Drama " Which Star Are You From "

A countryside girl who grew up on a hillside village in Kangwon-do is later found out to be the daughter of a rich family in Kangnam. How lucky! Overnight she has realized every person’s fantasy. But is she really happy? Is she truthfully happy? The goal of this drama is to show how characters that seem like they would never be able to truly communicate with each other start to look at the world from inside the other person’s shoes; the process of how they face difficulties with each other but learn to understand and communicate; the process of how they heal their pain and find themselves. And finally of how they discover in a fun and touching way that everyone in the world, including themselves, can be a hero. Whether you have a lot or not, whether you had a great education or not, whether you’re old or young, whether you have found true love or not...life can still be so lonely and tiring. Becoming an adult means opening yourself to others by finding out that life’s lonely journey isn’t only about you. Those who know this are the ones that can taste the true happiness of love. In the end, everyone’s happiness comes from within their own heart. Our wish is that all people living in this desolate and gray civilization will be able to feel true warmth and happiness spreading through their hearts.

Score Sheet

Test ans6 : results for Leon
You scored 12 out of 16

1 . a : a : 1

2 . c : c : 1

3 . d : d : 1

4 . a : c : 0

5 . b : a : 0

6 . c : c : 1

7 . c : c : 1

8 . c : c : 1

9 . a : a : 1

10 .c : d : 0

11 .b : c : 0

12 .c : c : 1

13 .a : a : 1

14 .d : d : 1

15 .c : c : 1

16 .a : a : 1

Topic:CONFUCIAN CONFUSION

Score Sheet
Test ans3: results for Leon:You scored 15 out of 16Check your score sheet

QuestionAnswer Submit Score
1 a a 1
2 b b 1
3 c c 1
4 b b 1
5 a b 0
6 b b 1
7 b b 1
8 d d 1
9 b b 1
10 b b 1
11 d d 1
12 c c 1
13 c c 1
14 d d 1
15 b b 1
16 b b 1

You missed questions: 5

BIZ TOEIC TEST
Listening Scores: 320
Reading Scores: 190

寫comment: my listening test is better than reading test, because I was not studying hard in grammar.

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Report: Parks shut down drop-tower rides after teen loses feet



Story Highlights• Drop-tower thrill rides shut down at parks across the country, the AP reports• Girl's feet were severed on ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville• Girl, 13, undergoes surgery, park spokeswoman says• Ride drops passengers 154 feet at 54 mph, stopping 20 feet above pavement
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(CNN) -- A teen who lost her feet in an accident at a Kentucky amusement park has undergone surgery, a park spokeswoman said Friday, while two park operators closed similar rides around the country.
The Superman Tower of Power at Louisville's Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom was shut down after Thursday's accident, and Six Flags spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg said Friday the company closed similar rides at parks in St. Louis, Missouri; Gurnee, Illinois; and near Washington, D.C., as a precaution, The Associated Press reported.
There had been no reports of injuries on the ride before Thursday, Goldberg told AP. "Millions of people have safely ridden this ride in our parks," Goldberg said.
Another park operator, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., closed drop rides at Kings Island near Cincinnati, Ohio; Canada's Wonderland in Toronto, Ontario; Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia.; Carowinds, in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Great America in Santa Clara, California, the AP reported.
"We're going to keep these things down until we're certain it's safe," Cedar Fair spokesman Craig Ross told the AP. "We'll wait and see."
Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom spokeswoman Carolyn McLean said she has been in touch with the injured 13-year-old girl's family and believed the girl is still receiving treatment at the University of Louisville Hospital.
Hospital spokeswoman Julie Gordon would not discuss details of the surgery or recovery, citing patient privacy.
The girl's name was not released because she is a minor.
The girl's feet were completely amputated just below the ankle Thursday afternoon while riding the Superman Tower of Power at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville.
Her feet were recovered by Six Flags staff and were sent to the hospital with her, McLean said.
During the Tower of Power ride, passengers are hoisted aloft, suspended momentarily, then pulled down, according to the park's Web site. Passengers -- secured with bars and seat belts but with arms and legs free -- drop 154 feet at 54 mph, stopping "just 20 terrifying feet above the pavement," the Web site says.
A police dispatcher said a cord wrapped around the girl's feet while she was on the ride.
"I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke ... and I heard a lot of people screaming," Chris Stinnett, who was at a ride next to the Tower of Power, told CNN affiliate WDRB/WMYO-TV in Louisville.
"The cable went under the car -- and I seen it pull up and hit a lot of people -- and I seen them bring their legs up," he said. (Watch witnesses describe the accident )
"We are not confirming that happened," McLean said. "There was a lot of misinformation from witnesses."
The ride will remain closed until a full investigation by state officials and "our team of experts" is conducted, McLean said.
The inspectors will interview staff members, witnesses and speak with the girl and her family, she said.
"Every ride, every investigation is different," she said.
The rest of the park was operating as normal on Friday.
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'Teach For America' strives for educational equality

