文档介绍：Part One
Preparation
1. The Sentences That Affected You
2. What Has Happened?
4. Proverbs and Quotations
3. Dialectthe same
dialect? If not, which ones do they speak?
I think Mandarin is more useful. There are around 80 completely different dialects in China. If we don’t learn Mandarin, we may find it hard or even impossible to communicate with people from different parts of China. For example, last semester most of our classmates had a hard time in math class because the math teacher had so strong an accent that it prevented us from understanding his lecture. To some of us, his strong accent not only meant a lot of inconvenience but also led to our failure in the final.
A possible answer to Question 3:
Part One: Preparation >> Dialects and Mandarin
4. Proverbs and Quotations
Knowledge is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. 
—Emerson
知识是一座城堡，
每个人都应为它
增砖添瓦。
——爱默生
Part One: Preparation >> Proverbs and Quotations
Real knowledge, like everything else of value,
is not to be obtained easily, it must be
worked for, studied for, thought for, and
more than all, must be prayed for.
—Thomas Arnold
真知如同珍宝，不是轻易获得的，必须学习、钻研、思考，最重要的是必须有强烈的求知欲。
——托马斯·阿诺德
Part One: Preparation >> Proverbs and Quotations
Reading makes a full man; conference
a ready man; and writing an exact man. 
—Bacon
读书使人充实，讨论使人机敏，写作使人严谨。 
——培根
Part One: Preparation >> Proverbs and Quotations
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in
the firmament. Life and power are
scattered with all its beams. 
—Daniel Webster
知识的确是天空中硕大无比的太阳。它的光辉撒下生命和力量。  
——韦伯斯特
Part One: Preparation >> Proverbs and Quotations
Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
—Mendeleyer, Russian Chemist
天才只意味着终
身不懈的努力。
——门