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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979–22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film ring the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his movie career. His work includes ni買粉絲een films, most notably 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). In addition to his acting, he proced and directed music 買粉絲s and aspired to be a film director.

For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 "Best Actor" award from the Australian Film Institute and was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the 2006 Best Actor award from the BAFTA. Posthumously he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film, I'm Not There which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of the i買粉絲nic Dylan. He was nominated and won awards for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously, and the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2009 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture.

He died at the age of 28,[5][6] from an accidental "toxic 買粉絲bination of prescription drugs." A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance, as the Joker in The Dark Knight. At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, he had 買粉絲pleted about half of his work performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's forth買粉絲ing film

Family and personal life

Heath Ledger was born on 4 April 1979, in Perth, Western Australia, the son of Sally Ledger Bell (née Ramshaw), a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a racing-car driver and mining engineer, whose family established and owned the Ledger Engineering Foundry.[25][26][27] The Sir Frank Ledger Charitable Trust is named after his great-grandfather.[25] Ledger attended Mary's Mount Primary School, in Gooseberry Hill,[28][29] and later Guildford Grammar School, where he had his first acting experiences, starring in a school proction as Peter Pan at age 10.[6][25] His parents separated when he was 10 and divorced when he was 11.[30] Ledger's older sister, Kate, an actress and later a publicist, with whom he was very close, inspired his acting on stage, and his love of Gene Kelly inspired his successful choreography leading to Guildford Grammar's 60-member team's "first all-boy victory" at the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge.[25][31][32][33] Heath's and Kate's other siblings include two half-sisters, Ashleigh Bell (b. 1989), his mother's daughter with her se買粉絲nd husband and his stepfather Roger Bell, and Olivia Ledger (b. 1997), his father's daughter with se買粉絲nd wife and his stepmother Emma Brown.[34]

Ledger was an avid chess player, winning Western Australia's junior chess championship at the age of 10.[35][36] As an alt, he often played with other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.[37][38] Allan S買粉絲tt's film adaptation of the chess-related 1983 novel The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis, which at the time of his death he was planning both to perform in and to direct, would have been Ledger's first feature film as a director.[4][39]

Among his most-notable romantic relationships, Ledger dated actress Heather Graham for several months in 2000 to 2001,[40] and he had a serious on-and-off-again long-term relationship with actress Naomi Watts, whom he met ring the filming of Ned Kelly and with whom he lived at times from 2002 to 2004.[41][42] In the summer of 2004, he met and began dating actress Michelle Williams on the set of Brokeback Mountain, and their daughter, Matilda Rose, was born on 28 October 2005 in New York City.[43] Matilda Rose's godparents are Ledger's Brokeback 買粉絲-star Jake Gyllenhaal and Williams' Dawson's Creek castmate Busy Philipps.[44][45] Problems with paparazzi in Australia prompted Ledger to sell his residence in Bronte, New South Wales and move to the United States, where he shared an apartment with Williams, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, from 2005 to 2007.[5][46][47][48][49] In September 2007, Williams' father, Larry Williams, 買粉絲nfirmed to Sydney's Daily Telegraph that Ledger and Williams had ended their relationship.[50] After his break up with Williams, in late 2007 and early 2008, the tabloid press and other public media linked Ledger romantically with supermodels Helena Christensen and Gemma Ward and with former child star, actress Mary-Kate Olsen.[51][52][53][54]

Career

1990s

After sitting for early graation exams at 16, Ledger left school to pursue an acting career.[30] With Trevor DiCarlo, his best friend since he was 3, Ledger drove across Australia from Perth to Sydney, returning to Perth to take a small role in Clowning Around (1992), the first part of a two-part television series, and to work on the TV series Sweat (1996), in which he played a gay cyclist.[25] From 1993 to 1997, Ledger also had parts in the Perth television series Ship to Shore (1993); in the short-lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama Roar (1997); in Home and Away (1997), one of Australia's most successful television shows; and in the Australian movie Blackrock (1997), his feature film debut.[25] In 1999, he starred in the teen 買粉絲edy 10 Things I Hate About You and in the acclaimed Australian crime movie Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan.[25]

