|
Exercise IV. Read the story and render it.
My friend Tom is very capable and he can do some very difficult things. But the easier
the thing, the less capable he feels to do it. For instance, he can drive a car, sail a boat, drive a
tractor but be cannot ride a bicycle. Isn't that a funny thing?
Tom is a good sportsman. He can play basket-ball, volley-ball, football and tennis. He
can also run, skate, and ski very well. But he cannot swim. Isn't it strange?
He learns languages easily too. He can speak English, German, Italian, and French. He
can speak, write, and read these languages. He can read and write Chinese but he cannot
speak it. He cannot speak a word. How ridiculous!
Exercise V. Read the text, mark the stresses and tunes. Prepare it for test reading.
There are twenty-two universities in Great Britain: sixteen in England, four in Scotland,
one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.
A University consists of a number of faculties: medicine, arts, philosophy, law, music,
natural science, economics, engineering, agriculture, commerce and education. After three
years of study a student may proceed to a Bachelor's degree, later to the degrees of Master and
Doctor.
The leading universities in England are: Oxford, Cambridge and London. English
universities greatly differ from each other. They differ in date of foundation, history, tradition,
internal government, methods of instruction, ways of student life, size, etc. Each university
has its own problems, each looks at them in its own way.
| 
