Week 7 (second semester)
Week 7 (23rd March - 27th March)
Reminder:
💓Please sign the communication book every day
💗Please sign the quiz or test every Monday. I usually deliver the quiz or test paper on Monday.
💗 Quiz on 27 March this week
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No. |
English |
POS |
Chinese |
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No. |
English |
POS |
Chinese |
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1 |
mystery |
n. |
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13 |
frontier |
n. |
（十九世紀時定居者開始搬入並居住的美國西部）前沿地帶 |
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2 |
swirls |
v./n. |
（使）旋轉，（使）打轉 |
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14 |
community |
n. |
社區 |
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3 |
joyous |
(adj.) |
歡樂的 |
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15 |
boom |
n. |
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4 |
tumbledown |
adj. |
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16 |
precious |
adj. |
珍貴的 |
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5 |
lonesome |
adj. |
孤獨的 |
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17 |
ore |
n. |
礦石 |
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6 |
stake |
n. |
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18 |
lumber |
n. |
木料 |
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7 |
virtually |
adv. |
實際上 |
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19 |
prairie |
n. |
草原 |
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8 |
relics |
n. |
殘跡; 遺跡 |
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20 |
prosperity |
n. |
繁榮 |
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9 |
evidence
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n. |
證據 |
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21 |
abandoned |
adj. |
被遺棄的 |
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10 |
fortune
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n. |
財富 |
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22 |
merchant |
n. |
商人 |
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11 |
settlement
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n. |
定居;定居地 |
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23 |
declared |
adj. |
公開聲明的 |
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12 |
sprawling |
adj. |
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24 |
millrace |
n. |
磨坊引水槽 |
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Recognize Only Words |
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25 |
ditch |
n. |
溝渠 |
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28 |
good-natured |
adj. |
善良的 |
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26 |
squatter |
n. |
擅自佔地者 |
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29 |
billow |
v. |
鼓起 |
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27 |
ragged |
adj. |
衣衫襤褸的 |
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30 |
trail-weary |
adj. |
(旅途回來的)勞累 |
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Word |
POS |
Definition |
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1 |
mystery
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n. |
something that is difficult or impossible to explain |
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2 |
swirls |
v./n. |
move in a twisting or spiraling pattern |
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3 |
joyous |
adj. |
full
of happiness and joy |
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4 |
tumbledown |
adj. |
falling
or fallen into ruin |
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5 |
lonesome |
adj. |
solitary or lonely |
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6 |
stake |
n. |
a
strong wooden or metal post driven into the ground as part of a fence |
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7 |
virtually |
adv. |
nearly, almost |
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8 |
relics |
n. |
an
object surviving from an earlier time |
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9 |
evidence |
n. |
the
available information indicating whether something is true or valid |
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10 |
fortune |
n. |
a
large amount of money or assets |
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11 |
settlement |
n. |
a
place where people come to live or the process of settling in such a place |
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12 |
sprawling |
adj. |
(of a city) covered with buildings across a large area,
often ones that have been added gradually over a period of time |
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13 |
frontier |
n. |
the extreme limit of land into which settlers have moved,
especially in the western U.S. during the wave of expansion |
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14 |
community |
n. |
a group of people living in the same place |
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15 |
boom |
n. |
a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth |
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16 |
precious |
adj. |
of great value |
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17 |
ore |
n. |
a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or
mineral can be extracted |
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18 |
lumber |
n. |
timber sawn into rough planks or partly prepared |
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19 |
prairie |
n. |
a large open area of grassland |
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20 |
prosperity |
n. |
the state of being successful and having a lot of
money |
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21 |
abandoned |
adj. |
having been deserted or left |
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22 |
merchants |
n. |
a person or company involved in wholesale trade |
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23 |
declared |
adj. |
openly or formally announced |
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24 |
millrace |
n. |
the channel carrying the swift current of water that drives
a mill wheel
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Recognize Only Words
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25 |
ditch |
n. |
a narrow channel dug at the side of a road or field. |
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26 |
squatter |
n. |
a person who occupies property with no legal claim to the
property |
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27 |
ragged |
adj. |
old or torn clothes or having
a rough or irregular surface or edge |
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28 |
good-natured |
adj. |
good, friendly, and patient |
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29 |
billow |
v. |
fill with air and swell outwards |
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30 |
trail-weary |
adj. |
tired or exhausted from traveling a long distance |
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Weekly Sentence |
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If the railroad
bypassed the village, it quickly became a ghost town. |
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When the railroad
passed thirty miles to the west, folks moved the entire town—walls and
windows, as well as sidewalks, furnishings, and goods—to the railroad tracks. |
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Over time, some
towns grew into large cities, such as Denver and Phoenix, while many others
were abandoned and forgotten in the desert sands or mountain snows. |
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A few people got
rich, but others suffered heartbreak, hunger, and plain bad luck, then
abandoned the town. |
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There may be a
handful of false-front buildings, weathered to a haunting gray, with open
doorways and broken windows. |
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