1-4 questions from inspiring story 1. According to the story, what is happened in the year 1965: A. Their neighbours went to Florida B. He bought water front property on Okaloosa Island C. Their mother died in a car accident D. He went sprouting and pruning the yard E. They want to get a holiday 2. What does Linda inherit from his dad ? A.His calming comfort B.His leadership skills C.His feel-good attitude D.His strength in life E.His politeness 3.What is the kind of business did they run? A. Restaurant B. Cafe C. Bank D. Discotheque E. Resort 4. What does the character I inherit from dad ? A.His calming comfort B.His leadership skills C.His feel-good attitude D.His strength in life E.His politeness 5-10 questions from natural phenomenons 5. What is a ball lightning ? A. A rare occurring phenomenon of ball-shaped lightning B. A common occurring phenomenon of ball-shaped lightning C. An artificial phenomenon from electrical disfunction D. A fire from lightning E. An ordinary lightning 6. What did Jianyong Cen, Ping Yuan, and Simin Xue did ? A. Making a ball lighting B. Measuring the properties of ball lighting C. Make a video about ball lighting D. Work in a laboratory for ball lightning E. Create a ball lightning 7.What does a ball lightning actually contain ? A. The same chemical elements as soil B. A very strong lightning bolt C. A fire after a lightning strikes D. Melted Gold, Silver, and Platinum E. A gust of wind. 8. What they do to measure the ball lightning ? A. Special laser B. Ghost Camera C. Ordinary Camera D. Slow-speed camera E. Spectrograph 9. Why they still can't measure it accurately ? A. The time is not enough B. The place is dangerous C. Their equipments is not sophisticated enough D. The data was damaged E. There is some nuisance 10. What is the hypothesis that maybe true about ball lightnings ? A. A very strong lightning B. Hallucination C. Burned air D. Molten/vaporized silicon spheres E. Hot air
“How’s the yard look?” He’d say his eyes shining with pride. I could tell he was anxiously awaiting my verdict. “Wonderful” I’d reply after I gave it a thorough inspection. I would recite all the changes I had found and he would smile contently. Every year at the first sign of spring my dad would begin spending countless hours sprouting and pruning his yard so that when were able to make our first pilgrimage home his yard would be bursting with color. In 1972, he bought water front property on Okaloosa Island and worked diligently to turn it into our Vacation Oasis. His landscape boasted tall weeping willows, flowering shrubs and Italian Cypress trees. We live here in Greenville and went home frequently, always bringing with us vehicles full of friends and family. While our guests were lounging around the in-ground pool, sun bathing, and generally enjoying their Florida vacation, you would always find us sawing at a tree limb, painting his house, or finishing his new hot project. We laughed and called it our “working vacation”. It became a joke amongst us that we would need a vacation after returning from this one. Our fellow workers were envious of the tans we sported when we returned to work picturing us lounging by the pool and drinking margaritas, if only they knew we were actually hanging 20 feet in the air while trying to saw berry branches out of palm trees. In 1965 our mother was killed in a car accident leaving our father at the age of 35, alone to raise 3 young daughters Linda, Angie, and me. Life wasn’t always easy being raised by a man, but from him we learned respect, independence and loyalty. He influenced each of us in different ways. Linda inherited his leadership skills. Angie inherited his calming comfort allowing her the inept ability to make people feel comfortable and accepted. I inherited his strength which enabled me to survive and conquer major milestones in my life. We all have his smile, his pride and his belief that life is good. It devastated us when we got the news he was terminal. We made sure he didn’t see any of us collapse. Later that day my dad and I walked to his dock, it was a warm sunny June day and we sat. I waited quietly to hear his take on the news. I desperately needed a lifeline. He started with “well, I set out in life to leave you girls some land and money and I have, so life is good, my work is done.” I waited for more, maybe some anger, maybe a sign of fear of the inevitable. But there was nothing else in fact he seemed content with his sentence. So we sat in peaceful silence and watched the sunset. It’s been 7 years and it has taken some major adjusting. But he is right….Life is Good.
My name is Khrisna Prasadya from the first
science in the second grade. As a third candidate of the student’s council
president here I want to tell you about my vision, mission, and ideas to figure
out.
As you know that the student council is one
of the official school organization alongside the school parliament and
extracurricular groups, The student council organization definitely needs a new
leader to lead the school to be better both internally and externally.
