TPO47

Listening

1. One of our students, Stewart Telford, has a nineteenth-century banjo—a real antique.

   [æn’tik] 古董

2. meteorology [,mitɪə’rɑlədʒi]n. 氣象學

   Listen to part of the lecture in a meteorology class.

3. mediate

   a primary way that heat energy is transferred by wind is mediated by the process of evaporation.

4. round somebody/something ↔ up

   to find and gather together a group of people, animals, or things

Example:See if you can round up a few friends to help you!

Reading

1. desiccated ['dɛsɪketɪd] adj.幹的

2. moist [mɔɪst] adj.潮濕的

   Since termites are small and soft-bodied, they easily become desiccated and must live in moist places with a high relative humidity.