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面試實作說明：請於114/6/21(六)面試甄選當日，於三篇短文抽選一篇進行朗讀。

 

 

 

The Sun and the Wind北風與太陽

The Sun and the Wind once had a quarrel as to which was the stronger.  Each believed himself to be the more powerful.   While they were arguing they saw a traveler walking along the country highway, wearing a great cloak.

"Here is a chance to test our strength," said the Wind; "let us see which of us is strong enough to make that traveler take off his cloak; the one who can do that shall be acknowledged the more powerful."

"Agreed," said the Sun.

Instantly the Wind began to blow; he puffed and tugged at the man's cloak, and raised a storm of hail and rain, to beat at it.  But the colder it grew and the more it stormed, the tighter the traveler held his cloak around him.  The Wind could not get it off.

Now it was the Sun's turn.  He shone with all his beams on the man's shoulders.

As it grew hotter and hotter, the man unfastened his cloak; then he threw it back; at last he took it off! The Sun had won.

資料來源: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GGvRtuxglM

 

The Boy Who Cried Wolf放羊的小男孩

There was once a shepherd-boy who kept his flock at a little distance from the village.  Once he thought he would play a trick on the villagers and have some fun at their expense.  So he ran toward the village crying out, with all his might,-- "Wolf! Wolf! Come and help!  The wolves are at my lambs!"

The kind villagers left their work and ran to the field to help him.  But when they got there the boy laughed at them for their pains; there was no wolf there.

Still another day the boy tried the same trick, and the villagers came running to help and got laughed at again. 

Then one day a wolf did break into the fold and began killing the lambs.  In great fright, the boy ran for help.  "Wolf! Wolf!" he screamed.  "There is a wolf in the flock!

Help!"

The villagers heard him, but they thought it was another mean trick; no one paid the least attention, or went near him.  And the shepherd-boy lost all his sheep.

That is the kind of thing that happens to people who lie: even when they tell the truth no one believes them.

資料來源: http://www.repeatafterus.com/title.php?i=6688

 

Can You Learn Anything While You Sleep? 睡覺時能學到東西嗎？

Is sleep learning possible? The answer is yes and no, depending on what we mean by "learning."

Absorbing complex information or picking up a new skill from scratch by, say, listening to an audio recording during sleep is almost certainly impossible. But research shows that the sleeping brain is far from idle and that some forms of learning can happen.

The first study to demonstrate a memory and learning benefit from sleep was published in 1914 by German psychologist Rosa Heine. She found that learning new material in the evening before sleep results in better recall compared to learning during the day.

In recent years, multiple studies have found that a basic form of learning, called conditioning, can happen during sleep. In a 2012 study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Israeli researchers found that people can learn to associate sounds with odors during sleep.

Although the memory was implicit, it could affect the people’s behavior, researchers found in a 2014 study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

資料來源: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1283219