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| | | World News | | Divided world remembers 9/11 attacks | | PARIS, France (AP) -- The nations of the world joined Monday in solemn remembrance of September 11 -- but for many, resentment of the United States flowed as readily as tears. ritics say Americans have squandered the goodwill that prompted France's Le Monde newspaper to proclaim "We are all Americans" the day after the attacks, and that the Iraq war and other U.S. policies have made the world less safe in the five years since. In Europe, where Islamic terror has struck twice since 9/11, in the Madrid
train bombings and the London transit attacks,
the silent tributes were tinged with doubts
and recriminations.(From: CNN 2006/09/12 ) |
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Vocabulary:
- solemn (adj.): performed with religious or other ceremony 莊嚴的; 隆重的
Example sentence: The President took the solemn oath of office.
- resentment (n.): feel bitter, indignant or angry 憤恨 ; 怨恨
Example sentence: He felt resentment at the intrusion.
- squander (v.) waste( time, money, etc); use sth wastefully 浪費 ; 揮霍
Example sentence: He’s squandered all his savings on drink.
- transit (n.): a system for moving people from place to place 公共交通運輸系統
- tribute (n.): something that you say, do, or give in order to express your respect or admiration for someone 敬意 ; 尊崇
Example sentence: We must give tribute to all those who helped make this free country.
Phrases:
1. tinge with: affect sth slightly 使受影響 ; 使帶有…的氣息
Example sentence: Her admiration for him was tinged
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SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- Nearly five years ago when
Apple Computer Inc. introduced the iPod digital music player and companion iTunes music software, it created a legitimate market for music downloads
and solved a problem vexing the technology industry.
In an announcement expected Tuesday, analysts anticipate Apple will deliver
a product to solve the entertainment industry's current dilemma: how to
bridge the gap between the living room television and the computer -- movie
downloads.
If Apple could solve that problem, analysts see the potential for another
round of robust growth at a time when the company is facing a growing number
of competitors in the digital music market, including Microsoft Corp.(From:
CNN 2006/09/12 ) |
Vocabulary:- companion (n.): one of a pair of things that go together or can be used together (成套的)物品之一
Example sentence: The Encyclopedia of Gardening is a companion volume to the Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers.
- legitimate (adj.): in accordance with the law or rules; lawful 合法的
Example sentence: Their business operations are perfectly legitimate.
- vexing (adj.): to make someone feel annoyed or worried 使人厭煩的
Example sentence: a vexing problem
- anticipate (v.): to expect 預期 ; 預料
Example sentence: It is impossible to anticipate when it will happen.
- dilemma (n.): a situation in which it is very difficult to decide what to do, because all the choices seem equally good or equally bad 進退兩難
Example sentence: Mary is facing the dilemma of obeying her father or marring the man she loves.
- robust (adj.) a robust system, organization etc is strong and not likely to have problems 健全的 ; 強健的
Example sentence: The formerly robust economy has begun to weaken.
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| | Domestic News | | 1,000 demonstrators continue anti-president protest in Taiwan; weekend march planned. |
| About 1,000 demonstrators continued a fourth day
of protests outside Taiwan's Presidential Office Building on Tuesday, demanding
the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian over a series of alleged corruption scandals.
Shih Ming-teh, a former chairman of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party,
started the protest on a boulevard outside the building on Saturday. The
demonstrators plan to march close to Chen's office and residence this weekend.
The protesters — most of whom were wearing red as a sign of their anger
against Chen —flashed the "thumbs down" sign at passing traffic.
On Saturday, police said more than 90,000 people joined the first day of
the protest, but pouring rain reduced numbers on Sunday.
For more than six months Chen has battled allegations that his family and
inner circle have used their positions for personal financial gain. Chen
has insisted he is innocent and has no reason to step down before the end
of his term in May 2008.
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Vocabulary:- resignation (n.): when you officially announce that you have decided to leave your job or an organization 辭職
Example Sentence: The mayor announced the fire commissioner’s resignation.
- alleged (adj.): an alleged crime, fact etc is one that someone says has happened or is true, although it has not been proved (未經證實而)陳述的
Example Sentence: their alleged involvement in international terrorism.
- corruption (n.): dishonest, illegal, or immoral behavior, especially from someone with power 墮落 ; 貪污 ; 腐化
Example Sentence: The chief of police was forced to resign after allegations of corruption.
- flash (v): to show something to someone for only a short time 短暫地顯示
Example Sentence: He flashed his identification card.
- insist (v): to say firmly and often that something is true, especially when other people think it may not be true 堅持 ; 堅決認為
Example Sentence: His friends insisted he had no connection with drugs.
