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At the close of the meeting, the secretary of the council asked for agenda items for next month, and
said, "We currently have the following items on the agenda: the greenbelt, town history, and tax
revenue."
She looked at Tony and quipped, "Should I put you down for next month, Tony? We figured you
might have a new career in public speaking." The audience laughed as Tony shook his head and
said, "I think I'll stick to dentistry for now."
The type of speech a speaker prepares is determined by the purpose, audience, context, and
topic of the speech.
Which of the following is a special occasion speech topic?
An explanation of the town's historical roots
O An argument for why the council should lower taxes on small business owners
A ribbon-cutting speech re-naming the greenbelt after one of a town's founders
A review of how the town's taxes have been distributed
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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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