English around the world教案

   “no,”said paul. “each thousand is a lost life in a desert between us. it can never bring me any (25)h______.”
iii.閱讀理解：
a
in the 20th century many new nations have been set up. though their people
may be free to vote and to elect their leaders, yet unjust opinions, unusual and harmful customs take a long time to die out.
there was a good example of this recently. in a newly republic when a girl of
fourteen refused to marry a sixty-year-old man who had bought her for 40 pounds. her father had agreed to the marriage when the girl was only four years old and had sold her to a man who already had at least six wives .just before the marriage ceremony, the girl ran away and wrote to the president of the republic. in her letter, she pointed out that although her country was independent, its people were still not truly free. some human beings were like slaves, she said, and women could be bought and sold like cows or sheep. she asked the president if he thought this was
right. the president felt sorry for her and he immediately changed the cruel law which allowed women to be bought and sold.
in a way ,the girl had won a victory but she still had a big problem. she
had to find 40 pounds to repay the man who might have  become her husband. there seemed to be n way of finding so much money. luckily, however, the girl’s story was told on a radio program in europe and nearly  2,000 pounds poured in from listeners.  the buyer got his money back and the girl was free to marry anyone she chose. she had true freedom for herself and for others like her.
根據短文內容判斷正誤（true or false）。
(   )26. in most countries, unjust opinions and harmful customs died out easily
(   )27. a girl of fourteen in a newly founded country refused to attend the old man’s 
         marry the man much older than her.
(   )28. upon receiving the girl’s letter, the president of the country helped her father repay the man.  
(   )29. before the republic was founded, most women there were freely bought and sold. 
(   )30. in the end, the girl was free to marry anyone but was in debt.
b
foreign language are widely taught. in every big city in the united states,
as well as in most small and middle-sized cities, you can find instruction in at least seven foreign languages. of course, the so-called commonly  taught languages ,such as french, spanish, and  german are popular. finding more exotic language may be more difficult, however, and in such cases, you may wish to consider some form of self-instruction. the national association of self –instructional language programmes(naslp) has a large network of instructions that offer self-study programs in many uncommonly taught languages. your local librarian should know hoe t get in touch with this organization.