Unit 1 Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy' s Inaugural Address on January 20,1961 Exercises Supplementary Reading Franklin Roosevelt' s First Inaugural Address on March 4,1933 Unit 2 Farewell Address Dwight D. Eisenhower' s Farewell Address on January 17,1961 Exercises Supplementary Reading George Walker Bush' s Farewell Address on January 15,2009 Unit 3 Campaign Address A Contest between Two Philosophies of Government Exercises Supplementary Reading George Herbert Walker Bush Acceptance Speech Republican National Convention on August 18,1988 Unit 4 Victory Speech Barack Obama's Victory Speech in 2008 President Election Exercises Supplementary Reading Millions Will Rejoice Unit 5 War and Peace Shall We Choose Death? Exercises Supplementary Reading Blood ,Sweat and Tears Unit 6 Duty and Responsibility Duty Honor and Country Exercises Supplementary Reading The Gettysburg Address Unit 7 Financial Crisis A Rescue Plan for the Middle-Class Exercises Supplementary Reading The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps ... Unit 8 On Democracy and Liberty On Liberty Exercises Supplementary Reading Gordon Brown's Speech on Liberty and Planned Constitutional changes on October 25,2007 Unit 9 Court Speech Address to the Jury Exercises Supplementary Reading Fred' s Case -- Sexual Assault -- Jury Address Unit 10 Disaster and Tragedy Ronald Wilson Reagan :The Space Shuttle"Challenger" Tragedy Address Delivered on January 28,1986 Exercises Supplementary Reading Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard' s Address to the Nation on Tsunami on January 9,2005 Unit 11 Speech in the Opening Ceremony Hillary Clinton's Address in the Second Round of the U. S-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue on May 5,2010 Exercises Supplementary Reading The Address of His Highness,Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa AI -Thani,at the Doha WTO Meeting on November 9,2001 Unit 12 Commencement Address Steve Jobs' Commencement Address on June 12,2005 Exercises Supplementary Reading J.K. Rowling' s Harvard University Commencement Address in June 2008 Unit 13 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Nelson Mandela's Acceptance Speech on December 10,1993 Exercises Supplementary Reading Martin Luther King' s Acceptance Speech on December 10,1964 Unit 14 University Lectures George W. Bush' s Lecture in Tsinghua University in 2002 Exercises Supplementary Reading Hillary Clinton's Lecture in New York University on May 13,2009 Unit 15 National Convention Address Mary Fisher' s Address at the Republican National Convention on August 19,1992 Exercises Supplementary Reading Barack Obama' s Address at Democratic National Convention on July 27,2004 Key to the Exercises Appendix:Chinese Translation of Some Speeches References