- term (n.): period of time for which something lasts; fixed or limited time
Example Sentence: The President’s term of office is four years.
Phrases:
1. step down: resign (usually from an important position, job, etc) to allow another person to take one’s place 辭職 ; 退休
Example Sentence: He is not ready to step down yet.
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| | Parody “Wikiality”? – Watch Out the Truth Been Told!
相信「維實」？可得小心「大家都說…」的話啊！ |
| KIKI: | Hey, how's it going? Oh, you are watching The
Colbert Report again.
嘿，在幹嘛呀？哦，又在看「冠伯報導」(The Colbert Report)囉。
| | WIWI: | Yeah. Man, this guy is really something. He always seems to have such an impact on people; out of his mouth comes many sharp criticisms.
是啊。哦！這冠伯也真行，講話還真是犀利，超有影響力的。 |
| KIKI: | He does look like a guy if everybody in a room says yes, he would say no, and can tell piles of reasons. You know that face – deadpan, with a normal sarcastic delivery. So, what’s on his agenda to bitch
about this time?
他的確是那種一屋子人都說白，他也可以講一堆理由，把白的說成黑的。你知道的啊，那張面不改色，但冷嘲熱諷功夫一流的臉。所以他這次又在發哪件事的牢騷啦？ | | WIWI: | He’s giving
a hard time on Wikipedia.
這次換維基百科(Wikipedia)遭殃啦。 | | KIKI: | Wikipedia? What about?
維基百科(Wikipedia)？怎麼說？ | | WIWI: | He’s saying people are bringing democracy to knowledge. You see, any user can change any entry (in Wikipedia), and if most other users agree with them, it would become true, if
only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way.
他說現代知識被多數人民意識扭曲。你看每個人都可以上維基百科(Wikipedia)改詞條，大多人都一股腦兒同意，它就成真啦，只要大家都這麼想的話。 | | KIKI: | Tell me about that. Think about it. Why do you trust Britannica when it says George Washington had slaves? If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to Wikipedia, it's also a fact.
的確是這樣。你想想，我為什麼要相信《大英百科全書》說喬治華盛頓有奴隸，如果我就是要說他沒，那也是我的言論自由啊，但現在有了維基百科(Wikipedia)，它可以是事實。 | | WIWI: | Yeah, all we need to do is to convince a majority of people that some factoid is true.
是啊，只要能讓多數相信，那媒體上未經證實的陳述就成真。 | | KIKI: | Yep, we can all CREATE a reality that we all can agree on; the reality that we JUST agreed on.
對啊，事實現在可以被民眾「創造」出來，只要大家都同意，「一旦」同意了就行。 | | WIWI: | And Colbert announced a neologism wikiality, a portmanteau of the words Wikipedia and reality.
冠伯(Stephen Colbert)剛造了個新字「維實」(wikiality)，維基百科和事實的混合詞。 | | KIKI: | Yeah, he’s such a big fan of these buzzwords. In the first episode, truthiness is another vogue
word coined by Colbert.
哎，他超愛發明這種合併字。第一集的「冠伯報導」(The Colbert Report)裡，他也生了個新字，「truthiness」，現在可紅的咧。 | | WIWI: | What? What’s that all about?
啊？那是啥啊？ |
| KIKI: |
Well, instead of google, why don’t you go check it out by wikiing.
