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各位同學：

51. 圖書館現正進行粉刷，學生不准進入。

The library is now being painted, and students are not allowed to enter.

請同學們點選下面的連結開始聽力測驗，答案之後會公佈，成績請寫在回覆裏。

各位202&213的同學們：

Old wives’ tales are pieces of advice that are supposed to solve common medical or house hold problems such as pregnancy, puberty, and nutrition. They were usually passed down orally form one generation to the next, and there are only a few cases where they have been written down. Some solutions found in old wives’ tables are true, although most have been disproved by science.

Here are just a few common old wives’ tables:

請同學們下載下面的連結開始聽力測驗，答案之後會公佈，成績請寫在回覆裏。

41. 直到現在，仍然沒人知道那名失蹤婦女發生了什麼事。

   What happened to the missing woman is still not known to this day.

31. 在困難與挑戰的激勵下你會學習到更多。

You will learn more under the spur of difficulties and challenge.

High above us, swarms of artificial satellites orbit the Earth to enable global communication, map the planet, check on the weather, assist in navigation, provide assistance during disasters, and monitor crops and military forces. Building satellites, rockets, and human piloted spaceships is a big and profitable business.

  The former Soviet Union put into orbit Sputnik1, the first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. On January 31, 1958, only a few months after the launch of Sputnik1, the United States launched its first satellite, Explorer 1. Clearly, the Soviet Union and America were in the Space Race, an expensive competition for international prestige.

The “bushmen,” also called the “Khwe,” “Sho,” “San,” or “Basarwa,” are a tribe of people who have lived in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa for thousands of years. Many experts say that this tribe is the oldest one on earth and that all other people originated from the ancestors of the Bushmen.

  Although they had been hunter-gatherers for millennia, from the 1950’s to 1990’s they were forced to become small-scale farmers. Owing to the central government to Botswana’s relocation policy, the Bushmen were forced to move out of their original desert homeland and into newly created settlements. The Bushmen started their long-running court case against the government, saying that the government had forced them out of their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and intended to clear the area to attract the lucrative tourist trade and create diamond mines. The government denied this charge and declared that many of Bushmen were willing to give up their traditional way of life­─hunting-gathering─and that much of their indigenous homeland was preserved as a nature reserve. In 2006 the Bushmen won a historic ruling. However, only a small number of Bushmen have been allowed to return to their homeland. There are only about 250 Bushmen living in the desert today as their ancestors had once lived, and they are still harassed by the authorities.

21. 我愛她並不是因為她的美貌，而是因為她有顆善良的心。

I love her not because she's pretty, but because she has a kind heart.

11. 她正在找一棟有三個房間的公寓。

She is seeking for an apartment with three bedrooms.

老師把文章放在這裏是方便同學可使用google線上翻譯工具來查單字，

很方便喔，不用一個字一個字按，只要把游標移到那個不認識的字，