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PASSAGE? 
2. CLASSIFY EACH OF THESE RIVERS ACCORDING TO THEIR AGE. 
EXAMPLE 2 
 
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Listen to part of a lecture in an American history class. 
(Professor)
Today I’d like to discuss one of my favorite lawyers. In the early twentieth 
century there was a lawyer called Clarence Darrow who was special. Uh 
to explain, let me run through three of his famous cases: the uh Leopold-
Loeb case, um… the Eugene Debs case, and the Scopes Monkey Trial. 
Now in each case he worked to defend an individual against what he felt 
was an unjust system, and sometimes for very little payment. 
He defended a union president, Eugene Debs, who was being 
prosecuted by the federal government for leading a strike, for example. 
Also, in the Leopold-Loeb case he represented a pair of hated 
murderers. It was his most famous stand against capital punishment, 
which he felt was a biased institution anyway. And then there was the 
Scopes Monkey Trial, where Darrow defended a school teacher in the 
state of Tennessee for teaching evolution. Now one of Darrow’s greatest 
skills was that he was an amazing orator who could sometimes move his 
audience to tears. He would use uh poetry, make dramatic emotional 
appeals…you know, pull out all the stops to convince judges and jurors 
of his opinion. The emotional appeals often worked, and many times he 
won cases doing that.

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1. HOW DOES THE PROFESSOR EXPLAIN WHY CLARENCE DARROW WAS 
FAMOUS? 
2. WHY DOES THE PROFESSOR DISCUSS CLARENCE DARROW’S SPEAKING 
ABILITY? 
 
LISTENING EXERCISE 5 
 
PASSAGE ONE 
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