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It is important to have easy and quick access to information, but it is even more important to learn to look at/view information in new ways. A major medical breakthrough may illustrate the point. Scientists had intended to find a cure for smallpox, but they get nowhere.
Unit 2 Fruitful Questions
James describes how his children’s ability to see things in fresh ways opened his own eyes to the nature of creative thinking.
Word Family
Fruitless, pattern, delimit, unlimited, variable, edition, purify, out-, offspring, indefinite, definition, vaccine, request, conquest, infect, severe, slight, framework, handbook, inventory, noticeable, remarkable, impotent, potential, technique, critical, evolutionary, revolution, protest, petition, clamorously, accessible, accessory, ever-green, offline, digit, upload, unload, datum, transitory, smash, unintentionally, discovery IV. Enriching your word power (35)
Sentence Structure
… was about to … when … (36)
I was about to think up another set of three when my 4-year-old delivered his answer.
… be meant to … (37)
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Not to be outdone by his younger siblings, … The middle one took this as a direct challenge. My kids were doing what … (parallelism) Every kid who framed the question differently than “Which is not a fruit” … …the most notable being Albert Einstein,… This is not meant to be a critique of schools. Lord knows, that’s easy enough to do.
a) … be intended to … This is not meant to be a critique of schools. b) … be supposed to do … You are meant to pay before you come in.
Translation Practice
2. Global analysis
Discussion
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement that formal examination is out of date?
Group 1 (For) 1. much pressure 2. unfavorable to students’ creativity 3. unhealthy competition 4. psychological problems 5. high marks / poor ability Group 2 (Against) 1. unified authoritative method 2. fair and scientific 3. a long-tested and timehonored system 4. a must for the students to know the basic knowledge
Punny riddles
1) Who always drives his customers away? 2) What clothing is always sad? 3) Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad? 4) What stays hot even if put in a fridge? 5) Why is it useless to send a letter to Washington? 6) Why do some old people never use glasses?
A reminder letter
Useful Expressions
进化论
DVD Evolution theory Digital video disc Data base
数据库
Get nowhere
无进展
Shattered hope Vaccinated against Linear thinking
Content questions (32)
2. Global analysis
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type is the text? A narration B description C exposition D argumentation
记叙文 a movie 描述文 a picture 说明文 a lecture 议论文 a debate
Useful Expressions
定冠词 调整以适应 文火 相框， 相框，画框 编造一个借口
Work the night shift Definite article Adjust oneself to Mild fire Picture frame Invent an excuse
值夜班 催函
Useful Expressions
多产的小说家
automatic focus received version A fruitful novelist
自动对焦 标准译本
Open sesame Strawberry mark Pure gold Salad oil
秘诀, 秘诀 开门咒 红色胎记 纯金 色拉油
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Edward Jenner, a British physician, abandoned the quest for a cure and conquered the disease by finding a way to prevent it. Obviously, it was creative thinking that led to his fruitful work. In short, it definitely pays to keep this in mind: there is more than one way to look at/view volumes of data you download.
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The other night at the dinner table, my three kids – ages 9, 6 and 4 - took time out from … The oldest didn’t take more than a second to deliver his smug answer … …despite the fact that some purists insist a tomato is a fruit. To those of us forced as kids to eat them … I was about to think up another set of three when my 4-year-old said…
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We seem to be at a point where everyone is clamoring for instant access to …bodies of… Unless we shift our paradigms, the super highway will lead us nowhere. He didn’t do anything less Earth-shattering (pun intended) than completely change the way the universe was viewed. When you have a hammer, you tend to see very problem as a nail.
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pattern is the text organized in? A problem-solution 问题 解决 问题-解决 B cause-effect 因果 C general-specific 总-分 分 时间 / 顺序 D time / sequence