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Technicum Si-Tarek of Relizane Second Year Pupils - Scientific Streams Reference sheet – 08   Unit VI:   No Man Is An Island Reported Speech VIII Activity One: Follow the instructions.    Bill Gates was elected ‘Man of the Year’ for 2005.    A journalist asked some Americans the following question:    Why do you think Bill Gates was elected ‘Man of the Year’ for 2005?    Here are the results he obtained:   Reasons Given % of informants  because he sponsored vaccination campaigns in Africa and Asia. 30 %  because he is a self-made man. 25 %  because he has donated money to help improve learning opportunities. 20 %  because he has made the PC available for everyone. 15 %  because he wrote “Business @ Speed of Thought” a book which helped solve many business problems. 10 %    Now, this is the news-report the journalist had to write. Can you complete it using the information in the table:   NEWS REPORT   Bill Gates: “Man Of The Year”, Why?   Bill Gates was “Man of the Year” for 2005. We have carried out a public opinion to find out about the reasons why he was elected. The Americans interviewed gave the following . Nearly one third (30%) of the  said that this because he vaccination campaigns in Africa and Asia.  of them believed that he was because he was a man. Some 20 % considered it was to the fact that he money to help improve learning opportunities. , only one  (10 %) the Americans stated  it was because he  “Business @ Speed of Thought” a book which helped solve many business problems.. In general, these suggest the consider that the of Bill Gates was more of his good  to help the others in many fields than any other consideration.      Activity Two:    Report what these famous people said one day.  “Nothing under the sun is coincidence.” ► Lessing, Gotthold  Ephraim said  “Numerical precision is the soul of science.” ► Jevons, William Stanley stated that  “. . . nothing can be less than atoms.” ► Cavendish, Margaret enunciated    “. . . ‘what’ is gained from experience can again be annulled by experience.” ► Hertz, Heinrich wrote that    “A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.” ► Esar, Evan said     “Genius is ‘1 %’ inspiration, ’99 %’ perspiration.” ► Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) one day announced  that  “Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.” ► Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) said that    “Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”  « Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés. » ► Louis Pasteur (1822-95) affirmed that