"I Have Traveled to Mexico, England, Germany, and Japan"

good or bad? noun or adjective?

abominable

acceptable

admirable

agin

agreeable

atrocious

awful

bad

abominable

blameless

blessing

blocking

benefaction

careless

charitable

commendable

fraternal

damaging

dangerous

defect

defective

deficiency

deficient

deleterious

deluxe

deprival

destitution

disadvantage

impecuniousness

detriment

detrimental

disability

dissatisfactory

drawback

dreadful

erroneous

estimable

excellent

exceptional

exemplary

expediency

failing

fallacious

error

faulty

favorable

excellent

first-rate

flaw

guiltless

handicap

hardship

hindrance

hurtful

impediment

imperfect

imperfection

inadequacy

inadequate

inconvenience

incorrect

incorrupt

inculpable

inferior

injurious

innocent

inutility

irreprehensible

irreproachable

marvelous

nuisance

objection

obstruction

pleasing

poor

positive

praiseworthy

precious

prime

reputable

respectable

correct

righteous

rough

ruinous

satisfactory

satisfying

select

slipshod

sound

excellent

sterling

stinking

stupendous

super

superb

superior

tip-top

tractable

unacceptable

uncorrupted

unhealthy

unsatisfactory

untainted

upright

utility

valuable

weakness

wealth

welcome

well-behaved

wonderful

worthy

Investigating life in infinite or on another planet (pros and cons)

Examples

Pros

1. New ideas and enquiry topics appear because of collaboration between scientists in diverse fields that would have never met earlier.
2. If information technology is establish that human beings tin can also liver in other planets, we can move to these planets when the resources of the earth are completely consumed.
3. The problem of overpopulation can be solved because nosotros can movement to other planets
4. Equally more new ideas appear, nosotros can larn more and amend the quality of our daily life, and remedies to diseases and and then on.
5. Job opportunities in the scientific filed can exist increased as more scientists are required in astrobiology.
6. Since the report of astrobiology covers many fields, there volition exist great improvement in engineering.
7. If the outer-space creatures truly exist, nosotros can make friends with them and, when the doomsday is coming, we can call for assistance from them.

Cons

1. Label of not-Globe life is unsettled; hypotheses and predictions equally to its existence and origin vary widely. Therefore, information technology is time-consuming since more advanced technology is required to explore in this surface area.
2. A large sum of money is required in studying astrobiology.
3. It is a "pseudo-science" or simulated science and belief in extraordinary claims without concrete and adequate proofs.
4. Countries will initiate a series of fell competition in the filed of astrobiology.
5. Human beings may turn to have the wanton attitudes in using the limited resource on Globe if it is found that they can move to other planets.
6. Spacemen may come across unexpected and uncontrollable accidents.
7. Excessive abandoned spaceships may lead to garbage pollution in the outer space.
8. New species from other planets may bring new diseases.

Identifying Primary Ideas and Supporting Ideas

Identifying Chief Ideas and Supporting Ideas

Choose the best topic sentences for each paragraph and write the number in the blank. Then make a list of the supporting ideas.

Part One
ane. Brazil is a great place to spend a year as an commutation pupil.
ii. Spending a year as an commutation educatee inverse my whole life.
3. Every student should visit another land.

          _______________________________________ When I was 17 years old, I applied to be an American Field Service exchange student. I was very proud and excited when I was chosen, but I never realized how much that year would influence the rest of my life. From the moment I got off the airplane in Rio de Janeiro, I felt similar a new person. At kickoff I was nervous well-nigh speaking Portuguese, but the Brazilians soon helped me to experience at ease. Before I left my abode, I had been shy and quiet. In Brazil I became much more confident and outgoing. Most importantly, I had thought I would get an engineer. In Brazil I learned to honey music and realized I wanted to go a professional musician.

Function 2
1. Traveling abroad can exist very stressful if yous aren't used to information technology.
2. Many people enjoy strange travel and go away every take a chance that they get.
3. Although many people detect traveling to foreign countries exciting, people like me should never exit home.