These organizations provide every student a
leadership experience throughout the school. There are so many extracurricular
groups in this school, but I see some of them are dying. There is nobody who
wants to join it. If I am chosen to be the president, I will activate and
preserve that dying extracurricular group so that group can survive.
My vision is to make all students to be
united as one, as a big family, an unbreakable chain of SMA Negeri 3 Bandung. I
see that our student have not unified yet. We knew that unity makes us
stronger. Not always stronger but also smarter. This can make the student’s
score even better. I’m not talking about cheating, but by doing something good
together like studying together, sharing together, praying together, we will
get more achievements than before. I bet that the school environment will
become better also.
Well I think to unite our students. We should
participate every student in an event. An event that is from student, for
student, and to student. These are one of my programs if I am chosen to be the
president.
My mission is to unite both the students and
the teachers into one big goal. That is smarter with religious-based character
attitude.
But dream without consistency is useless. I
shall work in a consistent manner.
Here I need your support, suggestions, and
critics. These can make us even better.
If I am chosen to be the president, I will
deliver my best to make this school better than before.
Together, we are smarter, better, and
stronger. We live and see through the student’s eyes. Thank you for your
attention.
My name is Khrisna Prasadya from the first
science in the second grade. As a third candidate of the student’s council
president here I want to tell you about my vision, mission, and ideas to figure
out.
As you know that the student council is one
of the official school organization alongside the school parliament and
extracurricular groups, The student council organization definitely needs a new
leader to lead the school to be better both internally and externally.
These organizations provide every student a
leadership experience throughout the school. There are so many extracurricular
groups in this school, but I see some of them are dying. There is nobody who
wants to join it. If I am chosen to be the president, I will activate and
preserve that dying extracurricular group so that group can survive.
My vision is to make all students to be
united as one, as a big family, an unbreakable chain of SMA Negeri 3 Bandung. I
see that our student have not unified yet. We knew that unity makes us
stronger. Not always stronger but also smarter. This can make the student’s
score even better. I’m not talking about cheating, but by doing something good
together like studying together, sharing together, praying together, we will
get more achievements than before. I bet that the school environment will
become better also.
Well I think to unite our students. We should
participate every student in an event. An event that is from student, for
student, and to student. These are one of my programs if I am chosen to be the
president.
My mission is to unite both the students and
the teachers into one big goal. That is smarter with religious-based character
attitude.
But dream without consistency is useless. I
shall work in a consistent manner.
Here I need your support, suggestions, and
critics. These can make us even better.
If I am chosen to be the president, I will
deliver my best to make this school better than before.
Together, we are smarter, better, and
stronger. We live and see through the student’s eyes. Thank you for your
attention.
Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term ball lightning refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical objects with diameters varying from pea-sized to several meters. It is usually associated with thunderstorms, but lasts considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt. Many early reports say that the ball eventually explodes, sometimes with fatal consequences, leaving behind the odor of sulfur. Many scientific hypotheses about ball lightning have been proposed over the centuries. In January 2014, spectrography data that was captured by chance (discussed below) lent support to the vaporized silicon hypothesis.
Ball lightning is an odd phenomenon. The few, fortunate people who have seen an incident describe the lightning as a roughly spherical glowing object that travels horizontally for a few seconds before vanishing. However, while several experiments have reproduced something resembling the phenomenon, the physical mechanism behind ball lightning is somewhat mysterious.
Now, a team of researchers serendipitously observed ball lightning at a time when they had the right equipment to study it. Jianyong Cen, Ping Yuan, and Simin Xue were in the field measuring the properties of ordinary lightning when they happened to catch ball lightning with both their high-speed cameras and their spectrographs. They found the chemical composition of the event matched that of soil. That strongly supports the hypothesis (proposed nearly fifteen years ago) that ball lightning is basically a dirt clod dislodged and heated to incandescence by a cloud-to-ground lightning strike.
High-speed video footage of ball lightning with its measured spectrum.
Ordinary lightning occurs due to the ionization and dissociation of molecules in the air (a process with the awesome name "dielectric breakdown"), which occurs during a static electric discharge between clouds and the ground. Ball lightning is much rarer, to the point where some have even postulated it's actually a hallucination rather than a real weather phenomenon. As the name suggests, it appears as a spherical or spheroidal ball of light, between one centimeter and one meter in size, and variously colored as purple, green, white, or orange.
Just like normal lightning, ball lightning seems to occur primarily during thunderstorms. These events persist a few seconds, and the spheres travel horizontally close to ground level.
