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[00:22.18]Human beings enjoy challenges.
[00:27.95]Many of them like physical challenges.
[00:33.20]They ask themselves questions like this:
[00:39.05]How fast can I run?How high can I climb?
[00:46.81]How deep can I dive?How far can I swim?
[00:54.75]How long can I hold my breath?
[01:00.40]How much can I lift?How high can I jump?
[01:08.13]Because people enjoy challenges,
[01:13.48]they like to play sports and watch other people play sports.
[01:20.25]They like climbing,running,diving,swimming,lifting,jumping,and so on
[01:31.61]Every four years,millions of people all over the world
[01:38.87]enjoy the international sports competition called the Olympics
[01:45.43]People also enjoy the excitement of climbing mountains
[01:52.09]or of riding in a boat on a river that is moving very quickly
[01:59.04]or of racing in a car around a track.
[02:04.08]Why do people enjoy these challenges?
[02:10.74]There are probably many reasons.
[02:15.78]One is curiosity.
[02:20.46]Another is the personal feeling of success or achievement.
[02:29.21]And nowadays,for some people,it is a business.
[02:36.37]There are challenges that are not physical challenges.
[02:44.83]There are social and intellectual challenges,too.
[02:50.89]Leonardo Da Vinci,
[02:55.05]who lived in Italy during the fifteenth century,
[03:00.51]enjoyed every possible challenge.
[03:05.36]He was an artist and painted the well-known picture,the Mona Lisa
[03:12.91]He was an inventor
[03:17.75]who invented a device to let people breathe under water
[03:23.39]He was a scientist,and he learned a great deal about human anatomy
[03:31.54]Another kind of challenge faced the Egyptians
[03:37.81]between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago
[03:43.37]when they decided to build the first Pyramid.
[03:49.12]People are not sure why they built this pyramid,
[03:55.78]but it must have been important.
[04:00.14]They used six million tons of rock
[04:05.79]Four hundred thousand men worked for twenty years to build it
[04:14.15]So,for thousands of years,people have accepted challenges.
[04:23.29]Today we still have many challenges before us.
[04:30.37]Medical science faces the challenge of conquering the many diseases
[04:38.02]which still attack human beings.
[04:42.17]Engineers and planners must build new cities
[04:49.44]and new kinds of transportation.
[04:54.71]Scientists must develop new forms of energy.
[05:01.56]And many of us are interested in the challenge of space
[05:08.64]We live in an age of challenges.
[05:14.38]Human beings enjoy challenges.  topic sentence
[05:49.83]People like physical challenges.
[06:06.79]Every four years,millions of people all over the world,
[06:23.14]enjoy the international sports competition,called the Olympics
[07:17.89]He has traveled all over the world.
[07:37.14]He was smiling all over his face.
[07:46.89]I was sweating all over.
[07:55.95]People also enjoy the excitement of climbing mountains,
[08:09.30]or of riding in a boat on a river that is moving very quickly,
[08:16.27]or of racing in a car around a track.
[08:22.44]climbing,riding,racing
[09:05.59]One is curiosity,
[09:23.75]another is the personal feeling of success of achievement.
[09:44.20]Leonardo Da Vinci,who lived in Italy during the fifteenth century
[10:13.85]enjoyed every possible challenge.
[10:18.81]who lived in Italy during the fifteenth century,
[10:49.77]He is an artist,an inventor and a scientist.
[11:04.63]He learned a great deal about human anatomy.
[11:20.99]a great deal of knowledge
[11:46.22]He spent a great deal of money on books.
[12:06.07]I like her a great deal.
[12:31.83]He runs a great deal faster than I.
[12:50.17]Another kind of challenge faced the Egyptians
[13:06.65]between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago,
[13:12.82]when they decided to build the first Pyramid.
[13:38.08]The Egyptians were faced with another kind of challenge
[14:22.82]The problems that faced us.
[14:36.59]The problems that we were faced with.
[14:52.34]An economic crisis that faced the country.
[15:08.20]An economic crisis that the country was faced with.
[15:26.85]Medical science faces the challenge of conquering the many diseases
[15:51.69]which still attack human beings.
[16:37.07]He faces the difficulty with courage.
[16:56.82]You should face reality.
[17:05.57]Today we still have many challenges before us.
[17:19.23]We live in an age of challenges.
[17:30.10]So,for thousands of years,people have accepted challenges.
[18:13.75]accept a challenge take up a challenge
[18:42.40]face a challenge confront a challenge
[19:00.56]The Milk Maid and Her Pail of Milk
[19:24.72]A farmer's daughter was once carrying her pail of milk
[19:31.67]from the field to the farmhouse,
[19:36.22]when she began to think an plan:
[19:40.94]"I will sell these milk,"she said to herself,
[19:48.21]"and with the money,I can surely buy three hundred eggs
[19:55.36]I will put these eggs under the hens,
[20:00.93]and surely 250 of them will hatch.
[20:07.41]I will feed these chickens,and make them fat,
[20:14.85]and I will take them to the market when chickens are dear.
[20:21.33]I will sell them at the market
[20:27.08]and with these money,I will buy a new dress.
[20:34.73]In this dress,I will go to the fair.
[20:41.50]I shall looked so fine
[20:46.25]that all the young men will ask me to marry them,
[20:52.73]but I will toss my head and refuse them all."
[20:59.68]As she said this,she really tossed her head.
[21:07.62]Down fell the pail,and the milk spilt all over the ground.
[21:15.87]That was the end of all her fine plans.
[21:22.95]The moral of this story is:
[21:29.30]Don't count your chickens before they are hatched