新標(biāo)準(zhǔn)初中英語(yǔ)九年級(jí)(上):UNIT1 Abraham Lincoln

[00:00.00]2 Tan Mei's project is about Lance Armstrong.
[00:05.33]He is a famous American cyclist.
[00:08.11]He has won many international bike races.
[00:11.43]He won his first one in 1999.
[00:14.64]Every years since then ,
[00:16.14]he has won important races.
[00:18.74]What's amazing is that he had cancer
[00:21.54]and he was very sick
[00:23.11]but he worked hard to fight the illness.
[00:27.93]3 David is doing his project on Robert Wadlow.
[00:33.22]He was the world's tallest man.
[00:36.00]Robert Wadlow grew to an amazing eight feet
[00:39.18]and eleven inches.
[00:42.04]4 Hu Shan is doing his project on Ernest Euston
[00:46.52]who was the oldest man to receive a degree
[00:49.48]from a university.
[00:51.37]He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree
[00:54.29]when he was 87 years old.
[00:58.26]5 Li Qing's project is about Michael Kearney.
[01:02.70]At six years old, Michael was the youngest
[01:05.86]person ever to finish high school in America.
[01:09.22]In fact, he started and finished high school
[01:12.83]in just one year!
[01:15.46]6 Susan is doing a project on Benoit Lecomte,
[01:19.96]who was the first person to swim
[01:22.04]around the world.
[01:23.72]In 1998, he became the first person to swim
[01:27.52]across the Atlantic Ocean.
[01:29.62]he was just 31 years old at the time.
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