1. Preview the reading and find the difficult sentences.

Answers

1. Gandhi （ 1 ） Neil Armstrong （ 3 ）

　　Albert Einstein （ 4 ） Nelson Mandela （ 6 ）

　　Norman Berthune （8 ） Sun Yat-sen （2 ）

Marie Curie （ 5 ） William Tyndale （ 7 ）

2. What are the qualities you should find in a great person?

Brave hard-working active reliable honest generous wise devoted selfless warm-hearted determined Intelligent, diligent, Do public service work without pay, confident, energetic, passionate【pæʃənitli】热情的，激昂的 , Make great contributions to mankind, Get on well with others, Never lose heart, Be active in society activities, Do public service work without pay

3. What qualities do you have?

A great person is a person who has followed his or her ideas and sacrificed something so that they could be realized.

Ⅲ.Listening

1. Read the statements below and then listen to the whole text. Decide whether they are true or false. Correct the wrong information.

1. William Tyndale wrote the first Bible. ( )

2. He was born in the fifth century. ( )

3. Many years ago the bible was written in the Greek and Hebrew languages. ( T )

4. William Tyndale later moved to Belgium to complete his work. ( T )

5. Everybody in Europe loved the bible written by William Tyndale. ( )

2. Listen to part 1 again and complete the passage.

William Tyndale was born in __London___ in the __fifteenth__century. He lived from___1494__ to ___1536_. He was only _42_ years old when he died. At that time the bible was not written in __English_, so most people in __Britain__ couldn't read it at all. So William Tyndale wrote the first__Englis Bible_. People still use his _words__and __expressions__ today.

3. Listen to Part 2 again and answer these questions.

1. Why was the king not happy with William Tyndale?

The king was not happy because he did not want the people to read the Bible in English. (He wanted to have power over what people thought about Christianity. He knew that when people read the Mobile for themselves they could decide for themselves. He was right because once people did read translated Bible, they started arguing with the traditional way