[哲学]新时空综合英语高级版第二册.ppt

4-4=？ One day, the teacher inquired Peter:” How much is four minus four?” Peter was tongue-tied. The teacher got angry and said:” What a fool! You see, if I put four coins in your pocket, but there is a hole in your pocket and all of them leak out, now what is left in your pocket?” “The hole,” replied Peter. Joke BACK * * * * * * * BACK PREV NEXT China’s dramatic rise to near superpower status and its telling effects politically, economically and culturally are driving the interest to learn the language. A US group trying to bridge the gap between Americans the people of Asia and the Pacific. The Society has set a target of having at least five percent of American high school students learning Chinese by 2015. Because it is a leading trader, consumer and investor. Its political influence is also rising across the globe. The problem is that the current infrastructure to support recruitment of student and teachers as well as the growth of high quality programs is woefully inadequate. ? Why are Americans scrambling to learn the Chinese language? ? What kind of organization is Asia Society? ? What is the target of this organization? ? Why is China critical to the United States? ? What is the current problem for the programs? BACK PREV NEXT Directions: Fill in the blanks without referring to the original text. Then check your answers against the original. After that, read the passage aloud until you can say it from memory. BLANK FILLING BACK PREV NEXT China, the world’s most_______ nation, is critical to the _________ because it is a leading _____, consumer and ______. Its ________influence is also _______ across the world. It has replaced the United States as the world’s ________ consumer and could become the______ largest economy in the world, after the United States, in the next two to three _______. populous United States trader investor political rising largest second decades BACK PREV NEXT Directions: Fill in each of