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In 2008, London’s Peter Bellerby made an unusual decision. He decided to become a globemaker. Bellerby came up with the idea while shopping for his father’s 80th birthday present. First, he needed to find a good map. However, finding one without mistakes that would fit onto a round object took him months. Next, he had to have the globe designed. To get the perfect sphere, he went to a company that designs Formula One cars. What he thought would only take a few months ended up being a two-year project that cost him nearly ₤200,000 to produce.

2008 年，英國倫敦的彼得•貝勒比做了一個與眾不同的決定。他決定親手做地球儀。貝勒比是在挑選父親八十歲生日禮物時想出這個點子。首先，他得找到一張完美的地圖。然而，找尋一張沒有錯誤又可以貼合一個球狀物的地圖就花了他數個月。再來，他必須把球體設計出來。為了取得完美的地球儀球體，他找了一家設計一級方程式賽車的製造商。他原本以為只需幾個月的事情最後卻變成了為期兩年的計畫，還花了他二十萬英鎊來製作。 

Last fall, the airport set up new signs at both the P1 and P2 parking lots at
Terminal 1. These new signs show the number of available spots at the entrance of each lot so that people will save time searching the whole parking lot for a space. As part of the new system, drivers can enter their license plate number when they drive into the parking lot instead of taking a ticket. That way, they don’t have to worry about losing the ticket or spend time looking for it before they can leave the parking lot. In addition, the new machines will accept larger banknotes or EasyCards, which will make paying a lot easier. Now, parking at the Taoyuan International Airport will save travelers time and reduce the stress of trying to find a place to park.

James McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1979. His parents got divorced when McAvoy was quite young, so he stayed with his mother. She suffered from poor health, though, so he grew up with his grandparents, who lived in public housing in a rough neighborhood. It was a challenging life to say the least.
Things turned around after McAvoy got a role in a movie called The Near Room when he was only 15 years old. At the time, he was not actually interested in acting professionally.

Ready Player One is set in the year 2044 in a world that suffers from too many people, pollution, and climate change. To escape the cruel reality of everyday life, most people log into an online virtual reality game called The Oasis where they can live out their fantasies. When the game's billionaire creator dies, he leaves behind his fortune to anyone who can find his treasure in the game. After a teenager named Wade Watts discovers a clue to finding the fortune, he realizes that he may be in over his head.

《一級玩家》場景設立在 2044 年時遭受人口過多、汙染及氣候變遷之苦的世界。為了逃避日常生活的殘酷現實，大部分的人都登入一個叫做「綠洲」的線上虛擬實境遊戲，在遊戲中他們可以實現他們的幻想。遊戲的億萬富翁創辦人逝世時，他將他的財產留給任何能夠找到他藏在遊戲中寶藏的人。

“We must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter – thinking – because it’s hard work for people to think… All of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.”— Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM

“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”

— Elbert Hubbard, Writer

A courtroom artist’s job is to sit in court and draw images based on what they see in a trial. This includes pictures of the judge, lawyers, witnesses, and the person on trial. This is an important job because in many countries, cameras aren’t allowed in the courtroom. News channels must rely on their drawings to show what is happening in court.

法庭畫家的工作是坐在法庭裡，並根據他們在審判中看到的景象繪製圖像。這其中包含了法官、律師、證人和受審者的人像。這是一個很重要的工作，因為在許多國家，相機是不允許帶進法庭的。新聞頻道必須依靠法庭畫家的畫作來呈現法庭上所發生的事。

英文名人名言佳句-Alan Watts, Philosopher艾倫‧華茲 (哲學家)

“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”

– Alan Watts, Philosopher