Listening and Speaking

Ⅰ.Listen to the passage and write true(T) or false(F).

Many years ago,a boy named Charlie Chaplin often waited outside the back entrances of London theatres.He was thin and hungry. He was hoping to get work in show business.He could sing and dance and make people laugh.But that was not enough.Chaplin was still a “nobody” in show business.

Twenty years later this same Charlie Chaplin became the greatest name in movies and the best loved comedian in the world.People from all over the world enjoyed Chaplin’s films.Chaplin made people laugh so hard that tears would run down their faces.His films were silent and his actions were funny.

Chaplin lived most of his life in America.He died in Switzerland on Christmas Day in 1977 at the age of eighty-eight.People around the world were sad at the news of his death.