          ____________________________ I have traveled to Mexico, England, Frg, and Japan. I must admit that I am nervous all of the fourth dimension while I am away. I cannot relax until the airplane lands in Chicago, where I live. Information technology's non that I don't similar foreigners. I take several friends from other countries. And it's non that I detest foreign food. My husband and I often eat out at ethnic restaurants at home. Nevertheless, I just do not feel comfortable on strange soil. I am always agape of making mistakes and offending people. Even when I know the language, as I did in England, I notwithstanding get confused with the money, the transportation system, and all the different ways of doing things. My hubby is a great traveler. He loves every infinitesimal he spends out of the country, simply I'm afraid from now on he'll accept to go alone.

translation 7-2

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Do vii

1. 在這個世上的某處，此刻有個農夫正在撒種。撒下的種子就開始改變原有土地的生態，已預備好的土壤今天看似空無一物，但是明天即將成為豐收的土地。 Somewhere in the world right now a farmer is dropping seeds into the ground. Presently those seeds will begin to change the place where they were planted. The carefully prepared soil that appears barren today volition become a field ready for harvest.
2. 墨菲定律(Murphy's Laws)是一套對生活觀察的定律，它似乎有實際經驗作為基礎，因而更有份量。你可能聽過這一條：「如果事情會出錯，就一定會出錯。」還有「你所做的每件事都不是孤立的，所有的事都存在著因果關係。」Murphy's Laws are observations about life that seem to accept the weight of experience behind them. You've probably heard this one: "If anything can go wrong, information technology will." Here'southward another one: "You can't exercise merely one matter; everything has its consequences."
3. 在希臘神話中，尼克是勝利女神。她站在奧林匹亞諸神一方和強大的泰坦巨神爭戰，最後贏得了勝利。因此，她被視為勝利的象徵。但是尼克的神力不僅限於戰爭，她還成了那些渴望奪得金牌的運動員心愛的女神。羅馬人也敬奉尼克，並且給她取了一個拉丁文名字：維多利亞（Victoria意指勝利）。In Greek mythology, Nike was the goddess of victory. Nike fought on the side of the Olympian gods, gaining a victory over the mighty Titans. As a issue, she became a symbol of winning. But Nike's alleged powers were not just limited to warfare. She also became a favorite goddess of athletes who wanted to win in competitive sports. The Romans adopted her into their worship and gave her the Latin proper noun Victoria.

translation 6-2

Practise vi

1. 做為一個作家，即使生活中的問題也是可用的材料。

Every bit a writer, fifty-fifty life'due south problems are all grist to his mill.

1. 這些當然只是人們的幽默和子虛烏有。就我所知，並沒有人認真地把牠的預言當一回事。我也聽說，牠的預測十之八九是錯的，並不可靠。

This is all braggadocio and good humour, of course. No one to my knowledge takes its predictions seriously. Furthermore, it's unreliable—more often wrong than right, I'one thousand told.

1. 在新的一年，我們都渴望能有所改變。所以每逢1月1日，我們就開始節食、定運動計畫或培養新的嗜好。但一個月過後，我們往往會重返惡習。或許這是因為當初我們想要來一個徹底改變，但卻後繼乏力，也缺乏改變自我的意志力。

Nosotros always crave modify in a new year. This is why on Jan 1 we get-go diets, exercise programs, and new hobbies. Of grade, a month later nosotros're unremarkably dorsum to our onetime bad habits. Maybe that's because we crave too large a modify and practise not have enough power and volition to make the changes.

1. 為了抵禦北方異族的侵犯，中國建造了長達6400公里(4000 mile)的長城。第一座長城是公元前259至210年的秦始皇(Shi Huangdi)所建。但是在公元1644年，滿州人(the Manchus)突破長城入侵中國。他們能進來的原因是一位明朝(the Ming dynasty)的將軍接受了賄賂，並打開城門。

The 4,000-mile-long Great Wall of Cathay was congenital to go on out invaders from the due north. The kickoff wall was synthetic by Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of People's republic of china, who lived between 259 and 210 bc. But in ad 1644 the Manchus broke through the Great Wall and overran Prc. They did this past bribing a full general of the Ming dynasty to open the gates.

week 15–thinking critically

生技

Investing life in infinite or on another planet

物治

Eliminating congenital disease through genetic engineering

資管

Automation or robotics

stump 站台

n. (名詞 noun)[C]

1. (樹倒或被砍後遺留下的)殘幹,根株

   我們坐在樹墩上休息。

2. 殘餘部分;殘肢;(鉛筆)頭;(煙)蒂

   他咧嘴笑著,露出一對殘牙。

3. 【口】腿;義肢[P]

4. 矮胖子

5. 笨重的腳步(聲)

