READING translation + Noun clauses

Mission 1: Translate each paragraph, and then

Write the Noun clause that you see
Take, for example, the latest benchmark in transparency: on a Wednesday late last
May, newspaper readers across the country could compare how local hospitals
performed on two measurements of the quality of care, not by slogging through a
news article but by scanning a large government-sponsored advertisement
complete with graphs and a Web address (www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov) for more
details. 

The New York Times - Health

This graph compares the locations where passes originated

with the likelihood of the passes becoming assists: Asking how many assists a
player has, or even how many assists he's likely to have in the future, has a lot to do
with how far downfield he usually plays. 

The New Yorker

Choose five words that you heard the president emphasize in his speech, and
then compare how frequently those words appeared in previous
State of the Union addresses using this SotuGraph tool or SOTU interactive graph. 

The New York Times

One of the most widely used is Blackwood (named for the man who invented it), in
which a bid of "four no-trump" asks the bidder's partner to reveal how manyaces
he holds: a response of "five clubs" means no aces (or all four), "five diamonds"
means one ace, "five hearts" means two aces, "five spades" means three. 

The New Yorker

To check how many components to use in the SVD reconstruction, the estimated

signal is compared with a known interval of the signal, so when both of them
become similar, the number of components in the SVD reconstruction is fixed. 

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

This paper focuses on two questions related to the success of these efforts:
(1) How many additional commuters can be expected to use the existing subway
stations in Tongzhou as a result of the relocation; and (2) How can Tongzhou be
better connected to the megaregion's high-speed rail network and a major airport. 

Urban Rail Transit

How many EVC lines should then be used for experiments in functional ecology is a
big topic.

Mission 2: Find the topic sentence & then rewrite the

topic sentence using your words & give your own
HEADING!
Passage 1:
In the 1990s, the declining quality of Beijing’s natural environment, especially air
quality, moved the central government to take action. As a result, some
manufacturing plants were relocated from the city center to suburban areas. As the
environmental challenges continued, a second wave of relocations were initiated in
the early 2000s that included the transfer of the Shougang (Capital Steel) Group
from Beijing to the city of Tangshan, a location considered to be more appropriately
situated to accommodate emission impacts, affordable workforce housing and
social infrastructure needs and offered enhanced potential for economic growth
and job generation.Yet, Beijing still faces important environmental and quality of
life challenges. Traffic congestion and pollution remain as serious problems, and
the flow of migrants from second and third tier cities, and rural areas continues.
Beijing’s population is still rising and the city’s developed area continues to absorb
farmland. As a result of the ongoing challenges, Beijing’s most recent strategy for
addressing congestion and pollution is to relocate the municipal government center
from the city center to the Tongzhou district on the southeast periphery. This
initiative will move 400,000 city employees from offices within the second ring road
to what is currently a relatively low density area outside the sixth ring road.
Passage 2:
His design consisted of a cube made up of layers of individual smaller cubes, and
each smaller cube could be turned in any direction except diagonally. To ensure
that the cubes could move independently, without falling apart, Rubik first
attempted to join them together using elastic bands. However, this proved to be
impossible, so Rubik then solved the problem by assembling them using a rounded
interior. This permitted them to move smoothly and easily. He experimented with
different ways of marking the smaller cubes, but ended up with the simple solution
of giving a different colour to each side. The object was to twist the layers of small
cubes so that each side of the large cube was an identical colour.

Passage 3:

Rubik took out a patent for the Cube in 1977 and started manufacturing it in the
same year. The Cube came to the attention of a Hungarian businessman, Tibor
Laczi, who then demonstrated it at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. When British toy expert
Tom Kremer saw it, he thought it was amazing and he persuaded a manufacturer,
Ideal Toys, to produce 1 million of them in 1979. Ideal Toys renamed the Cube after
the toy’s inventor, and in 1980, Rubik’s Cube was shown at toy fairs all over the
world. It won that year’s prize in Germany for Best Puzzle. Rubik’s Cube is believed
to be the world’s best-selling puzzle; since its invention, more than 300 million
Cubes have been sold worldwide.