.
The first mammal cloned from an adult
cell was Dolly the sheep, born in Scotland in
nineteen ninety-six. But the F.D.A.
says it could not decide about the safety of food
from
clones of sheep or other animals
besides cattle, pigs and goats.
And
that‘s the VOA English Agriculture Report, written
by Jerilyn Watson.
I‘m Steve
Ember.
Topic 2:
Cloned Animals: Safety Issues
This is
the VOA English Agriculture Report.
The
United States government wants to know what the
public thinks about its findings
on the
safety of cloned animals. The Food and Drug
Administration says meat and milk
from
clones of adult cattle, pigs and goats are safe to
eat. An F.D.A. official called them ―as
safe to eat as the food we eat every
day.‖ And when those clones reproduce sexually,
the
agency says, their offspring are
safe to eat as well. But research on cloned sheep
is limited.
So the F.D.A. proposes that
sheep clones not be used for human food. The
United States
this year could become
the first country to approve the sale of foods
from cloned animals.
First,
however, the public will have ninety days to
comment on three proposed
documents. On
December twenty-eighth the F.D.A. released a long
report, called a draft
risk assessment,
along with two policy documents. The agency says
it must receive
comments by April
second. The F.D.A. seemed ready to act several
years ago, but an
advisory committee
called for more research.
For now, the
government will continue to ask producers to honor
a request that they
not sell foods from
cloned animals. Clones are still rare. They cost a
lot and are difficult to
produce. Some
people think farmers might find it difficult to
export products from cloned
animals.
Critics question the safety. Animal rights
activists also have objections.
The
F.D.A. says most food from cloning is expected to
come not from clones
themselves, but
from their sexually reproduced offspring. It says
clones are expected to be
used mostly
as breeding animals to spread desirable qualities.
Public opinion studies show
that most
Americans do not like the idea of food from cloned
animals. But this research also
shows
that the public knows little about cloning.
Cloning differs from
genetic engineering. A cell taken from a so-called
donor animal is
grown into an embryo in
the laboratory. Next, the embryo is placed into
the uterus of a
female animal. If the
process is successful, the pregnancy reaches full
term and a genetic
copy of the donor
animal is born. The F.D.A. sees no scientific
reason to require special
labels on
products that involved cloning. But companies
could identify products as
―c
lone-
free,‖ if
statements do not suggest that one product might
be safer than another.
And
that‘s the VOA English Agriculture Report, written
by Jerilyn Watson.
Topic 3: Debates Over Human Cloning
Saving lives has always been an
important mission of science. Now science, and
indeed all society, is facing a new
dilemma: whether or not to try and save more lives
through human cloning.
The first cloning experiments in the
1950s involved frogs and toads. It was not until
1997 that scientists successfully
cloned the first mammal, the now world-famous
sheep
known as Dolly. Cloning
techniques have continued to improve since then,
and today there
are cloned mice,
salmon, and cattle.
Some
scientists want to apply the methods used in
cloning animals to produce skin,
organs, and other body parts for
humans. One of these methods involves taking adult
cells
from the brain or blood and
growing them into new tissues. Another, more
complex,
technique takes embryo cells
and develops them into a wide variety of cell
types and tissues.
It is this planned
use of human embryos that has resulted in
controversy and criticism.
The cloning of human cells provides the
potential to find cures and eliminate diseases.
The dream of some researchers is to
create a utopian world of good health. Others
question
whether it is right to ―Play
God‖ in an attempt to cure the disabilities and
diseases of this
world. Some of the
great hopes for cloning include the ability to
perform transplants,
whenever they are
needed, using cloned organs. For example, people
with lung cancer may
simply have their
lungs replaced with healthy ones. Scientists also
look forward to the day
when people in
wheelchairs can walk again, and illnesses such as
Alzheimer‘s and
Parkinson‘s Disease can
be prevented.
Many people
fear the effects cloning could have on our
society. They imagine masses
of
identical people, and the production of ―perfect‖
humans for warfare or slave labor. We
might even see headless human bodies
being stored at hospitals for their ―spare
parts‖.
With
such thought-
provoking possibilities for the 21st century,
human cloning will no doubt
continue to
receive widespread attention and scrutiny.
Exercise: Discuss the
following questions.
1. What might be
some of the beneficial applications of cloning?
2. Why would a clone be a good source
for a blood, organ, or bone marrow transplant?
Medical advances save lives, but does
technology go too far? Discuss whether anything
and everything should be done to save a
person‘s life.
3.
Politicians around the world have begun to ban
human cloning experiments. Do you
think
it is a good or bad idea for politicians to decide
what scientists can and cannot do?
How
about religious authorities, many of whom are also
opposed to human cloning?
Who should
make such decisions and why?
IV
. Class survey (Group
Work)
Each group take a small survey
respectively to find out your classmates‘ opinion
about
cloning. Interview at least 15
classmates. Here‘s how:
1.
Interview your classmates and ask 3
yes/no questions:
(1)
Is it acceptable to clone animals?
(2)
Is
it acceptable to clone humans?
(3)
Is it acceptable to genetically alter
farm produce?
2.
Ask them to give reasons for their
answers. If they couldn‘t tell the reasons very
clearly,
you may prepare some reasons
for them to choose from.
3.
Count the yes and no responses, and
take notes on their reasons.
4.
Report and discuss your
survey results in your presentation. Please
include 5 parts: the
purpose of the
survey, method (how you conducted the survey),
results (remember to
use the
statistics), discussion (how do you analyze the
results) and conclusion.
5.
Please present your results with a well-made PPT
file. Your presentation in all will be
within 20 minutes.
For
example:
You can record
the results of your survey like this.
Questions
Yes
No
Reasons
1
Is it acceptable to clone
humans?
