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Level: Advanced. Bruce Lee was an American-born Chinese Hong Kong martial artist, philosopher, actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form. He is widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the twentieth century and a __________. Bruce Lee's Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked __________. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world as well. Lee became an iconic figure particularly to the Chinese, as he portrayed Chinese __________ and Chinese __________ in his movies.
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Level: Intermediate. The expression in over one's head is an idiom used to describe someone who has made a commitment to do a job that is too difficult to finish or carry out.
Listen to the following sentences to understand how this expression is used in everyday English, and try to fill in the missing words.
(1) You are in over your head. You can't possibly __________.
(2) I found myself in over my head after agreeing to do that project. I thought it would take only three days to finish, but I realized that __________.
(3) She is in over her head. She is a business major with no technical expertise in computers and does not work well with others. __________?

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