Day 6
I’m all for… (I agree with)
Kick back and relax; wind up (relax)
Eye-opening (broaden ..horizon)
Decent (good)
Let off steam; ease your mind (release pressure)
A fortune ( a great amount of money)
Do someone a favor (help sb)
Give it my best shot (try one’s best)
Celebrity (famous people)
Worn-out (tired)
Have mixed feelings about (like&hate)
Get cold feet (want to give up)
Time-honored (has history)
Aromatic (food)
Fragrant (flowers)
Check out (feel)
Carry out ; Go about (do sth)
Work out (do exercise)
Get so worked up (nervous)
Get…stuck (trapped)
Expand one’s knowledge/outlook (broaden one’s horizon)
Dynamic (有活力的)
Bogus （山寨的adj.）
Knockoff （山寨版n.）
Aromatic dishes 香喷喷的饭菜
Recreational activities 娱乐活动
Has a nice figure （女性）身材好
Amenities 生活和休闲设施（such as store, sports centers and parks）
A xx-year-old （xx岁的小孩）
Bustling （繁华的）
Calm your nerves 让你的心灵平静
Cultural diversity 文化多样性
Customer base 顾客群
越毒小分队某一篇->>>>>>about social isolation, loneliness of old people Scientists have long known that both social isolation and feelings of loneliness can increase risk of illness and death in people. But it has been less clear whether isolation, which can lead to loneliness, undermines health, or whether either factor, acting alone, can harm well-being. Today, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that limited contact with family, friends and community groups predicts illness and earlier death, regardless of whether it is accompanied by feelings of loneliness1. The scientists analysed data from 6,500 people aged 52 and older enrolled in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, which monitors the health, social well-being and longevity of people living in England. The researchers evaluated social isolation on the basis of the amount of contact participants reported having with family, friends and civic organizations, and they assessed loneliness using a questionnaire. They tracked sickness and mortality in study participants from 2004 to 2012. The researchers found that social isolation was correlated with higher mortality — even after adjusting for pre-existing health conditions and socioeconomic factors — but loneliness was not. “When we think about loneliness and social isolation, we often think of them as two faces of the same coin,” says Andrew Steptoe, a psychologist and epidemiologist at University College London, who led the study. But the findings suggest that a lack of social interaction harms health whether or not a person feels lonely, he says. “When you’re socially isolated, you not only lack companionship in many cases, but you may also lack advice and support from people.” The findings contradict two recent studies that suggest loneliness is associated with declining health and increased mortality in older people2, 3. “I think it’s kind of a puzzle that we now need to solve,” says John Cacioppo, a psychologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and a co-author of one of the earlier studies. He says more work is needed to understand cultural factors that may influence results, such as differences in the way people report loneliness. Steptoe says that he plans to examine whether social isolation affects treatment and outcomes during illness. That does not mean loneliness should be ignored, he says. “We should make every effort to try to alleviate the loneliness of older people,” says Steptoe. “But at the same time, we need to attend just to the sheer amount of social contact that people have and make sure that people do maintain their social contacts. That might be just as important.” 一篇满分作文 2011-8-2 Independent Writing Does modern technology help students learn more information and learn it more quickly?
