WEEK 8 (CAM 17 TEST 3)

I. SELF-ASSESSMENT

1. LISTENING

The number of correct answers: 30

PART 1: ……8…… PART 2: …8… PART 3: …8… PART 4: …6

Choose the reasons why I got wrong answers:

A. I was getting too lazy to listen and second guess myself

B. I couldn’t concentrate while listening
C. I could hear and note down the words, but they are misspelled
D. I failed to identify paraphrases
E. I didn’t understand the conversations/ talks

Question types needed revising:

- Complete the notes

2. READING

The number of correct answers: …32……….

Passage 1: …13……… Passage 2: …11……… Passage 3: …8………

Choose the reasons why I got wrong answers:

A. I was getting too lazy to read and second guess myself

B. I misunderstood the question
C. I didn’t understand the text
D. I couldn’t finish the test on time

Question types needed revising:

- Multiple choices

- Y/N/NG

II. REFLECTION

(What you’ve learned from reading passages and/ or listening parts)

1. The thylacine
- In terms of feeding, it is carnivorous and its stomach is muscular with the ability to inflate to be
able to ingest large amounts of food at once, perhaps an adaptation to compensate for long
periods when Hunting was unsuccessful and food was scarce.
- During long-distance chases, thylacines were likely to have relied more on scent than any other
sense
- Newborns crawled into the pouch on the belly of their mother, and attached themselves to one of
the four teats, remaining there for up to three months.
2. Palm oil
- The RSPO insists upon no virgin forest clearing, transparency and regular assessment of carbon
stocks, among other criteria.
- Primarily because palm oil's unique properties - such as remaining solid at room temperature -
make it an ideal ingredient for long-term preservation, allowing many packaged foods on
supermarket shelves to have "best before' dates of months, even years, into the future.
- Elwood believes that reintroducing the bird's nest fern into oil palm plantations could potentially
allow these areas to recover their biodiversity, providing a home for all manner of species.
3. Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers
- Barr begins chapter one by taking the reader on a 'helicopter time-machine' ride - giving a
fascinating account of how the New York landscape in 1609 might have looked from the sky.
- Both chapters two and three are informative and well researched and set the stage for the
economic analysis that comes later in the book.
- Barr argues that while deeper bedrock does increase foundation costs, these costs were neither
prohibitively high nor were they large compared to the overall cost of building a skyscraper.

III. MY GLOSSARY
1. terrain= land, topography, ground
2. compensate= balance, pay off, offset
3. relentless= persistent, unyielding, harsh
4. specimen= example, case, sample
5. boycott= refuse, avoid, reject
6. utilitarian= useful, practical, down-to-earth
7. sequester= to separate and store a harmful substance
8. fungi= mushroom, molds, toadstool
9. somewhat= slightly, fairly, to some extent
10. subterranean= under the ground
11. enclave= area, territory, community
12. amenity= facility, convenience, comfort
13. load-bearing= supporting the weight of the building above it
14. square footage= an area measured in feet
15. bedrock= foundation, base
16. empirical= experiential, observed, practical
17. superficial= external, exterior, apparent
18. bare a resemblance= to look a lot like someone else