Holly老師的英語新天地

Here comes more challenge to help you be fully equipped for the test ! 

把觀念學精學熟, 任何英文作文題目都將難不倒你/妳囉! This is my promise to you~

p. 2 Sample answers

First, salvage logging allows new trees to grow fast since the dead ones have been removed and this will in turn help in the instant revival of the forest areas after a natural disaster.

Second, salvage logging can reduce the effects of insect infestation, thus guaranteeing better health for the forest.

Third, salvage logging provides economic benefits to the local people (since wood from dead trees can still be used by different industries. Moreover, local residents can find employment through this activity.)

Pronouns p. 4-5

6. ... from friends whom she knows well, from acquaintances whose names ...., and from strangers about whom she knows ....

7. (correct)

8. We finally.....the store, because we thought that this table ( 不可用it!) would complement...furniture. 

9. ....recent rise in oil price.

10. ...scholars maintain that Shakespeare borrowed some of ....

11. ...because they dislike the Browns’ children.

12. ....reveals that some (of the) students must have cheated.

13. ...twenty-first century is like that of England in the eighteenth century.

14. ...because she thought she could use them to get some work done.

15....returns the company allows; she told me that it only accepts unopened merchandise.

16. (correct)

17. Education...things, a statement which is especially true.... An entrepreneur must not only learn his or her desired industry...

Parallelism p.6-7 Q6-15 [綠底表示markers]

 6. The museum..., from those who are world-renowned to those who are virtually unknown.

 7. We were dismayed...were untidy, disagreeable, and uninterested to make new friends.

 8. The students...more because they had not studied than because the material was difficult.

 9. The blizzard..., prompting the transit authority..., and causing discontent ....

10. The experiences we have in childhood influence our behavior in adulthood. <no signals: logical understanding>

11. The band ...appealed to both the student body and (to 刪) the administration.

12. Tobacco companies, which are shaken by a string..., but which retain strong growth prospects..., face an uncertain future.

13. Voters want to elect a president who genuinely cares about health care, the environment, and (小組的連接詞) the travails of ordinary men and women, and (大組的連接詞) who has the experience,.... 

14. .....a café that has comfortable chairs and that provides free internet access.

15. Dr. Crock’s claims have not been corroborated by other scientists..... but have nonetheless garnered a great deal of attention from the public. 

Integrated Writing

(閱讀部分已在上課講義, 這邊不附上囉 ~) 

檢討步驟如下,包含:

1) 聽力 shadowing;

2) 改正自己模板背錯,或試著糾出文法錯誤的部分;

 3) 研讀老師的 sample answer (下週發), 學習不錯的句型結構,用字, 或片語;  

4) 最後加強印象, 重打一次sample essay囉!

Script

The evidence linking this portrait to Jane Austen is not at all convincing. Sure, the painting has long been somewhat loosely connected to Austen's extended family and their descendents, but this hardly proves it's a portrait of Jane Austen as a teenager. The reading's arguments that the portrait is of Austen are questionable at best.  

First, when the portrait was authorized for use in the 1882 publication of her letters, Jane Austen had been dead for almost 70 years. So, the family members who asserted that the painting was Jane had never actually seen her themselves. They couldn't have known for certain if the portrait was of Austen or not.

Second, the portrait could very well be that of a relative of Austen's, a fact that would explain the resemblance between its subject and that of Cassandra's sketch. The extended Austen family was very large and many of Jane Austen's female cousins were teenagers in the relevant period or had children who were teenagers. And some of these teenage girls could have resembled Jane Austen. In fact, many experts believe that the true subject of the portrait was one of those relatives, Marianne Kempian, who was a distant niece of Austen's.

Third, the painting has been attributed to Humphrey only because of the style. But other evidence points to a later date. A stamp on the back of the picture indicates that the blank canvas, you know, the actual piece of cloth on which the picture was painted, was sold by a man named William Legg. Record showed that William Legg did not sell canvases in London when Jane Austen was a teenager. He only started selling canvases when she was 27 years old. So, it looks like the canvas was used for the painting at a time when Austen was clearly older than the girl in the portrait.

Sample Essay：於第八堂直接印出,發給給同學

Reminder: Work through each part carefully, and don't hesitate to raise questions should you come up with any.