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1、研究生综合英语MultipleEnglish forPostgraduates高级英语阅读吴德本 张万义1Unit2WhatMakesaLeaderPartIPre-readingtasks1).BackgroundInformationJohnFitzgeraldKennedyHewasbornonMay29,1917inBrookline,Massachusetts.YoungKennedy,aftera2KennedyshortspellattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPrinceton,enteredHa
2、rvard.In1940hegraduatedfromHarvardcumlaude.Kennedymissedbeingnominatedforvice-presidentbyafewvotesin1956.whenhedecidedtorunforpresidentin1960,hisnamewaswidelyknown.Kennedy’sfour3.televisiondebateswithRepubliccandidate,RichardM.Nixon,wereahighlightof1960campaign.Hebecamethem
3、asteroftheWhiteHouseasthe35thPresidentoftheUnitedStates.InNovember1963,PresidentKennedyjourneyedtoTexasforaspeech-makingtour.InDallasonNovember22,heandhiswifewerecheered4Kennedyenthusiasticallyastheiropencarpassedthroughthestreets.Suddenly,at12:30intheafternoon,anassassinfi
4、redseveralshots,strikingthepresidenttwice,inthebaseoftheneckandthehead.ThepresidentwasrushedtoParklandMemorialHospital,wherehewaspronounceddeadaboutahalfhourlater.5TheGreatDepressionItmeansAmericaneconomicperiodofdrasticdeclineinthenationaleconomy,characterizedbydecreasingb
5、usinessactivity,fallingprices,andunemployment.From1929to1932,AmericasufferedtheGreatDepression,thestockmarketcrashwasthebeginningofthedepression.GNPshrankbymorethanahalf6TheGreatDepression($87billionin1929to$41billionin1933);thejoblesswentupto15millionoutofatotallaborforceo
6、f45million;over5,500banksfailed;miseryandpersonalsufferingwerewidespread.FranklinD.RooseveltwaschosentogetAmericanoutoftheDepression.Particularly,hisNewDealandhedidhelpovercomethemostseriouseconomiccrisis7PearHarborAninletonthesoutherncoastofOahuIsland,Hawaii,withanarrowent
7、rancetothePacific.ItisthesiteoftheU.S.navalbaseattackedbyJapanonDecember7,1941.8JohnKennedyandHisWife9TheGreatDepression10PearHarbor11Discussion1.Whatimagedoyouthinkagreatleaderoughttobehave?2.Whoisthegreatestleader?Why?3.Doyouthinkyouhavepossessedmanyqualitiesofleaders?Inw
8、hatway?12Languagestudy1.shakeup1).totroublethemindorfeelingof;upset使震惊；使不安2).Reorg
