Feathery

#1
Did you know that there is a kind of bird that can sew? This bird, called the tailor-bird, uses its beak as a needle. It sews leaves together in the shape of a cup. Then it lines the cup with straw and lays its eggs there.


不知道這邊的 "line"到底是什麼意思, 我有在字典裡找了幾個可能接近的

-The coat was lined with silk
-Line the pan with greaseproof paper.


#2
The writer of this passage admires
d. the effort it takes to build a nest.


admire在這裡是oxford的第二個解釋
" to look at something and think that it is attractive and/or impressive"
-I've just been admiring your new car.



Six-Way paragraphs

Nonetheless, there is evidence that online networking can transform our daily interactions. In an experiment at Cornell University, psychologist Jeff Hancock asked participants to try to encourage other participants to like them via instant messaging conversation. Beforehand, some members of the trial were allowed to view the Facebook profile of the person they were trying to win over. He found that those with Facebook access asked questions to which they already knew the answers or raised things they had in common, and as result were much more successful in their social relationships. Hancock concluded that people who use these sites to keep updated on the activities of their acquaintances are more likely to be liked in subsequent social interactions.

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In an experiment at Cornell University, psychologist Jeff Hancock asked participants to try to encourage other participants to like them via instant messaging conversation.

在CU的一個實驗中, 心理學家 "Jeff Hancock" 要參與試者常識透過即時訊息使其他參與者喜歡他們

 Beforehand, some members of the trial were allowed to view the Facebook profile of the person they were trying to win over.

測驗前, 有些參與者允許看其他參與者的FB

He found that those with Facebook access asked questions to which they already knew the answers or raised things they had in common, and as result were much more successful in their social relationships.

他發現, 允許存取FB的參與者(會)常會問他們已經知道答案的問題或得到他們已經有的東西(資訊). 最後會有較成功的社交關係

Hancock concluded that people who use these sites to keep updated on the activities of their acquaintances are more likely to be liked in subsequent social interactions.

Hancock 得到結論, 愈常透過這些網站關注朋友(acquaintances)動態的人,愈容易在隨後的社會互動中被人喜歡

The common belief about how Park and Livingstone travelled is accurate.

The Hidden Histories of Exploration exhibition at Britain's Royal Geographical Society in London sets out to present an alternative view, in which exploration is a fundamentally collective experience of work, involving many different people. Many of the most famous examples of explorers said to have been 'lone travellers' - say, Mungo Park or David Livingstone in Africa - were anything but ‘alone’ on their travels. They depended on local support of various kinds - for food, shelter, protection, information, guidance and solace - as well as on other resources from elsewhere.


2 The common belief about how Park and Livingstone travelled is accurate.
TRUE
FALSE
NotGiven

課本的答案是 "FALSE" ,但我認為是Not Given



雖然文中有提到 " Many of the most famous examples of explorers said to have been 'lone travellers'"( "許多有名的例子,探險家被形容成是單獨的旅行者") 但也只能說是"被形容",似乎不能等同於 "common belief " (大眾認為). 

換個方式問,我的問題是 "雖然被形容成單獨的旅行者"但不代表大眾是這樣認為.

eye movements

"The main finding in our study is that it is possible at all to just look at eye movements and then predict something about their personality. And before our study, it was not clear at all if this would be possible from eye movements in such an unconstrained real world setting. "


不是很清楚這邊的"from"的用法, 整句話我判斷意思因該可能是下面兩種
1. "在我們開始研究就前,完全不知道是否能在真實不受限的環境下用眼動來判斷(性格)"
2. "在我們開始研究就前,完全不知道是否能在真實不受限的環境下判斷眼球的動態"

我是有在oxford中看到from的解釋, 有下面這項,不知道是不是這裡的用法?

-used to show the reason for making a judgement: You can tell a lot about a person from their handwriting.
原文:http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-190321

Australia's Lost Giants

"Given how much ink has been spilled on the extinction of the dinosaurs, it's a wonder that even more hasn't been devoted to megafauna.”

猜得出來中文因該是
"有鑑於恐龍滅絕著墨了那麼多, 實在令人驚訝megafauna卻沒更多(研究的)投入"

但不知道 "even more hasn't" 怎麼用?
"that"後 有動詞 "hasn't been devoted', 那有主詞嗎?





原文:
The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS Student's Book
補充參考 ,題目解析
https://www.smartstudy.com/ielts/article/83048.html
https://read01.com/zh-tw/0yezj.html#.XJ9QjpgzZPY

in order to highlight the need to promote the ISS in a positive way

原文:
"The writer refers to the Hubble Space Telescope in order to highlight the need to promote the ISS in a positive way"

對這句話中文的理解是
"作者提及Hubble Space Telescope是為了突顯"正面宣傳ISS的需求"

原句need後面放個to就是覺得很卡,..., 其實我第一時間是看不懂這句話...

如果意思是我猜的那樣, 那我會寫成像下面這樣
"The writer refers to the Hubble Space Telescope in order to highlight the need of promoting  in a positive way for the ISS"

marketing report

原文:
1. Anna: Well, since this is your first marketing report, you're not expected to go out and do interviews and things to collect your own data, you're just using published data. So the analysis you do might not throw up anything that people didn't know before. But the focus is more on how you handle the data. I mean, you might take something like a graph of sales directly from a website, but what makes your work original is the perspective you provide by your interpretation of it.

2. Leo: Oh. You know, it's all so different from business studies assignments at school. It's really surprised me.

3. Anna: What? How much research you have to do?

4. Leo: I expected that. It's more... I knew exactly what I had to do to get a good grade at school.
And I knew I'd be expected to go more deeply into things here, but I haven't got information on how the lecturer is going to grade my work - what he's looking for.


問題:
3. Anna為什麼丟出這句話?   "你做了多少研究?"  .不確定這句話和前後文的關係

4.
-"I expected that". 那個that到底是什麼?
-"I haven't got information on how the lecturer is going to grade my work". "我不知道講師會對我怎麼評分"   看不出這句話和前後文的關係