Oh, well, that’s not a choice.
What about you? Have you heard about anything? Me, I’ll tell you if you promise not to tell anyone, OK? Sure, if it’s a secret, you can trust me.
I have been accepted in MIT on a full scholarship. MIT?! You’re joking, right? No, I’m serious.
Why haven’t you told anyone?
I don’t know. I think I will wait untileveryone else has heard from their choices. I really didn’t expect I will get in.
Yeah, especially with a full scholarship. Some people will be jealous when they hear about it. but we all know that you are smart so are something you should be proud of. Thanks, I really exciting.
I’m afraid this terrible news may affect influence their decision to support us.
L5 Unit 3-2 Listening
Aflow chart like this one shows how a process begins and ends and the steps in between. The process can be of almost any kind, from manufacturing a tyreto creating an advertisement. Therefore, learning how to describe and explain a process in English is important. It’s important for teachers, engineers and people who provide customer’s support. one process that we are all familiar with is our body’scirculatory system. This system provides oxygenated blood throughout the body and eliminates carbon dioxide which is a waste product. If something goes wrong with this system, we need to repair it quickly, or we die. So it’s important to understand it and keep it functioning properly. First, the most important requirement for the system to work is asupply of air. Without fresh air with sufficient oxygen, the process won’t keep our healthy and alive. So the process begins by breathing in air which happens with long expand and drown in air. Once inside the lungs, oxygen in the air is exchanged for carbon dioxide in the blood. This exchange happens whenblood cells release carbon dioxide and absorb oxygen. This blood is now oxygenated blood which means it carries oxygen. To summarize, the process begins by inhaling air and oxygenatingthe blood. The oxygenated blood in lungs then flow back to the heart. The C O 2 which came from the blood is exhaled and the next circle begins.
Oxygenated blood in the lung flow in the heart. The blood which enters in a loop from the heart, carried carbon dioxide. Once the dioxide exchanged for the oxygen, the blood continues through the loop and exist into the heart. The oxygenated blood is then pumped to the rest of the body.
As you can see, everything depends on the flow of blood to and from the heart. So how that the heart does this. First, the heart, which is a muscle has 4 chambers. From one chamber, blood is pumped to the lung. This is the blood that carry carbon dioxide. When oxygenated blood from the lungs comes back to the heart, it enters to another chamber. This chamber is called the left Atrium(左心房). From the left Atrium, the oxygenated blood is pumped toanother chamber, the left Ventricle(左心室). The left ventricle then pumps the blood into the aorta(主动脉) which is the largest artery in the body. From the aorta, the oxygenated blood passes through a network of smaller arteries throughout the entire body, including the brain. Blood returns to the heart through a system of veins and enters the upper right chamber, the right atrium.
Now that we understand a little about the circulatory system, we can add what we need to operate. Of course, it can’t operate without energy. This energy is supplied by another system, digestive system, which gets energy from food. And of course, this system need to be supported and controlled. Our skeletal system provide support and our muscular system provide control and movement. Without support and movement, we couldn’t get the food for energy. Only plants can do this, because they had a completely different system, which gets energy directly from the sun.
To summarize, human’s body is like a huge, complex factory. The language we use to describe how it functions, is the same language we use to describe almost any industrial process. The vocabulary is different, but the processes, flows and logically relationships are almost identical. Think of some familiar process in your life for job, and see if you can describe and explain it in English
The process begins by inhaling air and oxygenating the blood.
L5 Unit 3-2 vocabulary
Maintain, to preserve or keep things as they are. Our quality is excellent, so your job is to main our high standards and improve it as you can. This historic build is very old and need to maintain.
Disrupt, to cause disordered or confusion. Smartphones have disrupted the way we live our lives. Investors want to invent in company that disrupt the way things were done. Settle, to calm things down or end the conflict disagreement. He is too upset to think clearly, so he needs to settle down. If we don’t agree, we have to go to court to settle our differences.
Solve, to figure out or find the answer or solution to a problem. The problem is difficult so we need to find a way to solve it. we can’t solve that problem without using a computer. Prove, to use an evidence or logic to support an idea. The police had to release him because they couldn’t prove that he committed a crime. The best way to prove something can be done is to do it.
Exchange, to swap or change one thing for another. When we buy something, we exchange money for the product. In human body, oxygen is exchanged for C O2 in the lungs.
Cooperate, to work together or collaborate. Instead of competing with each other, we should cooperate. A good manager can get people cooperate, even if they are on different teams.
Capture, to catch or hold something, the opposite of release. The prisoners escaped, but they were captured within a few days. In war, armies try to capture territory and defeat