2
13
Yes. Infertile couples
might choose
human cloning to have a
copy of one
of them rather than accept
genes from
an unknown donor.
No. The technique of human
cloning
is not ready.
No. There are many problems that
surround the issue.
……
Unit 4 Love
II. Useful sentences in speaking
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
I
‘
ll be looking
forward to it.
我期待这一天。
Chances are slim.
机会很小。
Far from
it.
一点也不。
I
‘
m behind in my
work.
我工作进度落后了。
It
‘
s a pain in
the neck.
那真是麻烦
/
棘手的事。
We
‘
re in the same
boat.
我们的处境相同。
My
mouth is watering.
我在流口水了。
What do you
recommend?
你推荐什么？
I ache all over.
我全身酸痛。
I have a
runny/ running nose.
我流鼻涕。
III. Group discussion
Topic
1: Love and Marriage
Matchmaking
services have become a booming business in Japan,
thanks to a popular
book released last
year. In the book
Marriage Hunting
Era
co-author Touko Shirakawa
wrote that singles had to work harder
for true love, and that waiting for a soul mate
was not
enough. She coined the term
―konkatsu‖—
a play on the Japanese
words for marriage and
action.
Shirakawa says there was an
entire industry built on matchmaking. But it was
considered an embarrassment to search
for a spouse so aggressively. She says people were
secretly searching until her term
―konkatsu‖ made it okay to do so
publicly.
Shirakawa compares
the ―marriage hunt‖ to a job hunt. She encourages
hunters to
perfect the resume and dress
to impress. Some companies even host seminars to
prepare
people for a matchmaking event.
The term ―konkatsu‖ has become so popular there is
even
a television drama named after it.
That popularity is welcome news for
Japan, where the birthrate has been declining
for more than three decades now, and
the country‘s population is beginning to shrink.
The
percentage of men and women who
remain single into their late 30s has tripled
since the
1980s. And the government
says without marriage, there are no children.
Topic 2: Parental Love
Charles Spearman and Nancy Burnett have
been married nine years.
―When we are
outside in the community, we know other
people perceive us as a black and white couple.
But inside the house, we‘re a couple
and we‘re thinking of
the challenges
and the
opportunities any other couple
has.‖
In the
Virginia suburb where Spearman and Burnett live,
their marriage would have
been illegal
prior to 1967.
That‘s when the U.S.
Supreme Courts dropped down laws
prohibiting interracial marriage.
Richard and Mildred Loving, who were
also residents of Virginia, led that
battle.
―That was a lot of
courage by that couple. It was a testament to
love, courage and, I
think, the legal
profession to pave the way for the changes that
have taken place in (the past)
40
years.‖
Spearman and
Burnett, who were both previously married, say if
they had met earlier,
they would have
married then. But Burnett says it may have been
more challenging.
―Because I came from
a more conservative smaller city, a town
and
grew up seeing
and
knowing very few people of color. I can‘t really
predict how my family at that time
would have been able to accept that
difference‖.
40 year-old,
Rachel Lerman, knows what it is like to be a
person of color in a
majority white
community.
―A lot of people I don‘t
personally knew. So for me I was
about
black‖. But Lerman‘s mother was white. Lerman
married Alex Diaz
-Asper seven
years ago. They have three-
year-
old twin boys Alejandro and Migue.
―We took every action
obviously because
how they look being such contrasts. Usually it is
people who are aware,
people who look
at them and ask ‗how did that happen? Gosh, oh,
you got one for mum,
one for dad.‘
‖
Despite such comments,
Lerman, whose father was Nigerian, says she
believes her
children would have a
better experience growing up in Washington DC than
she did
growing up in suburban Boston
in the 70s.
―
Being bi-
racial isn‘t
something a lot people didn‘t quite get. It is not
like Halle Berry
today. There is
nothing cool about it. There is nobody. There is
no president. President
Kennedy was
running. Even before Americans became familiar
with Barack Obama,
Oscar-winning
actress Halle Berry and golf superstar Tiger
Woods, both of whom are
multi-racial,
were public figures in America.
Topic 3: Humanitarian love
Eleven-year-old Zach Bonner walked
across the southeastern countryside on his
1,900 kilometer hike
to
bring attention to the plight of homeless
children. ―I think it‘s
ridiculous that
there‘s any child that doesn‘t have a home
in
this country, here, in America, I
think it‘s horrible.‖
He
traveled from Florida to Washington, D.C. where he
told an
audience there are many child
homeless children.
―It still amazes me
the amount of people
still today who
don‘t believe
that this problem even
exists. And the truth is, not only does it
exist, but it‘s getting
worse‖.
Zach says There are
many reasons that children are homeless.
―Because of the
economic
crisis going on right now,
it‘s getting
worse because of people losing their jobs,
and pe
ople losing their
homes. And therefore, that‘s also a reason they
become homeless
.
And
sometimes, the families are abusive toward the
child and they run away.‖
It
took three years for Zach to finish his walk,
which began when he was only eight.
He
made the trip in three stages averaging 20
kilometers each day. No matter how tired he
got, he felt he had to keep walking.
―When a child gets tired of being homeless,
you know,
they don‘t get to
think, ‗Well, I‘m tired of being homeless, so I‘m
not going to be ho
meless
anymore.‘
So why
should I be able to say, ‗Well, I‘m tired of
walking, so I‘m not going to
walk
anymore.
‘
‖ His
mother Laurie took each step with him, and his
sister
Kelly followed
them
in a car. At night they stayed in a donated
recreational vehicle.
Exercise: Discuss
the following questions.
1.
What characteristics do you look for in
a girlfriend or boyfriend?
2.
Would you go
to TV shows for dating such as If You Are the One
(
非诚勿扰
)?
3.
Do your
parents will stand by you if you go into a
transnational marriage?