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PAGE   PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Unit 13 Human Virtues Part A Listening Strategy Identifying the Topic To find out the topic of a passage, we need to pay special attention to three things: 1) to its first sentence because the first sentence is often the topic sentence; 2) to sentences near its end since the concluding sentences usually give a summary of the major points of a passage; 3) to the words and expressions that appear repeatedly in the passage. All these give us clues as to what the topic of that passage is. Now you are going to hear three short passages. Choose an appropriate topic from the following box to match each of the passages. Topics a. Different kinds of virtues b. Some people need more help than children do c. The virtue of self-control d. Wisdom, the most important virtue e. Self-control and caring f. Teaching children to offer help to others 1. ( f ) 2. ( e ) 3. ( d ) Script: 1. Although children have little or no money of their own, they certainly have the capacity to be “givers”. As children often need so much help — even with everyday things, they might think that they are the only ones who should be helped. But you can let them know that everyone in this world needs some kind of help, and that some people need more help than others. Encouraging children to be helpful is one of the best ways to help them develop a charitable attitude, and that’s an attitude that hopefully will grow all through their lives. 2. What is self-control? Self-control is listening to your friend talk when you want him to listen to you. Being quiet in the library takes self-control, especially when a friend comes in and you want to call to him. What is caring? When you help a turtle cross a path in the park so he will be safe — that’s caring. When you leave flowers to bloom so others can enjoy them too — that’s caring. 3. Plato thought there are four virtues: 1) wisdom, 2) courage, 3) temperance, or self-control, and 4) justic