The Changing American Family

LESSoN SEVEN (B) The Changing American Family The family is important to people all over the world although the structure of the family is quite different from one country to another. In the United St

How Should You Build Up Your Vocabulary?

LESSoN NINE (B) TEXT B How Should You Build Up Your Vocabulary? Through Context When students in a college class were asked what should be done when they came across a new word in their reading, eight

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Scientists know that the combination of extreme heat and pressure changes carbon into diamonds. Such heat and pressure exist only in the hot, liquid mass of molten rock deep inside the earth. It is th

Telecommunication via Satellite

LESSoN EIGHT TEXT Telecommunication via Satellite At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were four powerful means of transmitting and receiving information over long distances: print, photog

How to Be a Successful Language Learner?

本讲为 2006 年下半年新的教学内容，请对照教材听录音！ How to Be a Successful Language Learner? “ Learning a language is easy. Even a child can do it!” Most adults (who are le

The Atlantic ocean

Unit 3 Text A The Atlantic ocean 课文参考教材 A few – I have a few friends in US. Few- I have few friends in China. a little- There is a little water in the bottle. Little-There is little wate

Tax free --- duty free

Tax free --- duty free Tax cuts Income tax General-----generally speaking Federalist Type---kind---sort Typewriter----typist Salary---wage---income Earn money----earn a living Make money---make a livi

Most adults need hundreds of hours of study and practice, an

本讲为 2006 年下半年新的教学内容，请对照教材听录音！ Most adults need hundreds of hours of study and practice, and even this will not guarantee success for every adult language

Animals at Risk : Who Cares?

Extinction—extinguisher To keep pace with Catch up with Competitor—competition—competitive—competitiveness Likely=possible ---likelihood=possibility vegetable—vegetarian ignorance—look ove

No wonder you are late for it is so foggy today.

Let us study more closely the way in which a plant grows. The root pushes itself down into the earth. If it finds no water, it soon dies. If it finds water, it begins to suck it up and change it into

The Difference Between plants And Animals

1. If we did not have air, there would be no sound. Without air, there would be no life. 2. not…but… 不是 … 而是 … 连接并列状语 eg: In the past three years, he did not study for his

Animals think much while building their houses

Animals think much while building their houses. The bird searches for what it can use in building its nest, and in doing this it thinks. The beavers think as they build their dams and their houses. Th

Short-term Memory

Unit 4 Text B Short-term Memory There are two kinds of memory : short-term and long-term .Information in long-term memory can be recalled at a later time (when it is needed) . The information may be k

psychology---psychologist---psychological---psychiatrist

The Great American Garage Sale

LESSoN ELEVEN TEXT A The Great American Garage Sale Not long ago, Charles Erickson and his family decided to do some spring housecleaning. __ (Sort) through their possessions, they came up with some 1

Solving problems Scientifically

LESSoN TEN (B) TEXT B Solving problems Scientifically There are scientific ways in which man solves problems. once his curiosity has been aroused, he uses certain methods and procedures to obtain new

opinions Based on Evidence

New ideas are frequently very slow to be accepted. Scientists such as Galileo, Louis pasteur, and Edward Jenner were laughed at because they held theories that were not accepted. Respect for new ideas

Heart Disease: Treat or prevent

Unit 16 Text A Heart Disease: Treat or preven t one of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past

panic and Its Effects

In the recent past, medical researchers have begun to emphasize the fact that heart disease is associated with stress, smoking and a lack of exercise, and we can often reduce the risk of heart disease

Die—died---died---dying

Die—died---died---dying Dead---death More and more Americans nowadays are having panic attacks like the one experienced by Anne peters. Benjamin Crocker, a psychologist at the University of Southern