Part One

Proverbs

It’s a long lane that has no turning.

Nothing goes on forever, and change is inevitable .

再长的巷子也要转弯。

Every dog has his day. 人人皆有得意时。

Fortune knocks at least once at every man’s gate. 风水轮流转。

One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands.

hands→work, fight→a symbol of bravery

heels→run→a reflection of cowardice

一双靴子顶两双手。

Better bend than break. 宁曲勿折。

He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。

Man proposes, God disposes.

Lucky is also an important element of success.

Many are called but few are chosen. 应召者众，选中者少。

谋事在人，成事在天。

Part Two

News

Background Information• the PLO — the Palestine Liberation Organization 巴勒斯坦解放组织• Yasser Arafat(1929.8—2004.11 ) — the late Palestinian leader who led t

he Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to sign the peace agreement with the Israeli government 亚西尔 · 阿拉法特（巴勒斯坦民族权力机构前主席）

• Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

• the PLO executive — 巴勒斯坦解放组织执行委员会• Isreal — 以色列• Gaza — 加沙 , 巴勒斯坦西南部加沙地区最大城市 • Mahmoud Abbas — the successor of Yasser Arafat 默罕默德 · 阿巴斯

Vocabulary

• armed factions 武装派别• national interest 民族利益• peace talks 和谈• ceasefire 停火• militant 好战的；（通常指政治上）激进的

News The PLO has issued the strongest call since the death of Yasser Arafat for an end to militant attacks against Israelis, saying armed factions are harming the national interest. The PLO executive said continuing violence gives Israel an excuse to block peace talks. Mr.Arafat’s successor Mahmoud Abbas is to Gaza this week to try to persuade militant groups to agree to a ceasefire.

巴勒斯坦解放组织发表了自亚西尔 · 阿拉法特逝世以来最强烈的呼吁。组织呼吁停止对以色列人的激进袭击并声称武装派别正在损害民族利益。巴勒斯坦解放组织执行委员会声称持续的暴力行为给以色列以阻止和谈的接口。阿拉法特主席的继承人默罕默德 · 阿巴斯本周即将前往加沙，试图说服武装派别同意停火。

Part Three

Free Talk:

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Oscar Wilde

In the opening scene, a beautiful young man (Dorian Gray) has a wonderfully lifelike portrait painted of him by an artist (Basil) who has fallen in love with his model.As the painting nears completion, the young man’s simple view of life is confused by the words of an onlooker, a clever aesthete (Henry), who eloquently urges him to realise his youth fully, and explore every avenue of thought and sensation, even those which society oppressively forbids.

Dorian Gray accordingly exclaims that he would give his soul if, in return, he might remain forever young and the picture grow old instead.This wish is magically granted, for, as time passes, the young man’s beauty remains undiminished, while the picture gradually, and hideously changes.

He hides the painting and commences a life of sensation and self-expression, profligacy and crime(including the murder of the artist). Eventually his obsession with his secret drives him to destory th painting in the hope of liberating himself from its visual reminder of past sins. Once he destroyed his magic portrait, he became an old and wrinkled monster, dead by his own hands.

●Date of Birth :16 October 1854, Dublin, Ireland ●Date of Death :30 November 1900, Paris, France (acute meningitis, following an ear infection) ●Mother:famous poetess at that time●Father:knighted by the British queen in 1864; was a medical specialist in complaints of the eye and ear●In 1864, his father was charged by a female patient. She claimed that Wilde’s father had drugged and raped her two years before.●His father had secretly fathered and maintained 3 illegitimate children for a long time.

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)●All these events seem to have filtered through to Wilde and give him an insight into the tensions and contraictions of “good society”; perhaps also prompting his lasting artistic interest in the themes of mysterious birth and the ruin of reputations.

Wilde’s Quotes about Love and Marriage

Men marry because they are tired;women because they are curious;both are disappointed.男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因好奇而结婚；最终他们都会失望。The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。 Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin;but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building.20 年的浪漫使一个女人变成一堆废墟， 20 年的婚姻使一个女人变成一座公共建筑。Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ——The Sphinx Without a Secret女人是用来被爱的，不是用来被理解的。——《没有秘密的斯芬克斯》There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：爱人都在过去，而将来只有丈夫。

Wilde’s Quotes about Art, Life, Himself and the Society

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.伟大的艺术家看不到事物的真实。如果他看到了，就不再是艺术家。 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。Art for art’s sake.为艺术而艺术。Everyone is born king,and most people die in exile.每个人生来都是君王，但大多数在流亡中死去。We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长。The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.傻瓜创造了世界，聪明人不得不生活于其中。One's real life is often the life that one does not lead真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。

In 1891, he met Lord Alfred Douglas who was only 22 and a undergraduate in the University of Oxford.

In 1895, Marquess of Queensberry charged Wilde with committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons .And Wilde was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.