2007年11月11日 星期日

You can eat chocolate, help the environment at the same time

Summary:
With new technology, chocolate waste could be changed into biofuel. The chocolate.
Waste can be changed into bio-ethanol and then mingled with vegetable oil. This is the process!
Some of biofuels is critical, because they cause the massive deforestation and the land which plant food crops change into planting the biofuels production.
Although the biofuels has transferred from chocolate, they don’t have the smell of chocolate.

the recording from Relena and Clair:http://www.supload.com/sound_confirm.php?get=217714798.wma

2007年10月9日 星期二

the yahoo news:Gas emissions said at unsafe threshold

(1)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_sc/climate_change;_ylt=Am0Zc6183wgecf07mu9Co2tvaA8F

(2)Q&A

1. Q: whose recent book is "The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth," made best-seller lists worldwide?
A: Flannery

2. Q: how much carbon dioxide output does Germany currently has per person per year?
A: 11 tons

3. Q: how much carbon dioxide output does America currently has per person per year?
A: 20 tons

4. Q: which countries which have the recent economic boom have helped to accelerate the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
A: China and India

5. Q: what will cause when the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold?
A: that can potentially cause dangerous climate change.

(3) Key words:

1. Greenhouse gas emissions: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

2. Synthesize: combine and form a synthesis

3. Threshold: the level at which sth start to happen

4. Scenario: an outline or synopsis of a play

5. Symposium: meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in
which the participants form an audience and make presentations

6. Accelerate: move faster

7. Delegate: a person appointed or elected to represent others

8. Metabolism: the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

9. Exacerbate: to make sth worse, especially a disease or problem

10. Assimilation: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

(4) The news is talk about the greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide. That gas has accelerated at unsafe threshold. That will cause climate change dramatically. The speed of produce the greenhouse gases are out of the scientists expected. US, Germany, China, and India produce many tons greenhouse gas because their harmony economy and industry development.

2007年9月29日 星期六

The CNN news :Grads Enter Uncertain Job Market


http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/grads/storyweek.html


the summary:


In the past, college may find a good job. However, in the past four years the job market has changed. Now college graduates face a worst job market. It’s difficult for new college graduates to find a job. Four years ago there were still many high-tech jobs with high pay and good benefits offered to college graduates. But now they need to prepare finding work 2 years ago. The college degree is not a guarantee to find a good job anymore.

the relectiones and thoughts:


The language exercises let me knew about the article more clearly. Why I choose the article to read because I am a college student, too. From this article, I think it’s a serious question for all the college students. What job we can do after graduated from college to continue studying graduate school or to find a job. In my opinion, now is the world is flat. If you don’t work hard on your study and develop other skills, you won’t find a good job. There are too many college students in Taiwan. But not many jobs to offer them. It’s a melancholy thing.



2007年9月17日 星期一

the second week in college

I went home last weekend.

I met my good friend and we had lunch together.

I miss my high school life so much.

I miss my classmates in high school.

I miss my goodfriends.

We all separated in different places.

I hope that we are goodfriends forever.


2007年9月12日 星期三

Introuduction


I am a freshman in college.
Now I major in English in college.
I come from Chaiyi .
I graduated from Chaiyi girl senior high school