All living things need food to survive. It gives us energy for everything that we do. It also gives the body what it needs to repair muscles, organs and skin. Food helps us fight off dangerous diseases.
It is important to eat a wide range of food in order to stay healthy. Nutrition is the science that deals with food and how the body uses it.
Doctors, psychologists, economists and other experts have recently got together to find out what makes us happy and have come to surprising results.
Hong Kong is not only one of China’s leading economic centers but also a major Asian financial center. It has a strong stock market and its currency is one of the most traded in the world. 90% of the income comes from the service sector. Although Hong Kong has very limited raw materials industry has grown, especially in the New Territories.
Hong Kong is a special region situated on the southeastern coast of China. With a population of over 7 million on an area of 1,000 square kilometers Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. The city consists of four parts. Hong Kong Island is where the British originally set up their trading post. It is the richest part of the city with modern skyscrapers and shopping malls. Kowloon Peninsula is part of the Asian mainland with a mix of apartment buildings, shopping malls and street markets. The New Territories is the countryside to the north of Kowloon that the British took over from China in 1898. There are also over 200 islands around Hong Kong.
文／周強
（中央社記者陳至中台北12日電）
一項調查顯示，3成台灣大專英語系所，畢業時只要求學生達到CEFR B1，相當於高中畢業生程度。
hand是「手」，這是一個再簡單不過的字彙，但是它有一些在國際職場裡的延伸用法，值得一學。
hand既是手，要幫助別人就必須要伸出手來給予協助，所以hand又可以指「幫助」，
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二○一二年亞洲地區多益的閱讀平均分數為兩百五十五，聽力為三○九分，總分是五百六十四；台灣的閱讀平均分數為兩百四十四，聽力為兩百九十五，總分是五百卅九，都在平均分數以下。
「台灣人國際觀不足，因此國際教育應從小培養起，特別是在中小學求學階段。」及人中學校長洪騰祥說到。
為了讓學生不必額外負擔學習「國際議題」的壓力，洪校長主張，應將國際教育融入現有學校課程方式推動，舉例來說，日常生活中隨手關燈的環保觀念便能導入國際教育課程；洪校長也認為，在國際教育當中，跨領域、跨文化等都是很重要的議題，因此應該將這些議題融入各科課程教學或活動，特別是從培養學生具有良好生活習慣開始，進而產生其對國際相關議題的同理心，這是國際化人才必須具備的條件之一。
語言訓練測驗中心研發的「全民英檢」（GEPT），開辦15年來已超過600萬人次報考，且已有日本早稻田等近80所國外大學當成申請攻讀學位或交換生的英語能力門檻測驗。
語言訓練測驗中心研發長吳若蕙說，全民英檢每年約50萬人次報考，是目前國內最多人報考的英檢。明年繼中高級之後，增辦「中級一日考」，考生一天內就可考完聽、讀、說、寫4項測驗，考後6到7周可取得成績報告。
電話響了，人在國外的你，是否會心頭一驚，害怕聽到對方一連串霹靂啪啦的英文而無法完美應對。小編今天要讓大家認識從電話鈴聲響起到電話掛上的學問，讓你下次能玩美接招、應對如流！
一、basic telephone vocabulary 基礎電話相關詞彙
