初中家长新4学习记录贴--48课，目标10周完成！
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I had read Lesson 1-9 during holiday when I accompanied my Mun in hospital. andyandjasmine 发表于 2014-6-4 22:45 static/image/common/back.gif
I had read Lesson 1-9 during holiday when I accompanied my Mun in hospital.
Hope I can listen 3 times of each of these lessons this evening. Just done Lesson 1. andyandjasmine 发表于 2014-6-4 22:46 static/image/common/back.gif
Hope I can listen 3 times of each of these lessons this evening. Just done Lesson 1.
Preserve
recount
saga
anthropologist
remote ancestor
polynesian
archarologist
flint
Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful?
These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Lesson 2 Spare that spider
How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects?
Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects.
spare
census
acre
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Lesson 3 Matterhorn Man
What was the main objective of early mountain climbers?
The summit! They had a single aim, a solitary goal--the top!
alpinist
summit
attain
shudder
court
solitary
alpine
impoverished
flea-ridden
coarse
boast
parishioner
shepherd
invariablye
accustom
fine linen sheets
perilous
shudder
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Lesson 4 Seeing hands
TBD Lesson 4 Seeing hands
How did Vera discover she had this gift of second sight?
perceive
do up in bundles
curious talent
opaque
Lotto
cease Lesson 5 Youth
How does the writer like to treat young people?
I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.
take leave to
rub
air of freedom
dreary commitment
cosmic
voilent
suburban
conceited
presumptuous
fatuous
cliches Lesson 6 The sporting spirit
How does the writer describe sport at the international leavel?
Sport is frankly mimic warfare.
inclination
concrete examples
orgie of hatred
deduce
utmost
patriotism
prestige
savage
absurd
virtue
Lesson 7 Bats
In what way does echo-location in bats play an utilitarian role?
utilitarian
vicinity
obstrution
elapse
hull
interval
apparatus
shoal
herring
cod
emit
steer
不是说初中学完新2就够用了么？ andyandjasmine 发表于 2014-6-5 08:13 static/image/common/back.gif
Lesson 7 Bats
In what way does echo-location in bats play an utilitarian role?
steer clear of Lesson 8 Trading standards
What makes trading between rich countries difficult?
slaughtered
fowl
tariffs
razor
dialysis
electrocute
Lesson 9 Royal espionage
What important thing did King Alfred learn when he penetrated the Danish camp of Guthrum?
penetrate
disguise
minstrel
harp
ballads
acrobatic
conjuring
thither
proceeds of raids
trivial
horde
prolonged
commissariat
harry
patrol
halt
assail
skirmishes
Lesson 10 Silicon valley
What does the computer industry thrive on apart from anarchy?
thrive on
anarchy
integrated circuits
penalize
spawn
rival
in droves
forge
near lock
Coming finally Lesson 11How to grow old
oppress
justifiably
abject
ignoble
recede
ego
boulder
vitality
weariness
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Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
complication
spacimen
forge
forgery
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Lesson 11How to grow old
oppress
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
complication
spacimen
forge
forgery
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Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
complication
Lesson 13 The search for oil
strike oil
mineral deposits
borings
diameter
derrick
block and tackle
haul
rotate
cutting bit
coring bit
cylinder
strarta
circulate
endeavour
gusher
Lesson 14 The Butterfly Effect
speculative
deteriorate
cascading
turbulent
dust devils
squalls
eddy
a grid of points
of the order of
interval
meteorologist
infinitely
fluctuations
deviation
Lesson 15 Secrecy in industry
weigh heavily against
in so far as
inquiry
engage in
such an extent
whick are of, to be of
such and such a book Lesson 16 The modern city
physiological
neglect
descendants
artificial
impose
dimension
gigantic
banal luxury
deprive
monstrous
edifices
throng
Listening review from Lesson 10 to
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Lesson 18 Porpoises 以为是你孩子学的呢，呵呵 Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams
speculation
literally
odd finding
tissues
self-repairing
self-restoring
plausible hypothesis
electroencephalograph
electrodes
scalp
psychiatrst
punctuated
peculiar
exhibiting
jerky
implication
Lesson 20
Snake poison
defy
saliva
tussle
carnivore
vertebrate
concoct
potency
arsenic
strychnine
mamba
cobra
venom
neurotoxic
viper
adder
haemolytic
viperine
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Lesson 20
Snake poison
What are the two different ways in which snake poison acts?
Neurotoxic & Haemolytic. Lesson 21 William S. Hart and the early Western film
devise
supreme
protagonist
outlaw
framed
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Lesson 21 William S. Hart and the early Western film
devise
supreme
protagonist
outlaw
framed
vicious
mythology
vanished
frontier
contemporary
absurdly
arena
encroaching
bewilder
taboo
alien
unhorse
disinherit
undeclare
hypocrisy
chicanery
impending
immolation
code
Lesson 22 Knowledge and progress
In what two areas have people made no progress at all?
Intelligence and morality