新视野大学英语读写教程(第二版)第三册 Unit 7 Section A Bill Gates.ppt

Review: Unit 4-6 Expressions about Iphone Expressions about IT Industry IT industry: Information Technology Industry Microsoft To Section B The End of Section A * * Writing—Practical Writing Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. The Gettysburg Address Given November 19th 1863 by Abraham Lincoln to be continued Writing—Practical Writing But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. to be continued Writing—Practical Writing It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth. (The end) Writing—Practical Writing Example 2 Elle Woods Delivers Student Address at Harvard Law School's 2004 Graduation Ceremony Writing—Practical Writing Professor Stromwell: I am, personally, very honored