Marvelous as it looks at first sight, modern technology does not help students learn information at a greater speed and with higher efficiency in most cases; or it could work towards the opposite direction which led students to lose their initiative to learn and explore. 开头：表明立场。简洁清晰到落泪。。。 First of all, one property of modern technology is latently harmful to any learning mind – it distracts. One thing we feel about when we are searching for information online is that the internet, as an outstanding example of modern technology and even regarded as the innovator of education, provides us with not only relevant results to make use of, but also external links to click. More than once I turned on my computer to check school library for resources, but ended up watching Youtube videos. In this case, computer as a representative of modern technology plays a negative role in learning information. We do acquire more information with the convenient tool, yet most of them are irrelevant and in the end procrastinating would lower our learning. 第一，分散注意力，举例：电脑 例子：自己身上的事情 Also, students would easily become disoriented in the huge sea of information. Although modern technology could equip us with easy access to information, the huge amount of resources would actually leave us discombobulated. Therefore, it is only we possess information more quickly rather than we learn it more quickly. An illustrating example is my experience with a HK digital library which stores almost all the books I desire. At first I enjoyed downloading them from the database, however, one month later I ended up with hundreds of books stored in my hardware yet none of them finished or ever clicked. 第二，信息过多，仅仅提供了方便的途径，而不是更快的学习。例子：自己身上的事 Furthermore, modern technology gives students an illusion that information and real knowledge is easy to learn – just by clicking mouse or watching videos. But in fact this forms only the first step towards useful information and effective learning, as learning of any kind requires full concentration and interactive thinking, which are almost absent in the pocess of popular e-learning experience. 第三，误导学生，知识容易学习。但获得知识仅仅是学习的第一步 To summarize, modern technology does not help students learn more information and learn it more quickly, though it does make access to information and resources much more easily. The popular e-learning still lacks the concentration, depth, and interaction that are the hallmark of traditional ways of educating and learning. 总结，科技让人更方便更容易地获得信息，但没有让人更会学习。 好到落泪的一篇文章！！！！！！！！！结构清晰。句子完全没有一句多余。有一些高级词汇彰显实力。有长句，有例子，例子是自己的，真实并且能说明问题。 重点是这个文章非常非常的简洁，没有一句为了充字数写出来的废话，功底无敌深厚！！
口语整理 The most important book I’d like to say Jane Eyre is the most importantbook to me. First, to be honest, this book enlightened me. Iread this book in secondary school. I was impatient, you know, so I had neverfinished a book until this one.After that, I began to read, since I knew there were so many amazing bookswaiting for me. On the other hand, I learned a lot from thisbook. It is a kind of power supporting me all the time. When the novel begins,Jane is an isolated, powerless ten-year-old girl living with an aunt andcousins who dislike her. However, by novel’s end she has become a powerful, independent woman. I learned that people should be strong enough not only physically but also mentally to overcome all the difficulties. So this book meansa lot to me. Qualifications of good parents I would have to say that parents shouldfirstly have a sense of responsibility.Because, you know, parenting is a tough task: parentsmust be patient enough to take care of their kids when they are little, toaccept all the flaws of their kids when they are grown up and help to cope withall the troubles in the whole lives of kids.And I think loving alone is not enough to support parents to deal with allthese stuff. So, that’s why they need a sense of responsibility. What’s more, being good at communication is another crucial qualification of goodparents. Cauz, you know,communication could help children and parents get toknow each other better, especially when kids are going through adolescence. And a goodrelationship between parents and kids will do good to growing of kids. 离开家以后最想念的东西（dishes cooked by parents） When I am away from my home, I missed the dishes cooked by my parents most. First, you know, different regions are different in diet culture. Even two neighboring villagescan have different local dishes. So I can’t adapt to diet when I am away fromhome, especially in the first few weeks. And that will make me missing thedishes of my hometown. What’s more, both my mom and dad are good at cooking. They cook for me every day when I was home. And I can always recall the picture of us sitting around, eating delicious dishes.It’s warm and I really miss these days. 最memorable的photograph The mostmemorable photograph is the picture in which mom, dad and I were sittingaround, eating. This photo was taken before I was going to leave for college.And my sister took the picture for us. Now I go back home every three months,because it takes 6 hours to go back and forth. So that mains we rarely see eachother. When I miss them I’ll look at this picture, and it will recall me someof the best memories. What’smore, I really miss dished cooked by my parents. You know, it is hard for me toadapt to diet in college. Well, I had lost a few pounds after I enteredcollege. Just looking at this photo makes my mouth watering. 带外国朋友去哪里(park) Well, if my foreign friends are coming, I will bring them tothe park in our community. You know, most of foreigners come to China to check out theprofound Chinese culture. And most of people think museum is the best place togo. However, in my opinion, having a walk in a park is the best way to touchChinese culture. There are lots of people practicing tai ji, playingtraditional instruments, performing pecking opera, playing Chinese chess anddoing other kinds of stuff related to Chinese culture. You name it. And mostimportantly, unlike collections in museum, all these stuff are alive. Myfriends can enjoy the free display on alive, talk to these folks and even learnsome stuff if they like. These people are really enthusiastic.
今天整理口语，可真是思如泉涌啊 思如泉涌怎么说 ideas pouring out of my mind?
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） 为主，会highlight出我觉得好的用法，词汇。然后有针对性地自己练习写，具体topic还没想好，走一步看一步把！！
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