VIP Class Notes (Lily) [S]

please do the translation at the bottom and check your answers accordingly.

Pronunciation

sp- sb sound: spring sprout special experience explore
y/ey= rainy cloudy money lady

Vocabulary

1.motivate (verb)= 去激励
motivation (noun)= 动力
ex: It’s difficult to motivate students to study English at home.
ex: What is the biggest motivation for someone to stay in a company?
ex: The biggest motivation is actually acknowledgement and recognition.

2. scumbag= horrible man
ex: He cheated on you so he is a scumbag. 

3. mommy’s boy =妈宝
ex: he’s a mommy’s boy, he is very immature.

4. daddy’s girl =爸爸的小公主 被溺爱的
ex: she’s a daddy’s girl, she can’t do anything on her own.

5. immature = 不成熟
mature = 成熟
ex: Most men are immature. 
ex: girls mature earlier than boys.

what do you like to do when you are not working?

When after working, I want to play some video games and do some sports, training myself. I like basketball and tennis, and I like running at night. I like cooking, I cook eggs, every kinds of eggs.

Revised

When I finish working, I want to play some video games and do some sports to train myself. I like basketball and tennis, and I like running at night. I like cooking, I can cook every kinds of eggs.

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

Thatboy was Bill Gates, and he hasn’t stopped reading yet—not even after becomingone of the most successful people on the planet. Nowadays，hisreading material has changed from science fiction and reference book：recently，herevealed that he reads at least 50 nonfiction books a year. Gates choosesnonfiction titles because they explain how the world works. “Each book opens upnew avenues of knowledge,” Gates says.

Translation

一个五年级的学生得到一份家庭作业，作业要求是从一系列职业中选择自己未来的职业道路。 他在“宇航员”那一项后面画了勾，但很快自己给名单增加了“科学家”这一项，然后也打了个勾。男孩相信，只要他读得书够多，他尽可以探索各种自己喜欢的职业道路。于是他真的读了很多书，从百科全书到科幻小说，各种书读了个遍。他对读书是如此有激情(痴迷)，以至于他的父母不得不制定“吃饭时不许读书”的规矩。

那个男孩就是比尔·盖茨，时至今日，他依然没有停下读书的脚步，甚至在他已经成为这个地球上最成功的人士之一，也依然如此。现如今，他读的书已不再是科幻小说和参考书：最近，他透露自己每年至少要阅读50本非小说类书籍。盖茨之所以选择非小说类作品，是因为这些书诠释了这个世界是如何运作的(的运作方式)。盖茨说：“每本书都为我推开了一扇新知的大门。”