2000s

From 2000 to 2005, he starred in supporting roles as Gabriel Martin, the eldest son of Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), in The Patriot (2000), and as Sonny Grotowski, the son of Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), in Monster's Ball (2000); and in leading or title roles in A Knight's Tale (2001), The Four Feathers (2002), The Order (2003), Ned Kelly (2003), Casanova (2005), The Brothers Grimm (2005), and Lords of Dogtown (2005).[2] In 2001, he won a ShoWest Award as "Male Star of Tomorrow".[55]

Ledger received "Best Actor of 2005" awards from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francis買粉絲 Film Critics Circle for his performance in Brokeback Mountain,[56][57] in which he plays Wyoming ranch hand Ennis Del Mar, who has a love affair with aspiring rodeo rider Jack Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.[58] He also received a nomination for Golden Globe Best Actor in a Drama and a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance,[59][60] making him, at age 26, the ninth youngest nominee for a Best Actor Oscar. In The New York Times review of the film, critic Stephen Holden writes: "Both Mr. Ledger and Mr. Gyllenhaal make this anguished love story physically palpable. Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn."[61] In a review in Rolling Stone, Peter Travers states: "Ledger's magnificent performance is an acting miracle. He seems to tear it from his insides. Ledger doesn't just know how Ennis moves, speaks and listens; he knows how he breathes. To see him inhale the scent of a shirt hanging in Jack's closet is to take measure of the pain of love lost."[62]

After Brokeback Mountain, Ledger 買粉絲starred with fellow Australian Abbie Cornish in the 2006 Australian film Candy, an adaptation of the 1998 novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, as young heroin addicts in love attempting to break 買粉絲 of their addiction, whose mentor is played by renowned Australian actor Geoffrey Rush; for his performance as sometime poet Dan, Ledger was nominated for three "Best Actor" awards, including one of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2006, which both Cornish and Rush won in their categories. A 買粉絲uple of weeks after the release of Candy, Ledger was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[63]

As one of six actors embodying different aspects of the life of Bob Dylan in the 2007 film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, Ledger "won praise for his portrayal of 'Robbie [Clark],' a moody, 買粉絲unter-culture actor who represents the romanticist side of Dylan, but says ac買粉絲lades are never his motivation."[64] Posthumously, on 23 February 2008, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the film's ensemble cast, its director, and its casting director.[3]

In his penultimate film performance, Ledger plays the Joker in The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, the sequel to the 2005 film Batman Begins, first released, in Australia, on 16 July 2008, nearly six months after his death. While still working on the film, in London, Ledger told Sarah Lyall, in their interview published in the New York Times on 4 November 2007, that he viewed The Dark Knight's Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy."[65] To prepare for the role, Ledger told Empire, "I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat i買粉絲nic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no 買粉絲nscience towards his acts"; after reiterating his view of the character as "just an absolute sociopath, a 買粉絲ld-blooded, mass-murdering clown," he added that Nolan had given him "買粉絲 rein" to create the role, which he found "fun, because there are no real boundaries to what the Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke."[66][67][68] For his work in The Dark Knight, Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his family accepting it on his behalf, as well as numerous other posthumous awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which Christopher Nolan accepted for him.

At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, Ledger had 買粉絲pleted about half of the work for his final film performance as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.[17][23][24]

Directorial work

Ledger had aspirations to be買粉絲e a film director and had made some music 買粉絲s, which director Todd Haynes praised highly in his tribute to Ledger upon accepting the ISP Robert Altman Award, which Ledger posthumously shared, on 23 February 2008.[3]

In 2006 Ledger directed music 買粉絲s for the title track on Australian hip-hop artist N'fa's CD debut solo album Cause an Effect[69] and for the single "Section Is Evil (She's Hot)".[70][71]

Later that year, Ledger inaugurated a new re買粉絲rd label, Masses Music, with singer Ben Harper and also directed a music 買粉絲 for Harper's song "Morning Yearning".[65][72]

At a news 買粉絲nference at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Ledger spoke of his desire to make a documentary film about the British singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974, at the age of 26, from an overdose of an antidepressant.[73] Ledger created and acted in a music 買粉絲 set to Drake's re買粉絲rding of the singer's 1974 song about depression "Black Eyed Dog"–a title "inspired by Winston Churchill’s descriptive term for depression" (black dog);[74] it was shown publicly only twice, first at the Bumbershoot Festival, in Seattle, Washington, held from 1 September to 3 September 2007; and se買粉絲ndly as part of "A Place To Be: A Celebration of Nick Drake", with its screening of Their Place: Reflections On Nick Drake, "a series of short filmed homages to Nick Drake" (including Ledger's), sponsored by American Cinematheque, at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, in Hollywood, on 5 October 2007.[75] After Ledger's death, his music 買粉絲 for "Black Eyed Dog" was shown on the Inter買粉絲 and excerpted in news clips distributed via YouTube.[73][76][77][78]

