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1、老托 Part C 精选 93 篇1Community service is an important component of education here at our university. We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one community activity before they graduate. A new community program called One On One helps elementary students whove fallen behind. You education m
2、ajors might be especially interested in it because it offers the opportunity to do some teachingthat is, tutoring in math and English. Youd have to volunteer two hours a week for one semester. You can choose to help a child with math, English, or both. Half-hour lessons are fine, so you could do a h
3、alf hour of each subject two days a week. Professor Dodge will act as a mentor to the tutorshell be available to help you with lesson plans or to offer suggestions for activities. He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can sign up for the program with him and begin the tutorin
4、g next week. Im sure youll enjoy this community service and youll gain valuable experience at the same time. It looks good on your resume, too, showing that youve had experience with children and that you care about your community. If youd like to sign up, or if you have any questions, stop by Profe
5、ssor Dodges office this week.【生词摘录】1. component: n.Cone of several parts that together make up a whole machine or system （机器或系统的）零件；成分；组成部分2. tutor: n. Csomeone who teaches one pupil or a small group, and is directly paid by them 家庭教师，私人教师 v. to teach someone as a tutor 给当家庭教师；指导3. mentor: n. Can ex
6、perienced person who advises and helps a less experienced person 顾问，指导人，教练12I hope youve all finished reading the assigned chapter on insurance so that youre prepared for our discussion today. But, before we start, Id like to mention a few things your text doesnt go into. Its interesting to note tha
7、t insurance has existed in some form for a very long time. The earliest insurance policies were what we called bottomry contracts. They provided shipping protection for merchants as far back as 3000 B.C. In general, the contracts were often no more than verbal agreements. They granted loans to merch
8、ants with the understanding that if a particular shipment of goods was lost at sea, the loan didnt have to be repaid. Interest on the loans varied according to how risky it was to transport the goods. During periods of heavy piracy at sea, for example, the amount of interest and the cost of the poli
9、cy went up considerably. So, you can see how insurance helped encourage international trade. Even the most cautious merchants became willing to risk shipping their goods over long distances, not to mention in hazardous weather conditions when they had this kind of protection available. Generally spe
10、aking, the basic form of an insurance policy has been pretty much the same since the Middle Ages. There are four points that were salient then and remain paramount in all policies today. These were outlined in chapter six and will serve as the basis for the rest of todays discussion. Can anyone tell
11、 me what one of those points might be?【生词摘录】1. insurance: n. Uan arrangement with a company in which you pay them money each year and they pay the costs if anything bad happens to you, such as an illness or an accident 保险；the money that you pay regularly to an insurance company 保险费；the business of p
12、roviding insurance 保险业2. bottomry: n. 船舶抵押契约（如船舶损失，则债务取消），冒险借贷3. contract: n. Ca formal written agreement between two or more people, which says what each person must do for the other 契约；合同4. loan: n. Can amount of money that you borrow from a bank etc （银行等的）贷款5. understanding: n. C usually singular
13、a private, unofficial agreement（私底下、非正式的）协议，协定6. interest: n. Ua charge made for borrowing money（借贷的）利息+on7. piracy: n. the crime of attacking and stealing from ships at sea 海上抢劫，海盗行为8. cautious: adj. careful to avoid danger or risks 小心的，谨慎的，慎重的9. hazardous: adj. 危险的10. salient: adj. formal the sali
14、ent points or features of something are the most important or most noticeable parts of it 【正式】显著的，突出的11. paramount: adj. more important than anything else 至高无上的，最重要的3Located at the NASA Research Center in Iowa is a 5,000-gallon vat of water, and inside the tank is an underwater treadmill designed by
15、 Dava Newman, an aerospace engineer. For four years Newman observed scuba divers as they simulated walking on the Moon and on Mars on her underwater moving belt. She wanted to discover how the gravity of the Moon and of Mars would affect human movement. To do this, Newman attached weights to the div
16、ers and then lowered them into the tank and onto the treadmill. These weights were carefully adjusted so that the divers could experience underwater the gravity of the Moon and of Mars as they walked on the treadmill. Newman concluded that walking on Mars will probably be easier than walking on the Moon. The M
