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1、-老托 Part C 精选 93 篇1munity service is an important ponent of education here at our university. We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one munity activity before they graduate. A new munity program called One On One helps elementary students whove fallen behind. You education majors might
2、 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 half hour of
3、 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 suggestionsfor activities. He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can sign up for the program with him and begin the tutoring ne*t week.
4、 Im sure youll enjoy this munity service and youll gain valuable e*perience at the same time. It looks good on your resume, too, showing that youve had e*perience with children and that you care about your munity. If youd like to sign up, or if you have any questions, stop by Professor Dodges office
5、 this week.【生词摘录】1. ponent: n.Cone of several parts that together make up a wholemachine or system 机器或系统的零件；成分；组成局部2. tutor: n.Csomeone 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. mentor: n.Can e*perienced person who advise
6、s and helps a lesse*perienced person 参谋，指导人，教练. z.-1. z.-2I 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 te*t doesnt go into. Its interesting to note that insurance has e*
7、isted 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 merchants with the unde
8、rstanding 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 e*ample, the amount of interest and the cost of the policy went up conside
9、rably. 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 speaking, the basic f
10、orm 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 si* and will serve as the basis for the rest of todays discussion. Can anyone tell me what one of th
11、ose points might be【生词摘录】1. insurance: n.Uan arrangement with a pany 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 to an insurance pany 保险费；the business of providing insurance 保险业2. bo
12、ttomry: 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 singulara private, unofficial agreement私底下、非正
13、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，慎重的，慎重的9. hazardous: adj.危险的10. salient: adj.formalthe salient points or features of something are the mos
14、timportant 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. z.-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 Dava Newman, an aerospace engineer. For fo
15、ur 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 divers and then lowered them into the tank and onto the treadmill. These weights were carefully adjusted so that the divers could e*perience underwater the gravity