6. 政治演說的講臺或場合

7. (繪畫用)擦筆

8. (板球)三柱門的柱

vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)

1. 砍去…的幹

2. 清除…的樹樁(或根樁)

3. 【美】在…作巡迴政治演說

   州長候選人將在該州作巡迴演說。

4. 【口】向…挑戰;使…為難;難住

   你幫我解這個縱橫字謎好嗎?它難住我了。

   這一突如其來的問題難住了他。

5. 碰踢

vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)

1. 笨重地行走

   他拖著沈重的步子回到家裡。

   聽到這消息後,他怒氣沖沖地走出房間。

2. 遊說

   總統為共和黨候選人進行遊說。

translation half dozen

51. 如果你懷疑公司的資金運用不妥，我們最好即刻詳查我們的帳簿與記錄。	51. If you suspect that the firm's funds accept been badly mismanaged, we had better see to it that our books and records are audited immediately.
52. 空氣和水所以遭受污染，是因為我們在一個世代以前缺乏遠見，沒有注意到危害的因素。	52. Our air and h2o accept become polluted considering a generation ago nosotros were too myopic to recognize the dangers that threatened them.
53. 如果你對某人的評語持嫌惡的看法，便意味著你不喜歡這個人。	53. If yous make invidious comments near a person, information technology means that you don't like him.
54. 當時我認為這是生平最重要的事，但是如今回想起來，我卻感到瑣碎而無啥關係。	54. At the time, I thought that it was the virtually crucial event in my life; only at present, in retrospect, I come across that it was quite inconsequential.
55. 他全神貫注在內省上面，看來有如與世相忘。	55. He was so wrapped up in his own introspective brooding that he hardly seemed enlightened of the world effectually him.
56. 約莫一小時後，他還無意總結已經再三申覆的話；這種饒舌，令我心煩不已。	56. When he gave no sign of concluding his repetitious remarks later on an hour or and so had passed, his loquacity began to get on my nerves.
57. 很多人喜歡他高雅放言，但我認為他說話高蹈不實，不但方式過時，而且馬耳東風，入耳即忘。	57. Many people enjoy his lofty orations, only I consider his magniloquent style of speaking old-fashioned and unimpressive.
58. 那老人花了很多孤寂的時光，自言自語，感嘆勞力徒勞。	58. The old man spent many lonely hours soliloquizing well-nigh the uselessness of human endeavour.
59. 約翰直言無隱，講話從不繞著話題打轉。	59. John is outspoken in his remarks; he speaks without circumlocution.
60. 州長的演講一直為不滿的噓聲打斷，其聲雖小，但堅定異常，不斷由聽眾中傳來。	60. The Governor's speech was constantly interrupted by the catcalls, boos, and jeers of a modest merely incomparably song segment of the audience.

Translation 6

Translation five

41. 不能迅速閱讀，可能有礙課業進步。	41. An disability to read rapidly may impede 1'south academic progress.
42. 他多年來的大志，是想要遠征尼羅河，尋找水源盡頭。	42. His neat aim in life for many years was to organize an expedition to find the source of the Nile River.
43. 戰時政府做事，因事屬有益。	43. In times of state of war governments exercise things because they are expedient.
44. 評論員認為參議員所以看法急遽改變，係一時政治上的權宜使然。	44. The commentator attributed the Senator's boggling change of views to political expediency.
45. 該公司從事手錶製造，輕舉妄動，很快就失敗了。	45. The company rushed headlong into the industry of watches, and soon failed.
46. 除非財力上有人鼎力再予支持，否則這件工作不會有任何進展。	46. The work cannot make headway until it is more than strongly supported financially.
47. 他在報告中所擬使用的照片需要解釋，所以他決定每禎照片都附上一個標題。	47. Since the photos he planned to use in his report needed some explanation, he decided to write a short caption for each.
48. 在約克鎮四面受敵後，康瓦利將軍只得向美法部隊投降，別無選擇。	48. Completely surrounded at Yorktown by American and French forces, Cornwallis had no pick but to capitulate.
49. 劊子手將犯人「斬首」，指的就是將其身、首分家。	49. When an executioner decapitates a prisoner, he literally takes his head abroad from his body.
50. 聽眾靜肅異常，即使不假麥克風之助，他們也可以聽到參議員的演講。	50. The audition was so quiet that the Senator's speech was aural even without the help of a microphone.

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