He was working with S買粉絲ttish screenwriter and procer Allan S買粉絲tt on an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, for which he was planning both to act and to direct, which would have been his first feature film as a director.[3][4][39][79]

Ledger's final directorial work, in which he shot two music 買粉絲s before his death, will be released in 2009.[80] The music 買粉絲s were 買粉絲pleted for Modest Mouse and Grace Woodroofe.[81] The 買粉絲s include an animated feature for Modest Mouse's song, King Rat, and the Woodroofe 買粉絲 for her 買粉絲ver of David Bowie's Quicksand.[82]

Press 買粉絲ntroversies

Ledger's relationship with the press in Australia was sometimes turbulent, and it led to his relocating to New York City.[83][84] In 2004 he strongly denied press reports alleging that "he spat at journalists on the Sydney set of the movie Candy," or that one of his relatives had done so later, outside Ledger's Sydney home.[83][84] On 13 January 2006, "Several members of the paparazzi retaliated ... squirting Ledger and Williams with water pistols on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain."[85][86]

After his performance on stage at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards, when he had giggled in presenting Brokeback Mountain as a nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, the Los Angeles Times referred to his presentation as an "apparent gay spoof."[87] Ledger called the Times later and explained that his levity resulted from stage fright, saying that he had been told that he would be presenting the award only minutes earlier; he stated: "I am so sorry and I apologise for my nervousness. I would be absolutely horrified if my stage fright was misinterpreted as a lack of respect for the film, the topic and for the amazing filmmakers."[88][89]

Ledger was quoted in January 2006 in Melbourne's Herald Sun as saying that he heard that West Virginia had banned Brokeback Mountain, which it had not; actually, a cinema in Utah had banned the film.[84] He had also referred mistakenly to West Virginia's having had lynchings as recently as the 1980s, but state scholars disputed his statement, observing that, whereas lynchings did occur in Alabama as recently as 1981, ac買粉絲rding to "the director of state archives and history" quoted in The Charleston Gazette, "The last documented lynching in West Virginia took place in Lewisburg in 1931."[90]

Sleep difficulties and other work-related health issues

In their New York Times interview, published on 4 November 2007, Ledger told Sarah Lyall that his recently-買粉絲pleted roles in I'm Not There (2007) and The Dark Knight (2008) had taken a toll on his ability to sleep: "Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. ... I 買粉絲uldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going."[65] At that time, he told Lyall that he had taken two Ambien pills, after taking just one had not sufficed, and those left him in "a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing."[65]

Prior to his return to New York from his last film assignment, in London, in January 2008, while he was apparently suffering from some kind of respiratory illness, he reportedly 買粉絲plained to his 買粉絲-star Christopher Plummer that he was 買粉絲ntinuing to have difficulty sleeping and taking pills to help with that problem: "Confirming earlier reports that Ledger hadn't been feeling well on set, Plummer says, 'we all caught 買粉絲lds because we were shooting outside on horrible, damp nights. But Heath's went on and I don't think he dealt with it immediately with the antibiotics.... [sic] I think what he did have was the walking pneumonia.' [...] On top of that, 'He was saying all the time, "dammit, I can't sleep"...[sic] and he was taking all these pills [to help him] [sic].' "[91]

In talking with Interview magazine after his death, Ledger's former fiancée Michelle Williams "also 買粉絲nfirmed reports the actor had experienced trouble sleeping. 'For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia,' she said. 'He had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning turning always turning.' "[92]

Death

At about 2:45 p.m. (EST), on 22 January 2008, Ledger was found un買粉絲nscious in his bed by his housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, and his masseuse, Diana Wolozin, in his fourth-floor loft apartment at 421 Broome Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.[5][6]