你何不這次別去Google，去維基一下看看那是什麼意思。
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| Word Bank
- parody： (n.) 諷刺性模仿文章；拙劣的模仿；蠢事；(v.) 模仿
- The Colbert Report： 美國艾美獎提名的時事諷刺電視脫口秀節目「寇伯報道」
- Man ：(interj.) 表示強烈情緒的感嘆…
- deadpan ： (adj.) 不動聲色的
- delivery： (n.) 演講/講話/唱歌的姿態
- bitch about： (ph.)【俚】對…發牢騷
- give a hard time on： (ph.) 折磨;使為難
- if only： 只要
- tell me about that (ph.)： 【俚】(表示同意對方)是啊
- factoid： (n.) (僅因出現在媒體上而被信以為真的)仿真陳述
- Yep： (adv.)【美】【俚】是
- neologism： (n.)新詞;新義
- portmanteau： (n.)【語】混合詞;合併詞
- buzzwords： (n.) (定義常含混的)行話
- vogue word： (ph.) 時髦詞
- coin： (v.)創造,杜撰(新詞等)
- episode： (n.) (電視等的)節目/連續劇的一齣/一集
- google： (v.) 使用Google搜尋引擎查詢資訊
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- 單字：您今天學了那幾個單字？
- 發音：每個字的發音您都會了嗎？
- 跟講：戴耳機一邊聽一邊同步跟講。
- 摘要：用五十個英文字寫出本文的摘要。
- 聽力訓練與其他技巧訓練一樣必須由簡入難，有時 候學生聽不懂，並不是他們英文的聽力太差而是教材太難了，教材太難是會嚇跑學生的。我最近喜歡到學校溫水游泳池游泳，因為自由式容易使耳朵進水，且為了使運動量大，所以練蝶式，曾經請一位教練教了一陣子，後來因為不太容易進步，而且游蝶式除了技巧之外尚需要力量(dynamics)，力量不夠、體重過重，蝶不遠就沒有力氣了, 沒有請教練之後，就只有靠自己練，有問題請教救生員，或蝶式游得很好的同學，有一位同學知道我是外語系的老師，向我訴苦說他曾經選修一門聽力課，老師每次上課都放一段ICRT新聞並且在黑版上寫出關鍵字來，這對他來講實在太難了，因為害怕被當掉所以把課給退了，後來聽說這門課並沒有當掉任何學生，讀者如果是老師，下一次如若想使選修課人數少一點，不妨播放BBC World News，保証學生逃之夭夭，但是若教室樓層太高可能要小心，否則學生若跳窗可能會出人命。很多學生喜歡上老外教的會話課，認為他們發音比較標準。所以一開課往往教室就塞滿，我知道以前任教學校的一位外籍老師對付conversation 課人數太多的方法---第一天上課時看到學生實在太多了，於是就規定一大堆的作業和考試，結果竟然有學生真的從窗戶跳出去。言歸正傳，學生聽不懂時可能是教材速度太快，字太艱難，或內容太深。這時可能得考慮換簡單一點的教材。教材太簡單可以慢慢增加難度，不可一步登天。抱歉今天沒有講什麼技巧，只是強調一點最基本的教材設計概念。希望你不會失望才是。
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Pumpkins: Not Just for Halloween |
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Pumpkins
I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Many Americans celebrated Halloween on Monday by placing pumpkins outside their homes. A Halloween tradition is to cut a face into the big, round squash.
Pumpkins are also an important part of the Thanksgiving holiday in late November. Tradition says early settlers ate pumpkin pie, or something similar to it, with the Native Americans during the first celebration.
Pumpkins are members of the gourd family. They are related to melons, cucumbers and squashes. They are, like all of their relatives, fruit, not vegetables. Pumpkins have firm flesh, seeds in the center and a shell that is usually orange. And they contain more vitamin A than almost any other fruit.
Pumpkins have been grown for thousands of years in North and Central America. They have been grown for so long, in fact, it is unclear what wild relative the plant has. Pumpkins grow on vines or bushes. Most pumpkins weigh a few kilograms, but some have reached well over four hundred fifty kilograms.
Pumpkin flowers are usually fertilized by bees. The insects carry reproductive material called pollen from the male to the female flowers. No fruit will grow if the female flower is not pollinated at the right time.
Closely related squashes and gourds can also fertilize pumpkins. This cross-pollination will show itself not in the current year’s pumpkins, but in seeds grown the following year.
Pumpkin is used in pies, breads, cakes and other baked goods. Baked pumpkin seeds are also a popular food. Pumpkin filling for pies is produced industrially.
Pumpkins are very low in acid, unlike many fruits. This makes canned pumpkin a place where the bacteria that causes botulism food poisoning can grow. For this reason, experts say it is not a good idea to can crushed pumpkin at home. Whole pumpkins, however, store well in cool, dark places for weeks.
Less than one percent of the American pumpkin supply is imported or exported. Most pumpkins are used in the states where they are grown. Prices can be very different from place to place.
American farmers grew over four hundred fifty million kilograms of pumpkins last year. The crop was valued at about one hundred million dollars.
This VOA Special English Agriculture Report was written by Mario Ritter. Our reports are online at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Faith Lapidus. |
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- answer n. [C] 答案
No one can answer the difficult question.
沒有人能夠回答這個困難的問題。 - art n. [C] 美術
Students can learn how to draw pictures in an art class.
學生們可以在美術課學習如何畫畫。 - ask v. [T] 問
The police officer asked the student several questions.
警員問了這名學生好幾個問題。 - bell n. [C] 鈴
The doorbell is ringing. Would you please see who it is?
門鈴在響。你能不能看看那是誰？ - biology n. 生物學，生物
My father teaches biology in a junior high school.
我的父親在國中?生物學。 - blackboard n. [C] 黑板
On the blackboard are three English sentences.
