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08 unit eight Success 【基本要求】 本单元主要介绍成功的经历，使学生了解一些人成功的经历，以及掌握介绍经历的方法，掌握相关的重点词汇。 【重点难点】 完整、详细的介绍成功过程的方法 【讲授学时】 6 学时 【课程内容】 Lead-in The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 Worlds Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, with over 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high at its highest point and 138 feet (42 m) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons. When it was completed, it was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River. George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning American film producer, screenwriter, director and chairman of Lucas Film Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry’s most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.9 billion. Theodore D. Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party. He was a governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. In 1901, Roosevelt came into office as the youngest president in the history of the United States of America. He was also the first American Nobel Peace Prize laureate, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War. He promoted the control over the Panama Canal by the U.S. and its construction in 1904, which is of great economic and military strategic importance to the U.S. Bruce Lee (Lee Hsiao Lung), was born in San Fransisco in November 1940, the son of a famous Chinese opera singer. Bruce moved to Hong Kong, when he soon became a child star in the growing Eastern film industry. His first film was calle