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（传媒动画专用） 考试时间：5月3日 周四12节 5月7日 周一56节 话题讨论： 1）What do you think of the idea of building down? Do you like the idea of working, shopping, or living underground? Why or why not? 2) Do you think that personal mobile phone makes our life better? Why or why not? 3) Think of two popular newspapers. How are they similar? How are they different? 4) What jobs are popular among you and your friend? Why do you like these jobs? 5) What famous businessman or businesswoman do you know? What is he or she known for? 口语朗读参考材料：1) Youth Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and soft knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a demonstration of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means courage of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When your imagination is down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80. 3) Ambition It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with- out demands, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the coll