I. Key words and phrases in Text A
Try to remember all the items in the Words and Phrases to Drill Box on page 196.
II. Additional Expressions in Text A
Locate the English expressions from Text A for the following Chinese expressions.
排行榜
严格地说
对我们真正至关重要的事
为了加强效果
系统的研究
起源于
留传给我们
诺曼人征服英国
大量新思路
欧洲文艺复兴
个人自由的崇拜者
开拓新路
人权
知识精英
III. Useful Sentences in Text A
Translate the sentences into English, then compare the original sentences with yours.
这种乐意包容的精神，这种不管源自何方都来者不拒的精神，恰好解释了英语为什么会这样丰富，解释了英语缘何在很大程度上成了第一种真正的国际语言。
而演说中使用英语词汇具有直接拨动心弦的效果。
系统的研究显示，许多现代语言源于一个共同的母语，但由于没有文字记载，该母语已经失传。
希腊罗马经典著作的译文纷纷印成书册。
IV. Tricky Sentences in Text A
Translate the sentences into Chinese.
...which French kids are supposed to say instead--but they don't.
Such is the glorious messiness of English.
The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of the liberties of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself.
Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. The first shoots sprang up in England, and they grew stronger in America.
