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Week 2 Presentation Advanced Language Skills Title: **//Beautifully Made In China//** (//Reader’s Digest//, August 2006，P134) Speakers: __Yang__ Shuang, __Gao__ Xiang

“I discovered __that__ negotiating for a bulk discount on leather with a factory manager is a hell of a lot easier than negotiating for your freedom with a soldier, __but__ anyone doing business in China might as well know how to do both.”
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Points: a. “That”- leads an objective clause b. But – coordinate conjunction c. Than- comparative conjunction d. “a hell of”- why this colloquial expression is used?