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ift he receives from life. Now work in pairs and discuss the following questions. These questions are open. The answers cannot be determined as right or wrong. Just speak out your own opinions. 1. What is Spencer Johnson’ s opinion about the past, the present and the future? 2. Do you agree with Spencer Johnson? 3. Looking back on your yesterday, what do you get from it? 4. When in frustration (挫折 ), what do you usually do? Turning to your brightening past or locking forward to the unknown future? Why? 5. How do you see the tie (關系 ) in YESTERDAY, TODAY and TOMORROW? Homework 1. Preview the new words in Part B. 2. Write a position about your favorite song. You can write from these aspects: A. When did you hear it for the first time? B. Why do you like that song? Its rhythm or its lyrics? 演講完畢,謝謝觀看! 。 4. a long lost friend: a longlost friend 失散已久的 朋友 long lost: 丟失或失散很久的 5. they are starting to sing so fine中的 so fine是 so well的意思。 to municate something so powerful that people can’ t wait to hear it again. Few artists in pop history have passed this test as consistently as the Carpenters. From “ Close to You” in 1970 to |Only Yesterday” in 1975, Karen and Richard never missed the Top 15. The Carpenters were 1 Americanborn hitmakers of the 1970s. And Karen and Richard’ s success went far beyond their homeland: They topped the charts from Holland to Hong Kong. Karen’ s vocal style bined the most attractive traits of several other legendary American singer. She had the warm, pure tones of Nat “ King” Cole, the seeming effortlessness of Perry Como, the clarity and precision of Barbra Streisand, and the vulnerability(脆弱 ) of Judy Garden. It was this quality that most impressed the late Henry Mancini. “ Karen had a quality about her that was so vulnerable, so exposed, that she just demanded attention,” she said. “ Whatever she sang came right from t