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【文/企管碩二 Bill】
Who will be the next America president?
Hilary Clinton fights against Donald Trump
Since the Super Tuesday has broadcasting, you can see Hilary and Trump get so many supports on the presidential nominations. However, either Hilary or Trump wins the presidential election; he or she will affect the United States’ destiny in this period.
Both he and she are so called the influential persons in US. But how do they affect US? Here we can review from their manifestos as references after they win from the presidential nominations. We also can search the public speeches from them. Here we provide many links that you can get more information!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20874451
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20311170
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35064717
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34903577
Vocabulary: Broadcast 播映, Nomination 提名, Manifesto 政見(尤其在選舉前), Reference 參考文獻
(01) Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton speak on Super Tuesday!
The vicious virus Zika
We must need to know
If you are reading newspaper, you can easily find the key word Zika. The reason is it spreads quickly via the infected mosquitos. Initially, it was founded in the Africa area, but it gradually expanded into Southeast Asia and Central and South America. There is travel information related to Zika you need to heed that you have to avoid going to these infected areas. Women can’t pregnant until we could totally figure out this virus completely.
If you are bitten by these infected mosquitos, you may have the following situations such as fever, joint pain, itching, rash, conjunctivitis or red eyes, headache, muscle pain and eye pain. Here are some suggestions that you can prevent it like wearing long-sleeved clothes, using insect repellents with DEET, applying sunscreen before applying insect repellent and keeping doors and windows closed. If you really want to know about Zika, here you can get more information from the following links!
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35441675 , http://ppt.cc/BWNgu
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35370848 , http://ppt.cc/FFtaU
Vocabulary: infected 被感染的, expand 擴張 joint pain 關節疼痛,
rash 皮疹 , conjunctivitis 結膜 炎, insect repellents 驅蟲劑
(02)Zika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is most active during the day.
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize owner Malala Yousafzai
She is standing out to fight for women’s right in Pakistan
You may wonder why the author wants to write this girl, Malala Yousafzai who was born in Pakistan, because she was too fearless to be defeated. This girl is famous for her brave to speak out, and to fight for women’s rights. Not many months ago, here films a movie called 《He Named Me Malala》in the world. This movie talks about a girl who was shot on her head by Taliban on her way home, but she kept alive miraculously.
The reason why she got shot was she followed her father to promote education for women’s right in that time. She became the target by Taliban since then. When it happened, this thing made the world very angry. After she recovered from this gunshot, she founded a foundation in order to spread out global education. This is the briefly introduce about the film. Eager to realize the details, check it out!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23241937
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24379018
Vocabulary: fearless 無懼的, defeated 被擊敗, miraculously 奇蹟地,
promote 推廣, recovered 回復/復原, foundation 基金會
(03) Since her recovery, Malala's campaign for global education has taken her around the world
Resources: Wikipedia, Google, BBC News, Yahoo, Youtube, CNN
