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War and Peace Unit 2 1. Your ideas In the first decade of the 19th century, he turned the French armies against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories. His army was badly damaged in the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and at the battle of Waterloo in June 1815. 1. Your ideas The famous Chinese patriot and military general fought for the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jurchen armies of the Jin Dynasty. 1. Your ideas Winston Churchill led Britain to fight against the Axis during WWII. 1. Your ideas Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United Sates, successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. 3. Listening and Speaking 1. Christmas lights 2. responded 3. was walking out into 4. cigars, our family photos 5. six weeks, a couple of days Silent night 传颂世界每个角落的著名圣诗《平安夜》（Silent Night），便是来自奥地利萨尔斯堡（Salzburg）乡郊的一条宁静小村—奥本多夫（Oberndorf）。这首诗歌无人不晓，每逢圣诞就有如主题曲般，到处都听得到。 奥地利萨尔茨堡是世界上最著名的圣诞歌曲—《平安夜》的故乡。 《平安夜》使奥本多夫变得受人注目，每年圣诞也有成千上万游人到来探访，为的就是要追寻这份平安和谐。 Unit 1 Warm-up At the end of World War Ⅱ, Japanese government ignored the ultimatum(最后通牒) issued by the USA and its allied countries. In order to force Japan to surrender, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed as many as 260,000 people by the end of 1945. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare(战争). Watch the video and answer the following questions. Reading Pre-reading Tasks We are going to read a story of a Japanese girl who suffered great harm as the result of nuclear bombing in WWⅡ. Can you draw a timeline and place the crucial moments chronologically while reading the story? Reading Comprehension 1. This story starts in 1945. A girl named Sadako Sasaki was living in a Japanese city called Hiroshima along with about half a million other people. When she was