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

預測

project:
project of Projections of the future   
project something to do something:  The unemployment rate has been projected to fall.
project something: A growth rate of 4% is projected for next year.


estimate:
Estimates of the past.
past and future estimates
a rough estimate

predicted numbers:
在網路上搜尋到的數量似乎少很多

www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
The official Cambridge guide to IELTS 2.2

better off

IELTS4 Test1 writing TASK1

"Couples generally tended to be better off, with  lower  poverty levels for couples without  children (7%) than those with children."

"better"就"better",  後面加個"off"是怎樣??

真的不一樣

根據 oxford的說法

be better off

 to have more moneyFamilies will be better off under the new law.Her promotion means she's $100 a week better off.opposite be worse off (than somebody/something)

be better off (doing something)

used to say that somebody is/would be happier or more satisfied if they were in a particular position or did a particular thingShe's better off without him.The weather was so bad we'd have been better off staying at home.
所以此處, 因該是"have more money"=>更富有
 

take account

The company takes account of environment issues.

 life cycle is taken into account in the design phase.

similar v.s. similarity

similar    -adj
-My view is similar to yours
-We have very similar interests.

similarity  -n

-the squishy octopus has a nervous system which has some similarities to our own in that it's quite large.

- Oumuamua has some similarity to a comet