resourcefulness(机智.doc

Unit 15 No 1 Listen to the speech by Michelle Obama and fill in the blanks: President Obama prepares for his ____ commencement speech _（毕业典礼演讲）____ _ today at Notre Dame. First Lady Michelle Obama offered words of __wisdom______ Saturday to the class of 2009 at the University of California at Merced, ___ urging the new graduates to give back to their communities __. We need your ideas, graduates. We need your _____ your ideas, graduates. We need your resourcefulness（机智， 创造能力）. We need your inventiveness（发明创造能力， 独创性）. Dream big, think broadly about your life, remember that you are blessed _______. Remember that in exchange for those blessings（祝福，幸福，福气）, you must give something back. ____ Hold on to the hope that brought you here today, the hope of laborers（劳工， 劳动者） and immigrants（移民）, settlers（定居者，移民） and slaves, whose blood and sweat built this community and made it possible for you to sit in these _____seats. You are the hope of Merced and of this nation. And ___ be the realization of our dreams, and the hope for the next generation ___. We believe in you. Thank you so much, and good luck. God bless you all. NO 2 Sharon Stone is experiencing the bad karma now. Sharon Stone is big（popular, well-known） in China. But this picture may soon be removed. Christian Dior is pulling adverts _featuring（特写，以 为主要人物）__ the Hollywood actress after the comments she made last week. What comments did Sharon Stone made concerning the Wenchuan earthquake? The recent earthquake could be bad karma（报应） or punishment for the government’s policy in Tibet “I think she is ridiculous. People from all over the world have showed their sympathy for the disaster. She is an international superstar went two far saying things like that. It just proves that she is not a good character.” The basic instinct star made her comments during the Cannes Film Festival(嘎纳电影节) last week, just a year before that she was receiving an award in Shanghai. “It’s been an extrao