Unit6 现在完成进行时阅读园地(英文)

APARTMENT PROBLEMS Mr and Mrs Banks have been having a lot of problems in their apartment recently.For several weeks their bedroom ceiling has been leaking, their fridge hasn't been working,and the paint in their hallway has been peeling.In addition.they have been taking cold showers since last week be- cause their water heater hasn't been working,and they haven't been sleeping at night because the heating system has been making strange noises.     

An Action Research Focusing on the Improvement of Students’ Writing Competence

Based on the theory of Consciousness- Raising( CR),this paper proposes a teaching reform in her class,aiming to improve students’ writing competence.Activities have been carried out in their English study and different tasks have been performed at different stages to train the students to be more effective in writing.This paper has expounded the feasibility of this action research and carefully presented the teaching procedures,hoping to help teachers to become more reflective and innovative in their teaching.     

Canadian University Professors’Perceptions of the Challenges and Support to Engage in Research

Research has been an important responsibility for university professors. Although there has been an increased demand for research, few studies have been conducted directly with university professors to obtain their perceptions of the challenges the increased focus on research have presented. This study employed a qualitative methodology to inquire into the change of work life bought about by the increased demand for research, and the strategies professors have adopted to balance their teaching, research and service. It also inquired into the barriers to conducting research, and effective support strategies. Some barriers and support identified in this study were in accordance with what previous studies have identified. Perhaps because the professors interviewed were all tenured, they noted that the increased demand for research had not significantly changed their work life. Strategies they used to help them meet the demands for research included, but were not limited to, integrating their teaching and research, and collaborating with others on research projects. Barriers to research included bureaucratic constraints, newness to research, lack of time, and lack of funding.     

A Brief Account of Independent College in China:Its Past and Further Development

This article briefs the past and development of independent colleges until now in China,dealing with the reasons why they have come into existence and developed in a remarkable way.A somewhat detailed analysis of their distinctions from other higher education has been made and the further development strategies are also presented in it.     

Retrospective and New Initiatives for 2013

In 2010,Frontiers of Education in China underwent a complete change of direction.From publishing Chinese academic papers that had been translated into English,the journal shifted to publishing original papers,which have not appeared in print anywhere before.This important reorientation allowed us to develop a close contact with scholars studying Chinese education around the world,and to publish their insights into Chinese education in a timely manner.Prior to publication,every paper goes through a rigorous peer review process and the subsequent decisions are made with adequate communication and discussion.In working with scholars who are knowledgeable about Chinese education,including our authors,readers,and reviewers,we have developed a solid professional relationship and a valuable friendship,for which we always feel grateful.Owing to their suggestions,we have been able to introduce various initiatives for the purpose of bettering this journal.     

Idiom and Its Cultural Differences between China and the West

The article mainly focuses on Chinese and English idioms and their cultural differences. Idioms exist in both Chinese and English, and they have been used frequently for a long time. Furthermore, idioms are fixed phrases extracted from language over long time of usage. Although they are formed in short phrases, for example idioms known as "成语" in Chinese, which has only have four or eight letters, their meanings are exuberant and connotative. Therefore, the analysis of the idiom’s usage and the cultural differences it reflects is significant to every language learner and translator.     

Robust adaptive controller design for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown high frequency gains

INTRODUCTIONMany researchers have devoted their energy to the development of nonlinear system with unknown control directions during the past few years. The class of nonlinear system has been developed greatly since Mudgett and Morse (1985) relaxed the assumption that the unknown multiplicative terms are not only sign-invariant but also have known signs. A method called correction vector approach was proposed in (Lozano et al., 1990) and has been applied to design adaptive controller of …     

Brief Introduction to Chinese Translation Theories

Translation,as an activity in human history,has been discussing heatedly.In general,since mankind started translation activities,the study of translation has never ceased.Discussions about translation have become so frequent that various translation theories have been formed gradually in Chinese.The thesis gives a brief introduction to Chinese translation theories and the reasons of their existing.At last,as to the issue of establishing the Chinese translation theories,the author agrees to establish Chinese translatology.     

Saving the Earth

As time goes by,humans are making the Earth sick.People cut down too many trees and leave more and more rubbish here and there.Factories let out their waste without doing anything to it.All of these have caused many serious problems.More and more good land has turned into deserts.Rivers and lakes have been polluted and the water in them becomes dirty and poisonous.     

