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【科學新知】情境範文：現代通訊

        1These days, email, which is short for electronic mail, is a huge part of our everyday lives. 2But it may surprise you to know that the history of email goes back a lot further than the great Internet boom of the early to mid nineties. 3Electronic mail actually predates the Internet itself, and in part inspired how the Internet was created.

        4People first began to send electronic mail way back in 1965. 5Back then, email systems required that multiple users log in to the same host computer at the same time. 6Only then could they send information back and forth. 7This system has certainly come a long way since those early days.

今年暑假帶學生德國進行姊妹校交流時，自己也進去他們的課室做觀察。我看的那堂是生物課，老師一上課便要求學生全體起立，確立每個學生安靜，重整心態後，便以眼神點頭示意，然後每個學生說: "OO老師早安，"然後大家坐下準備上課。

接著(生物)老師發下一張小圖，上面有花的圖案，裡面標註了A,B,C,D和a,b,c,d要同學辨認花的部位名稱，如花蕊，花托等名詞。

此時，學生開始抄寫筆記，把老師寫在黑板上的東西，一一抄寫下來。如有問題便舉手發問。老師沒點到你的名字，就不可以自己發問。

期間，我發現每個(我看到的)小孩都很認真地抄筆記，所以帶下課時，我跟同校的一名隨行老師借了他們的筆記，把之前她們抄寫的筆記一一拍照下來，因為抄得太精美了。

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【歷史與考古人類學】情境範文：聘金(dowry)的習俗

    1Ever since the suffrage movement of the early 20th century, women around the world have striven to gain equal footing with men. 2By and large, they have succeeded in many areas, challenging the traditional role of a woman as a homemaker, and seeing their salaries rise to be almost on par with those of their male counterparts. 3But practices that some see as being archaic relics, such as paying a bride price, still exist. 4According to this custom, the groom must give a certain amount of money or property to the parents of the bride in order to be granted permission to marry her. 5Though this practice has its supporters, some women’s rights groups contend that it reduces women to the level of mere property to be bought and sold. (130)

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【科學新知】情境範文：動物的行為

    1Insects may be small, but they have brains just like you and I. 2__1__ 3Studies have shown that they have the ability to form a mental map, which allows them to remember where the best sources of food are located. 4Back in 1983, researcher James Gould undertook an experiment in which he placed a source of sugar water near a beehive, and then moved it 25 percent farther away from the hive each day, before ultimately placing it in a boat in the middle of a small lake. 5Each day, scout bees found the source, and reported back to the hive to lead other bees to the new location. 6__2__ 7This suggests that bees have the ability to figure out that it should be impossible to find their source of food in such an unusual place.

(A) Take honeybees, for example.

給讀者的話

    具備基本寫作觀念，還需要真正下筆去練習，才能達到效果。這本《大考英文作文搶分秘笈》提供正在尋找英文寫作素材的考生各種練習的機會，或是提供老師教學的材料。

        本書根據歷年的作文題型及大考英文寫作的趨勢，提供了23篇寫作題目，其中涵括考試常出現的記敘文、描寫文、書信文、及照片寫作等文體，給予考生寫作練習的機會及準備考試的方向。此外，針對看到題目卻不知如何起筆的學生，本書也提供了寫作技巧的指引，如5W+1H的腦力激盪思辨、文章脈絡的框架以及文章一貫性與連續性的導引等，讓學生可以在最短的時間內，鋪陳寫作思路，進而下筆寫作。

請大家支持這本新書喔。

很適合大專院校或職場的寫作需求，先來看看陳超明教授寫的序吧。

《一生必學的英文寫作》 前言：培養英文寫作力

上次猜了指考和學測的作文題目，命中率非常高。

當然，如果可以百發百中，我就可以去擺攤算命了。

這次針對100年指考英文作文題目我猜了三個題目，有興趣的同學可以寫寫看。

如果要批改的話，就有勞各位同學的英文老師囉。

這篇文章是之前本來要刊登在聯合報上的專欄，不過之後又先暫停這個計畫了。

快到指考了，寫作總是一個很難的部份，尤其動詞是大家最容易犯的錯誤。

參考看看囉。