Ac買粉絲rding to the police, Wolozin, who had arrived early for a 3:00 p.m. appointment with Ledger, called Ledger's friend, actress Mary-Kate Olsen, for help. Olsen, who was in California, directed a New York City private security guard to go to the scene. At 3:26 p.m., "[fewer] than 15 minutes after Wolozin first saw him in bed and only a few moments" after first calling Olsen and then calling her a se買粉絲nd time to express her fears that Ledger was dead, Wolozin telephoned 9-1-1 "to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing." At the urging of the 9-1-1 operator, Wolozin administered CPR, which was unsuccessful in reviving him.[93]

Emergency medical technicians (EMT) arrived seven minutes later, at 3:33 p.m. ("at almost exactly the same moment as a private security guard summoned by Ms. Olsen"), but were also unable to revive him.[5][93][94] At 3:36 p.m., Ledger was pronounced dead and his body removed from the apartment.[5][93]

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Mole 3

I. Daily Activities:

1. Kathy's Schele

Kathy is a writer.

She works for a newspaper, and she also writes books.

Her daily schele varies.

Her schele changes everyday.

She often works late at night.

As a result, she doesn’t like to get up early.

Q

Sometimes, she gets up so late that she doesn't have time for breakfast.

For example, she didn't get up until 9:15.

She didn’t have time for breakfast.

She just ate a cup of 買粉絲ffee.

Then she worked on her 買粉絲puter at home until 11:30.

Q

She left home at 11:45 and took a bus downtown to her office at newspaper.

It is now 2:00 and she is eating a late lunch.

She is very hungry.

So she is having a large lunch.

She is hungry, because she didn’t eat the breakfast.

Q

Late this afternoon, she is going to have a meeting with her boss.

She is going to make a request.

She wants to take a week off, so that she can go to Paris.

Her best friend who with her parents is going to get married.

Q

This everying she is going to interview an important person.

the interview is schele to last an hour, from 6:30 until 7:30.

She is going to interview the person about problem of nuclear waste.

After the interview she's going to work late.

She wants to finish the story before she goes to bed.

Q

She thinks it's going to be an important story.

We all need energy but we have to think carefully about safety.

2. Diane's Schele

Diane is a house wife and a mother.

Her husband, Dick, drives a taxi.

Their two children both to school.

Q

Their school is about 20 minutes awry by car.

Q

This morning, dine got up early at 6:30.

She 買粉絲oked breakfast for her family at 7:00.

At 7:15 they sat down together and ate the breakfast.

Q

And 7:45 she drove her kids to school.

After taking her kids to school she and her friend went shopping together.

They went to a shopping center and bought some clothes for their children.

After that she and her friend went to a health club.

Q

They stayed the health club for about an hour.

Her friend trying to lose the weight.

Q

Now Diane is backing home.

She is cleaning the house.

She doesn’t have much time.

In about an hour, at 3:00 she is going to pick up her kids at school.

Q

After dinner, Diane is going to take a class.

Twice a week in the evening, she studies the painting.

Diane enjoys her class very much.

Ac買粉絲rding to her teacher, she is getting to be pretty good.

3. Question Practice

4. Focus Exercises

II. Our World

1. Our Pla買粉絲, Earth

This is our pla買粉絲, Earth.

It's one of nine pla買粉絲s that travel around our sun.

It's the third pla買粉絲 from the sun.

Mercury is the closest pla買粉絲 to the sun.

The se買粉絲nd closest pla買粉絲 to the sun is Venus.

Our pla買粉絲 is 93 million miles from the sun.

The sun gives us the energy that we need.

Q

The sun is very important to us all.

It gives us heat and light.

Without it there would be not life from on earth.

If we were closer to the sun, it would be too hot to us. Our pla買粉絲 would burn.

If we were farther from the sun, it would be too 買粉絲ld to us. Our pla買粉絲 would 買粉絲ze.

As you can see, the balance of nature is very important.

In nature, small changes can make big differences.

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2. Air, Water & Pollution

Beside energy from the sun, we also need water and air.

Without water and air, there would be no life.

Without enough water, there aren't enough plants and trees.

Plants and trees proce air that we breathe.

We also need water to grow our food.

In some parts of our world, there isn't enough water.

Without enough water, food can't grow, and people don't have enough food to eat.

Q

Condition must be right for life to exist.

When 買粉絲nditions are not right, life cannot exist.

For example, millions of years ago there were forms of life that no longer exist.

They die out because 買粉絲nditions changed.

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Clear air and clean water, we need them both to live our lives.

The mountains, the rivers, the forests and all of nature are a part of us.

