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Distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure and honor to have this opportunity to speak on

this auspicious occasion of welcoming new students to the university.

First of all, I would like to congratulate each and every one of the incoming students here who worked long and hard to

win the privilege of studying at this fine university renowned for its excellent international programs.

I have heard that 50 different countries are represented here. This is a great opportunity for you to learn from people of

different cultures, backgrounds, religions and values.

You may be dreaming of developing a professional career in international organizations or considering becoming

successful in the business world or in academic circles. That is admirable. Try with all your heart to accomplish it.

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I am going to talk about recycling and how we deal with our rubbish here in Australia. For many of the products we

use, we are able to recycle.

This is the recycling symbol and this symbol is on many of the products we use. We recycle plastic. We recycle

cardboard. We recycle tin.

In our home we have two bins: one side of for recycling, like plastic; we put all the recycling things in this side and we

put rubbish in that side.

The general waste and the recycling go into two bins that are on the footpath beside the road. The yellow bin is the

recycling bin and the black bin is for general rubbish. The bins are emptied every week.

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We are all intimately familiar with at least one language, yet few of us ever stop to consider what we know about it.

The words of a language can be listed in a dictionary, but not all the sentences.

Speakers us a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of sentences. These rules comprise the

grammar of a language. They include the sound system and the way in which sounds and meanings are related.

This linguistic knowledge is, however, different from linguistic behavior. If you woke up one morning and decided to

stop talking, you would still have the knowledge of your language.

Language is a tool of communication. But if language is defined merely as a system of communication, then language

is not unique to humans. A basic property of human language is its creative aspect.

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It is vital importance and urgent necessity to think about how we can secure and maintain world peace and any decent

life for future generations.

To achieve these goals, international cooperation is essential. I really wish that you become capable of contributing to

achieving this international cooperation.

Whatever you learn from each other will be a great asset in creating a peaceful, sound and sustainable global society

in the future.

I do hope that your studies, your friendships and your interactions at this university will be instrumental in solving the

many difficult problems we face in today’s world.

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It gives me a great pleasure to welcome you to this lunch. This enables us to resume in a more relaxed manner the

interesting conversation we have just had.

Having already spent some days in our country, you may have become acquainted with some Norwegian traditions.

One of them is to say a few welcoming words before treating our guests to a meal.

For Norway, China is becoming a major partner in East Asia. Several visits on the government level between our two

countries bear witness to an ever closer relationship between our nations.

When the Norwegian government so strongly promotes closer cooperation with China, it is precisely because we

believe we too have a lot to learn from increased contact, exchange of experiences and broad cooperation.

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In the United States, students generally spend a good deal of their time in college libraries either completing course

assignments or pursuing research in connection with the preparation of required written work.

Foreign students will thus discover that their academic success at a college or university in the United States will to a

large extent depend on their competence in using the library.

They will also find that, from the beginning, their professors expect them to find and evaluate information on their

own, rather than providing the students with the specific facts to remember in lectures and course materials.

The student must therefore develop skill in locating, selecting, and evaluating library materials. Most institutions give

instructions on using the library during their orientation program for new students at the beginning of the year.

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The United States has become far more dependent than in the past on foreign trade. There is an increasing need for