2018-2019学年度第38期总第751期
Are foreign degrees still worth pursuing (P2)
吉林毓文中学  王荟娟

Lead-in
Are foreign degrees equal to higher pays?

While-reading
Fast reading
Read the text and answer the question.
From the title “Are foreign degrees still worth pursuing”, what do you think the article will talk about?
It might talk about whether it is still worth studying abroad.

Detailed-reading
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Why is there a slower growth in the number of Chinese studying abroad in 2018？
More and more students have realized that overseas study does not necessarily guarantee a well-paid job.

2. What difficulties do the returned students   have to face?
The pay is not high.And it takes over four months for over 50 percent of returned students to land a job, and only 20 percent get job offers before graduation.

3. What factors account for the difficulties for the returnees?
   The returnees often miss the main job-seeking season while they are abroad.
   The returnees lack internship experience.

4. What advantages does studying overseas provide for students?
   It may provide students with good language and communication skills, an independent character and a global mindset, which are important for their career development.

Post-reading
Discussion 
How do you understand the sentence “Studying abroad cannot guarantee everything, but foreign-educated students have great potential, and at some point their break will come.”

Understanding-sentences
1. Are foreign degrees still worth pursuing?
本句中be worth doing 译为：_______，用_____的形式表达____的含义。
e.g. The newly built museum is worth visiting.

2. Foreign degree was once believed to be a sure path to a well-paid job.
本句中be believed to be...译为：_________。
本句可以理解为：It was once believed that foreign degree was
a sure path to a well -paid job.

3. The number of Chinese studying abroad grew at a slower rate in 2018 compared with 2017, according to a recent report released by the Ministry of Education.
   本句中studying abroad为_________做_______,与所修饰名词_____为____关系。
   本句中released by the Ministry Education为_______做_______,与所修饰名词_____为____关系。

4. In 2018, 662,100 Chinese went abroad to study, up 8.83 percent from a year earlier, while the growth rate was 11,7 percent in 2017.
本句中 while 译为_____,表示_____关系。
eg. I was cooking, while my husband was watching TV.
     I like this, while he likes that.
while 作为______,   还可以译为 ：                                                                                       
eg. While I understand you, I can't agree with you.
   While I was sleeping, somebody knocked at the door.
   While there is life, there is hope.
  
Word Study
1.necessary(adj.)--_______(adv.)
2.guaduate(v.)--_______(n.)
3.employ(v.)--_________(n.) 
                      _____(n.雇主)_____(n.雇员)
4.globe(n.)--_____(adj.)
5.communication(n.)--________(v.)
6.educate(v.)--_______(adj.)
7.growth(n.)--____(v.)

Phrase Study
1.specialize in
2.compared with...
3.living expenses
4.worse still
5.on the contrary
6.have great potential

Homework
If you have to make a decision between studying abroad to pursue foreign degrees and studying in China to pursue traditional degrees, which one will you choose? Why?

2018-2019学年度第38期总第751期
Printing a new heart (P6)
山东省烟台第二中学 赵娜娜

Lead-in
Why are heart transplants difficult?
Few suitable heart donations
The patient’s body often rejects the heart

What is the solution to the problems?
Using the patient’s own cells to make a new heart

3D human heart
The new 3D human heart is complete with cells, blood vessels (血管), chambers (心室) and other parts a heart needs to function normally.

3D printing
3D printing is a family of processes that produces objects by adding material in layers that correspond to successive cross-sections (横截面) of a 3D model. Plastics and metal alloys (合金) are the most commonly used materials for 3D printing, but it can work on nearly anything – from concrete (混凝土) to living tissue.

Reading for main idea
What is the main idea of the article?
Researchers have 3D-printed a heart using a patient's cells, providing hope that the technique could be used to heal hearts or engineer new ones for transplants.

Reading for details
Answer the following questions:
1.What makes the 3D-printed heart special?
(1) Complete functional heart structures.
Unlike the previous 3D-printed heart structure, the new heart is complete with cells, blood vessels, chambers and other parts a heart needs to function normally.
(2)Less risk of organ rejection
The tissue in the heart came from the patients themselves. So ideally, if it were to be placed in the body of someone in need of a transplant, there would be less risk of organ rejection.

2. What needs to be improved about the 3D-printed heart?
For one thing, the experimental heart is only the size of a thumb. And, although it can contract like a muscle, it cannot pump out blood like a real one.

3. What kind of new chapter does the 3D-printed heart open?
(1) Personalized 3D-printed heart
Patients will no longer have to wait for transplants or take medications to prevent the rejection of the heart. Instead, the needed heart will be printed, fully personalized for every patient.
(2) 3D printing probably can create other organs
The scientists foresee a time when the 3D printing of organs will be an everyday medical practice. “Maybe, in 10 years, there will be organ printers in the finest hospitals around the world and these procedures will be conducted routinely,” Dvir said.

Understanding sentences
1.This is the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart.
本句中下划线部分是定语从句，其前省略了引导词that或when，修饰先行词time(在指时间的普通名词后面，在非正式文体中when经常用that来代替或省去)，从句时态多用完成时。

这是我第一次游览这个城市。
This is the first time that I have visited this city.

2.However, the development is still regarded as a major breakthrough in medicine.
 “be regarded as”译为“被看做……”，常见的同义短语还有：take/treat/see/consider/acknowledge…as…
许多穷苦人都把他视为他们的精神领袖。
Many of the poor acknowledged him as their spiritual leader.

3.So ideally, if it were to be placed in the body of someone in need of a transplant, there would be less risk of organ rejection.
此处为虚拟语气的用法，是对将来的虚拟。对将来虚拟时，从句：if+主语+did(were)/ were to do/ should do
主句：主语+would/could/should/might do

如果他明天来这儿的话，我就跟他谈谈。
If he should come here tomorrow, I would talk to him.

Discussion
Can you rewrite the article using the following key words?
3D-printed heart
breakthrough
limitations
implications

Homework
Introduce the 3D-printed heart technology to your classmates in terms of its advantages, limitations and implications for the future.