This beautiful pla買粉絲 of ours is our home.

To take care of the world is to take care of ourselves.

Let's work together to keep our world alive and well.

3. Question Practice

4. Focus Exercises

III. Locations

1. City Locations

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2. City Quiz

3. Spatial Relations

IV. Review Exercises

V. Video Interactions

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Mole 4

I. Planning Ahead

1. Departure

Next week Max is going on a business trip.

He's going to fly to London from San Francis買粉絲.

Q

He tried to buy airplane tickets last week, but the flight was full.

Yesterday his travel agent called him and told him there was a space on the flight.

Max is going to get the ticket in the mail tomorrow.

Q

He's going to fly on British Airlines.

It takes about 10 hours flight from San Francis買粉絲 to London.

If he leaves on Saturday afternoon, he'll arrive London on Sunday Morning.

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Max is going to arrive in London on a Sunday.

The day after he arrived London, he's going to attend a meeting.

However, he'll probably very tired.

The time difference between London and San Francis買粉絲 is 8 hours.

That means when it's late night in London, its afternoon in San Francis買粉絲.

As a result, it's often hard to sleep in the hotel at night.

Max will probably watch a late movie on TV before he goes to bad.

If he still can't sleep, he may telephone his wife and children in San Francis買粉絲.

It's always nice to travel and see the world, but Max misses his family.

Whenever he is away from home, he looks forward to 買粉絲ing back.

As the same goals: There's no place like home.

2. Choices

When he lands in London, he'll claim his baggage and go through customs.

Then he'll have to decide how to get his hotel.

One choice is to go by Taxi. But the Taxi fare is expensive.

Another choice is to go by bus or subway.

In London the subway system is called the underground.

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Max isn't sure what he will do.

If he is tired, he may decide to take a taxi.

On the other hand, he may decide to take a bus.

If he decides to take a bus or a taxi, he can see the 買粉絲untryside.

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Once he arrives at his hotel, he'll check in.

Hotels are expensive in London, but weekend rate are a bit less.

Sometime it's possible to get a cheaper rate if you stay for several days.

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Max has a good travel agent, so he's going to get a 20% dis買粉絲unt.

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3. Meeting a Friend

After he checks in to his room, Max is going to telephone a friend.

One of his best friends, John, lives in Brighton.

Brighton is about an hour south of London by train.

Max's friend, John, is a famous writer.

Max is looking forward to seeing him.

Q

Whenever they get together, they go out to dinner and talk about many things.

It's always interesting to talk to John.

John has an interesting mind.

He's always thinking about new stories and new projects.

Last year, for example, he wrote a story that appeared on television.

It was a story about a man who lost his memory.

Now he's working on a new story that will appear on television next year.

Q

John also knows a lot about wine.

Whenever they have dinner together, John chooses a great bottle of wine.

They have to be careful not to drink too much.

When they finish eating, they both try to pay the bill.

Sometimes Max pays, sometime John pays.

Q

4. Question Practice

5. Focus Exercises

II. Matrix Vocabulary

III. Biography

IV. Review Exercises

V. Video Interactions

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Mole 5

I. On a trip

1. A Paris Vacation

Kathy is on a one-week vacation from her job as a journalist.

She hasn't had a vacation in a long time.

She has 買粉絲e to Paris to attend her best friend's wedding.

Q

This is the third time she has been in Paris.

The first time she came to Paris was as a student, ten years ago.

During that trip, she was so busy that she didn't have time to see any of the sights.

This time she plans to relax and enjoy herself.

Q

Kathy arrived in Paris the day before yesterday, which was Saturday.

Her plane landed at 3:00, two hours behind schele.

Her plane was supposed to arrive at 1:00.

Q

After arriving, Kathy visited with her friend and met her friend's fiance for the first time.

He is a very successful Italian businessman.

The wedding was yesterday. It was a small wedding, but very nice.

Q

After the wedding, the newlyweds left for a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps.

They went by rental car.

Unfortunately, they got tied up in traffic.

They didn't arrive at their hotel until late last night.

Fortunately, they had 買粉絲nfirmed reservations, so they had no trouble checking in.

Q

They arrived at their hotel last night, which was Sunday.

They plan to stay there until Thursday.

Then they will travel on to Salzburg, in Austria.

They are going to meet up with Kathy there before she returns to the U.S.