Story Highlights• Program founded in 1989 to be an educational version of the Peace Corps
• Applicants pledge two years as a teacher, but don't have to have education degree
• Many former program members continue to work in education
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(CNN) -- This year, 18,000 of America's top college graduates competed for spots teaching in some of the poorest areas of the United States.

Only one in six will be picked for the Teach For America program, which is trying to bring educational equality to struggling school districts.

"Our country aspires so admirably to be a place of equal opportunity and yet where you are born still in our country does so much to determine your educational prospects," says 39-year-old Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America.

Her immediate goal is to place the nation's top college graduates in 26 of the nation's poorest public school systems. Her secondary goal is to grow by extending it to serve many more communities.

Teach For America recruits people of all academic majors, with widely different career interests, who sign up to teach for two years. After that, most stay in education, and others try to effect changes in educational programs through community leadership, Kopp says.

According to the Teach For America Web site, only half of the 13 million children growing up in poverty graduate from high school.

"What makes it so unconscionable is the knowledge -- and we see this everyday in the communities where we work -- that when kids in rural and urban areas are given the opportunity they deserve, they excel," Kopp tells CNN.

Kopp dreamed up the idea for Teach For America while planning her senior thesis at Princeton in 1989. She tells CNN she was so enthusiastic about her plan she wrote a letter to President Bush calling for him to take her proposal and make the organization the Peace Corps of the 1990s.

But the letter apparently ended up in the wrong White House office.

"I got a job rejection," she says.

That only inspired her to work harder. She found government grants and chased large companies for donations. Initially she was able to place 500 teachers.

In the program's 18 years, more than 14,000 people have joined TFA and about two-thirds are still full-time teachers or involved in education.

Kopp says she is inspired by the number of "alumni" who are taking leadership positions "in the broader effort to expand educational opportunity."

Things have not always been good at Teach For America. In an article in the November 27 issue of Fortune magazine, Kopp described the hard times after the initial seed money ran out. But in 2000, Gap founder Don Fisher gave TFA an $8.3 million grant (contingent on it being matched). Between other heavy hitting investors and more fundraising TFA raised nearly $17 million more, according to the Fortune article.

Also, federal support recently has grown, thanks in part to help from first lady Laura Bush.

Nicole Hallarman, a history major who graduated from Yale, tells CNN she was inspired to join Teach For America after reading Kopp's book, "One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along The Way."

Hallarman says she wants to see test scores improve at the school she will work at in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. She said she plans to continue in education after her two-year commitment is up.

"I want my first-graders to be the best first-graders my school has seen."

1 He refused to comment to the problem.
2What is the reason that Hong Kong's air pollution?
3Can we meet to discuss with the policy changes?
4Graduates should be consider on their career goals.
5They were asked to participate to the interviews.
6Obviously that you need to adapt changing circumstances.
7Applicants who filled with the questionnaire were then chosen randomly.
8This figure could reflect to their dissatisfaction of the lack of training.
9What are the main differences of the US English and the English spoken in the UK?
10Some authorities are now claiming that chocolate may be good to you in moderate quantities.
11The USA made a formal complaint on that country's environmental policy.
12Pay attention to that company's press releases. They may be looking for new employees soon.
13The cleaners demanded for a pay rise because of the recent rise in prices.
14People can use credit cards to pay for goods on the web.
15If on line learning can be developed, it seems to me that education will be more effective than past.
16Education on the internet can save a lot of resources.
17From my point of view, I do not think the government should censor the Internet.
18All Hong Kong people were concerned in the recent economic crisis.
19In some universities more than 2000 students are enrolled in the same course.
19They want to get a job at the earliest possible opportunity.
20This implies that the present situation in Hong Kong does not allow graduates to get their first preference jobs easily.
21Because the economic downturn, students tended to apply for more jobs than last year.
22Concerning the job seeking skills, the findings presented in Table 5 show that one-third of the subjects felt they needed more help in their interview techniques.
2324% of the subjects claimed that they needed help on English speaking skills.
24This figure could reflect their dissatisfaction of the lack of training.