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Extracurricular activities and academic programs are ______________ in supporting new students.
A. feasible B. harmonious
C. complementary D. available
C. complementary
antonym of ‘friendly’
（You should use the word we've learnt.）
hostile
Guess the word：
It is the complete set of life-sustaining chemical reactions that occur within an organism. Think of it as the engine of your body that converts the food you eat into the energy needed to power everything you do, from moving and thinking to growing and repairing cells.
metabolism
Guess the word:
the way someone naturally reacts or behaves, without having to think or learn about it
e.g. a mother's ________ to protect her children
Fill in the blank：
Dora can give you a good grade, ______ _______ you have a good attitude toward learning.
provided that
During class, Alan and Oscar got into a fight over a bag of potato chips. To ______ their anger, Jason said he would buy them ten bags. （Use the word we have learnt.）
repress and suppress
List three synonyms of the word "improve"
heighten,intensify,increase,boost,lift,elevate
Find the synonym:
brighten,enlighten,inspire
illuminate
List three synonyms of the word 'indicate'
show,represent,demonstrate,reveal,point out,suggest,imply,manifest
Explain the differences between ruminants and nonruminants.
The ruminants continually regurgitate food from its stomach back to its mouth to chew it up further, while ruminants don't.
Use“detach from” to make a meaningful sentence.
No less than 15 words.
The process of iceberg calving, where a massive piece of ice detaches from the main glacier, is a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change.
Fill in the blank and identify the type of clause:
Personally, I believe that a balanced approach is most effective, and I wonder ____________a strict performance-only system truly benefits all students in the long run.
if
objective clause
Explain the differences between 'aspiration' and 'inspiration' in English.
aspiration: something that you hope to achieve
inspiration: someone or something that gives you ideas for doing something
Fill in a phrase：
Oscar __________ review microeconomics in Dora's ESL class, but he fell asleep.
was supposed to
Fill in the blank: Jason wrote a TOEFL essay, which Dora sent back to him for revision three times. The first time, she said his word count was too low; the second time, she criticized his simplistic vocabulary; and the third time, she pointed out his lack of complex sentences. In reality, he had already written quite well—it was just Dora being _________.
fastidious/choosy
There are two principal influences that shape the terrain:_________ processes such as uplift, which create new landscape features, and __________ forces such as erosion, which gradually wear away exposed landforms.
constructive,destructive
Fill in the blank and identify the type of clause:
________________ agricultural subsidies are helpful, they alone cannot reverse the population outflow.
Although/Through/Even though
Adverbial clause of concession
Explain the advantages of the architectural structure-arch.
The arch can support greater weight than a horizontal beam. It works in compression to divert the weight above it out to the sides, where the weight is borne by the vertical elements on either side of the arch.
This kind of stability is also called 'resilience'. In that case, climax communities would be the most fragile and the least stable, since they can require hundreds of years to return to the climax state.
Explain the meaning of 'resilience' and give an example.
Stability can be defined as the speed with which an ecosystem returns to a particular form following a major disturbance, such as a fire. This kind of stability is also called resilience.
As a general rule, the higher a mountain is, the more recently it was formed; for example, the high mountains of the Himalayas are only about 50 million years old. Lower mountains tend to be older, and are often the eroded relics of much higher mountain chains. About 400 million years ago, when the present-day continents of North America and Europe were joined, the Caledonian mountain chain was the same size as the modern Himalayas.
Question: Which mountain is higher? Modern Himalayas or Caledonian mountain chain in 400 million years ago?
The same size.
Explain the reasons why Netherlands and Scandinavia could succeed in industrialization according to the following three aspects:
human capital (population)
location
political status
High literacy rates of population
direct access to the sea
peace,democracy,without notable corruption or grandiose state projects
Translate into Chinese:
The key factor in the success of these countries (along with high literacy, which contributed to it) was their ability to adapt to the international division of labor determined by the early industrializers and to stake out areas of specialization in international markets for which they were especially well suited.
这些国家成功的关键因素（高识字率也促成了这一成功）在于它们能够适应由早期工业化国家所决定的国际劳动分工，并在国际市场上找到特别适合自己的专业化领域（明确对于某些专业化领域的所有权）。
List four different meaning of the word "subject" and make a sentence using the phrase 'be subjected to'. (No less than 10 words)
学科；主题；主语；臣民
Any electronic device sold in this market must be subjected to thorough safety inspections to ensure it poses no risk to consumers.
Explain the similarities and differences between 'conceive' and 'perceive' in English.
They are both verbs. They both end with 'ceive'.
conceive:to imagine something,to invent a plan or an idea
perceive:to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something
Please explain the formation of green iceberg.
You earn extra 200 points if you can state two reasons why the icebergs are green. (each reason worths 100 points)
The scientists concluded that green icebergs form when a two-layer block of shelf ice breaks away and capsizes (turns upside down), exposing the bubble-free shelf ice that was formed from seawater.
One explanation for green icebergs attributes their color to an optical illusion when blue ice is illuminated by a near-horizon red Sun.
Another suggestion is that the color might be related to ice with high levels of metallic compounds, including copper and iron.