Online Class Notes (Li)[R]

Vocabulary

parachutist: someone who jumps off a plane wearing a parachute on their plane 跳伞员

parachute (n/v): equipment used to help you fall slowly to the ground

2001 – 2009  – two thousand and one to nine

2010 onwards – two thousand and eleven or twenty eleven

search-and-rescue: find and save people trapped under collapse buildings or from accidents etc.

eg. Several search-and-rescue teams were dispatched to save people who have been injured.

bury/buried: to put a dead body in the ground 埋葬,安葬

eg. Many people are buried in this cemetery.

Grammar

she go out of the earth in the space – She went out of Earth into space

I think that maybe not trained – I think that maybe he is not trained

Reading

Bertie is a tiny dog, the same size as a cat, but he is a wonder dog for his mistress, Gill. He wakes her up when the alarm clock goes off and tells her when she has visitors at the door. He also tells her when the telephone rings! Why? Because Gill is deaf and Bertie is her ears. He is trained to help Gill, but he also helps other people too. One day, after an operation, Bertie was sleeping on Gill’s bed in hospital. But he suddenly woke up and started barking at the lady in the opposite bed. Nurses came and realized that the woman was not breathing. They gave her oxygen and, thanks to Bertie’s help, saved her life. Bertie is one of over 1,100 hearing dogs in the United Kingdom living with people who have hearing difficulties.