That information primarily comes from eyewitness accounts; ball lightning is rare enough that no scientists have ever observed it in the field while they had equipment to measure its properties. At least not until the summer of 2012, when the authors of the new paper were out on the Qinghai Plateau in China during a thunderstorm, taking spectral readings of ordinary cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
Just a few minutes before midnight, the researchers' digital video cameras picked up a ball lightning event, evidently originating from the location of a lightning strike. By estimating the distance to the strike (including the method many of us learned as children: counting the time between the flash of light and the sound of thunder), they determined the sphere was as much as 8 meters in diameter at its greatest size. They also estimated its speed to be about 8.6 meters per second (19 miles per hour). The whole event lasted roughly 1.12 seconds.
At its origin, the ball was a bright white-violet in color, but then it faded to orange and then red before vanishing. Analyzing the spectrum, the researchers identified silicon, iron, and calcium—three of the major chemical components in soil. (Aluminum is another common element in soil, but the authors pointed out that their cameras weren't able to spot the appropriate wavelengths to identify it.) Unfortunately, their equipment was insufficiently sophisticated to measure the ball lightning's temperature, but based on the incandescent properties, it was likely between 15,000 and 30,000° C.
The chemical signature of soil particles in the ball lightning lends strong support to an idea proposed by J. Abrahamson and J. Dinniss in 2000. They noted that silicon compounds, when heated to extreme temperatures, ejected fireballs not unlike ball lightning. K. D. Stephan and N. Massey reported that they could reproduce at least some of the reported properties of ball lightning by producing molten silicon spheres.
Given the physical picture from the Qinghai observation and the experiments, the hypothesis seems plausible. A cloud-to-ground lightning strike heats a spot on the ground to high temperature, ejecting a bunch of hot particles from the soil, which glow in the characteristic way. These spheres cool and dissipate over a period of a few seconds, all while moving quickly across the ground. While this picture may not be true for all ball lightning, it's the first plausible and coherent explanation for a weird, rare phenomenon.
Gerunds
1. Mary keeps talking about her problems.
2. I prefer using silver instead of gold.
3. Suzanne tried cooking his husband's favorite food.
4. I enjoy listening to the music
5. Angkasa Pura II went changing on the corporate's logo.
6. Youtube denied breaking the copyright rule.
7. British Aerospace choose merging with Marconi Electronic Systems instead.
8. We enjoyed walking down the streets.
9. My father recommend riding the camels when in the desert.
10. The mass continued rioting even when the police had shot them.
Infinitive
1. I love to see the Westinghouse Sign in New York.
2. Thomson is going to France to make a new subsidiary company.
3. She would like to go to the cinema with you.
4. Technicolor is going to phase out its cinema business.
5. Leslie Moonves likes to work in CBS.
6. I decide to eat in that restaurant.
7. McDonnell Douglas are going to merge with Boeing.
8. Viacom is going to split into 2 new companies.
9. Do you like to study history?
10. I just love to listen to the music.
1. a If I find her address, I'll send her an invitation. b If I found her address, I'd send her an invitation. c If I had found her address, I would have sent her an invitation. 2. a If I have enough money, I'll buy Viacom, Inc. b If I had enough money, I'd buy Viacom, Inc. c If I had had enough money, I would have bought Viacom, Inc. 3. a You'll be what you want if you study hard. b You would be what you want if you studied hard. c You would have been what you want if you had studied hard. 4. a They will lose the war if that weapon is destroyed. b They would lose the war if that weapon was destroyed c They would have been lost the war if that weapon had been destroyed. 5. a Britney will sing here if you pay her a lot of money. b Britney would sing here if you paid her a lot of money. c Britney would have sang here if you had paid her a lot of money. 6. a Bu Ima will be satisfied if you do the task well. b Bu Ima would be satisfied if you did the task well c Bu Ima would have been satisfied if you had done the task well. 7. a You will be fine if you forgive her.
b You would be fine if you forgave her.
c You would have been fine if you had forgiven her. 8. aIf i am a rich man, I will buy a big house b If i was a rich man, i would buy a big housec If i had been a rich man, I would have bought a big house 9. a If Enron finds the new oil rig, then it will be the largest oil company in the region. b If Enron found the new oil rig, then it would be the largest oil company in the region. c If Enron had found the new oil rig, then it would have been largest oil company in the region. 10. a Microsoft and Nokia will merge, if Nokia lose much profit. b Microsoft and Nokia would merge, if Nokia lose much profit. c Microsoft and Nokia would have merged, if Nokia had lost much profit.
