VIP Class Notes (Lily) [R]

Vocabulary

1.testify= 证明
ex: It’s difficult to testify the authenticity of the product.

2. confirm (verb) = 去证实
confirmation (noun)= 证实
ex: can you confirm the meeting time for tomorrow?
ex: can you give me a confirmation on the schedule?

3. indistinct — distinct = 模糊的,不清楚的—-独特的
ex: She has a distinct personality so everyone likes her.
ex: the project plan is indistinct. 

4. projector (noun) =投影仪
project (verb)= 投射
ex: Please project the PPT on the screen.
ex: We need to borrow a projector for the meeting.

5. statue (noun)= 雕像🗿
ex: there are many statues in the park.

6. status (noun)= 身份地位／状态
ex: he has a high status in the company.
ex: I changed my status to “busy”.

7. bewilder (verb) = 使困惑
ex: Big city traffic bewilders me.

A fifth grader gets a homework assignment to select his future career path from a list of occupations. He ticks “astronaut” but quickly adds “scientist” to the list and select it as well. The boy is convinced that if he reads enough, he can explore as many career paths as he likes. And so he reads—everything from encyclopedias to science fiction novels. He reads so passionately that his parents have to institute a “no reading policy” at the dinner table.

That boy was Bill Gates, and he hasn’t stopped reading yet—not even after becoming one of the most successful people on the planet. Nowadays, his reading material has changed from science fiction and reference book：recently，he revealed that he reads at least 50 non fiction books a year. Gates chooses non fiction titles because they explain how the world works. “Each book opens up new avenues of knowledge,” Gates says.