Junior-High School Supplement

2016 Vol. 22
PUBLISHER : LUIS KO
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The 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS /

U.S. Presidential Election

The 58th U.S. presidential presidential ticket and have
election was held to honor their promises.
on November 8, 2016. The Electoral College
Democratic presidential is a group of electors that
nominee Hillary Clinton and elects the president and
Republican Donald Trump the vice president of the Keywords
were running for president. United States. The number
election candidate primary
The result came as a surprise of electors each state gets [lkn] [knddet] [pramr]
to many: Trump is elected is determined by how many n. n. adj.
President of the United members of Congress
States. (House and Senate) the state
nominate popular electoral
It is a long road to has. There are a total of [nmnet] [ppjl] [lktrl]
the White House. Each 538 electors. The candidate v. adj. adj.

candidate has to go winning the majority of at

through three stages from the
partys presidential primary
election, nominating
convention, to the election
day.
It is noteworthy that the
election can be divided into
a popular vote and an
electoral vote.
For the popular vote,
as voters head to the polls
on Tuesday, they will not
vote for the presidential
candidates directly; instead,
they vote to elect a slate of
electors, who are pledged
to vote for a particular
least 270 electoral votes
wins.
The winner of the
presidential election will be
announced on January 6 next
year. The elected President
and Vice President will be
sworn in on January 20.
Winning popular vote
doesnt mean winning race
In the presidential election
of 2000, Democrat Al
Gore won 48.38 percent of
the popular vote and 266
electoral votes, losing the
presidency to Republican
pledge swear
[pld] [swr]
n. v.
George W. Bush, who
garnered 47.87 percent of
the popular vote and 271
electoral votes.
History repeats itself. In
the election of 2016, Trump
led Clinton 279 to 218, thus
topping the 270 needed
for said majority. Many
media reported that Hillary
garnered more popular votes
than Trump.
constitution
[knsttjun]
n.
Electoral system
According to the United
States Constitution,
the President is indirectly
elected by voters through
the Electoral College. The
voting system was designed
with consideration of the
countrys unique geographic
and historical context in
ensuring impartiality and
efficiency.
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 Culture Vol. 22 2016 3

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature

goes to U.S. singer Bob Dylan
The 2016 Nobel Prize for
Literature has been awarded
to 75-year-old U.S. singer
Bob Dylan, who has become
the first musician to receive
this award. The motivation
for his win is for having
created new poetic
expressions within the great
American song tradition.
Bob Dylan was born
in 1941 in the U.S. state
of Minnesota under the
name of Robert Allen
Zimmerman. He began
his music career in 1959
with a coffee shop in
Minnesota as his first music
stage. The restless and
changing 1960s in the
U.S. provided Bob Dylan
with the inspiration for his
creations, with his most
appealing works sprouting
from that era.
Songs like Blowin in
the Wind and The Times
They Are a-Changin
precisely caught the spirit of
rebellion, dissidence and
independence of that era,
becoming anthems of the
anti-war and human rights
movements.
His creative style stood
apart from major trends
and his brave inclusion of
electric elements amounted
to a type of deviance
from the music scene of the
time. The facts have shown
that his rebelliousness
influenced the global music
world, leading him to be
included by Time Magazine
as one of its 100 most
influential people of the 20th
century.
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restless creation rebellion independence deviance

Keywords
[rstls] [kren] [rbljn] [ndpndns] [divns]

adj. n. n. n. n.

2016

The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the prizes
2016 awarded by the Swedish Academy. Each year it
75 rewards the person who creates in the field of
literature the most outstanding work in an ideal

direction. It was awarded for the first time in 1901.

Each laureate receives a medal, a diploma and a

considerable amount of money. Each year, the awards

ceremony takes place in Stockholm on December 10.
1941
Until and including 2016, 113 people have already


received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1959

There were four years when two people won the
prize simultaneously.

60 Two Chinese-language authors won the prize, Gao

Xingjian (France) in 2000 and Mo Yan (China) in
20
2012.

1901

12 10

2016 113

2000

2012

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 4 Vol. 22 2016 Leisure Activity

In recent years, a new a set duration of time in

game has become popular in
Taiwan: escape game.
Its earliest origin lies in a
computer riddle. Its main
plot concerns a gamer
order to leave the locked
room.
The small-scale game can
be played by a maximum of
up to 10 players, while on

The challenge of stuck inside a locked room,

with the player having to
a large scale it can involve
more than 100 people! The

escape game find key objects and use

them the right way before he
can successfully escape.
whole process takes about
90 minutes, and the fee
ranges from about NT$400
The real-life escape game to NT$800, depending on
is a game with the element the scale and degree of
of real objects on the basis complexity of the game.
of the computer game. The Apart from logical
real-life version constructs thinking, the powers of
a realistic scene (such as a observation and the ability
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scene from ancient history, to integrate information,
overseas scenery, a surreal the most important factor is
space, etc.) within a specific cooperation within the team,
escape riddle Keywords
[skep] [rdL] space, provides the player isnt that really interesting?
with different tasks and Come and join the escape
n. n.
stories, and asks the player game!
concern surreal duration
[knsn] [sril] [djren] to complete a task within
v. adj. n.