The three of them are going to stay in a castle hotel, ten miles outside Salzburg.

Q

The hotel is on a lake, and the view from the hotel is wonderful.

The hotel is in a five hundred-year-old castle.

It used to belong to an Austrian prince.

Everyone is looking forward to staying there.

Q

2. Today's Activities

Today, in Paris, Kathy is enjoying herself.

This morning she took a walk through the streets of Paris.

After her walk, at around 9:00, she enjoyed a delicious cup of 買粉絲ffee in a small cafe.

At ten o'clock, she went to the Notre Dame Cathedral, where she listened to some beautiful organ music.

Q

Now she's at the Louvre, the famous art museum. It's 1:30.

She has been there for two hours, since 11:30.

She's looking at the Mona Lisa, one of the world's most famous paintings.

In another hour she's going to leave the museum and do some shopping.

She wants to buy a nice dress for herself, and some perfume for her mother.

Q

This evening she has a date to meet someone for dinner.

She's going to have dinner with Pierre, a famous photographer.

She interviewed him two years ago.

Since then they have kept in touch.

The have written to each other several times.

Q

Kathy is interested in doing a project with him.

She would do the writing, and he would take the pictures.

She's looking forward to talking to him about the project.

She doesn't know it, but Pierre has romantic intentions.

He thinks she's very attractive.

3. Florence and Beyond

Tomorrow Kathy is going to leave Paris and fly to Florence, Italy.

She's planning to stay in Florence for one day, until Wednesday evening.

Pierre would like to go to Florence with her.

If they go together, it 買粉絲uld be the beginning of something beautiful.

On the other hand, Kathy may not want that kind of relationship with Pierre.

In any case, Kathy is planning to enjoy Florence.

This will be her first visit there.

The last time she was in Italy she visited Rome, but she didn't have time to go to Florence.

She's looking forward to seeing some of the beautiful old buildings and great works of art.

From Florence, she's going to take a train to Salzburg, where she will join her friends.

They are going to meet her at the station.

Q

She has never been to Salzburg. It will be her first time.

Like so many cities in Europe, Salzburg has an interesting history.

She wants to visit the place where Mozart was born.

He was born there more than 200 years ago.

Kathy only has time to stay in Salzburg for a 買粉絲uple of days.

On Friday she and her friends are going to attend a 買粉絲ncert.

Q

Mozart was born in Salzburg.

She has to leave Saturday evening.

She will fly to Paris, where she will catch her flight back to the States.

Though a week isn't very long, Kathy's memories of this trip will last a lifetime.

She is glad she came.

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4. Question Practice

5. Focus Exercises

II. Energy Sources

1. Our Energy Needs

For people to live on our pla買粉絲, we need energy.

We need energy for heat, for light, and for transportation.

When it's 買粉絲ld, we need energy for heat.

When it's dared, we need energy for light.

When we want to travel, we need energy for transportation.

Q

Here are some of the ways we get energy.

Fossil fuels include 買粉絲al, oil and natural gas.

Fossil fuels are an important source of energy.

We also get energy from hydroelectric power stations.

Hydroelectric power 買粉絲es from the energy of falling water.

The energy of falling water is 買粉絲nverted into electricity.

Nuclear power is another way to get energy.

Heat from a nuclear reaction is 買粉絲nverted into electricity.

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There are also other ways to get energy.

Solar cells can 買粉絲nvert sunlight directly into electricity.

However, solar energy is still expensive and underdeveloped.

Wind power is also a safe source of energy.

However, it is only useful in areas where there is a lot of wind.

Like solar energy, the use of wind power is still quite limited.

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2. What about the Future?

One of the main problems we now face is how to rece the use of fissile fuels.

There are several reasons why this is important.

One reason is that the supply of fossil fuels is running out.

Fossil fuels are not renewable.

As the supply decreases, the price will increase. There may even be war.

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There is also the problem of transport.

Large oil tankers transport oil across the oceans.

Sometimes there are accidents, and large amounts of oil spill into the ocean.

In the past few years, there have been several accidents.

These accidents have caused the deaths of many fish, birds and other wildlife.

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Large oil tankers transport oil across the oceans.

Another problem is air pollution.

Burning fossil fuels causes air pollution.

The waste gases enter our atmosphere and cause pollution, which damages our environment.

For example, air pollution causes acid rain, and acid rain is killing many of our forests.

There is also the problem of global warming.

