Week9- 3 of New York Times stories

Task1-President Obama on Stem Cell Research

President Obama signed an order reversing the Bush policy rigour limits on human

prenatalstem cell research.President Obama's policy was planing about

America people's health.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/health/1194811622283/index.html

2 times of listening:75%understood


administration-manage

strict-accurate

embryonic-fetus

Task2-The School of American Ballet

A benefit for the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center,which school was

teaching Ballet,could chance some people mind.Some people didn't like Ballet,then

they like it because this school add some new ideas in the tradition Bellet.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/arts/urbaneye/1194811622319/index.html?r=4372#1194838515975

1 time of listening:80%unserstood

benefit-advantage

Ballet-kind of dance

Task3-Musical Madness

One hundred high schools across New Jersey compete in the Rising Star Awards,

considered by some to be the Tony Awards for high schools.They always practice

dance after school .They love musical,who love it very much,is getting madness.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/ny-region/1194811622241/index.html?r=2007#1194838589889

1 time of listening:85%understood

madness-crazy

Musical-including music and dance

Week 8 Part1-Task1 National Geographic Stories

Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?

Great Pyramid has a sealed space ,which may be able to help us resolve this a centuries-old mystery,is still can't untie problem.

The Cavity has a 4,500-year-old monument to Pharaoh Khufu,which was was constructed inside out, via a spiraling, inclined interior tunnel .A method is that the monuments were built using an external ramp. Perhaps that modus could help us easy to deal with it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081114-pyramid-room.html

2 times of listening: 85% understood.

Sealed-to seal up

Mystery-secret

Construct-build

Interior-inside

Week8 -Task 2

Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden

'A Chrismas tree' which is the oldest known living tree in the world.It has been discovered in Sweden (since 2004).

Dalarna Province,where can find the shrubby mountain survivor at an altitude of 2,985 feet (910 meters).

This tree's stems or trunks have a lifespan of around 600 years,and it's stem will be dies.However,it can be able to emergers a new one from the same root stock.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-oldest-tree.html

2 times of Listening: 90% of understood.

Shrubby-bush

Survivor-residual material

Altitude-elevation

Emergers-appear

Week 8 Task3

Total Solar Eclipse on August 1: Where, How to See It

In the past,Solar Eclipse always appear of war,famine, and the deaths of kings.Fortunately,it cames up in 2008.

Also,the sun will be completely obscured between twenty-seven to a half minutes.The most longest is seven to a half minutes in the typical eclipse.

Its path will begin in Canada and continue northeast across Greenland and the Arctic, then southeast through central Russia, Mongolia, and China. North America along with most of Europe and Asia— those countries' people will see a partial eclipse. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080722-solar-eclipse.html

Time listening: 1 time 85% of understanding

obscured-hide

blamed -extremely

famine-Hunger