90
400~800

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 Travel Vol. 22 2016 5

13-Layer Remains in Shuinandong

Shuinandong is situated under the Taiwan Copper

o rds upon both banks of the Mining Company until its
Keyw
Jiufen Creek where it flows final closure in 1985.
dresser resume closure into the sea. Residents The 13 layers were
[drs] [rzjum] [klo] moved in at the beginning built on top of each other
n. v. n.
of the Japanese colonial era according to the shape of
smelt refine flue heritage after the copper dresser the mountain, and at the
[smlt] [rfan] [flu] [hrtd] had been set up. It is in the time, miners and residents
v. v. n. n. area covered by the present- were used to calling it the
day neighborhoods of 18 layers. The early period
Lianxin and Liandong. of copper production saw
The name of the four stages, namely mining,
Shuinandong comes from dressing, smelting and
the cave eroded by the sea refining. The remains of
next to the large rock where the 13 layers were the largest
the copper dresser was built. site for dressing in the
The creek flows from the top Jinguashi area. Over recent

of the hill next to the cave, years, several music videos

creating a flooded area or were shot in the area.
MV
nanzaidi near the cave, The dressing and washing
which thus earned the name equipment from the early
of Shuinan Cave. Japanese era was removed

The remains of the a long time ago, but some

Shuinandong copper dresser, installations such as the

known popularly as the foundation bed for the
2008 13 layers (even though, in dressing, the factory for

reality, it counts 18 layers), the metal waste, and a flue

is located on the coastal road stretching over several
above Liandong Bay. The kilometers next to the
1985 smelter was set up during the remains which has been
Japanese era to process the mentioned as the longest flue
copper ore extracted in the in the world.
area. In 2008, the New Taipei
It was destroyed by United City Government named
States bombardments during it as cultural landscape
the Second World War, but heritage, and it has already
after the war, it was rebuilt become an important tourist
and resumed production site in Northern Taiwan.

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 6 Vol. 22 2016 Environment

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Living Planet Report: global wildlife

population to be reduced two thirds by 2020
The latest edition of World
Wildlife Funds (WWF) Living
Planet Report indicates that
global populations of fish,
birds, mammals, amphibians
and reptiles declined by 58
percent between 1970 and 2012.
Among them, freshwater species
populations have suffered a
whopping 81 percent decline
on average, twice the size of
terrestrial and marine species.
The report says that the world is
going to lose two thirds of global
wildlife population by 2020 if no
changes are made.
The report indicates that a
sharp decrease in organisms can
demand from humans outpaces
what the nature can supply
by more than 50 percent, and
environmental degradation
continues at a pace faster than its
recovery.
As our climate changes,
various animals will need to
adapt to survive. Changes in
temperature can mix up signals
that trigger events like migration
and reproduction to happen at the
wrong time.
Besides, habitat loss and
degradation are the most common
threat to animals on the decline.
Everything from unsustainable
agriculture to residential or ASSOCIATED PRESS /

be mainly attributed to habitat commercial development to

loss, overfishing and overhunting, energy production can damage

and climate changes, and nearly vital areas for wildlife.

all of them are manmade. The

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WWF

2016 1970 50%

2012
Keywords

58%
amphibian reptile whopping
81% [mfbn] [rptal] [wp]
n. n. adj.
2020
terrestrial outpace degradation

[trstrl] [atpes] [dgrden]
adj. v. n.

n.

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 Movie Vol. 22 2016 7

Assassins Creed emerges on the big screen

The outstanding Assassins Creed looking for a special artifact.
action adventure game series is about to present After Lynch has relived Aguilars past, he
a live-action movie version to appear on the undergoes the influence of his beliefs, and decides to
big screen, authorized by Ubisoft and use the knowledge and skills he acquired to
produced by 20th Century Fox. The resist the contemporary Knights Templar,
movie interprets a completely new inciting a rebellion.
story independent from the existing The exciting actions of the actors
series of games. It recreates the beautifully express the necessary
life of 15th-century Spanish assassin excitement and agility of the assassin.
Aguilar. No matter whether the signature
After criminal Callum Lynch parkour climbing over walls or
believes he has been executed for the use of the sharp dresser
murder, he wakes up and finds classical weapons, you can say it is
himself still alive as the guinea indistinguishable from the image
pig in a crazy plan. of the assassin in the gamers
As a result, Callum Lynch mind, and its sense of realism
returns to the 15th century to exceeds the images of the games.
relive the memories of an The simultaneous birds
ancestor, and discovers how eye view from the game is also
this ancestor, Aguilar, was pictured as eagle vision, and
an assassin. On the one hand, the leap of faith jump as the
he fights the Knights Templar finishing touch to the trailer is
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and on the other hand he goes certain to enthuse gamers!

Keywords

assassin guinea pig

[ssn] [gn pg]
n. n.

creed incite
[krid] [nsat]
n. v.

interpret agility
[ntprt] [dlt]
v. n.

recreate indistinguishable
[rikriet] [ndstgwbL]
v. adj.

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