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实践主题Topic:The Role of the Government

Describe what you think to be the role played by the government.

实践目标Objective of the practice:

1) To get familiar with the words and expressions learned in this unit

2) To be able to put the reading skill into personal practice

实践任务Tasks:

1) Discuss the changes with your friends or classmates.

2) Use proper words and expressions to show the role played by the government in relation to the well-being of the public.

实践要求Requirements:

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a neat essay.

Sample

Remember to include the effects exerted by the government on people’s welfare. Try to imply your attitude towards the government’s functions in the choice of the words instead of direct telling.

教师解析:

The following is a sample essay on the role played by the government.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us: that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly revolve those these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.