老托_Part_C_93篇

老 托 Part C 精选93篇1Community service is an important component of education here at ouruniversity.We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one communityactivity before they graduate.A new community program called*One On Onehelps elementary students who*ve fallen behind.You education majors might beespecially interested in it because it offers the opportunity to do someteaching-that is,tutoring in math and English.Ybu*d have to volunteer twohours 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 half hour of eachsubject two days a week.Professor Dodge will act as a mentor to thetutorshell be available to help you with lesson plans or to offer suggestions foractivities.He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.You cansign up for the program with him and begin the tutoring next week.I m sureyoull enjoy this community service and youll gain valuable experience at thesame time.I t looks good on your resume,too,showing that youve hadexperience with children and that you care about your community.I f youd liketo sign up,or if you have any questions,stop by Professor Dodges office thisweek.【生词摘录】ponent:n.C one of several parts that together make up a wholemachine or system（机器或系统的）零件；成分；组成部分2.tutor:n.C someone who teaches one pupil or a small group,and isdirectly 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.m entor:n.C an experienced person who advises and helps a lessexperienced person顾问，指导人,教练2I hope youve all finished reading the assigned chapter on insurance so thatyou*re prepared for our discussion today.But,before we start,I d like tomention a few things your text doesnt go into.I fs interesting to note thatinsurance has existed in some form for a very long time.The earliest insurancepolicies were what we called bottomry contracts.They provided shippingprotection for merchants as far back as 3000 B.C.I n general,the contracts wereoften no more than verbal agreements.They granted loans to merchants withthe understanding that if a particular shipment of goods was lost at sea,the loandidnt have to be repaid.I nterest on the loans varied according to how risky itwas to transport the goods.During periods of heavy piracy at sea,for example,the amount of interest and the cost of the policy went up considerably.So,youcan see how insurance helped encourage international trade.Even the mostcautious merchants became willing to risk shipping their goods over longdistances,not to mention in hazardous weather conditions when they had thiskind of protection available.Generally speaking,the basic form of an insurancepolicy has been pretty much the same since the Middle Ages.There are fourpoints that were salient then and remain paramount in all policies today.Thesewere outlined in chapter six and will serve as the basis for the rest of today*sdiscussion.Can anyone tell me what one of those points might be?【生词摘录】1.insurance:n.U an arrangement with a company in which you pay themmoney 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 toan insurance company 保险费；the business of providing 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.C a 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.C an amount of money that you borrow from a bank etc（银行等的）贷款5.understanding:n.EC usually singular a private,unofficial agreement（私底下、非正式的）协议，协定6.interest:n.U a 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:a d j.危险的10.salient:adj.formalize salient points or features of something are the mostimportant or most noticeable parts of it【正式】显著的，突出的11.param ount:adj.more important than anything else 至高无 上的，最重要的3Located at the NASA Research Center in I owa is a 5,000-gallon vat of water,andinside the tank is an underwater treadmill designed by Dava Newman,anaerospace engineer.For four years Newman observed scuba divers as theysimulated walking on the Moon and on Mars on her underwater moving belt.Shewanted to discover how the gravity of the Moon and of Mars would affect humanmovement.To do this,Newman attached weights to the divers and then loweredthem into the tank and onto the treadmill.These weights were carefullyadjusted so that the divers could experience underwater the gravity of the Moonand of Mars as they walked on the treadmill.Newman concluded that walking onMars will probably be easier than walking on the Moon.The Moon has lessgravity than Mars does,so at lunar gravity,the divers struggled to keep theirbalance and walked awkwardly.But at Martian gravity,the divers had greatertraction and stability and could easily adjust to a pace of 1.5 miles per hour.AsNewman gradually increased the speed of the treadmill,the divers took lon