父亲的地位下降了

With both the mum and dad working in a family,has a child’s view of his father changed?Have fathers lost the position of being No.1?Unlike earlier days in most of the families,both husband and wife are working.So the fathers are forced to do some of the job only mothers did in the past,which has caused a series of changes.It is really helping to improve the interaction between fathers and their children.It has paved way for direct interaction between fathers and children;the children also feel free to discuss with their fathers.     

Cultivating Students’ Cultural Awareness inEnglish Teaching

With the fast development of Chinese economy and society,the communication between China and foreign countries has been more and more frequent.And China is a country where English is taught as a foreign language.Therefore cultural differences have become more and more significant in English teaching.Both language teachers and students should be aware of the differences between eastern and western culture in their teaching and study.     

Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China which involves thousands of families. We have celebrated it for thousands of years. Now things are different and the way we celebrate it has undergone some changes.In the past，we had the dragon lantern dance and firecrakers all through the country to greet the new year. People were dancing and singing to show their happiness. But now，in order to protect the environment and also avoid causing fires，firecrackers have been forbidden in …     

A Study on the Applicability of Bacon＇s Thoughts on Learning

This paper has discussed Bacon's thoughts that refer to education and their applicability to modern education in China. This paper focus on the four points which have been picked up from Bacon's works: empirical philosophy, learning with a right aim, suitableness, and the relation between custom and education。     

茅依的复活岛

Moai is more than 20 feet tall.One unfinished sculpture has been found that would have been 69 feet tall and would have weighed about 270 tons. Less than about one-fifth of the statues that were moved to ceremonial sites and then erected once had red stone cylinders pukau placed on their heads.These "topknots, "as they are often called.were carved in a single quarry known as Puna Pau.About 95% of the     

Mr Black's Pocket

阅读下面短文,然后完成后面的字谜。 Mr Black lives in a nice house in the country with his wife.He has got a nice garden round his house. and he ohen works in it on Saturdays and Sundays,because he likes flowers and enjoys working with his hands. A lot of Englishmen work in their gardens on Saturdays and Sundays,and during their holidays.     

High-Efficiency Catalytic Interface IrOx/CeO2 with Adsorbate Evolution Mechanism Boosts Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid Media

Oxygen evolution reaction(OER) in acid media has been intensively studied recently for its important role in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers.CeO₂-based nanomaterials have been widely used in various applications for their redox properties,oxygen vacancy,and surface activity.CeO₂-based nanocatalysts also exhibit superior catalytic performance in OER in acid media.Herein,we fabricated a highly efficient catalytic interface between IrO_x and CeO₂(Ir...     

Oral Activities Design and Learners’ interest

I have been working as an English teacher in a middle school since 1984. I taught many kinds of materials and I have taken charge of teach- ing tasks of two classes and there are more than 40 students each class. Although I have made much progress in my teaching work, there are     

A Tentative Refutation on the Language Arbitrariness From the Perspective of the Six Categories of Chinese Characters

It has long been viewed that Saussure’s principle of arbitrariness is a fundamental theory in modern linguistics.Up to now,some linguists and scholars have raised their doubts to Saussure’s arbitrariness theory from different aspects.In this thesis,the author aims at using " 六书 "(The six categories of Chinese characters) to show that the creation of Chinese characters has some reasons and it was not 100% arbitrary between the forms of linguistic signs and their meaning.     

A Research on Learner Retention and Learning Support

Why do some of adult learners successfully accomplish their learning while the others drop out？ This has been an important question in the field of adult learning. For a long time researchers has been exploring this subject around learning barriers as well as motivations. Not until lately did some of adult and distance scholars start to pay attention to the question of why some of the adult students could successfully push through their learning process even if they are in a disadvantaged situation. Thus, Learner Retention has become one of the important themes to discuss in order to understand more about how to assist learners to persist through their learning. The main purpose of this paper is to explore how adult learners persist through their learning and factors that might have influences on them. Adult teachers and NOU students （including those who already graduated and those who dropped out） were interviewed and surveyed. Concluding from those data and content of interviews, this paper set a model that describes how adult learner retain through their learning process and some suggestions are made for better student learning support policies.     

Family and Work

It has never been easy for couples with children and flail-time jobs toballance their work and home responsibilities,but today it is harder thanever.Slimmed-down companies running on very tight resources are makinghuge demands on staff,and the impact is particularly high on those withfamilies and working partners.