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 Content Awareness

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1. Work with your partner and answer the following questions.

1. What was the critical question the speaker thinks the new students must have contemplated as they prepared for the day of starting their college life?

 
2. What kind of environmental challenge does the speaker think our planet is facing and what model of existence it should build?

 
3. What does the president encourage the students to do to take advantage of the university as a great research institution?

 
4. How does the president assure the parents of the education their children will obtain at Stanford?

 
5. What enlightenment have you gained from the president’s speech?

 

 
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