VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

Recommend a book to me

Vocabulary

junk food – 垃圾食品
i.e. I bought a lot of junk food.

caramel – 焦糖
i.e. I love caramel.

powder – 粉
i.e. It is in a powder form.

side effect – 副作用
i.e. I am afraid of the side effects.

obvious – 明显的
i.e. It is quite obvious.

inhumane – 没有人性的
i.e. It was very inhumane.

cinema – movie theater
i.e. I worked in a cinema.

pool – 台球
i.e. Many guys like to play pool.

complicated – 复杂的
i.e. Sometimes it can be very complicated.

coupon – 优惠卷
i.e. He handed me the coupons.

volunteer – 志愿者
i.e. I was a volunteer in the SH Technology Museum.

announcer – 广播员
i.e. I was the announcer at school.

mid-term – 期中考试
i.e. My birthday is near the mid-terms.

artistic merit – 艺术价值
i.e. These paintings have a lot of artistic merit.

hemisphere – sides of our brain
i.e. The right hemisphere of our brain controls art and creativity.

Professor Philip Davis studies the effects of literature at Liverpool University and is author of a book called Reading for Life. He studies people in reading groups and found that it’s reading literature – written work thought to have artistic merit, that has the best effect. He told the BBC that when reading something for pleasure, “…the brain begins to work from different parts, from a different hemisphere and it gets excited, it gets pre-emotional – and you can see the brain coming to life.”

Grammar

opposite of sb.