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Scientists working on a problem do not always know what the final result will be. Professor Rontgen was a physicist at the University of Wurzburg. Late on Friday, 8th November 1895, he was doing an experiment when he noticed something extraordinary. He had covered an electric bulb with black cardboard, and when he switched on the current, he saw little dancing lights on his table. On the table there were some pieces of paper which have been covered with metal salts. It was on this paper that the lights were shining. He took a piece of this paper and held it at a distance from the lamp. Between it and the lamp he placed a variety of object, a book, a pack of cards, a piece of wood and a door key. The ray penetrated every one of them, except the key. This mysterious ray could shine through everything except the metal. He asked his wife to hold her hand between the lamp a photographic plate. She was very surprised by this request, but she readily held up her hand, and when the plate developed there was a picture of the bones of her hand and of the ring on one finger. The ray could pass through the flesh and through the bone or the ring.
At a scientific meeting where he described what happened, Professor Rontgen called this ray “The Unknown”, the X-ray. Doctors quickly saw how this could be used, and soon there were X-ray machines in all the big hospitals. At first, this discovery was to enable doctors and surgeons to see exactly how a bone was fractured. Other uses came later.

The United States has often been called “a nation of immigrants”. There are two good reasons for this. First, the country was settled, built, and developed by generations of immigrants and their children. Secondly, even today America continues to take in more immigrants than any other country in the world. Nonetheless, it would be very misleading to view America simply as a collection of different immigrant groups and ethnic and religious loyalties. In fact, 94 per cent of Americans today were born in the United States. As a result, those tens of millions of Americans who proudly acknowledge their ethnic roots are still “more American” than they are Irish, Italian or Puerto Rican. What they have in common is more significant than what makes them, as Americans, different from one another.

What do Americans value?

Because America is a society which values competition so highly, success is very important, not only because of material rewards, but also because of recognition of some sort. Achievement, not class is the standard by which men are judged. They like everything that is big and old. The erect big buildings and buy old things: houses, paintings, etc.

What do Americans spend their time on?

First of all, Americans spend a lot of time at work and commuting to work. They spend more time and money in reading paper, magazines and books, traveling, going to movies or watching TV than any other people on the world. They don’t walk a lot but keep fit by participating in sports. They also watch or attend sports events.
They are always in a hurry, yet they spend a lot of time relaxing. The American way of life includes large amounts of time spent driving children around: to school, sports events, etc.

Constable was one of the greatest landscape painters and one of the very few English artists who have had an important influence on European painting. He was born at East Berholt, in Sufflock, and was the son of a well – to – do miller. His father disapproved of painting as a profession and Constable as a boy worked almost secretly. Since he was tired of arguing, he agreed to work in his father’s mill for a year. But his love of painting was so great that a friend persuaded his father to send him to London to study. In 1799. he entered the Royal Academy School in London and began to work as a painter. Henceforward he lived in London. At first he tried to make his living by painting portraits, but he had little success in this. Later he turned to painting landscapes.
Constable despised the conventions of landscape painting of his day. His disliked the fashion of painting in golden brown colours in imitation of the old masters. He saw the lovely greens in nature and painted them as he saw them. He put into his landscapes the cattle, horses and people who would be working there, and the dew, the moisture, the bloom and freshness of the countryside. “His landscapes made me call for my umbrella,” said another artist.
In 1824. several of his important pictures, including “The Hay Wain”, were exhibited at the Louvre and they had an immediate and lasting effect on French painting. In England Constable never received the recognition he deserved. Most of his paintings and studies were in his possession, unsold, when he died, through 50 years later they were recognized as great national treasures.

----#1<전념하다> ------
be devoted 《to》[absorbed 《in》]; devote oneself 《to》;
be intent 《on》; concentrate 《on》; devote one's mind 《to》; attend 《to》; apply oneself 《to》.

그녀는 육아에 전념하고 있다
She devotes herself to (the care of) her children.

그는 태권도에 전념하여 고단으로 올라갔다
He devoted himself to Taekwondo and advanced to a high rank.

예도에 전념하다devote oneself to the cultivation[pursuit] of one's art.

그는 암의 원인 연구에 전념했다
He devoted all his energies to[threw himself completely into] research into the causes of cancer.

일에 전념하다concentrate on one's work.

그는 공부에 전념했다He applied his mind to study.

상사들은 밀의 매입에 전념하였다The firms went all out to buy in wheat.

그는 평생을 인도에서 전도에 전념했다
He devoted[dedicated] his life to missionary work in India.

그는 오로지 학문에 전념했다He devoted himself solely to[was intent on] learning.

차분히 연구에 전념하다settle down to one's research.

--#2<짐작하다 >-------------------
guess; presume; conjecture; infer; surmise; estimate;
[판단하다] judge; gather.

짐작하신 대로입니다
You have guessed right.／It is just as you have imagined
[문어 surmised／conjectured].발음 듣기나는 그들의 생각을 짐작 못하겠다

I cannot guess what they are thinking.-
그의 얼굴을 보고 나는 모든 것을 짐작했다

I read the whole story in his face.
겉으로 보아 나이 스물은 될 것으로 짐작했다

From his appearance I guessed his age at 20.
그가 얼마나 기뻐했을까는 짐작하고도 남는다

It can easily be imagined how glad he was.
그녀의 실종의 원인에 대해서 짐작되는 바가 있다[없다]

I have an[don't have any] idea why she disappeared.
그게 뭔지 전혀 짐작할 수가 없다

--#3<오솔길>---------------------------------
a (narrow) path; a (lonely) lane; a trail.

숲속의 오솔길 a path through a forest.

