1、Unit 4 Sharing【问题导读】Read the text and try to tell if these sentences are True(T)orFalse(F)1Project Hope has brought hope to the children who sufferfrom serious illness.()2The main tasks of Project Hope in the future will concentrateon building more Hope schools,strengthen the training of teachersof
2、these schools.()FTProject HopeProject Hope has brought hope to children over the past 10years,said a national working conference held in Harbin onSaturday.Project Hope,which was first launched in October 1989,is anationwide educational project to help mainly school dropouts inoutlying,povertystricke
3、n areas resume their schooling.According to the latest statistics,Project Hope raised 1.78billion yuan(US$214 million)by June,1999,which aided 2.209million educationdeprived children to go to school and 7,549Hope schools to be built.It is said that the past three years witnessed the largest amountof
4、 funds raised for Project Hope.The volume accounted for nearlyhalf of the total raised in the last 10 years while the number of Hopeschools built made up more than half.Since last year,the strategic focus of Project Hope hasgradually been shifted from the previous widespread aid to thecultivation of
5、 excellent students and followup support for Hopeschools.The main tasks of Project Hope in the future will concentrate onbuilding more Hope schools,strengthening the training of teachersof these schools,equipping the schools with computers and relatededucation software,and developing longrange educa
6、tion.【日积月累】1launch v发射;发动,开展2dropout n退学者3outlying adj.边远的;偏僻的4resume v重新开始;再继续5deprive vt.夺去,剥夺6cultivation n耕作,栽培,培养【佳句欣赏】1Since last year,the strategic focus of Project Hope hasgradually been shifted from the previous widespread aid to thecultivation of excellent students and followup support for Hopeschools.自从去年以来,希望工程的战略焦点已经由先前大范围的资助转换到优秀学生的培育及对希望学校的后续支持。谢谢观看!