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, . TRANSCRIBE THE FOLLOWING OUOTATIONS.

A) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Oscar Wilde)

B) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

(Thomas Edison)

C) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him

absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

D) As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure

to repent. (Socrates)

E) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar

Wilde)

F) An eye for eye only ends up making the whole wond blind. (Ghandi)

G) He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. (Lao Tsu)

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H) I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as

equals. (Winston Churchill)

I) Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. (William

Shakespeare)

J) Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)

K) I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde)

L) Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

(Ghandi)

M) "ve been on a calendar, but never on time. (Marilyn Monroe)

N) The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

(Franklin P. Jones)

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0) Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake

when you make it again. (F. P. Jones)

P) When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never

tried before. (Mae West)

Q) We must become the change we wantto

see. (Gandhi)

R) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas

Jefferson)

S) If you are going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill)

T) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon

Bonaparte)

U) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not

sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

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V) Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don QUixote)

W) Wit is ed cated insol nee. (Aristotle)

X) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant)

Y) Everything as been figured out, except how to live. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Z) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. (Mark Twain)

AA) Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin)

BB) It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our

humanity. (Albert Einstein)

CC) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

(Mario Andretti)

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D) Wise men talk because they have something to ay; fools, beca se they

have to say something. (Plato)

EE) 11 truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is

violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur

Schopenhauer)

FF) A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better

lawyer. (Robert Frost)

GG) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and

the other is getting it. (Oscar Wilde)

HH) The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to

watch somebody else doing it wrong. without comment. (T. H. White)

11)"Sure, everyone always said 'Socrates what is the meaning of life?' or

'Socrates how can I find happiness?'. did anyone ever say 'Socrates

hemlock is poison.'???????" (Socrates right before his death)

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JJ) I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where

they will not be jUdged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their

character. (Martin Luther King)

KK) I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of

the rest of the earth, I dreamed that was the new city of Friends. (Wait

Whitman 'I dreamed in a dream')

LL) Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde,

Lady Windermere's Fan)

MM) There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and

that is not being talked about. (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

NN) If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's

research. (Wilson Mizner)

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2. TRANSCRIBE THE FOLLOWING TEXTS (FROM SPELLING TO PHONETIC SYMBOLS).

Text 1: Memoirs o f a Geisha, by Arthur Golden, p. 150.Dance is the most revered of the geisha's arts. Only the most promising andbeautiful geisha are encouraged to specialize in it, and nothing except perhaps

tea ceremony can compare to the richness of its tradition. [... ] All apprenticegeisha must study dance, but as I say, only the promising and attractive oneswill be encouraged 10 specialize and go on 10 become true dancers, ralher thanshamisen players or singers.

Text 2: East o f Eden, by John Stelnbeck, p. 427.Aron went back to the truck of the willow tree and sat on the ground and leanedagainst the bark. His mind was a grayness and there were churnings of pain inhis stomach. He tried 10 sort out the feelings into thoughts and pictures so thepain would go away. It was hard. His slow deliberate mind could not accept somany thoughts and emotions at once. The door was shut against everythingexcept physical pain.

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Text 5: Nice Work y David Lodge, pp. 3536.Wh t Robyn likes to do is to deconstruct the exts, to probe t e gaps andabsence in them, to uncover what they are not saying, to expo e theirideological bad faith, to cut a cross-section through the twisted strand of theirse iotic codes an liter ry conventions. Wha the students want her to do is togive them sorn basic facts that will enable them to read th novels as simple

straightforward reflections of 'reality', and to write simple, straightf rward,exam-passing essays about them.

Text 6: Citizen Cane by Orson Wells, review by Jim Emerson.NO TRESPASSING. Tha tarnished sign on a forbidding black wire fence is thefirst thing we see in arson Welles' i izen Kane, the ra her formidablebeginning of an opening sequenc that's sfll as electrifying as any in thehistory of movies. Charles Foster Kane-the eponymous tragic hero andcentral enlg a of 1941's Citizen Kane-expires moments after the moviebearing his name comes stirrin to life, gasping that cryptic word Rosebud withhis last breath).

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Text 7:The Audi 0 7 employs a host of state-of-the-art safety systems both active andpassive: latest generation quarto all-wheeled drive, for superb control. Aspecially-developed ESP system features off-road mode, hill descent assist,and rollover stabilization. Adaptive headlights help ensure the best possiblenight views. And, in dangerous situations, the Audi 07's high-strength frame is

engineered with rigid safety zones and the ability to absorb energy in acontrolled manner. Two-stage airbags operate in front and Sideguard airbagsextended over the entire side-window area.

Text 8: Riding the high country, finding and losing love.Reviewed by Stephen Holden. Published: December 9, 2005 (NY Times)The lonesome chill that seeps through Ang Lee's epic western, "BrokeBackMountain" is as bone deep as the movie's heartbreaking story of two cowboyswho fall in love almost by accident. It is embedded in the craggy landscapewhere their idyll begins and ends. It creeps into the farthest corners of thewide-open spaces they share with coyotes, bears and herds of sheep and riseslike a stifled cry into the big, empty sky that stretches beyond the horizon.

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Text 9: Lost in translation.

The differences between the English of America and the UK are an endlesssource of fascination for me. I often tell friends it's only now, two years into myCalifornia posting, that I'm becoming adequately bilingual. And I'm only partlyjoking.Other amusing inventions include "crappuccino: A poorly made coffeebeverage that cost upwards of four dollars", "smellibacy: A state of involuntarycelibacy brought on by bad hygiene" and "yellular: The loudness one adopts inresponse to a bad cell-phone connection, in the misguided hope that talkinglouder will improve the connection."

Text 1 0: Pate.

Pate may appear either before dinner or with the salad during a meal. If it isserved to you with cocktails, spread it thickly on crackers or small pieces oftoast, and eat with your hands. If it accompanies the salad course, it may bepassed in a crock or in a ring mold. In that case, lift off a slice or serve aspoonful onto your plate along with a cracker or toast. Prepare a small opensandwich with a knife, then lift it with your hand to your mouth. Cornichon

pickles (smaU gherkins) are often served with pate and should be eaten with afork.

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Text 11: Grapes of mirth.It was early in the morning and w had just arrived at the Haro Wine 8attle, or8atalla del ino, which takes place every year on June 29 in La Rioja innorthern pai , Around 10,000 people gather 0 a craggy hillside, surroundedby vineyards, with the sole purpose of chucking wine at each other and gettingdrenched, There is no mercy and everyon i fair game, which makes for a

curiously liberating and exh'larating exp rience. Unlike the bull running inPamplona or the tomato festival in 8unyol, it does not attract many foreignvi it rs, which is why we stood out all the more, and were pounced upon withsu h baref ced glee.

We soon realised we w re drastically underarmed with only wineskins, Mostpeople ha much more seriou weaponry to disperse t e truckloads of wineavailable - an estimated 13,000 gallon 'worth. As well as buckets, people wereusing giant water pistols, crop sprayers and dustbin .

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Text 12: The ingenious gentleman Don uixote f La Mancha by Mlguelde Cervantes.In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind,there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in thelance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An ollaof rather more beef than mutton, a salad 0 most nights, scraps on Saturdays.

lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with threequarters of his income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvetbreeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made abrave figure in his best homespun. He had in his house a housekeeper pastforty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, ho usedto saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hoo . The age of this gentleman ofours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-feat red, avery early riser and a great sportsman. They will ha e it his surname wasQuixada or Quesada (for here there is some difference of opinion among the

authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable conjectures itseems plain that he was called Quexana. This, however, is of but Iinleimportance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hairs breadth from thetruth in the telling of it.

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