[00:04.18]For Questions 6-10,you'll hear a monologue about George Washington
[00:10.24]While you listen,
[00:13.09]complete the sentences or answer the questions.
[00:17.66]Use not more than 3 words for each answer.
[00:22.62]You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below.
[00:29.70]W:George Washington was a big man.He stood six feet,
[00:37.51]two inches tall and was broad of shoulder,
[00:41.77]long of limb,erect and muscular at 200 pounds.
[00:47.83]His strength was extraordinary and his walk was majestic.
[00:54.07]By common consent he was one of the best horsemen of the continent.
[01:00.26]And he was big in character.
[01:04.39]Thomas Jefferson described him as a man who was not an intellectual,
[01:10.56]but whose judgment was sound and sure.
[01:15.23]"Perhaps the strongest feature of his character,"Jefferson said,
[01:20.88]"was prudence.
[01:23.93]He never acted until every circumstance and every consideration was maturely weighed
[01:31.01]His integrity was pure and his justice,
[01:36.68]the most inflexible I have ever known.
[01:41.43]He was,in every sense of the words,a wise,good,and great man.
[01:47.89]On the whole,his character was perfect,
[01:52.85]and it may truly be said that never did nature and fortune
[01:58.60]combine more perfectly to make a man great."
[02:03.92]But he was not without human weaknesses.
[02:08.89]He tended to be overly acquisitive and sometimes contentious.
[02:15.44]He had an enormous pride and was likely to regard any scrutiny of his acts
[02:22.71]as a reflection upon his character.
[02:27.07]His thunderous temper flared infrequently,but memorably.
[02:33.44]There appeared in him,
[02:36.60]thought Gilbert Stuart the painter,
[02:40.68]"the strongest and most ungovernable of passions."
[02:47.05]While he considered the expensive manner
[02:51.60]in which he lived to be contrary to his wishes but really unavoidable,
[02:57.66]he freely admitted his liking for the pleasures of good living.
[03:03.41]Most often he was amiable but reserved with all except his closest associates.
[03:11.58]He adhered to the maxim he voiced to a nephew:
[03:16.44]"Be courteous to all,
[03:19.99]but intimate with few
[03:23.55]and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
[03:30.21]True friendship is a plant of slow growth. |