黑板上有三個英文句子。 - book n. [C] 書
The book is written in English, but it is easy to read.
這本書是用英文寫的，但是讀起來很容易。 - campus n. [U] (build, built, built) 校園
Is it good for students to join many campus activities?
學生參加很多校園活動好嗎？ - case n. [C] 櫃
I put my dictionaries in the bookcase.
我把字典都放在書櫃裡。 - chalk n. [C] 粉筆
You need a piece of chalk to write words or draw pictures on the blackboard.
你需要粉筆在黑板上寫字或畫畫。 - cheat v. [T] 欺騙、作弊
Cheating on exams is not right.
考試作弊是不對的。 - check v. [T] 檢查
There are several mistakes in your report. You have to check it again.
你的報告有幾個錯誤。你必須再檢查一遍。 - cheerleader n. [C] 啦啦隊長
Nancy likes dancing. She hopes she can be a cheerleader someday.
南西喜歡跳舞。她希望有一天她可以成為一位啦啦隊長。 - Chinese n. 中文、國文
A lot of foreigners are interested in learning Chinese.
許多外國人對學習中文有興趣。 - class n.[C] 班級
There are fifty classes in the school.
這所學校有五十個班級。 - class leader n. [C] 班長
Jeff has been the class leader for a year.
傑夫當了一年的班長。 - classmate n. [C] 同班同學
Melody and I are in the same class. We are classmates.
我和美樂蒂在同一班。我們是同班同學。 - classroom
n. [C] 教室
Miss Huang asks her students to clean the classroom every day.
黃老師要求她的學生每天清掃教室。 - club
n. [C] 社團；俱樂部
Which club do you want to join?
你想要加入哪一個社團？ - college
n. [C] 大學；學院
When I become a college student, I will study art history.
當我成為大學生時，我要讀藝術史。 - copy
v. [T] 抄襲
Students should not copy others’ homework.
學生不應該抄襲別人的功課。 - correct
v. [T] 訂正
Thank you for correcting the mistakes in my homework.
謝謝你幫我校正了功課的錯誤。 - correct
adj. 正確的
Don’t expect me to give you the correct answers.
別指望我給你正確的答案。 - diary
n. [C] 日記
Many people write down their secrets in a diary.
很多人把秘密寫在日記裡。
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People think that some things such as doing water sports, moving house, or getting married should not be done during the Ghost Month; however, there are three major (主要的) activities people enjoy doing during the Ghost Month: Pu-du (普渡), setting water lanterns, and Chiang-gu (搶孤).
Pu-du is the activity for treating the ghosts. Three major dates to do Pu-du are the first day, the fifteenth day, and the thirtieth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. On these dates, people prepare all kinds of food for ghosts.
The activity of setting water lanterns is held in towns or cities near the sea because there are people die in the sea from time to time. Setting water lanterns is to lead the water ghosts to find their way to the land.
The activities of Chiang-gu before and now are different. In the early years, a high platform was set in front of temples with all kinds of foods on it. When the monks finished praying for the spirits, people ran up the platform to grab any food for good luck at the sound of the gong. Today, Chiang-gu has become a group sport competition(競賽). A Gu-peng (platform) is set with four poles. On the top of each pole is placed with foods for the spirits. The poles are more than 36 feet in height. Moreover, they are all covered with butter to make climbing difficult. Four teams from different directions race to the poles; then they climb up to the top of the poles. The first to get the food from the top wins the game.
Pu-du is an activity for people to show their respect to the spirits. On the three major dates for Pu-du during the Ghost Month, Pu-du can be seen everywhere in Taiwan. On the other hand, setting water lanterns and Chiang-gu are activities held in some certain (特定的) cities or towns. These cities or towns have become attractive (具吸引力的) places to tourists.
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問答選擇題:
- According to the story, which of the following is not good to do during the Ghost Month?
(A) Moving house.
(B) Setting water lanterns.
(C) Climbing mountains. - How many times do people do the activity of Pu-du?
(A) One.
(B) Two.
(C) Three. - Which of the following is NOT true?
(A) Pu-du is the activity held in July every year.
(B) Chian-gu has become a group sports now.
(C) Setting water lanterns is the activity held in towns near the sea. - Why do people set water lanterns?
(A) For leading people on the sea home.
(B) For sending the spirits away from the land.
(C) For helping the spirits to find the way to the land. - According to the story, what activities have become attractions to tourists?
(A) Pu-du and Chiang-gu.
(B) Chiang-gu and setting water lanterns.
(C) Setting water lanterns and Pu-du. - What is the best title for this article?
(A) The Story of Ghost Month
(B) Activities in Ghost Month
(C) About Pu-du
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