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2011-2012 н.р.

Listening Text: 9^th Form

Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, New York, Berkley Books, 1974, pp. 266-267.

Interviewer:

Mr. President, you said the other day that you decided you were going to run for re-election the first day you were President, in April, 1945, but you didn’t go into any detail about that. What were some of the reasons you decided so soon?

Harry Truman:

I always knew that from April, 1945, until January, 1949, what I would really be doing was filling out the fourth term of Roosevelt, who was a great President, but I had some ideas of my own, and in order to carry them out I had to run for re-election and be re-elected, and that is exactly what happened.

Of course I didn’t say I was going to run for quite some time. It didn’t do any harm that I could see to keep people guessing for a while. I knew I’d be able to win, though. I knew that all along.

Interviewer:

You knew?

Harry Truman:

Of course I knew. I knew the Republicans would come up with somebody like Taft or Dewey, and I knew that the people of the country weren’t ready to turn back the clock – not if they were told the truth, they weren’t.

The only thing was, I had to figure out how to tell them the truth, in what way, and I decided that, the way I’d always campaigned before was by going around talking to people, shaking their hands when I could, and running for President was no different. The only difference was instead of driving to the various communities where people were, I went by train. But otherwise, it was exactly the same experience. I just got on a train and started across the country to tell people what was going on. I wanted to talk to them face to face. I knew that they knew that when you get on the television, you’re wearing a lot of powder and paint that somebody else has put on your face, and you haven’t even combed your own hair.

But when you’re standing right there in front of them and talking to them and shaking their hands if it’s possible, then people can tell whether you’re telling them the facts or not.

I spoke I believe altogether to between fifteen and twenty million people. I met them face to face, and I convinced them, and they voted for me.

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2011-2012 н.р.

Listening Text: 9^th Form

Listening Comprehension 1

True/False:

Answer each of these 10 statements either true or false.

1. Harry S Truman became President in April of 1949.

2. Truman became President after Roosevelt.

3. Truman knew from his first day as President that he wanted to be re-elected.

4. Truman thought Roosevelt was a great President.

5. Truman announced his intentions of running for President from his first day in office.

6. Truman assumed the Republican candidate would be Taft or Eisenhower.

7. Truman’s campaign for President would involve a lot of train travel.

8. Truman wanted to make a lot of television appearances to convince people of his ideas.

9. Truman believes he spoke to between twenty and twenty-five million people.

10. Truman believes people voted for him because he told them the truth.

Listening Comprehension 2

Multiple Choice:

1. Harry S Truman became President in the month of:

a) May; b) October; c) April; d) September.

2. Truman finished which term of President Roosevelt:

a) second term; b) third term; c) fourth term; d) none of the above.

3. Truman said he wanted to be President because:

a) he wanted to continue to live in the White House; b) he had some ideas of his own; c) he wanted to defeat other nations; d) he wanted to honor the memory of President Roosevelt.

4. The political party that would oppose Truman is called:

a) Republicans; b) Independent; c) Federalist; d) Social Democrats.

4. When Truman says “the people of the country weren’t ready to turn back the clock,” he means:

a) people wanted to work longer hours; b) people wanted more hours of daylight; c)people did not want to return to old government policies; d) people wanted new ways to tell time.

4. Truman considered his strength to be:

a) talking to people in person; b) speaking to the public via radio; c) making a lot of television appearances; d) sending representatives to speak for him.

4. Truman uses the phrase “powder and paint” to refer to:

a) Truman’s colorful clothing; b) make-up worn while one appears on television; c) his wife’s cosmetic case; d) decoration used on the trains he traveled on.

4. Truman believed that when one speaks to people face to face:

a) people cannot tell that you’re lying; b) people like to see what you are wearing; c) people can tell if you’re telling the truth; d) people like to take photos of you.

4. Truman believes that he spoke to:

a) between ten and fifteen million people; b) between eight and ten million people; c) between fifteen and twenty million people; d) more than twenty million people.

4. Truman describes himself as:

a) compelling; b) convincing; c) conniving; d) congenial.

«Черкаський обласний інститут післядипломної освіти»

Завдання ІІ етапу Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади з англійської мови

2011-2012 н.р.

Listening Text: 9^th Form

БЛАНК ДЛЯ ВІДПОВІДЕЙ

КОД РОБОТИ

Listening Comprehension 1

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