Grammer
1. dismissive attitude：scornful，scornful
humble: 谦逊的 虚心的 贬低 时感到卑微
indifferent: 漠不关心 不感兴趣
scornful: 轻蔑的 鄙夷的
scornful: 轻视的 鄙视的
appreciative: 感激的 感谢的 欣赏的
2. 选词填空
That night with Sonny Boy and his family changed my life forever, because when it came time to go to sleep, we simply laid down on this concrete slab the size of half my bedroom with myself, Sonny Boy, and the rest of his family. Seven of us in this long line, with the smell of rubbish all around us and cockroaches crawling all around.
And I didn't sleep a wink, but I lay awake thinking to myself, "why should anyone have to live like this when I have so much? "Why should Sonny Boy's ability to live out his dreams to be determined by where he's born?
3. 排序
1）I have no interest in citizenship purely as some sort of feel- good thing.
2）For me, citizenship means you have to act, and that's what we required.
3）And amazingly, it worked.
4）Last year, more than 155,000 citizens in the New York area alone earned enough points to qualify.
4. 听写
We, as global citizens, now have a unique opportunity to accelerate large-scale positive change around the world.
So in the months and years ahead, Global citizens will hold world leaders accountable to ensure that the new global Goals for Sustainable Development are tracked and implemented.
Global citizens will partner with the world's leading NGOs to end diseases like polio and malaria.
Global citizens will sign up in every corner of this globe, increasing the frequency , quality, and impact of their actions.
Speaking
1. How can we possibly persuade world leaders to sustain a focus on global issues?
2. Asking "why" influences people to take action and bring about change.
3. Despite all of this momentum, we face some huge challenges.
4. We need to confront these challenges on a global scale and in a systematic way.
1. its goal is to build a community of people with a lifelong passion for solving global issues.
2.She'd probably tell you she's quite unremarkable, but she's having the most remarkable impact.
3. Those of us who look beyond our borders are on the right side of history.
4. Asking "why" influences people to take action and bring about change.
5. Some people's immediate reaction to this idea is that it's either a bit utopian or even threatening.