산중의 오솔길 a narrow mountain path./a path through a forest.

The narrow path was covered with (a thick layer of) dead leaves.

그늘진 오솔길a shady lane.

Fishing, hiking, bird watching, and trail riding are examples of soft adventure.
물고기 잡기, 하이킹, 새 관찰하기,

The trail is covered with fallen leaves.
오솔길이 낙엽으로 뒤덮여 있다.

They found a nice path.
그들은 멋진 오솔길 하나를 발견했다.

If you walk on natural paths of dirt and rock, you may want more rugged shoes.
당신이 진흙과 바위가 있는 자연 그대로의 오솔길을 걷는다면, 더욱 튼튼한 신발을 원하게 될 것이다.

The camp comprises twenty acres of beautiful land, including a creek, pond, and nature path.
캠프는 20에이커의 아름다운 부지로 구성되어 있는데, 시냇물과 연못, 자연 오솔길 등이 있습니다.
May 20th 2012 22:52 bangbang

-#4<at noon >예문--------------------------
I left Nagano at noon and was back here at eight.
나는 나가노를 점심에 나서서 8시에 여기에 돌아왔어요.

I'll be there at noon. Does it work for you?
정오에 거기로 갈게. 괜찮겠어?

Would you like to go to lunch at noon with us?
12시에 같이 점심 먹으러 갈래요?

If we leave at noon, how long will it take to drive to Seattle?
우리 점심에 출발하면 시애틀까지 차로 어느 정도 걸리나요?

In summer, the sun is almost directly above us at noon time.
여름 정오에 태양은 거의 우리 바로 위에 있다.

Tune in at noon for a roundup of the day's news.
정오에 방송되는 오늘의 종합 뉴스에 많은 시청 바랍니다.

The door will be opened at noon.
문은 정오에 열릴 것이다.

It restarts tomorrow at noon.
내일 정오에 다시 시작해요.

You should have it by Monday at noon.
월요일 정오까지 받으실 수 있을 거예요.

Check out time is at noon.
체크아웃 시간은 12시 입니다.

"Where did you get it from?"

"I got it from Walmart."

Hi,everyone?Today`s weather felt like weather we would have during the early summer.

It`s looked like early summer weather, and it was a good feeling when the sunshine was shining on the nape of my neck.

This evening,I will talk about a small path and a rabbit that I came across there.

But first,please look at that rabbit in my pictures. It`s the rabbit that I came across on a path yesterday. May be some of you can already can guess through these pictures, that the rabbit isn't very afraid of people.

While I took pictures with my phone,it?/he?/she?/ didn`t mind about me at all, and just settled down to eat delicious grass. After heartily finishing its meal , it lay down without moving and just looked at me.

Haha,it enjoyed the fact that I was taking pictures of it.

■Actually, it started out like this. One of teachers called me and we had lunch together at noon yesterday . Then after I took her to her apartment, which is located just front of a small mountain located in front of a small mountain.

That area is also well suited to walking along that small mountain path at one's pleasure.

In the front of the apartment are climbing vines and roses connected to that small mountain path.

along that small path I found this daring and cute rabbit. I stopped walking,and looked at that rabbit. I took some videos too but I didn`t upload them this time.

By the way,isn`t it so cute?

Eight miles north of Salisbury is a large circle of stones which is called Stonehenge. Stonehenge is the best known prehistoric monument in Britain. Nobody knows why it was built, or what it was used for.
Was it an ancient cemetery? There are many graves around the monument. Was it a temple? Were the ancient Britons worshipped the Sun? Was it a place where witches and magicians offered human sacrifices to gods? Was it a kind of observatory, were astronomers studied the stars and the planets? Maybe it had served as astronomical calculators since the monument faces the point on the horizon where the sun rises on Midsummer’s Day.
The development of Stonehenge took about four centuries. The monument reached perfection around 1500. It originally consist of two circles of upright stones joined by a continuous line of horizontal stones which lay on top of them. But most of these have fallen down. One of the most puzzling questions is why Stonehenge builders went to immense trouble of bringing the heavy stone from distant places. Some stones were brought some 200 miles from Pembrokeshire, probably being moved on land by sledges and rolled over three trunks. Others were brought from nearby Downs. We will never know the real answer.

In 1868. a large number of people in many parts of the world became interested in some caves near the little village of Altamira in northern Spain. There were many things which showed that Stone Age men have lived in the caves. From bones and horns in the caves it was clear that these prehistoric men were hunters: they hunted bison, wild horses, cows and other animals for their food.
Then in 1879, in one of the deepest caves near Altamira, some cave explorers found some wonderful pictures. They were paintings of the animals that the prehistoric caveman hunted. Modern tests show that they have been on the walls of the cave for about 20,000 years.
Why are these old paintings so wonderful? Firstly, they are very natural. Not many modern artists can draw animals so well. Secondly, the colours are surprisingly good, even after 20,000 years, and the use of colour is so clever. The cave artists used reds, browns, yellows, black and violet. They did not use blue or green; perhaps they did not know how to make these colours, or perhaps it was unlucky to use them.
Because they are a long way inside the caves, the paintings have not been harmed by heat, cold, light, or changes of weather. Their colours are wonderfully fresh, and we can see the way the artist worked. Usually they painted the shape and then added the colour. Sometimes they cut the shape into the rock. Sometimes they made the colour into a very fine powder and blew it through a pipe. Quite often the artists made their drawings on top of other drawings. Scientists are glad about this for two reasons. The first reason is that they can study the development of their art during a period of about a thousand years. The second reason is that they learn something about the purpose of the painting.