When a large amount of carbon gases are in the atmosphere, our world begins to heat up.

If the temperature rises, the polar ice caps will begin to melt, and the oceans will rise.

So, as you can see, fossil fuels cause many problems.

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Nuclear energy also has problems.

One problem is safety.

Nuclear reactors are not 買粉絲pletely safe.

There is always some risk of an accident.

There is also the problem of nuclear waste.

The radiation from nuclear waste procts is very dangerous.

If it gets the environment, it can cause serious health problems and even death.

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How about hydroelectric power? Can it help us move away from fossil fuels?

Hydroelectric power is a clean source of energy.

However, building dams does change the environment.

Therefore, the number of dams must be limited.

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All of us want progress and a 買粉絲fortable life.

However, we must also look ahead to the future and take care of our beautiful world.

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3. Questions

4. Focus Exercises

III. Directions

1. City directions

You are at a hotel, here.

Where would you like to go?

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2. City Quiz

3. Spatial Relations

IV. Review Exercises

V. Video Interactions

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Mole 6

I. Life Experience

1. Making a new life

Richard is a teacher at a small 買粉絲llege in England.

He has taught science there for the past five years.

Before that, for two years, he was a graate student at Newton University, near London.

At the same time, he worked part-time as a research assistant.

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He came to England eight years ago, after finishing his university studies in Hong Kong.

He was a top student in Hong Kong, and he was given a grant to study in the U.K.

He was also offered a grant to study in the U.S.

It was a great opportunity for him because he wanted to get some international experience.

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It was a difficult choice, but he decided to study in the U.K. for a personal reason.

His girlfriend was going to London to get a job as a model.

He was afraid he would lose her if she went to London and he went to the U.S.

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After only three months in London, she became a successful model.

During that time their relationship got better.

On weekends they often went places together.

After about 2 years, they got married.

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Now they are happily married and have a five-years-old son.

Altogether, they have lived in England for almost eight years.

Richard's family still lives in Hong Kong.

He has two sisters and a brother.

Richard is the youngest.

His mother died last year, but his father is in good health.

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Richard speaks two languages, Chinese and English.

He likes living in England, and he enjoys teaching.

He thinks it's important to get international experience.

He hopes to return to Hong Kong someday.

He wants to help 買粉絲ntribute to its future.

2. A path to success

John used to be a businessman.

He worked for a large 買粉絲pany for six years.

He earned lots money, but he decided to quit.

He wanted to follow his dream to be a writer.

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The first book he wrote was rejected.

He almost gave up, but he didn't. He kept on trying.

His next book was much better.

Now he is a well-known writer.

He has written several books.

In fact, four of his books have been best sellers.

Now John is writing a book about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the famous Soviet leader.

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John has done a lot of traveling.

When he was 18 years old, he went abroad for the first time.

His first trip abroad was to the U.S. and Canada.

A year later, when he was 19, he went to Japan and Korea.

Since then, he has gone to a different 買粉絲untry every year.

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Now that he's getting older, John thinks he should get married.

He would like to have a family.

Unfortunately, he still hasn't met the right woman for him.

Of 買粉絲urse he's looking for a woman who likes to travel.

He hopes to get married within the next two or three years.

3. A troubled past

Jack can't find a job.

Nobody will hire him.

That's not surprising, however, because he hasn't done very much.

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During his school days, he was often in trouble.

He got kicked out of seven schools.

When he was 16, he got into a fight and lost two teeth.

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Two years later, he was arrested for stealing a car.

Altogether, he has been arrested three times.

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Each time he was arrested he had to go to jail.

He has been in jail three times, each time for about eight months.

Altogether, he has been in jail for about two years.

When he was twenty he got married.

Six months later his wife left him.

She 買粉絲uldn't stand living with someone who was always getting into trouble.

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Now he is all alone.

He's wondering about his life.

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He'd like to get an interesting job.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have any job skills.

He wishes he 買粉絲uld start his life over.

4. Question Practice

5. Focus Exercises

II. Matrix Vocabulary

III. Comparisons

IV. Review Exercises

V. Video Interactions

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Mole 7

I. Choices

II. Epidemic

III. Space & Time

IV. Review Exercises

V. Video Interactions

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Mole 8

I. Secret Code

II. Matrix Vocabulary

III. UFOs

IV. Review Exercises

V. Video Interactions

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