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Unit 1 Text A: The Urgency of Doing: MIT and the Spirit OF Leonardo da Vinci Q1: Who gives this speech? (or What does he/she do?) Title A1: Q2: When was the speech was given? (Para A) A2: Q3: What do students bring to MIT? (Para B) A3: your own _____________, energy, ideas and _____________; your __________life experience and ________________; your __________, your culture and your _____________; your __________ and your sense of humor. _______________each of your individual gifts, together you _________ the start of a marvelous new chapter in the history o human understanding, and it happens that we have _________ in an ___________interesting place to think about that idea. Q4: Where was the speech given? (Para C) A4: in the ________, ________ space of Killian Court, ____________by the “Bosworth Buildings.” Q5: How much do you know about these buildings? A5: These great buildings are also a ____________to the power of human __________, a physical ___________ of the development of man’s __________________. Q6: What can you see at the buildings _________the river? A6: names--___________ of science and __________; mathematics and medicine; architecture, art and engineering. eg: Aristotle and Archimedes, Newton and Franklin, Darwin and Pasteur. Q7: Why were their names marked on the buildings? A7: Names that __________ the miles on the rising road of understanding that ________ the modern world. Q8: What does the speaker comment the name list? A8: The list is __________________. Q9: Are these intellectual ghosts irrelevant to the students? A9: ________ not. Q10: why? A10: because all of them ______________________ in their lives—just like you. They are ______ about math and science, engineering and design, art and philosophy—just like you; and they were hopeful and _______ and curious—just like you; and even if we can not all become ________________, we can each ______ our stone ____ the __________, _________ rising wall of human understandi